usually. But that's OK. I can understand a whole lot of written
Romanian when I read it. It feels awesome to understand and speak a
different language. But, of course, you learn a little bit every day.
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| Me at the Hobbit |
Christmas was great, we watched the Hobbit,(our Mission President is a Lord of the Rings fan!) which was good as well. And the food was good (He had lasagna and Italian cake). We are watching the Emperor's New Groove for our other movie and staying up till midnight.
(We got to Skype with Austin on Christmas Day for 2 1/2 hours, which meant we had to become Skype literate, LOL! He was at a member's home--pictured below. It was awesome to see him and talk with him! He looks and sounds good. He told us he likes the European clothing styles much better than American---skinny suits and pointed shoes, funny! He has had his suits, pants and shirts tailored to be quite fitted.)
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| Me and my companion on Christmas at a member's home |
kilo tomatoes, 1 kilo onions, some peppers, and a ton of parsley for
less than 30 lei. Produce is so cheap here. We are making salsa for
the new year tonight. Hopefully it will be good.
I had an exchange with our district leader here Oradea the other day.
He was recently one of the assistants to the president
for the mission and he's an awesome missionary. He goes home in
February but he's still going strong and he's a great example. We did
a ton of contacting and started making handouts for a scripture study
class (the bible) that we want to start up in the city. Hopefully we
can get some people to come. As for the contacting, we went block
knocking basically. We knocked on a ton of doors, but no lessons.
Had to have been over 40. We did give out a few book of Mormons and
some pamphlets.
We ran into this old Roman Catholic lady, and she
told us to come in, and we said we had to leave, but she said, "no,
you're coming in and getting some food." she gave us cozonac, I don't
know how to explain it. It's like cake bread, tastes nasty. But she
loved us and the pass along card we gave here. So after we stood in
her house, we said a prayer for her, then she pooped us ( the kiss on
each cheek thing) and did the cross on us (kind of awkward) and said
God bless you and we left. Wonderful lady.
We talked to another guy in the same staircase, we actually talked to him in the staircase, for
like 20 minutes. He said that nobody really knows the truth about
God, he was interesting. We got his number though. Then we had a dry
spell. Until we had a funny experience to end the night. We knocked
on this door. A guy answered and I asked him if he was religious. He
said, "no, communist." What?? weird answer for the question I asked.
We found out that he knew who we were and lived in Salt Lake for 20
years. He spoke English, but spoke Romanian to us. He said," There's
a ton of Mormons in Salt Lake, do you guys know that city?" And we
said yes, we were both from Utah. He wasn't interested, then closed
the door on us. Not very many people want to listen here. oh well.
That's basically the week. Not super productive, but we talked to a
lot of people. We still haven't taught a lesson this entire transfer,
so hopefully we can change that in the next few weeks.
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