God Bless America
Monday, July 4, 2011 by Sora Jay
Hey Everybody,
This week was pretty good we were able to meet with a lot of people. That pentecostal family that I told you about got a little difficult because they started wanting to Bible bash all the time, and every time that I tried to bring the subject back, somebody would find a verse from the bible and read it to us. We had a lesson that went super bad and afterward as we were walking back to the bus stop the son, Oni, asked if we were upset. I told him that we were, because they didn't listen to us. It's super annoying when people try to teach us stuff out of the Bible because we already know all that stuff and we are there to try to give them more. They want to teach us (things that we already know) instead of us teaching them (things they don't know yet that would help them a lot). When I told Oni that we were upset we explained to him again why we were there and asked him what he would do if he found out that Joseph Smith was a prophet, and he said he would get baptized. The lesson after that went really well. The dad left when we started though, because the first thing he did was correct Sora Bedebone after she prayed, saying that she should say 'the Holy Ghost' instead of 'the Spirit', but both Oni and his mom told the dad that it was the same thing, so he left and we had a good lesson about prayer and receiving answers. Hopefully he will forgive everyone and come to the lessons again.
That's cool that Ed found his Area Book again. I told you it was worth a miracle to get that thing back.
Today, we went out to Castle Bran in the little city of Bran about 45 minutes away from Brasov. It's a castle where Vlad the Impaler lived. They didn't have any real cool exhibits about Vlad the Impaler, but the castle was cool. Everything there was tiny. People back then must have been a lot smaller. Elder Simmons, who is over six feet tall, couldn't stand up straight in some of the rooms. I took a lot of pictures, but now I am too lazy to go through all the trouble of sending them in the mail since I can show them to you when I get back. I found some secret boxes for cheap so I got one, you guys will like it.
Tourism here really sucks. They could make tons of money from tourism here, but they don't know how. Everything still runs the same way it did during communism rather than running well so that they can actually make a profit. We met some people from Israel at the castle. They were on a bicycling tour here. I didn't ask them what religion they were.
We got our new mission president this past week, and today is the first time we have heard from him (through email). But tomorrow we will have a mini Zone Conference in Arad, the city where I started my mission. It will be cool to go back there for a day, and it will be interesting to see what the new mission president is like and how he does things differently.
That's probably it for now. Save a firework for me.
Love,
Sora Jay
This week was pretty good we were able to meet with a lot of people. That pentecostal family that I told you about got a little difficult because they started wanting to Bible bash all the time, and every time that I tried to bring the subject back, somebody would find a verse from the bible and read it to us. We had a lesson that went super bad and afterward as we were walking back to the bus stop the son, Oni, asked if we were upset. I told him that we were, because they didn't listen to us. It's super annoying when people try to teach us stuff out of the Bible because we already know all that stuff and we are there to try to give them more. They want to teach us (things that we already know) instead of us teaching them (things they don't know yet that would help them a lot). When I told Oni that we were upset we explained to him again why we were there and asked him what he would do if he found out that Joseph Smith was a prophet, and he said he would get baptized. The lesson after that went really well. The dad left when we started though, because the first thing he did was correct Sora Bedebone after she prayed, saying that she should say 'the Holy Ghost' instead of 'the Spirit', but both Oni and his mom told the dad that it was the same thing, so he left and we had a good lesson about prayer and receiving answers. Hopefully he will forgive everyone and come to the lessons again.
That's cool that Ed found his Area Book again. I told you it was worth a miracle to get that thing back.
Today, we went out to Castle Bran in the little city of Bran about 45 minutes away from Brasov. It's a castle where Vlad the Impaler lived. They didn't have any real cool exhibits about Vlad the Impaler, but the castle was cool. Everything there was tiny. People back then must have been a lot smaller. Elder Simmons, who is over six feet tall, couldn't stand up straight in some of the rooms. I took a lot of pictures, but now I am too lazy to go through all the trouble of sending them in the mail since I can show them to you when I get back. I found some secret boxes for cheap so I got one, you guys will like it.
Tourism here really sucks. They could make tons of money from tourism here, but they don't know how. Everything still runs the same way it did during communism rather than running well so that they can actually make a profit. We met some people from Israel at the castle. They were on a bicycling tour here. I didn't ask them what religion they were.
We got our new mission president this past week, and today is the first time we have heard from him (through email). But tomorrow we will have a mini Zone Conference in Arad, the city where I started my mission. It will be cool to go back there for a day, and it will be interesting to see what the new mission president is like and how he does things differently.
That's probably it for now. Save a firework for me.
Love,
Sora Jay
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