Romania 29 Nov 2010

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.

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Romania 22 November 2010

How's it going all you guys?

I think that we will have Thanksgiving this week at a senior couple's house.

We reached our goal of having 30 lessons this week, we broke the record for the mission.  And actually, two other elders in a different city hit 30 lessons this week as well.  Nobody put us up to it or anything, but we just happened to raise the standard at the same time.  It was actually really easy...  I guess things just kind of fell into our hands.

Having sister exchanges didn't help us get our goal, we kind of had to make up for it.  I have hardly ever had a bad day on my mission, but the first day of sister exchanges was horrible.  The sister that I with was out of control, it just went really terribly.  We had set up to meet with this couple, and we didn't know beforehand, but it turned out that they were Jehova's Witnesses.  She just fought and argued with them the whole time, which obviously accomplished nothing, and took up two hours of our day.  I kept saying that we had to leave and I kept just trying to end the discussion with a testimony and get out, but then my companion would go back to the point that they had been arguing about.  And then the rest of the day just went badly as well.  I hope that she is never my companion.  She only has one transfer left, so hopefully I won't have to ever be with her.

Yesterday was the first time that I taught with a Romanian.  I always thought that if I had a Romanian companion I would have a hard time getting a word in because they can respond so immediately, but I actually got a lot in.  We were 'sing-contacting' in the park because my companion loves to call all of the elders and tell them to meet us in the park for sing-contacting (which usually ends up wasting a lot of time finding each other and organizing things, I don't think the elders really like sing-contacting either because they have to sing).  Anyway, one member came with us because it was right after church, she is 18 and she really wants to be a missionary so she liked the idea of coming contacting with us.  She was a little nervous about it because it was her first time so I went with her to talk to people that were near enough to the singing that I would be within sight and sound of my companion.  It was cool to contact together with her.  Usually, because I have had mostly junior companions now, I have to assume that my companion doesn't understand everything that they are saying to us, so it was cool to be with a Romanian who I knew understood everything exactly.  We got rejected the first couple of times but then we got some peoples' numbers and talked to them for a little while.  I hope that I was a good example for her.  I taught her to ask questions more than talk.  She did a really good job, she will be a really good missionary.  Even if she doesn't serve a full-time mission I bet that she will be a mini-missionara next summer or sometime before she turns 21, and just fill in for a transfer.  I had never heard of mini-missionaries before coming here, but it happens all the time, here.

We were talking about the ten commandments at lunch after district meeting, and noticed that usually in Utah we find different applications for them like the 'don't have other Gods before me' we usually talk about not loving money or whatever more than God.  But in Romania every commandment just needs to be taken literally first.  Not only the stuff like lying, stealing, murdering, and commiting adultery, but the stuff like worshipping graven images and praying to other Gods.  Sora Fraser and I have been coming up with a question to ask people every day, as our back-up question.  One of the ones that we used is "Do you believe in God? then, Do you keep his commandments?" and it usually works pretty good to get them to think a little harder.  We tried another one that so far hasn't worked very well, all orthodox people were baptized as babies so we ask them "Did you choose to be baptized?" they usually say yes, and we're like "but you were only two months old."  One guy freaked out when Sora Fraser told him that she wasn't baptized until she was eight years old.  He started yelling "Unbaptized!?  Unbaptized!?" and the pitch of his voice went up higher and higher every time he said it.  We laughed really hard after he left.

None of our investigators were able to come to church this Sunday, because they are lame.  There is also an inactive family who didn't come to church even though they said they would.  I asked them if they would come next week and they said that if their situation improved they would come.  It made me kind of mad, because we went there to teach them a lesson and they said "we already know all of this stuff," but they don't do any of it.  But instead of committing them to come to church we committed them really solidly to read their scriptures and pray every night, because then they will have the spirit with them to tell them to stop being stupid and go to church and that can persuade them better than we ever could.
There was one lady who came to church though.  She was dressed all nicely and came to ask us questions about English class.  At first I thought that she was dressed up nicely because she had been to a different church that morning, but as we talked more we found out that she had gotten up and gotten ready to come to our church.  She is a really cool lady and we gave her a Book of Mormon and set up to meet with her on Tuesday.  Getting people to come to church is usually the hardest thing to do, so when somebody comes of their own initiative it's really easy for them to progress and get baptized.  Her name is Silvia.

Anyway, that's how it goes.  It's been a good week.

Love,
Sora Jay

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Romania 15 Nov 2010

Hey everyone,

I've started a new transfer again, and I'm here in Bucurest with my
companion, Sora Fraser, who is from England. So far I have gone
American, English, American, Australian, American, English, so we're
predicting that the pattern will continue.
I asked Sora Fraser if she really uses the word 'snogging' and she
laughed and said that I said it totally American, and she does use it.
She likes to say 'proper dodgey' and 'pants!' all the time. My other
two foreign companions had kind of lost their little sayings by the
time they got to me I guess.

We've decided to change things up a little to increase our
effectiveness here in Bucurest. Since this is the strongest area in
Romania we figured we should be setting the standard for the mission.
The mission standard of excellence is to have 20 lessons a week, so we
are going to try to get 30 next week (we tried to find out what the
record was but nobody knew, so we just figured we would go for 30
since we're pretty sure nobody's ever beaten that). But, we also
found out that we have sister-exchanges this week (they are the first
ones to ever happen) so it might mess with our goal.

Sora Fraser is more willing to do crazy things than most of my
companions. There was a guy playing a violin in the park and we
decided that I should go ask him if I could play it. He was really
confused at first, but then he let me take it and play it. It was a
pretty good violin. So I played the violin while my companion talked
to him. It drew a lot of attention, probably because I played a lot
different style than most Romanians would ever play. I tried to play
Orange Blossom Special but I am really rusty and couldn't do it very
well. I mostly played fiddling songs that I could remember and hymns.
We gave him a 'free' Book of Mormon (we actually give them to lots of
people all the time as long as they commit to something) for letting
us play his violin, he was cool.

We also got the elders to come to the park with us on Sunday after
Church and we did 'sing-contacting' in the park, where some of us sing
and the others go and ask people if they want to know what we're
doing. It's a good way of finding people who want to investigate
rather than finding people who we persuade to investigate. We also
tried one last strategy, that I had heard about from some other
elders: we just took all of the materials out of our bags and laid
them out on a bench where people could see them (which was like six
books and a bunch of pamphlets) and talked to the people who came up
and were interested. So we contacted people by sitting on a bench.
We had some good lessons with people from it.

I'm kind of dreading sister exchanges. I've been senior companion
long enough that I don't want to go on splits with somebody who will
try to be my 'senior for the day,' or who will be evaluating my
missionary effectiveness from their perspective.

Love,
Sora Jay


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Romania 8 Nov 2010

Hey,

Thanks for letting me know that you didn't get some of my emails, hopefully it's fixed now, for those who didn't get them.

This week was good.  Both of our people that got baptized last week were confirmed this Sunday, and we have set a baptismal date for the grandpa, Mihai.

This week were were able to teach a lot of lessons.  We ran out of copies of the Book of Mormon on Sunday and we had only one left (one that we had found in the apartment that some sister missionary had decorated and written in to be given to someone named Mariana, but the book had never made it to her) and we needed two more lessons.  We were knocking in a bloc and there weren't very many people answering the doors.  It was a huge bloc that had about a hundred doors inside.  We had gotten to about the 70th door, I think, without finding anyone that we could talk to at that time (we did get a few people's numbers).  We were talking about how there weren't very many people opening the doors, but we don't need lots of people to open lots of doors, we just need a few to open them and let us in.  Just as we were talking about that we walked down the stairs to the next floor and knocked on the door.  A woman answered the door and she let us in to talk to her.  It was going pretty good when her husband came in, and caused a little interruption and started voicing his opinions and questions.  We thought he would ruin it, but he didn't, he stopped and listened to what we had to say.  After a little while their son came and sat down with us too.  We asked how old he was, 15, and we told the family about Joseph Smith's experience.  It was very powerful.  It has been our goal to teach families, and what we thought would be one lady turned out to be her family.  Each of them committed to read the Book of Mormon, even the husband.  At first he was saying that he didn't have enough time to read it, so I turned to his wife who had said that she definitely had time and told her maybe she should read it out loud so that her husband could hear.  Everyone laughed really hard and the husband took the book and flipped through it.  There were a few passages marked for the person that it was intended to be given to, and he stopped and read one of them about faith.  Then he said "I'll read it."  It was cool how that worked out.  Usually I don't mark anything in the books that I give away, but it seemed to be perfect for him, so thanks to that previous sister for marking up the book for them.
They really liked us, and the husband said that usually he doesn't like to talk to people like us or to priests or just about religion in general, but that he really liked talking to us.  We were able to schedule a time when they would all be home so we could come and teach their family again.

We got one lesson short of our goal for the week, but most of our other goals were exceeded.
Things have kind of been falling into our hands recently.  The girl that got baptized came to church and that's where we met her.  The other girl who walked into the church looking for us during English class, Ema, has a baptismal date now.
And there was another time when we were on the metrou and some guy tapped on my arm and asked us if we were from the Mormon church and asked if he could meet with us sometime.
Another time we were walking down the street back from lunch after district meeting with all of the missionaries in our district and there was a big group of people having a party outside a bloc (they were all moving back in after having been kicked out because it had some problems that needed fixing) and they started yelling "Mormons, mormons!" so we all went over and talked to them.  The people that Sora Holman and I talked to were a part-member family, of a less-active member that I had met on the street last transfer.  The elders found some cool people in that group too.  They knew about us from the member that lived there, he is apparently a really good member-missionary because a lot of them knew at least a little about our church, like the Word of Wisdom.
So it's cool how people have been finding us recently, especially since we spend so much time looking.  I guess it's the way that God shows us that it's his work.
When you put forth the effort and the faith, things work out.  Every week we get closer to the goal of 200 baptisms.

It's cool getting those pictures from you guys.  I think I can save some of them onto my camera and print them off to show to people.
I attached a picture of the primary here and one of my district.  Two of those elders finish their two years today, so they will be headed home tomorrow.

Thanks guys.
Love,
Sora Jay



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Romania 1 Nov 2010

Hey everyone,

We had a baptism this week.  The girl that came to sacrament meeting with her grandpa and a recently inactive member.  We were able to get the member to baptize them because he had been meeting with the District President and working on things, and was able to baptize the grandma, because Ramona wanted President Bulgarasu to baptize her.
The pressure is on with our goal of 200 baptisms because we are at 109 with two months to go.  Cool things have been happening though.  A girl showed up to our Advanced English class about fifteen minutes to the end.  She came down to the spiritual thought downstairs and I was talking to her on the way and she told me that she actually had come into the church to find out about the church.  Somebody asked her if she spoke English and she said yes so they sent her up to our class, but she actually wanted to come here to talk to us.  She came to church yesterday, and we set up to meet with her tomorrow.  She has already made friends with some of the members around her age.
She said that she has a friend in Miami who is Mormon and that she didn't know that that church even existed in Romania, or that it was nearly as big as it is, but she looked us up online and just happened to come by the church when somebody was actually there to let her in and talk to her.   It's cool.  Hopefully she'll be awesome.

Well,  I don't have a lot more to write.
Every day we use a list of baptismal dates in this mission to pray for each of them specifically, by name, and for their specific needs.  It seems like it would be tedious, but it's actually kind of fun, and cool.  I think all of the people who had dates got baptized this week, in their respective cities.

Love,
Sora Jay



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