I'm still alive!

Hello, people of Earth! Craiova's still going on! Still going slow, but it's still fun. This week has been pretty bland, as per usual here in Romania, but it's been fun.

Church was interesting this last week, being that the Branch President was gone, leaving the only members being us 4 missionaries, one of the 2 only active members in this branch, and an american who happened to be there on a business trip.

But the "best" part was when me and Elder M taught the Sunday School class. It wasn't awful, but we just probably weren't as prepared as we could have been, and the class is very small and doesn't contribute very much. So the class was really just boring haha. Church is really different here, in Craiova especially, but also just in Romania as a whole. But here, we have 2 members, 2 hours, pretty boring, pretty quiet. Although sometimes, in branch meetings out here, in branches other than this one, things can get pretty heated. I've heard of fistfights breaking out in Priesthood session, people yelling at each other, haha it can get pretty intense.

I've also seen it happen before where people get up on the pulpit asking for money, just preaching straight up lies, or it happened one time where a member of the branch presidency was teaching the investigator class, and told them all that lying wasn't a sin. We had to get on him and tell him to stop. He wasn't allowed to teach the class after that haha.

Anyway, other than that, the coolest thing this week was that we met a cool guy while block-knocking! We set up a lesson!! Haha, it's kind of sad that we're rejoicing over one potential investigator, but it's really that rare out here. Anyway, we knocked on his door, he answered, and we start into our shpeil, and he looked kind of like he was going to tell us that he was busy and not interested, but he just kept standing there, and so we were kind of flustered and didn't know what to say, because usually by that point they turn us away, but he let us keep talking and was actually interested! So we figured out stuff to say, namely that we started talking about the restoration. He was super cool and interested and we took his number down, and I called him yesterday and we have a lesson set up for this week! We're really excited about him.

So yeah! That's about all! One thing about the skyping, I'll either call you guys this week (if possible) or email about when we can skype. We can literally do it whenever, and there's not really a time limit either. We just need to set it up. We were thinking of doing it next tuesday, and I think either way it will need to be relatively early in the morning for you guys, around 8 or something. But I'll try to call you guys this week to set it all up.

Cool! I love you all, remember the reason for the season in Christ!! Have a fantastic week!!

 

-Elder DeGraw



Us havng our fancy drinks at a dinner with the Branch President.

Don't we look classy.