Romania 14 March 2011
Monday, March 14, 2011 by Sora Jay
Hello again,
This week we had only three lessons again, but the elders told us that a lot of the contacts we have had they would have counted as lessons. I don't think it really matters in the end as long as we are doing missionary work.
I put some ads in the newspapers here for our English classes this week. I didn't know the word for 'ads' when I showed up at the newspaper place and I just started talking to them and I accidentally used the work "avertisment," immediately as it came out of my mouth I realized that it was wrong and the people looked shocked, because that is the word for "warning." So I went in there and told them I had to put a warning in the newspaper. But then I explained to them what I really wanted and they told me the correct work, anunt.
We put the elders number in one of the newspapers and our number in the other one. The elders have been getting tons of phonecalls and we have been getting hardly any, so now we know which newspaper we should use in the future, instead of paying for both of them.
One of them members at church said that she was talking to one of her friends about the church and about praying to know if the Book of Mormon is true and her friend said that she would stick to her orthodox traditions anyway. The member asked her "If God told you that your traditions were wrong would you still keep them?" and the person answered "Yes." I was proud of her for sharing the gospel. I've met a few people who have said that to me too, one guy who said that to me was with a girl at the time and when he said it the girl looked at him like he was an idiot, which we appreciated. We told him that we didn't have anything to talk about then and ended our discussion.
I went to the city building and requested permission to set up a display on the street again. My newest missionary occupation is 'public relations specialist.' I realized that none of my districts have ever done as many public things as this one has, and I realized it was because I had never done it in any of my districts. No missionary really knows how to go about those types of things unless somebody teaches them, and nobody has done it much so nobody can teach anyone else to do it, so somebody has to start it. So far I have done it all, but I have written down exactly how to do it for the following missionaries and I will tell the elders how to too. It's dumb that we've never done stuff like putting things in the newspaper before, and setting up the display is really successful so we need to do it a lot more often.
This week we had a Book of Mormon drop off contact. We gave the Book of Mormon to a cool family and told them to read it and said we would come back in two weeks to see how they liked it, without really explaining much else except that it wasn't orthodox (because we didn't have the opportunity; they didn't want to stand there and chat at the moment). So we'll see how this one turns out. Every time I've done it they actually did read. Hopefully they will get converted by it.
Well, that's probably all I have for now. It was really cool to get those statistics about the religions in the United States and Romania. Thanks!
Love,
Sora Jay
P.S.
I'm going to start making a list of my missionary occupations.
And, we have transfers this week, but both me and my companion are staying here so nothing changes. One of the elders is getting a new companion and that's it.
This week we had only three lessons again, but the elders told us that a lot of the contacts we have had they would have counted as lessons. I don't think it really matters in the end as long as we are doing missionary work.
I put some ads in the newspapers here for our English classes this week. I didn't know the word for 'ads' when I showed up at the newspaper place and I just started talking to them and I accidentally used the work "avertisment," immediately as it came out of my mouth I realized that it was wrong and the people looked shocked, because that is the word for "warning." So I went in there and told them I had to put a warning in the newspaper. But then I explained to them what I really wanted and they told me the correct work, anunt.
We put the elders number in one of the newspapers and our number in the other one. The elders have been getting tons of phonecalls and we have been getting hardly any, so now we know which newspaper we should use in the future, instead of paying for both of them.
One of them members at church said that she was talking to one of her friends about the church and about praying to know if the Book of Mormon is true and her friend said that she would stick to her orthodox traditions anyway. The member asked her "If God told you that your traditions were wrong would you still keep them?" and the person answered "Yes." I was proud of her for sharing the gospel. I've met a few people who have said that to me too, one guy who said that to me was with a girl at the time and when he said it the girl looked at him like he was an idiot, which we appreciated. We told him that we didn't have anything to talk about then and ended our discussion.
I went to the city building and requested permission to set up a display on the street again. My newest missionary occupation is 'public relations specialist.' I realized that none of my districts have ever done as many public things as this one has, and I realized it was because I had never done it in any of my districts. No missionary really knows how to go about those types of things unless somebody teaches them, and nobody has done it much so nobody can teach anyone else to do it, so somebody has to start it. So far I have done it all, but I have written down exactly how to do it for the following missionaries and I will tell the elders how to too. It's dumb that we've never done stuff like putting things in the newspaper before, and setting up the display is really successful so we need to do it a lot more often.
This week we had a Book of Mormon drop off contact. We gave the Book of Mormon to a cool family and told them to read it and said we would come back in two weeks to see how they liked it, without really explaining much else except that it wasn't orthodox (because we didn't have the opportunity; they didn't want to stand there and chat at the moment). So we'll see how this one turns out. Every time I've done it they actually did read. Hopefully they will get converted by it.
Well, that's probably all I have for now. It was really cool to get those statistics about the religions in the United States and Romania. Thanks!
Love,
Sora Jay
P.S.
I'm going to start making a list of my missionary occupations.
And, we have transfers this week, but both me and my companion are staying here so nothing changes. One of the elders is getting a new companion and that's it.
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