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Sniffles!

I apologize in advance, but not much happened this week. 

Well it turns out that everyone except for Tavi dropped us.  We kept calling people to set-up with them and everyone told us to wait for them to call us.  Which means that they are no longer interested.  So we just did a ton of block knocking and we rarely had people listen to us. 

I got sick over the weekend and it sucked!  We still went out and contacted and stuff ‘cause I hate just sitting in the apartment, but I was miserable!  It was just a cold but I was feeling like crap.  I just pumped myself full of medicine and it worked out.  Now I’m all healthy again other than some sniffles.

The mission is pushing family history a lot and it’s been kind of cool.  People (especially old ones) love talking about their ancestors. Sadly none of them trust us with their information, so they don’t really have an interest in it.  It’s amazing how paranoid everyone is because of communism!  

People will do the weirdest things.  Like, if you are in line to buy a pretzel or something and leave a little too much room in front of you, an old lady will surely cut you in line and nobody will make anything of it. 

Unimportant headline - Everyday on our way to the bus stop, there is this woman screaming at the top of her lungs across Centru!  We have no idea what she is saying or wanting, but from her 7th story window she just yells at everyone in the street.  Just for the fun of it, we went and bloc knocked her door, but didn’t receive a response!

Hope you guys are having a great week! 

Love ya!

Southern Romanian by Grace!

Who Dresses Me?

Hey There Folks!

Well, to the surprise of everyone in the mission, and to us here in Ploiesti, NOTHING has changed for the following transfer!  Everyone in the District will be staying here and Elder Dearden and I will remain together.

Nothing has changed with investigators either. Tavi is still excited to be baptized in June.  Florin loves to talk with us, but he won’t come to church.  We had a week of contacting and only two lessons. I wish I could talk more about our investigators, but there really isn’t much more to say! 

Things Romanians Say

Yesterday, we talked with the most insane man I have ever met in my life.  We talked about the Book of Mormon and he knew everything about Mormon (or at least he thought he did).  Apparently the book of Mormon couldn’t have been written 600 years before Christ because the man named Mormon was born 700 years after Christ, in Sweden.  He then explained that Mormon went to the Council in Constantinople (381 AD) and there, he influenced Martin Luther.  Keep in mind that Martin Luther lived over 1000 years after that time.  During this whole discussion, he was only talking to Elder Dearden and left me out of the conversation.  Why you ask?  Because I descend from Russian Heritage and my blood type makes me more suspicious, whereas Dearden comes from Italy and is more receptive.  We talked with him for about 45 minutes because he wouldn’t let us leave.  Finally we just turned our backs and walked away.  When we asked where he got his information, he responded “that all this information can be found at the center of theology in Bucharest.”  Kinda scary! 

Be careful who you talk to out there! 

Well hope everyone is doing well! Love and miss you guys.

Elder Brown

Special Thanks to the Barclay Family!

Dann and Shauna attended Elder Barclay's homecoming, March 23rd, in Paul Idaho.  Jacob's family was so welcoming and made us feel right at home.  Jacob too made time, away from his family, to visit and make sure he shared everything about his partnership with Keegan, telling stories about bloc knocking, line dancing and English breakfasts.  Keegan couldn't have asked for a better companion/trainer and is so lucky to have served a short time with Elder Barclay.  When told of our visit, Keegan said "I love and miss that kid!"  

Thanks to the Barclay family for sharing their hospitality, but especially their son with ours.

Sapte Scuri

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