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Romania 30 May 2011

Hello again,

I didn't get any emails from Tom and Ed this week.  Hope it's all going good.

This week we had Zone Conference in Chisinau in The Republic of Moldova, so on Monday our whole Zone was here in Iasi and we went to the giant orthodox church to see the saint inside.  Sfanta Parascheva (I think that's how it's spelled) in the Metropolia church, you can look it up.  Her body was found a couple hundred years ago and it wasn't decayed so she was declared a saint.  You can touch her hand but it was covered with cloth.  Our district leader talked to one of the priests and the priest showed him what to do, so he crossed himself and smelled the hand.  He said it smelled good.  While we were there at the church we saw two of our investigators...

Zone Conference isn't usually very encouraging.  We usually focus on all of the things that missionaries do wrong and it usually makes me feel bad even when I have already been striving to do all of those things.  We had some time to go contacting in Moldova though, I can understand when people say simple things in Russian like "I don't speak Romanian."  One of the missionaries said he always starts his contacts in Russian so that if the person says they can't speak Russian he can talk to them in Romanian.  I don't know that much though.  We got back from Chisinau at about midnight Wednesday night.

There is one girl that has been investigating the church for the past five years that we have been working with again, Alexandra.  She has something wrong with one of her ankles so she usually walks with a little cane.  She's really cool.  She has always come to all of the activities and sometimes to church but she never got baptized.  We got her to talk to her mom about it last week but her mom said she shouldn't do it.  She told us that she wouldn't get baptized.  Then she asked if she could stay with us if she came and visited America next summer and we said she could.  Then she told us that if she went to America she would get baptized.  We told her that if she went to America she should go to the temple.  She agreed.  So maybe she will get baptized sometime soon.  We have made a lot of progress with her just by being her friends.

We had about four investigators at church on Sunday.  It was cool.  Getting to church is one of the most important and the most difficult things for investigators to do for some reason, but we got a few to come by focusing on it for the rest of the week after Zone Conference.  Andreea who left on her mission last month was the Relief Society president so they just called a new one, Daniela Padure.  When the Branch President was announcing it in sacrament meeting he announced that she would be the next branch president and nobody gave her a sustaining vote.  But then they all corrected him and she was sustained.  She has been a member for about 12 years so she knows how things go.  She immediately started helping us with less active members, and she got one that we have been trying for a while to meet with to come to the church and meet with us, and then come to church on Sunday as well.  She told us it was gossip in the branch that made her and a few more members go inactive.

The week before last we started a competition for healthiness among the sisters where you get points for exercising and drinking water and eating fruits and vegetables, but minus points for eating desserts and white bread.  We turned in our points for the first week and I won.  It was actually one of my goals at the beginning of this transfer to exercise a lot so I was already exercising more than I ever did before on my mission.  I have been pretty consistent throughout my mission of doing at least the basics, and I have gotten a lot more flexible.

That's probably about it for now.

Love,
Sora Jay




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Romania 23 May 2011

Hey everybody,

I have a cool story to tell you.  There is an investigator that the elders have been working with for the past few months that they just barely passed off to us (and I don't know why they waited so long because she is a young girl) named Andreea.  We met with her for the first time last week and she said she had lots of questions to ask us, about being married in heaven, and becoming gods, etc. so we just told her to write them down and said we would answer them next time.  She is a 'recent convert' in another church here so she says people don't really like the idea that she's meeting with missionaries from our church.  I'm not sure what kind of church it is, it's probably one of those more obscure ones.  But anyway, the second time we met with her was Saturday night, she asked us a question about the Holy Ghost and that was pretty much the only question that we addressed because then the conversation changed and she told us about how uncomfortable she was questioning her new religion because she said if she changes again then there will just be another church and she will change again and it won't be good.  We just brought it back again and again to the fact that she had to ask God what she should do.  Even though she still holds on to the doctrines from her church she really wants to follow God.  The elders had invited her to church tons of times and she had never come because her other church is held at the same time so we planned on inviting her.  During the conversation she stopped and said "Don't be upset!"  We hadn't acted upset or said anything to indicate that we were, it was actually surprising that she said it.  She said it a lot more times and we told her that we weren't mad, and that we would be friends even if she didn't join our church.  I think it was the Holy Ghost that was making her feel bad when she said she wouldn't come to our church because she liked hers.  In the end she decided that she would ask God and wait for a sign (like somebody texting her a scripture or telling her something that encouraged her to come to our church).  She was really sincere.  So this is what it came down to, if our church was the true one she would be there the next day, and if it wasn't, or if she became insincere she wouldn't be there.

So, the next day, Sunday, we went to the church and we were welcoming everybody and finally it was time to start and Andreea wasn't there.  We sang, and took the sacrament, and the first speaker was just starting when she walked in (she might have been in the hall for a while too).  When we asked her after Sacrament meeting what had happened she said that that night she got a text from one of her friends that had a scripture in it (her friends text her scriptures a lot so it wasn't unusual), and that was what got her to come.  She actually told us later on though that all that the scripture said was something like "trust in God" and she felt like she should come to our church instead of go to hers.  So she made it.

At church Sacrament meeting was good and then we were going to watch a little bit of General Conference but the DVD was lost.  But, the BYU students were there and they were having a Sunday school lesson in English and Andreea speaks English so we just joined them.  Those BYU students are saints.  Andreea participated really well but asked probably two or three provocative questions that may have been intended to insult the students but they were super nice and gave good explanations.  It was funny because we actually read the verses from the bible where it says that there will be no marriage in heaven and Andreea chuckled a little just waiting to hear what explanation we had for those verses but the teacher just briefly said that you have to be married the right way, and continued.  The peer-pressure of all of the other students agreeing probably kept her from saying anything else.  But, anyway, that lesson went super well.  Once again I tell you, those BYU students are really saints.

That's all of Andreea's story, we will still have to work a bit with her to get to baptism, but hopefully we'll get there.  This week a lot of people have been actually 'investigating' us.  We have been meeting with a cool social worker lady, Lia,  that we picked up from English classes and she really likes what we have to say about families and asked us all about our families.  There is a former investigator Andra that we picked back up who wants to do a research report on us for one of her school projects.  And we met with a professor (Profesoara Cristina Dascalu) who is maybe even the dean of her university who asked us tons of questions.  When we gave her a chapter to read in the Book of Mormon she gave us an assignment as well to write a paper on communication (which is her specialty) related to our work as missionaries in foreign countries and said she would like to publish it in a scholarly journal.  Plus if you remember back when that guy was making a documentary about us, he is back and has filmed the elders proselyting some more.  So people really want to know what we're all about.  Now we just have to get them to want to know what we believe, and follow our examples.

Love,
Sora Jay



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Brazil

 Querida familia,

It has only been a couple of days since the last time I wrote, but this week was pretty good. Saturday we recieved a reference of someone that called the number on the back of a pass-along-card and went to her house to giver her the DVD of The Lamb of God. We watched the DVD with her and her family, taught a lesson and invited them to church. The girl that asked for the DVD didn´t come this week, but her sister Jessica came after church we visited them again and marked the baptism of Jessica for this Sunday. You only have to come to church two times to be baptized here. I asked them how they had gotten the pass-along-card and they said that they were walking in the street and a lady was handing them out and gave one to them. Now I am wondering who it was because I don´t know any members here that would walk in the street giving pass along cards. Every once in a while God just gives you someone ready to be baptized. In Guarabira one time we found a paper in our house in the dish cupboard that had some addresses and we visited them and found a girl that was baptized in two weeks as well.

Today we had P-day of the Zone, and we played soccer like we do everytime the zone gets together. I am getting better, but the non-church-shoes that I have suck really bad and make my feet blister. My proselyting shoes are still really good and I think that they will last until the end of my mission.

My district has four companionships, three of them are pretty good, but I think that one of them is going to be difficult. They found one new investigator last week, and we are in Brazil.

Not much else to report. Thanks for the e-mails, and tell Jesh that if he wants to recieve my e-mails he has to send me one because I don´t know his e-mail address and I lost the paper where I wrote it down.

Elder Jay Brazil



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Romania 16 May 2011

Hello everybody,

I am writing this email later in the day than I usually do because this morning we were able to teach during a religion class at one of the universities here.  We have an investigator who is studying for her masters in theology and she asked the professor if we could come to their class and tell a little bit about what we believe.  A couple kids gave presentations on some other religions, there was one cool one about Jews in Romania, and then we got up and taught a restoration lesson.  Our presentation was a lot better than theirs because we have a lot of practice and we're Americans so we didn't sit at the desk at the front and read off our presentation; we even asked the class questions.  It went pretty well.  We gave them our information and the teacher encouraged the class to write some questions for us so that we could come back and answer them.  Hopefully that goes well.

This week the students from BYU arrived.  Everyone was really happy to see them, and they doubled the size of our branch.  We got to church and I looked at the monthly schedule and it said that I had to speak that day about hope, I wish that the branch president had told me rather than just posting it out on the wall that nobody looks at.  Anyway, I got there to church and wrote up a talk really quickly and gave it.  It was kind of a depressing talk for having been about hope, because I told them the story of William Geddess getting kicked out of his house for joining the church.  It was cool because there is a missionary that left from our branch to Scotland, Radu Stoica, and when I mentioned the two missionaries in Scotland she got a big grin on her face.  Her daughter left last week for her mission in England so both her kids are gone now.  Her husband isn't a member, but maybe he will get baptized while his kids are on missions.
I only had to translate during relief society for the BYU girls.  It's hard to translate discussions because you have to translate for everybody trying to talk over each other, plus we didn't have any materials in English, besides the scriptures, so I had to translate what everyone was reading as well.  Translating scriptural stuff is kind of hard.  They have a laptop though, so maybe next time they can come with all the stuff they need ready to go.  One of the girls is a returned missionary, she went to Hungary right next door, and the one boy is a returned missionary who went to New York.  We challenged all of them to give away a pass-along card and they were way up for it, except for one girl who said they aren't allowed to proselyte.

On Tuesday after English class President Lundberg called us and said, "I think there's something that you've forgotten to report to me..."  Sora Mullen had answered the phone and we were both staring at each other wondering what he might have thought that we did wrong, but then it turned out that he had gotten an email from Sora Mullen's dad because Sora Mullen had been punched in the back by a gypsy.  She actually did report it to him, he just hadn't read the email yet.  It's really dumb that he cared more about what her dad thought than what she thought, he hadn't even read her email yet.  Sora Mullen keeps saying, "my heart is still fluttering from that conversation with President Lundberg."  But, we didn't have anything to worry about anyway; we haven't done anything wrong.

When we were street-boarding this week there was one guy who walked past and one of the elders tried to talk to him but he was really orthodox.  Later he went walking past again with an orthodox priest and the elders were talking to some kids, they didn't stop to say anything but as they passed the guy said, "leave the children alone!"  I think 'the children' didn't appreciate it very much.  It was just funny for us.  We have been finding a lot more college-age kids to talk to because we have been doing street-boarding near the university, and we got permission from the city to do it a few days every week for this month.  It was kind of lame because I had worked everything out last transfer at the city building and then the new district leader came in and without even asking me what I had already done went and asked permission for us to do it in some locations that aren't that great and on random days.  He also made the newspaper ads for English classes without regarding the advice I gave him, so he got ripped off and also put an ad in one of the papers that nobody even reads.  It would have been a lot better if he had just asked me, and listened to me.

But, things are going pretty good.  We have some nice people that could progress soon.

Love,
Sora Jay



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District Leader

Querida família,

It was good to talk with you guys on mother´s day even though it seemed really short with four different phone calls. Congratulations to Joni for the new baby.

This week was transfers, Elder Woolley and I stayed here, but I was called to be a district leader. Now I have to deal with other missionaries problems, but it will be good, I am learning a lot and now I get to go the leadership trainings.

Also this week Elder Araujo visited our mission and spoke with us, it was pretty good. He told us that the only talent a missionary needs is the talent of being an instrument, we just need to do what the Lord asks and he will use us to do his work. We just have to open our mouths.

I have a couple cool stories for you guys:

My first companion in the MTC was Elder Kennedy, he is from Sandy, but his dad wasn´t a member of the church and liked to talk bad about the church. Elder Kennedy was inactive for a couple year but he came back to church when he was 18 after he went to a temple open house and decided to serve a mission. Guess what happened last week. His dad was baptized and now everyone in his family are active members of the church. Pretty cool.

The second story:

We found a guy named Pedro my first week here and have been teaching him ever since he is married and has three kids. The teaching process has been a little slow because he used to be very active in another church, but last we he finally asked God if the Book of Mormon is true and he had a dream. In his dream he was reading a book that had the bible in the front and the book of Mormon in the back and when he saw it he started to yell, "It´s true, all this mormon stuff is true!" When he told us the dream I said that I would bring something for him to see the next time we came. I borrowed a quad from one of the members and read in Ezequiel about the stick of Juda and José joining and being on your hand and then pulled the quad out of Elder Woolley´s backpack and let Pedro look at it. Agora só batiza!

We also have an investigator named Jailma that already knows that the Book of Mormon is true and cries in the lessons because she feels the spirit, but she needs to come to church.

This week we did a family home evening in the house an inactive sister that started to came back to church and a lot of people came. It is weird when you are the oldest missionary and everyone just looks at you until you start the meetings and stuff. We had to set up this family home evening, but while we were there the members marked one for next week and they marked on for the 24th because it will be my birthday. I hope they make cake.

Gotta go,

Elder Jay



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Romania: Happy Mothers Day

Hey everyone,

It was nice to talk to some of you guys.  There weren't very many of you but I'll see you all in a few months anyway so it's okay.  I still got three phone calls.  One from Dad, Jerm, and Emily, and then one from Mom, Joni, and Aaron, and then one from Tim and Elisa.  When I talked to Emmett and Luke it was really hard to understand what they were saying, it's been a long time since I spoke with little kids in English.  Only teenage kids and up speak English here.
Dad said on the phone that when he was in Brazil he would have about two baptisms per transfer, and that he was just planting seeds.  I told Sora Mullen that if that's planting seeds then we are still cutting down the trees and pulling the big rocks and stumps out of the ground.

This week has been a pretty good one.  We have a few pretty solid people, each of them has a little catch though like needing to get married, thinking about moving to a different country, etc.  But we might have a baptism coming up soon.  I told Sora Mullen that we just have to baptize a lot of people at the same time so that they can all support each other, since there aren't a lot of members here to fellowship them.
The BYU girls with the orphanage program should be here soon if they are still coming.  The branch president keeps asking us when they are going to get here and we have no idea.  On Sunday he had pretty much given up and was almost crying at the idea of not having them come because they are such a huge support for the branch.  We tried to ask the APs but then have no idea when they will get here.  The branch has been struggling recently.  A couple of the members haven't come in a while and we have tried to set up with them but they bunged us.  Last week we watched conference instead of having Sunday School and Relief Society, but I noticed that there were only two Relief Society members there, instead of the five that are usually always there.

Remember back when I was trying to get in contact with one of the universities?  We taught a lesson to Professor Bejan at the big university (we found him knocking vilas), and we've set up to go to a religion class next Monday (through one of our former investigators, a theology student, that we tried going back to), and we met a lady on the street who is a professor at another university and she likes us a lot so hopefully we'll be able to meet with her too.  It's cool how it worked out in the end.

At the beginning of this week one of our investigators was in the hospital so we went and visited her.  The hospital was pretty sad.  There were like ten beds in a room with a doctor that she told us sat at a desk for a few hours and a nurse that sat there for the rest of the day.  The walls were peeling and the sheets were ripped and stained.  We went with her friend who is one of the members, Florentina, and she was mean to Sora Mullen and told her not to speak anymore because she didn't speak well.  Sora Mullen just talked to her in English and she couldn't understand.  As we were walking home a beggar guy asked Sora Mullen for money and she said she didn't have any to give to him and after she walked past he punched her in the back.  I didn't see because I was walking ahead of her and I didn't find out until we had walked away from him.  I told her she should have told me right then so that we could have done something about it.  Probably just threaten him or something.  I've never had anybody do anything like that to me for not giving them money.  I usually just give them and intimidating glare instead of saying anything to them though.

Last Monday we played airsoft at a place in the mall.  I'm not afraid of getting hit by the bullets so I was just calm all the time, and the other missionaries thought it was scary.  When we were putting up an English poster on a pole there was an old one there so I pulled out my pocket knife and sliced through it and ripped it off really fast, and Sora Mullen said that was scary too.  When she was talking to the elders on the phone after a lesson one time she told them that during the lesson I had pulled a gun out of my bag and shot the investigator in the knee-caps.

We had English signups this week, and there were lots of young smart people there.  Sora Mullen and I put up posters in the universities, and the elders put up theirs in the student housing.  One guy who signed up definitely looked like he is in the Mafia or something.

I took a picture of the ocarina that Elder Tefft gave me at transfers so that you guys can see it.
I registered for a bunch of classes at BYU in the fall but I'm probably only going to take the minimum for full-time status so that I can hang out with you guys, but I'll think more about that after a couple more transfers.

Love,
Sora Jay



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Brazil

Querida familia,

Sounds like there´s a lot of crazy stuff going on right now. There is crazy guy that is always sitting by the market and when we walk past he get all excited points at us and says, "Jesus is returning, prepare yourself!" He's right. The people here love end of the world stuff.

It was Abigail´s baby blessing yesterday? Congratulations to Jill and Stewart. I am fasting right now and stewart wrote me an email about food and how to make terryaki chicken, thanks...

This area is actually a little difficult to bring people to church, the places where the people are less educated they always have tons pentacostal churches and the Assembly of God, and even though there are tons of churches everywhere it is the worst part of João Pessoa. I like teaching smart people that understand the scriptures or at least know how to read. Yesterday I heard something about the church that I didn´t know before and I bet you guys never heard it either. The God that we worship is alive and he lives in Rio de Janeiro or so the people say.

But, we still have some good investigators and hopefully we will baptize some time soon.

Anyway gotta go,
Elder Jay

PS anyone added Rayssa yet?
rayssa.sud.brasil@gmail.com



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Romania 1 May 2011

Hello Everybody,

Okay guys, don't freak out or anything.  If you didn't hear, we had a tiny earthquake here in Romania on Sunday morning at 5:30.  I was laying there in my bed, and I was awake for some reason when my bed started shaking, I thought it was weird.  There are tramvais that come by our house in the mornings sometimes that make the apartment shake but it was too early and it kept going for a while.  When it finished I realized it must have been an earthquake.  My companion slept through it, but the next morning at church I asked people if there had been an earthquake and they said there had.  It was little though, 4.9 I think, and I haven't heard of any damage anywhere.  I don't really know where the center of the earthquake was or anything.

Sounds like things are getting pretty crazy with not having heard from Ed, and Tom being in a super sketch area.  I'm not sick anymore now, and we had transfers last week so I have a new companion: Sora Mullen.  She stayed at my apartment in Bucharest when I was there back in October on her first night in the country.  I took her knocking in the blocs and we had a lesson with a guy on a bench, so I was there for her first missionary experiences in Romania.  She is really outgoing and social so I hope it doesn't kill her to be with me.  She gets really excited and motivated, but I am just calm.  I think that's where our conflicts are going to come up.  I was already pushing myself to the limit last transfer with Sora Puckett and Sora Mullen wants to run even faster. 
For transfers we had to take a seven-hour train down to Bucharest at 6 in the morning and then wait there for a while and take another seven-hour train back to iasi.  We got home a little past midnight.  Those are the worst travel plans I have had to use so far.  Usually we can take a night train so that we can at least try to sleep.  It was okay though.
When I was at the gara (train station) in Bucharest one of the elders gave me an ocarina, a legit one made of clay and everything, although I'm sure it's not the best quality.  I will take some pictures of it to show it to you.  I've been trying to figure out how to play it.

Mothers Day is on the 8th right?  I figure you guys can just call me like you did last time whenever you guys want so that it will fit in for you to call Tom and Ed too.  If you guys can call me in the morning (Romania time) like you did at Christmas time that would be the best.  You can call as early as six, I just have to be ready to go by 9 to get to church on time.  I think that my companion will be talking to her family at about 4 (Romania time) and we will be having lunch right before then so you guys can decide when it would be best to call each of us missionaries.  Here is my phone number in iasi: 075-305-8813.  You'll have to look up the country code again.  You succeeded the first time so I have confidence in you.

We did street-boarding again this week but in a different location where we thought we could get more young people next to the university.  We did get more young people but there were a lot of them out of the city for Easter break as well.  They get like two weeks off for Easter.  I talked to this one kid for a while, Eduard.  He wouldn't tell me what religion he was but it definitely wasn't one of the main big ones like Pentecostal or Adventist or JW.  He tried to teach me some things from the Bible and I already knew all of them so he stopped really thoughtfully and said to himself, "Why did I stop? (to talk to you)."  And I told him that either he had something valuable to share with me or I had something valuable to share with him since we were both trying to follow God, but, that I already had the Bible and everything that he wanted to share with me I pretty much already knew, whereas I had some things that he didn't: the Book of Mormon and a living prophet.  He was a really religious person and he showed me a list he had with a bunch of people that he prays for and I told him to write on there to pray about Thomas Monson to see if he is a real prophet.  He wouldn't give us his contact info or anything but we gave him a pliant with ours.  Then later in the day we saw him riding by on his bike and he saw us and said, "This is a sign!"  And he called us later that day and said that he had read the pliant and that it said something about meeting with the missionaries more to find out about revealed doctrines so he wanted to meet again.  On the phone he said it would be "just you, me, and the Bible... and that other book you have."  I told him my companion will always be with me.  He should meet with the elders anyway because he's a young guy.

We also met a professor when we were out knocking vilas.  I finally found a connection to the university that I tried to call a while back.  He said he was a professor of philosophy there and that he was very interested in reading the Book of Mormon, and said that we should come visit him at his office on campus.  He said maybe he would share it with his students as well.  We'll see how it goes this week when school starts up again.

I talk to some of you on Sunday I guess!

Love,
Sora Jay



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