Romania 29 Nov 2010
Monday, November 29, 2010 by Sora Jay
Hello again everybody,
We ate Thanksgiving dinner at Elder and Sister Linerud's house with the rest of our district. My companion Sora Fraser, is from England so she had never celebrated Thanksgiving before, so we started from the basics; we outlined our hands and made turkeys and we made Indian headdresses to wear to the Lineruds' house by cutting out feather shapes and coloring them with markers. One of the elders made a pilgrim had for himself after he got there. We told Sora Fraser that the pilgrims were English people and she was surprised.
There were a lot of missionaries who didn't do anything for Thanksgiving. I wonder how things are going to go for Christmas.
I got that picture in Ed's email, it's cool. I think I will print it off and show it to the elders in my district. It's the first picture I have of either Tom or Ed as a missionary.
This week we had Zone Conference, so we got a little less sleep from all of the sisters coming in and out to be there for the different conferences.
The evening after our Zone Conference we were at the church finishing up calling a few members and we were trying to decide what we still had time to do. We said a prayer to be directed to the right place because we hadn't really had anything planned because of Zone Conference. Sora Fraser really wanted to buy some ribbon, but I knew that the store was really far away, and we wanted to have time to contact people and teach some people. We decided to pray to know what we could do with the little time that we had. Sora Fraser said that she wanted to go buy ribbons. Just then, conveniently, one of the members called us, one who speaks English, so we asked her what the word for ribbon was and she told us so we asked the next person that we saw on the street where we could find some ribbons. She pointed us to a store that was a lot closer and we went there and bought some ribbons really quickly so that we could put them on pamphlets and books to give to people. We were leaving the store and we still didn't really know where to go when somebody called after us. A guy that worked at the store there had spotted us and yelled for us to stop. We stopped and he came up and asked us if we were from the church down the street, we said "Yes, have you ever been there?" And he told us that he had met with the missionaries there before. He said that he wasn't able to come to church every week because of work, but that he really wanted to go back and said that now he was ready to change his life. We talked to him and gave him a Book of Mormon (because he didn't have one which is weird because he had met with the missionaries before) and we got his information and told him that the elders would be in touch with him soon (because he was a younger guy). It is interesting how we were able to end up in the right place to find him because of Sora Fraser's desire to buy ribbons, but we had prayed beforehand and were trying to use the little time that we had usefully, and it worked out really cool.
We went and played football today. Sora Fraser didn't really like it. I heard that Utah won by one point. That would have been an awesome game to watch, because it was probably intense up to the end.
P.S.
I got a dearleder from Mia Wells that she is going on a mission to brazil. Too bad it's not the same mission as Tom, that would have been funny.
You don't need to send me Hydrogen Peroxide.
We ate Thanksgiving dinner at Elder and Sister Linerud's house with the rest of our district. My companion Sora Fraser, is from England so she had never celebrated Thanksgiving before, so we started from the basics; we outlined our hands and made turkeys and we made Indian headdresses to wear to the Lineruds' house by cutting out feather shapes and coloring them with markers. One of the elders made a pilgrim had for himself after he got there. We told Sora Fraser that the pilgrims were English people and she was surprised.
There were a lot of missionaries who didn't do anything for Thanksgiving. I wonder how things are going to go for Christmas.
I got that picture in Ed's email, it's cool. I think I will print it off and show it to the elders in my district. It's the first picture I have of either Tom or Ed as a missionary.
This week we had Zone Conference, so we got a little less sleep from all of the sisters coming in and out to be there for the different conferences.
The evening after our Zone Conference we were at the church finishing up calling a few members and we were trying to decide what we still had time to do. We said a prayer to be directed to the right place because we hadn't really had anything planned because of Zone Conference. Sora Fraser really wanted to buy some ribbon, but I knew that the store was really far away, and we wanted to have time to contact people and teach some people. We decided to pray to know what we could do with the little time that we had. Sora Fraser said that she wanted to go buy ribbons. Just then, conveniently, one of the members called us, one who speaks English, so we asked her what the word for ribbon was and she told us so we asked the next person that we saw on the street where we could find some ribbons. She pointed us to a store that was a lot closer and we went there and bought some ribbons really quickly so that we could put them on pamphlets and books to give to people. We were leaving the store and we still didn't really know where to go when somebody called after us. A guy that worked at the store there had spotted us and yelled for us to stop. We stopped and he came up and asked us if we were from the church down the street, we said "Yes, have you ever been there?" And he told us that he had met with the missionaries there before. He said that he wasn't able to come to church every week because of work, but that he really wanted to go back and said that now he was ready to change his life. We talked to him and gave him a Book of Mormon (because he didn't have one which is weird because he had met with the missionaries before) and we got his information and told him that the elders would be in touch with him soon (because he was a younger guy). It is interesting how we were able to end up in the right place to find him because of Sora Fraser's desire to buy ribbons, but we had prayed beforehand and were trying to use the little time that we had usefully, and it worked out really cool.
We went and played football today. Sora Fraser didn't really like it. I heard that Utah won by one point. That would have been an awesome game to watch, because it was probably intense up to the end.
P.S.
I got a dearleder from Mia Wells that she is going on a mission to brazil. Too bad it's not the same mission as Tom, that would have been funny.
You don't need to send me Hydrogen Peroxide.
NOTICE: This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message.
Posts
