Then when we got up to Bucuresti, we slept at an apartment where there was no room, like at all. Me and Elder M "slept" on the floor. I put that in quotations because I probably got a maximum of 20 minutes of sleep. It was fun haha.
But then the next day we had our Zone conference/Christmas party, which was super fun. We had like an hour of Zone training meeting, a tie exchange, watched a slideshow with pictures from this year, and had an amazing lunch, then had an hour of Zone Conference, and then listened to testimonies of departing missionaries. And we found out some cool information in Zone Conference! OUR NEW MISSION PRESIDENT'S NAME!! He's really young too! Like Dad's age or even younger! He will also have their 10 year old son come out here with them if that shows his age more. Haha and I'm also pretty sure that I went to school with one of his daughters. He seems like he'll be really cool. He'll be here in June or July.
We were all kind of worried about who the next mission president will be because this mission has historically gone through cycles of awesome and less-awesome mission presidents, and President H is definitely ridiculously awesome. So we were worried that the next president would be the over-strict and overbearing kind, but we're all kind of thinking now that he'll be really cool.
Other than that, we got the farewell testimonies of some of the coolest missionaries out here. Four of them kind of have huge reputations for being both crazy and amazing and good missionaries. Haha the testimony meeting was like a mix of a comedy hour and a super motivating, spiritual meeting.
After the meeting, we actually got to go and stay the night with those four crazy awesome people. Haha, that was an interesting night. I love those guys.
So then we came back to Craiova, got to the church like 5 minutes before the branch Christmas party started. And there we decorated cookies, ate sarmale, and watched The Christmas Oranges. And that's about our week, other than contacting!
Haha Elder M got a huge package from his family, and he's been goofing around with it. He got this video from his ward with them all wishing him and all the other missionaries from his ward good luck and stuff, and it is hilarious haha. There's so many people that he doesn't know, nor do they know him, haha it's really funny.
We're all getting ready for Christmas down here. Craiova is putting up some really cool Christmas lights, they built an ice skating rink in centru, there are all of these little shacks selling Christmas stuff, it's really cool.
Oh! And so tell me next week when would be best to skype you guys! We can do it pretty much whenever, just let me know when would work best for you guys. For me, it would work best on wednesday, thursday, or friday, in the afternoon/evening here. We can literally do it whenever this month though. And I may or may not be able to call you once outside of that, to set things up better, but I'm not certain. But to coordinate the skype we can go a little outside of the normal regulations to communicate. But I'll figure out exactly what we can and can't do, and we'll find out haha! Oh, also thanks very much Grandpa for the Christmas donation! I really appreciate it!
Well that's it for this week! I love all of you guys! Also,
I do have a request; if you feel like sending me a package, I could use some
winter socks. Haha I have no idea where to find those.
Anyway, I hope you guys are
doing awesome!! I love you all! Please continue to be super fantastimagical!!
Love,
Elder DeGraw
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