Hello all! So yeah not too much has been happening!
This
last week was the week of transfers, but me and Elder C didn't go down
because we're just staying together, and we didn't have English classes to
break things up, so this week was a lot of English contacting! Although this
week we did get 2 new potential investigators! Our best week so far in that
regard! Wow just saying that makes me realize how slow the work goes here...
but yeah. We were happy!
Other than that, just had district meeting and watched
a little bit of conference! It was kind of sad... the branch had planned an
activity to watch conference at the church villa, but nobody but the branch
president, one of his counselors, and maybe one other person, so they decided
to just cancel it and all went home. So then it was just us missionaries
watching it. Basically the same thing happened on Sunday, although that time it
was supposedly because they couldn't watch it live in Romanian, even though
Elder P (ZL) had found out how to do it, the branch president told him
that it wasn't possible.
So the branch met at 5 pm, to have a testimony meeting
and watch conference, and then didn't even watch it. But either way, I really
liked conferece! I always do haha. I feel like though that especially as a
missionary it's just a great occasion! This is my second one out here and both
times it's kind of felt like the missionary superbowl haha! We all get to
gather together, meeting in the church with some snacks, and listen to modern
day prophets! And as always, I got some answered prayers, some motivation, some
guidance. I hope each and every one of you watched it!
So yeah that's basically it! Althought I have a story from a
couple weeks ago that I just remembered about! We saved a kid from getting beat
up! This happened about midway through last transfer, and I'm pretty sure I
haven't mentioned it yet. If I have I'm sorry.
We were walking to the church for something, when this lady
yells out to us to walk with this kid to the end of the street. Being the nice
mormon boys we are we gladly offered to, though without fully knowing why.
Talking with him (he's about 10, I believe) we find out the situation, which is
that some kids were trying to beat him up because they thought he did something
which he didn't do.
He was close to his house, but he was scared, and
rightfully so. We walked with him for a while, and the kids emerge from behind
a car and try to charge at the kid, giving their BS excuses for trying to beat
the crap out of him. Me and Elder C stood in between them, and I calmy but
firmly adressed these little punks and asked what they were doing, to which
they replied the exact same thing that the kid told us was happening. I told
them that as long as I was there, they weren't going to touch him, but they
persisted. For some reason, our boy tried to start to get away, so he was no
longer behind us, and the kids ran over to him, knocked him down, and started
kicking him. I ran over there and threw the kids off of him, gave them a stern
talking to, and took our kid and left. Don't worry, they didn't hurt him too
bad, but they were brave/stupid enough to go after him when 2 clearly more
capable, larger than them Americans were there to protect him.
As we were
walking away the kid kept looking back and saying "they're following
us!" to which I reassured him that we wouldn't let anything happen to him.
"So you'll hit them?:)" he said, to which I replied that I would not,
but I would make sure they didn't touch him.
So yeah. After that everything was
cool. He went to his house, the bullies went the other way, and he was okay.
We've seen him a couple times since then. He's such a cool kid. I hope he'll
check out the church someday. I felt weird inviting him to do anything because
he's a kid, but I did give him an english card and I'm sure he'll remember that
event for a long time. I finally felt like I was doing something haha! But
yeah. Cool story for ya.
Okay so you remember how I left my charger in Craiova? I
finally got it back! So my camera has been working. I took a few pictures, I
was so happy. Then one day I turn it on to take a picture, and the lense won't
show any images. The screen works just fine, I can go back and look through all
the pictures that are there already, but it won't let me take any new pictures.
So long story short I'm probably going to need a new camera....... They're
pretty relatively cheap, but I'm still freaking ticked. Just when I finally get
to use my camera again!! Oh well. I'll just have to continue using other peoples'
cameras for things...
Also I haven't gotten a new cheap suit yet, for the main
reason that nowhere that has good cheap suits has my size! I didn't think I got
that small yet, but I can't find it anywhere. Or I can in a suit that I don't
want to buy. But I'm still on the lookout. I may not even find one. If I don't
find a good one within a reasonable amount of time, I'll probably just hold off
for only the really good suit towards the end. But we'll see.
So that's pretty much everything! I got pictures from last
transfer so I can finally send some! I'm sure the blog's been looking pretty
bland lately without pictures haha.
Anyway, love you all, have a great week, and remember that
you're all in my prayers!
-Elder DeGraw
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