It's been getting really hot lately. It's even better when
there's like no AC in places where there should be AC. Like right now, for
example, I'm in a little internet cafe. I Look up, and there are a whole bunch
of big tubes and vents and things that look like AC. And yet they are not on.
It's about 80 degrees in here I think right now. No reason why. Gotta love
Romania!
Things are going great in Constanta! The branch is so
freaking cool. The BP knows what he's doing. He served on a mission, speaks
perfect english, and is super motivated and knowledgeable about missionary work
and it's so great to see.
This last week was pretty cool! Yesterday at church there
was a member and his nonmember friend who came, both from africa, who don't
speak Romanian,so I translated for them. It's been a while since I translated
in any real capacity so it was a little rough at first but by the end it was
great! I needed some more practice at that haha!
Oh! We had a lesson this week with a guitarist. We had a
little jam session beforehand:) Well, more of him showing me cool things he can
do and me being like "Oh wow that's cool." I think I've realized that
with guitar I'm kind of a one man show haha. But anyway he was really good. Oh
and did I mention he only has one hand? Yeah he's only got one actual hand.
Birth defect left his right hand reduced to nothing but two small deformed
fingers. He uses one of them as a pick. He plays flamenco style guitar, and
would be really good even if he had two full hands. But yeah. I've had two
lessons with him and they've both gone pretty well! He's got a rather
interesting past, involving "black magic" and spiritualism and stuff
like that, and he still is the kind of guy that claims to see auras and I think
he even runs his own spiritual therapy thing. But he's really nice and sincere
and he's thinking about baptism. It's at least crossed his mind, anyway. In our
last lesson we committed him to pray to know if that's what God wants him to
do.
In other happy news, Romania is finally getting some of the
most important things that they've been missing! A few weeks ago big stores
started carrying Reese's and I almost fainted when I saw them and I may or may
not have cried when I tasted them. I have bought many of them. Hershey's in
general is now invading Romania. They say that once you try European chocolate
you never want to go back. Not true. At least not in Romania. For me. The
chocolate here is amazing don't get me wrong, but the American stuff is just as
good as ever. Then this past week, McDonalds started having Oreo McFlurries!!
They didn't have them before! But they do now! Now if they could just get some
decent peanut butter I'd be set for life!
Haha so not too much happened out of the ordinary! Just some
contacting, trying to bring people unto Christ, although so far I've been
having more success here than elsewhere!
I love Constanta!!
And I love you!
-Elder DeGraw
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