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RE: Romania Aug 9 2010

Ariel,

 

Are you sure that the people who don’t dare to go into the sunlight aren’t vampires?  Your proximity to Transylvania makes me wonder.

 

Colin

 


From: Ariel Natalie Jay [mailto:ariel.jay@myldsmail.net]
Sent: Monday, August 09, 2010 3:11 AM
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Subject: Romania Aug 9 2010

 

Hey everybody,

How's it going.  I guess last week was pretty exciting for you guys because Ed went into the MTC too.  Now there are three of us.  Make sure to give me Ed's email address some time so that I can send him my mass emails too.  Or maybe it would be better if somebody copied them and sent them in a dearelder while he's in the MTC so that he can have plenty of time to write.

So, I read Tom's letter about Texas.  It's good that you get to experience tracting.  It's pretty much my whole mission.  Sora Hupp and I have spent the last five weeks knocking hundreds, if not thousands, of doors and now we have a few investigators.  Like ten.
We try to get referrals from the members all the time, but they usually don't give anything to us.
I remember it was in my first week after knocking in the blocs for a few days I told my companion that it was really stupid and that knocking was the crappiest way to do missionary work.  She said "yep."  And she said when she went home she was going to be the best member ever and refer all of her friends to the missionaries because she had knocked doors in Romania for a year and a half.  And then we continued knocking doors.
It's kind of fun doing it though.  We ocassionally get some of those same responses that you mentioned, but mostly people just say "I'm Orthodox" and we try to persuade them to listen to us anyway.

It's been super hot here too.  The temperature is always reported in Celsius but I created the little formula and I think that the temperature has been in the hundreds for the past couple of weeks.  Sometimes when we knock at people's houses they say "It's too hot!  I can't talk right now!" or they just don't dare to step into the sunlight.  Most people here don't have any sort of air conditioning either, including us.  At mostly all of the vilas though they have a grape vine growing over a courtyard that they sit underneath to be cooler.  It's really humid here too.  I don't really remember any times at home when I was actually dripping with sweat, but here it's pretty much every day.  I used to put on sunscreen but then I got tanned enough through the suncreen that I don't get sunburnt if I don't use it anymore.

I got an email from President Lundberg today that the missionary lessons are changing.  Ed will probably know more about it since he's at the headquarters of missionary work.

We had an investigator actually read the entire book of mormon this past week.  It was cool.  We are giving him to the elders though because he's a guy.  Hopefully he can get baptised soon.  He just has to stop smoking.

The librarian is going to kick me out again soon.

See ya,
Sora Jay

P.S. I have to help the little kids in Primary say prayers and give talks for primary, but in Romanian.  Primary is actually really fun.



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Romania Aug 9 2010

Hey everybody,

How's it going.  I guess last week was pretty exciting for you guys because Ed went into the MTC too.  Now there are three of us.  Make sure to give me Ed's email address some time so that I can send him my mass emails too.  Or maybe it would be better if somebody copied them and sent them in a dearelder while he's in the MTC so that he can have plenty of time to write.

So, I read Tom's letter about Texas.  It's good that you get to experience tracting.  It's pretty much my whole mission.  Sora Hupp and I have spent the last five weeks knocking hundreds, if not thousands, of doors and now we have a few investigators.  Like ten.
We try to get referrals from the members all the time, but they usually don't give anything to us.
I remember it was in my first week after knocking in the blocs for a few days I told my companion that it was really stupid and that knocking was the crappiest way to do missionary work.  She said "yep."  And she said when she went home she was going to be the best member ever and refer all of her friends to the missionaries because she had knocked doors in Romania for a year and a half.  And then we continued knocking doors.
It's kind of fun doing it though.  We ocassionally get some of those same responses that you mentioned, but mostly people just say "I'm Orthodox" and we try to persuade them to listen to us anyway.

It's been super hot here too.  The temperature is always reported in Celsius but I created the little formula and I think that the temperature has been in the hundreds for the past couple of weeks.  Sometimes when we knock at people's houses they say "It's too hot!  I can't talk right now!" or they just don't dare to step into the sunlight.  Most people here don't have any sort of air conditioning either, including us.  At mostly all of the vilas though they have a grape vine growing over a courtyard that they sit underneath to be cooler.  It's really humid here too.  I don't really remember any times at home when I was actually dripping with sweat, but here it's pretty much every day.  I used to put on sunscreen but then I got tanned enough through the suncreen that I don't get sunburnt if I don't use it anymore.

I got an email from President Lundberg today that the missionary lessons are changing.  Ed will probably know more about it since he's at the headquarters of missionary work.

We had an investigator actually read the entire book of mormon this past week.  It was cool.  We are giving him to the elders though because he's a guy.  Hopefully he can get baptised soon.  He just has to stop smoking.

The librarian is going to kick me out again soon.

See ya,
Sora Jay

P.S. I have to help the little kids in Primary say prayers and give talks for primary, but in Romanian.  Primary is actually really fun.



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Romania 2 August 2010

Hello Everybody,

This week was kind of crazy.  I live in the city with the Zone leaders and we had Zone Conference this week so we were helping them to prepare for it since Monday. 
When we traveled to Zone Conference the Elders drove us in the car because the office had figured out that it was cheaper to have us drive than to have all of us take the train.  So we drove through the streets in Bucharest, which was pretty crazy.  I think that probably the only Americans that would be able to drive well in Bucharest are teenage boys because you have to drive crazy in order to get anywhere.  We were at the mission office in Bucharest for a few hours because the elders needed the office elders' help with their Zone Conference presentation.  So we stayed there and talked to the other elders.  I feel kind of stupid for doing that now, we should have just gone out on the streets near the mission office and contacted people, but we didn't.  The elders were amazed at all of the things that I have accomplished in my life so far, especially that I had played a bunch of Zelda games.  They tried to test my knowledge, and I actually knew better thatn them.  Everyone always wants to know about all of my siblings and where they went on their missions, so I wrote it all out on a whiteboard for the people at the office.  Anyway, so we were there really late waiting for the elders to drive us the other sisters' apartment to stay there for the night and in the end they told us to take the metro.  So we got to the sisters apartment at like 10:30.
We got up at 6:00 the next day so that we could shower and get to the church early because the elders wanted me to play the violin for a special musical number.
I thought Sister Lundberg was going to bring the violin early to the church that we met at in Bucharest but we got there early and just sat around waiting because she didn't get there until it started.  So I wasn't able to practice before we started the conference.
So, at every Zone Conference everyone prepares a 10-minute talk about a scripture or subject that President Lundberg gives.  I had tried to prepare something ever since I finished my talk last Sunday, but I never could get anything actually prepared.  I didn't know why.  So when we were sitting waiting for Sister Lundberg I tried to work on it again, and I still couldn't get anything.  It didn't really bother me that bad that I didn't have anything prepared because I don't think I would really care about being publicly humiliated like that when it's just in front of a bunch of missionaries.  But I felt bad that I wasn't prepared like I should have been.
When President walked around the room shaking people's hands he shook mine and asked me how I was doing, I said "good" and he smiled really big.  And, what do you know, when the time for the talks came I was chosen to go up and speak.  I had like five minutes while President Lundberg was still talking to make sure that I knew where a couple of scriptures were that had been floating around in my head and then I went up and spoke.  The talk was about obedience and sacrifice.  I remember that sone of the sciptures that I used were Jacob 1:19 and D&C 4:2 and D&C 97:7, so afterward I felt like I had spoken pretty harshly, but I guess not because nobody said anything about it.  Some missionaries told me afterward that they thought it was really good, but I just felt crappy because I hadn't prepared anything beforehand like we are asked to.
Then we had lunch, and I ate really quickly and took the violing and went and played through A Poor Wayfaring Man of Grief a couple of times before going back to the conference.  One of the sisters accompanied me on the piano, but we didn't have any time to rehearse so we messed up a little.  I felt like I was going to throw up when it seemed like I wasn't going to be able to practice at all before performing, but it went okay.  And everybody understood that I hadn't been able to play the violin for months since I was a missionary; plus it wasn't my violin that I was playing on (and I didn't have a shoulder rest).  But it went okay.

So, usually Zone Conferences are nice and relaxing because you get to be the one in the congregation being taught for once instead of the one teaching the lessons, but it wasn't really like that this time because I helped the Zone leaders to prepare their stuff, and then I spoke, and then I played the musical number.  And then I felt crappy because everything I did was unprepared, but that's the way it goes sometimes I guess.

One other thing that happened this week: it tells you in Preach My Gospel to pray to be able to speak with power, and I had never tried it before, so I decided to do it.  For a while I have been praying for it and I didn't notice any difference until one day this week when we stopped a man with a little girl on the street and started talking to him.  We pretty much gave hime the entire first lesson standing there on the sidewalk because he wanted to hear what we had to say.  At the end of our little discussion he said "you have me convinced" and then he asked us what he had to do.  I handed him a Book of Mormon and told him to read it and told him to come to church the next day.  It was wierd because usually if somebody says something like that they are being sarcastic or making fun of us, but this guy seemed serious.  He told us where he lived and we said we would go by there next week.  As it turns out he didn't come to church, but we will go over to his house in the next couple of days to see how he's doing.

I have to go now, the library lady is telling me to leave.
Love,
Sora Jay



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Week 8

We didn't get to email on P-day so I am emailing today (monday).  I got reassigned to the Texas McAllen mission while I wait for my visa, it was pretty disappointing.  Of the 14 elders that started out in my district 10 have gotten their visas now, but me and my three roommates haven't.  I will go where I am asked to go though. The elders that got their visas are staying in the MTC a week longer than I am, so one reason I wish I had gotten was because I would have been able to see Ed in here.  Everyone always talks about how glad the are to be leaving the MTC, but I really like it here and it will be tough leaving to go somewhere that I didn't expect to go.  I will still do my best though, because the people in McAllen Texas need the gospel just as much as the people in Brazil.  I don't really have much to  write about this week, but I do have a question for Mom.  What should I do about my Driver's License? How do I renew it? I don't have my passport and I am not sure that my Driver's license will work for I.D. when I fly to Texas because it has holes in it.  See  ya.
 
Elder Jay



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July 19, 2010 in Romania

Hey everybody,

How is everything going?  Some of you guys I haven't heard from in a while, so I wonder if everything is okay during those few moments that I have to think about things besides missionary work.

One day this week we were going from door to door knocking at people's houses and we knocked on this one lady's door and I don't remember how we started the approach but we started talking to her.  The door approach went a little like this: we introduced a little message (I don't remember what) and asked if we could have a few minutes to share it; then the lady told us that she was orthodox, so we said "Great, then you believe in God, and in the Bible, and the Bible is written by prophets, so you believe in prophets just like us."  And then we told her that there is a prophet on earth today, and she stepped back and looked at us incredulously and said "Are you joking?"
We both said "No" and we kind of stood there for a second and then said "Do you want us to tell you about him?"  And she invited us in to talk to her and we gave her a restoration lesson a Book of Mormon and some commitments.

It was really cool to find someone who grasped the 'profoundness' of our message.  We knock on hundreds of people's doors every week and they are always like "yeah, yeah, sure" or they just don't listen at all, but seeing this lady's response even made me realize how cool it is that we have the knowledge that we do.

Here in Galati we spend most of our time looking for people because there were no investigators when I got here, because one of the sisters before had 'health problems' and it was her last transfer.  Fortunately, my companion Sora Hupp is willing to work hard and we are outside all day long looking for people.
I was thinking one day that it's a good thing that God is a lot more patient than me because I would have destroyed this city already because everybody is wicked and set in their ways...and then I realIzed that this city is currently being destroyed by flooding.  So I thought about that for a while.
There are areas in this city where the missionaries are not allowed to go becuase it's too dangerous.

People actually do listen to us though, we just have to persuade them to a lot of the time.  Some people just let us right in though; one day this week some young people let us in and we taught a lessons to like ten people who were sitting in the courtyard.  I thought about how earlier on in my mission I might have been nervous being in front of so many people, but now I don't really care.  We try so hard to get people to listen to us that when they are willing to listen we talk to anyone and everyone.
We have been able to find a few new investigators this past week though, and someone came to sacrament meeting.

The branch here is pretty small, and the previous missionaries in this area have set sort of a low standard.  There was one member who wanted us to hold her little boy and help her carry him home which would have taken an hour.  For Sora Hupp it was really hard to say no, because she had done it before, and the member kept telling us that she wouldn't get us in trouble for it or tell anyone and that she couldn't do it without us.  I just told her that I couldn't because it was against mission rules.  She kept trying to persuade us but eventually she got distracted and we just left.  It's too bad that there aren't any members who could help her because I believe her when she says she needs help, but as missionaries we can't and that's just the way it is.
Sometimes when we are asked to do certain things to be obedient we don't always understand why or we feel that there are exceptions, but whenever we are obedient, no matter what comes of it, it will be "accounted unto [us] as righteousness", just like the Nephites who kept the Law of Moses.  The Branch President here has asked us to help people to have the faith to pay their tithing so that they can recieve the blessings.  It's one of those things that we just need to do out of obedience without trying to come up with reasons and excuses.  But we also know that we will recieve blessings from doing so, both temporally and spiritually, so it makes it worth it anyway.  It's like what President Hinkley said "Do what is right, no matter the consequences."

Well, that's my little missionary moment for this week's email.  Except I guess that the whole email is a missionary moment.
I wish there were members out here like you guys to be good examples and teachers for everyone else.

Well, I'm running out of time.  I just have one question for you guys.  Everybody here, and mostly everybody in all of Europe I think, has a big pock-kind of scar on their left arm and I found out that it is from the TB vaccine.  In America I think the doctors hate the TB vaccine, so I am curious to know why if it seems to have been embraced by Europe.  I'm sticking with the Americans but I am curious.  So, let me know.

Love,
Sora Jay




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