Okay so we've been freaking out lately. Me and Elder Cr
are getting whitewashed out!!! Elder Cr is going to Brasov and I'm going to
Arad to be the District Leader with Elder Co as my companion! I've met him
before a few times and I'm excited to be serving with him. He's a bit like
Elder Cr so I know I'll really enjoy next transfer.
The district is going to
be super cool as well. We have the ZLs in our district and they are both from
the same MTC group and both are super cool and fun guys. One of them was one of
my godfathers! And I've never met either of the sisters, but they are both
going into their 3rd transfer and I've heard they are both super fun. So even
though it'll be hard to compete with this transfer, I'm sure I'm going to love
Arad and my new district. Haha this was seriously my favorite transfer ever.
Me
and Elder Cr are pretty sad that we are both leaving. Cluj was freaking
amazing and me and him both thought we were going to stay another one together
so when we looked at the transfer board we kind of freaked out a little bit. We
were screaming and jumping around like "I'M OUT!! WAIT YOU'RE OUT TOO!!!
AHH!" We were so surprised. And not only are we both out, two other people
from our district are leaving. So only two people out of the 6 who were here
this transfer will be here next transfer. We were a really close district and
got a lot done and had a lot of good things happen so it's really sad that
we're all leaving haha.
We also had my best session of english classes ever in this
transfer. Me and Elder Cr taught the advanced class and only had 2 students,
but they were both super cool and participated and we had great classes. One of
our students, who's been coming to english classes for a while, said that we
were his favorite teachers since he's started coming, because we made the
classes fun. The sisters who taught the beginner class had more than 50 people
at pretty much every class. The other Elders had like 15-20 people at every
class.
Every spiritual thought was just golden and they all went super well and
we gave out so many Book of Mormons and a lot of lessons came out of it. The
last spiritual thought went super well. We sang God Be With You Til We Meet
Again and read the scriptures associated with it. People were crying, one of
the older ladies that's come for a while starting singing with us at the end,
it was super emotional. Some of the sisters' students bought us all pizza and
just gave it to us to eat, as well as some candy bars, everybody was super sad
to see us all go, and some of the goodbyes were really hard.
Then don't even get me started with saying goodbyes to the
members. This branch has so many really cool members and we became good friends
with a lot of them and even after just 6 weeks it was pretty hard to say
goodbye to them.
The worst one for me was with Fratele Salvatore, a member from
Italy, who is the Elders quorum president and we had become good friends
because he's awesome. Anyway I was talking with somebody and he came up behind
me and gave me a kind of behind the back bro-hug and asked what was happening
with the district for transfers. I told him that I was leaving and he was just
like "Wait you're leaving?! But you just got here! You can't leave!"
It was awful.
Then I was talking with the Branch President who is pretty much
one of the coolest guysout here and asked if I was leaving and I told him, and
he reacted similarly like "You just got here! I wish you could have stayed
longer. But it's okay I know you have treaba..." (meaning like I know
you've got stuff to do) Then there were all the little kids in the branch that
always reminded me of home and of the cousins and church in America. I'm really
going to miss this branch.
I hope everyone's doing well back home, and had a happy
Least-Applicable-Holiday-for-Missionaries-Ever day!!
I love you all and miss you all but I know I'm where I'm
supposed to be and I'm so grateful that I can be out here serving the Lord.
Have a fantastic week!!
Love,
-Elder DeGraw
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