So yesterday marks 2 months of me being in this country. So that's weird.
It still feels like yesterday we were hopping on the bus from the MTC to the
airport. This whole transfer has gone by like a week did in the MTC, which at
that point felt like nothing. I'm already almost halfway done with my second
transfer. Time's weird, man.
So last week was pretty cool. Last P-Day we went paintballing!! It was so
fun. Haha but on the way there the taxi driver played literally the filthiest
song I've ever heard in my life. We had to have him turn it off. Haha the
Romanian rap out here is really cool, we hear it all the time in stores and
taxis and stuff, and it's usually always really appropriate and clean, at least
from what I've heard. But the American music they play is just ridiculous.
Anyway. Paintball. It was awesome. Oh and on wednesday we went and performed a
puppet show at an elementary school. There were two shows, one about hygiene and
one about smoking. They both went over great! Afterwards I saw the kids playing
games and acting out things like trying to kill the evil germs and stuff. It was
super cool.
And I've found myself not hating contacting as much. We do a lot of
contacting out here, because we don't get a lot of lessons because nobody likes
to talk to us. And last transfer I detested it. We'd leave in the morning,
contact for a few hours, come back & eat, contact for a few more hours, come
home and eat, and that would be our day. We have been able this transfer to
figure out better ways to do it. We have district contacting a lot, and some
other things. But the biggest part of it is just that now I've figured out a way
to contact that is so much easier than what I did all of last transfer, and I've
found myself wanting to get better, pushing myself to talk to that one more
person, and almost, even... kind of... enjoying it! It would still be a stretch
to say I like contacting. But it's now gotten to the point that I can do it with
confidence and I'm starting to be less picky about who I feel comfortable
talking to.
Last week I had another experience like the week before with silent
prayer and a guy coming up and talking to us, and I got his number, and it was a
super legit contact! And I did almost all of it! I keep feeling my contacting
walls coming down and it makes me so excited to be able to just talk to
everyone.
So, I'm in the process of writing/sending some physical letters. I have
some people who've written to me that I need to write back to and it's about
time I sent my family something. But I'm still trying to figure out how it all
works out here. So it might take a little while. But just so you know, I'm
working on it!
I love you all, and I'm loving it out here!
I'll talk to you next week.
Love,
Elder DeGraw
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