Monday, May 12, 2014

Dear Family!!!! 

It was SOOOOOOOOOO nice to be able to see you all!!! I definitely love you all and miss you all a ton!!! I'm definitely glad that I was able to skype all of you. I'm just surprized that this is the last time that I will be skyping you all until I get home!! CRAZY!!!! I definitely am happy and enjoying my mission!! Thanks for the birthday wishes!!! It was hilarious to hear you all sing happy birthday to me while sucking helium balloons!! That was fantastic!!  Speaking of stuff from the package, French and I just tried making the cake that was in there. We still need to frost it, but it turned out ok. Our oven doesn't heat everything the way it's supposed to (like different areas of the oven are hotter than others) so the cake didn't turn out like it's supposed too... but I'm sure it'll taste good (I'm going to go and eat some after this!). I'm glad you got to talk to grandma and grandpa Barney for me!! Momma I hope that you had a wonderful mothers day and I hope you always remember that you are a wonderful mom!! I love you tons momma :) 

I LOVE YOU ALL SO SO MUCH :) 

Monday, May 5, 2014
Well momma... here are a couple of pictures for you!! We were just walking around last p-day and figured to take a couple of pictures!! 

Monday, May 5, 2014

Dear Family!! 

Well hello there everyone!! Well we decided to not go on our awesome excursion to visiting other places because of the weather... so I don't have the awesome pictures for it. We are wanting to go later when the weather is better so it will happen sometime!! I do have a couple of pictures to send though so hopefully you enjoy them! This week has been a pretty good week. We still are meeting with Robert and Kevin whenever we can. This past week we had interviews with President and Sora Hill... it's weird because they are the last interviews that I will be having with them! They are leaving at the end of June. Then the new mission president will be here and after that I'm basically gone too! So this week we find out the transfer board on what is going to happen next transfer and then next week is transfers. French and I are hoping to stay together so hopefully we do!! Lets see... so next week you guys are free all sunday morning so we can just plan on Sunday morning at around 9 in the morning for you guys. It might be a little earlier or later depending on what happens, so just make sure that Skype is up on the computer so that if I happen to call you guys will hear it and then we can all talk!! I'm so so excited to Skype you guys!!!! WAAHOO!!!!!  Question: How has the mission changed your life forever??  Well momma that question is definitely a deep one!! ha ha just ask me the question when we Skype because it will be easier to explain stuff than just typing it! It's not as fun typing things as it is to just say them! 

Monday, April 28, 2014

Well here are a couple of pictures for you!! 

The first one is of us at the Easter Orthodox service! Gotta love the candles!! 

The second one is a couple of us from our Easter sunday church walk! The one on the far left is a member. The one on my left is the Branch President. Then there's me (in my new suit I bought not too long ago). Then to my right is Elder Reid, Elder French, and on the far right is our new investigator Robert! 

The last picture is us missionaries at a members house for an Easter meal!! 

Monday, April 28, 2014
Hello there Everyone!! 

Well things are going great here. Just the usual stuff I guess. We are still teaching English. The branch is doing great still too. We haven't really been meeting with Kevin much because he has been busy, but we have started meeting with another cool guy named Robert. He is from english and he is really cool! We have only taught him the Restoration, but he took it really well! Well the food that I make myself is basically just pasta, soup, and sandwiches. Basically the stuff I would make at home ha ha I would like to learn how to make Sarmale. I'll try making it sometime soon before I leave. I guess they do look like egg rolls, but they aren't really at all ha ha oh and they boil them. The candy bars are great here! I really love Milka bars, but I think my favorite candy bar is called a Lion bar. I'm going to buy some before coming home so all you guys can try it. I usually drink Coke if I have the chance, or Mountain Dew. I haven't had a Diet Coke in months though so that will be something weird to drink when I get back. I can't wait to see you guys for Mothers day!!!! WAAHOO!!!! Well it sounds like I could Skype you guys at any time, so I will write you guys next week and let you know when I will be doing it. I'll have to talk to French about when he is able to do it with his family. Well momma it's not like the 1 hour church is how it is every week (although I personally think it should) ha ha I'm glad you are still enjoying the primary! Actually speaking of the articles of faith, that is what we talked about in church this past sunday for Priesthood. The Branch President asked us missionaries how it was learning the Articles of Faith in primary and of course I told them that I learned all the Articles of Faith from you when you used to tuck me in bed as a kid. They thought it was something cool ha ha It definitely made me miss you momma!! ha ha It sounds like there are real problems with the palm trees at home!!! Are we going to get some new palm trees or what?! 

I miss you all so so much!!! I can't wait to Skype you all soon!!!! :) 

Tuesday, April 22, 2014
Dear Family!! 

Well Happy Easter to all of you too!!!!! Easter was pretty great. Just like last year, we were able to go to an orthodox church service... at midnight!! It was great (mainly because I got to be outside past curfew)... it was a lot of fun. I did take pictures of it but I won't be able to send them right now. I'll try to send them later if I remember to do it. For our church service, we just had an hour for sacrament meeting and then afterwards the branch just went on a nice Easter sunday walk to the park. Best Idea Ever! ha ha It was all great though! After the walk we went to Sora Lidia's house (a member) and she gave us some good Romanian food. Lots of eggs! That was fun! This past week I also got what us missionaries call "The Death Call"... basically all the call is is that the mission office calls us and reminds us of our release date and asks us what airport we want to fly to. Then the ask for a parent email so that they can email you guys my travel plans (I think) and other stuff I guess. So basically if you guys get an email that tells of my travel plans, I kindly ask that you forward it to me so that I can know too!! But other than that things are still going well. We only were able to meet with Kevin once this past week. We are hoping to meet a couple more times with him this week. 

I hope you all had a great and wonderful Easter!! 

Monday, April 14, 2014

Dear Family! 

Well hello there everyone!! Things are going about the same as usual. This past Saturday we had a meal with the whole branch at the church for Easter. The members made some delicious Sarmale (google it). This coming weekend is Easter for us in Romania. So on Saturday night I get to go to a midnight Orthodox service for Easter!!!! Partay!! One of the few times that I get to stay out past the usual curfew (I still don't like curfew momma!!!) so I'm excited!! So Iasi is basically known for being one of the most Orthodox based cities in Romania. There are seriously TONS of churches around here. They do have a college campus here but it's not really around where we live. Yeah I know that I'm supposed to be sending more pictures, but I just never seem to take any. I'll try to get some to you eventually! Things with Kevin are going about the same. We still meet with him from time to time. I feel like he is slowly (but surely) progressing. I guess we will just see what happens over time!