Sorry mom, I tried, I figured you were at the gym. But don't pull anything funny! It was way nice to be able to talk to you dad, weird, but nice, it made my whole day. And I was told to make it super quick so thats okay don't feel bad.
This past week has been maddness! But I got my visa finally it just took 3 days of dumb tests, signing things and sitting in line forever. But its done and I am glad. As I mentioned before, I now have a new companion, and I love her to pieces! She is so fun! And I think she is going to help me a ton with the language because she is crazy serious about language study and I think with Sora Larsen I had language study maybe twice. And Sora Lovell is intense with how she wants to run it, so I'm excited about that. Its about time I figure out this language. She is from Las Vegas, and she is so funny, she knows a million card tricks and can shuffle like a mad man. Makes me wish I was from Vegas, I can't shuffle at all. AND she has watched Calamity Jane.... I've never met anyone else who has ever seen that! We decided that when we get home she's coming to our house and we are having a cheesey Doris Day party, so prep yourself mom!
So, Magda is doing so amazing. I keep waiting for something bad to happen and she keeps plugging along, being her amazing self. We moved her baptism to the 28th of June because she works on Sundays from 1:00p.m. until 9p.m. so we are doing it Saturday because she has Saturdays off. I'm so excited because I thought with Sora Larsen gone things would fall apart because Magda loves Sora Larsen, but she seems completely okay with it, just smiling all the time, which is a pretty unique thing to her. Doina, another investigator on the other hand is not doing so well with the loss of her favorite missionary. And I am no Sora Larsen, so we'll see how it goes.
Yesterday was the most amazing Sunday ever! The spirit was strong! Yesterday was an exceptionally good day to be a missionary!
Anyway, I gotta go. Love you all, and Happy Birthday Dad! (on Thursday),Nicole
P.S. did you get those e-mails Sora Larsen sent you?
Love Runs in a Circular Motion
Me and my Sistas!
Monday, June 16, 2008
6/9/2008
Hey are you getting my e-mails? You should probably let me know. Because I'll be totally bummed if you didn't get my last e-mail about Magda getting baptized on June 29. Anyway, this past week (the last week of my first transfer) was crazy (I am starting to think there is no such thing as a "normal" missionary week) Sora Ciocmata a Romanian serving her mission in Russia got kicked out of Russia and sent back here to work on visa stuff and she has been living with us because she is still a missionary and can't stay with her family. She is pretty much the coolest person I've ever met and has done wonders for my language skills which are still pathetically lacking, because she doesn't really speak English so when we go on exchanges with members I'm obviously spending the day with a Romanian either way, and she has taught me all this way interesting vorbe (like expressions) that Sora Larsen doesn't know and neither do the elders so I love pulling them out in conversations and frustrating everyone a little. Its pretty fantastic.
Last night we got our transfer call, I'm staying in Bucharest but getting a new comp, her name is Sora Lovell, I hear she's pretty fantastic, she was in the MTC with Sora Larsen. Sora Larsen is going to Timisoara and pretty much everyone from my district is out but me and Elder Patterson and Elder Platt. I'm way sad, I had such a great district.
Oh well. I'm sure this upcoming district will be awesome too. Well, I had better go. Happy Father's Day next Sunday Dad!Love you all a ton,
Nicole
Last night we got our transfer call, I'm staying in Bucharest but getting a new comp, her name is Sora Lovell, I hear she's pretty fantastic, she was in the MTC with Sora Larsen. Sora Larsen is going to Timisoara and pretty much everyone from my district is out but me and Elder Patterson and Elder Platt. I'm way sad, I had such a great district.
Oh well. I'm sure this upcoming district will be awesome too. Well, I had better go. Happy Father's Day next Sunday Dad!Love you all a ton,
Nicole
P.s. 6/2/2008
Okay, sorry I wasn't quite done, I wanted to tell you about the fact that apparently when you are in the only companionship of sisters in a Zone if something goes crazy in the Relief Society in one of the other cities in that zone you get to go to that city, and so Sora Larsen and myself went to Alexandria on Saturday. It was super fun and we got to meet the Matei's a really fameous member family in Romania. It was fun to be able to get out. Anyway the internet lady made us pre-pay and she's yelling at me.Love ya, maybe I'll just write a letter with more detail.
Nicole
Nicole
6/2/2008
!!!!!OH MY GOODNESS GRACIOUS! MAGDA IS GETTING BAPTIZED!!!!!!!!!!!! This last week has been INSANE, in a fabulous way! Magda is so cute, we were super worried about her but when we finally got another lesson with Magda she was doing well, her life was still insane and super stressful so we were worried she wouldn't be willing to try to quit smoking again, but she had already started the quiting process before we talked about it again and now has officially been smoke free for 11 days! So, we met with her last Thursday and she brought this weird little Bible thing and said that her penticostal friend gave it to her to read and she went off about how it didn't make sense and how she loved the Book of Mormon because she feels like God talks to her through it (HELLO!) and so Sora Larsen was like, "So, what does that mean for your life?" and Magda said that she wanted to be BAPTIZED! AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! Last Sunday 3 new members were confirmed in Sacrement Meeting and she said that she felt so strongly that if she wants to be happy she would need the Holy Ghost. So, we set a date for June 29! Oh, my goodness she is so fabulous. So, Saturday we had a Book of Mormon activity where we gave 4 different groups a BoM with a highlighted story that they needed to act out and we invited Magda to come and she brough Alex her little boy and we were watching a group act out the Tree of Life vision and she was like "oh! I know this story, its Lehi's dream that Nephi prayed to know too, thats one of my favorites! About eating the fruit and wanting your family to eat too." We were a little surprised that she knew it so well, but figured its at the beginning of the book so whatever, but then a group acted out Ammon cutting of the arms and what not, and she knew that story well too! She is so crazy amazing!Oh, and we are now teaching 2 new investigating families. We found one family park contacting and whenever we go over there to tach them Fane, the father has someone new that he's gotten interested in the church! And older man, and his cousin and her family! And they all have kids and are such fun people, I hope these go really well, Mihaela his cousin is so cool, she keeps calling us and telling us stuff she likes about our reading assignments we give her, we just can't seem to move fast enough for her. But she didn't come to church yesterday, so I'm a bit worried. Oh well, I'll just have to pray some more.Its been such a fun week! I hope things keep moving along. This is the last week of the transfer so next Wednesday I'll have a new companion probably, its kinda sad, I'm pretty sure all of my district but me and Elder Patterson are getting transferred. Oh well, it'll be good.Anyway, tell everyone hi for me.Love lots,Nicole
Monday, June 9, 2008
5/26/2008
Hey,
I did e-mail you last week! I guess you didn't get it. I'll send this e-mail two different ways just in case somethings wrong. I did get the western union info but they wouldn't give me the money without better id so I'll have to have the office elders bring me my passport to me at zone conference on Thursday and pick up the money next Monday.
Anyway, life is going pretty well even though this last week was kinda lame, we had a lot of lame business to take care of and only got a chance to go into the blocks or go parck contacting once, so we haven't really met anyone new, except last night we met a couple who told us all this stuff about their life and how they were trying to have a baby, but its been hard and they don't understand why God would prevent them from having a baby when they are such good people, so we talked for a long while with them, and it was kinda nice because they aren't Romanian and don't speak Romanian so the talk was all in English. Last night was the first time I ever told anyone who didn't already know that Joseph Smith saw God and Jesus Christ, it was weird, but really good, I mean I've told people before in Romanian but thats different because Romanian is still kinda just weird sounds to me that I hope are actual words. We gave them the Book of Mormon and talked a lot about how to learn more about what God's purpose for all of us is. It was really cool because we were in a huge gorgeous park near a lake thing and it was just really peaceful and the Spirit was there and I could totally tell that they could feel it. I usually have to pray during lessons that they can feel what I am feeling, but I could just tell that they could feel it, language barrier and all.
Since you didn't get my last e-mail you didn't know that last Monday was ridiculous, we didn't even get a P-day because we were trapped in our apartment with a cleaning lady for 10 hours. So by Friday with the lame week we were having we were about ready to pull our hair out when we went to a Relief Society Talent Show for one of the Branches (Cotroceni) (since me and Sora Larsen are pretty lacking in the talent department we painted faces on our chins, put a blanket over our faces and lip-synced Akunah Matatah with Elder Hale, the ladies went crazy for it, they had never seen anything like it!) afterwards one of the branch families decided to cook all the missionaries that were there mici (don't worry about what that is)as a surprise so we had to stay and wait for them to finish cooking so the 6 of us and the daughter Camilia pulled out a volleyball and volleyed around the church grounds it was so much fun, and the mici was probably the best mici I have eaten. It was hilarious because the Church hired a gaurd for the grounds from 6:30p-6:30a and he was there and he pulled his car around and started blaring Abba! It was hilarious because this is a maybe, 25 year old guy! And we just danced around with the kids there and Elder Suckow the elder from Germany showed us how its done back where he comes from. It was good times, thats all I have to say. You aint't seen dancin 'til you've seen Romanian dancin!
Oh, and yesterday at church was exhausting, our typical 7 hours there has been extended to 8 because we now have a meeting with one of the branch presidents every Sunday at 8am. And yesterday was a joke, but I came down from R.S. a little frustrated with the first block of church and saw our dear little Magda coming to chruch! And since you apparently didn't get the last e-mail we were super worried about her because she started smoking again and hasn't been answering her phone since last Wed. and there she was all adorable dressed up coming to chruch without even having to be reminded! She made my whole day!
Anyway, that is that and I have to buy some groceries,
Love you lots!
Nicole
I did e-mail you last week! I guess you didn't get it. I'll send this e-mail two different ways just in case somethings wrong. I did get the western union info but they wouldn't give me the money without better id so I'll have to have the office elders bring me my passport to me at zone conference on Thursday and pick up the money next Monday.
Anyway, life is going pretty well even though this last week was kinda lame, we had a lot of lame business to take care of and only got a chance to go into the blocks or go parck contacting once, so we haven't really met anyone new, except last night we met a couple who told us all this stuff about their life and how they were trying to have a baby, but its been hard and they don't understand why God would prevent them from having a baby when they are such good people, so we talked for a long while with them, and it was kinda nice because they aren't Romanian and don't speak Romanian so the talk was all in English. Last night was the first time I ever told anyone who didn't already know that Joseph Smith saw God and Jesus Christ, it was weird, but really good, I mean I've told people before in Romanian but thats different because Romanian is still kinda just weird sounds to me that I hope are actual words. We gave them the Book of Mormon and talked a lot about how to learn more about what God's purpose for all of us is. It was really cool because we were in a huge gorgeous park near a lake thing and it was just really peaceful and the Spirit was there and I could totally tell that they could feel it. I usually have to pray during lessons that they can feel what I am feeling, but I could just tell that they could feel it, language barrier and all.
Since you didn't get my last e-mail you didn't know that last Monday was ridiculous, we didn't even get a P-day because we were trapped in our apartment with a cleaning lady for 10 hours. So by Friday with the lame week we were having we were about ready to pull our hair out when we went to a Relief Society Talent Show for one of the Branches (Cotroceni) (since me and Sora Larsen are pretty lacking in the talent department we painted faces on our chins, put a blanket over our faces and lip-synced Akunah Matatah with Elder Hale, the ladies went crazy for it, they had never seen anything like it!) afterwards one of the branch families decided to cook all the missionaries that were there mici (don't worry about what that is)as a surprise so we had to stay and wait for them to finish cooking so the 6 of us and the daughter Camilia pulled out a volleyball and volleyed around the church grounds it was so much fun, and the mici was probably the best mici I have eaten. It was hilarious because the Church hired a gaurd for the grounds from 6:30p-6:30a and he was there and he pulled his car around and started blaring Abba! It was hilarious because this is a maybe, 25 year old guy! And we just danced around with the kids there and Elder Suckow the elder from Germany showed us how its done back where he comes from. It was good times, thats all I have to say. You aint't seen dancin 'til you've seen Romanian dancin!
Oh, and yesterday at church was exhausting, our typical 7 hours there has been extended to 8 because we now have a meeting with one of the branch presidents every Sunday at 8am. And yesterday was a joke, but I came down from R.S. a little frustrated with the first block of church and saw our dear little Magda coming to chruch! And since you apparently didn't get the last e-mail we were super worried about her because she started smoking again and hasn't been answering her phone since last Wed. and there she was all adorable dressed up coming to chruch without even having to be reminded! She made my whole day!
Anyway, that is that and I have to buy some groceries,
Love you lots!
Nicole
5/20/2008
Sorry this e-mail took so long, I hope mom didn't call the office. Yesterday was ridiculous. At 7:30 am our landlord shows up and has a cleaning lady with him and says that she has to do general cleaning, and Sora Larsen tried to explain that we didn't need it because we clean our apartment, he said it was in the contract that twice a year a professional comes in. So, after some arguing Sora Larsen broke and agreed. The lady looked pretty sketchy so we didn't feel comfortable leaving, but we were starving and didn't have any food so we decided that we would take 10 minutes and run to the store and get something to eat, we get back and the landlord and his wife are there looking at a hole in a chair and freaking out and saying that our church is going to have to pay for a whole new set of furniture. After that we decided not to leave the lady alone, how long can it take to clean a clean 3 room apartment? Apparently 10 hours. We never left the apartment until well after 6 and were late for an appointment. It was lame.
Besides that, life is great. We have a few more investigators, 6 to be exact. We are a little worried about Magda, she's attempted to quit smoking twice and is at a point where she doesn't understand why just 2 cigerettes are bad. We're working on it. She wants to quit. We taught her the plan of salvation last night, we waited and waited until she could get her whole family there and her husband never showed and her two older kids decided that since dad wasn't there they didn't have to be either. She looked exhausted. I feel so sad for her. I felt so dumb because my part of the lesson was how this life is a blessing from God to prepare and repent to meet him, and right as I am starting Alex her 4 year old started going nuts and wrote all over his face with a pen, (which broke my focus and made it really hard for me not to laugh, but she did not think it was funny) and he started bouncing off the walls. So, she was yelling at him, and mind you she works the night shift at a bank (why a bank has a night shift I am not entirely sure) so she was out of it because she hadn't had a chance to sleep, but wanted us to come over before she went to work, poor lady was dangling on a string that was about to snap. And all i knew how to say was that life is a blessing even when its hard. She just looked at me, and Sora Larsen was laughing at me as soon as we left. It was sad.
Anyway on a funnier note, we had a combined branch activity on Friday, and I was just setting up chairs minding my business when this rather scary girl maybe a little older than me was walking around the church with Georgiana, a convert as of last Sunday, pretty much stuck to her,against her will, the girl (I'm not entirely sure what her name is) comes over to me and grabs my arm and tells me to come with her. Now, mind you she's about 8 inches shorter than me but remarkably strong my shoulder pinned under her arm and as we are walking around she is asking me about my family,I'm a little too frightened to be honest to really concentrate enough to understand, we come back around the church and this girl literally picks me up off the ground and sets me on a chair and tells me to sit there and then wispers something in my ear and the only word I understood was "crying"
and I'm like what the... and I look at Georgiana and she smiles at me and all of the sudden bursts into tears and starts talking to me, and all I catch is that her 21 year old friend died two days ago and she was a sinner and so God isn't going to love her anymore. It was intense.
Okay, maybe that isn't very funny, but the elders were laughing pretty hard, and did basically nothing to help. Good old elders. Anyway, things are going well, I still understand basically nothing, but I'm faking it better Ithink, sadly to say.
Anyway, Sorry I don't have any good stories from this week.
Love ya,
Nicole
Besides that, life is great. We have a few more investigators, 6 to be exact. We are a little worried about Magda, she's attempted to quit smoking twice and is at a point where she doesn't understand why just 2 cigerettes are bad. We're working on it. She wants to quit. We taught her the plan of salvation last night, we waited and waited until she could get her whole family there and her husband never showed and her two older kids decided that since dad wasn't there they didn't have to be either. She looked exhausted. I feel so sad for her. I felt so dumb because my part of the lesson was how this life is a blessing from God to prepare and repent to meet him, and right as I am starting Alex her 4 year old started going nuts and wrote all over his face with a pen, (which broke my focus and made it really hard for me not to laugh, but she did not think it was funny) and he started bouncing off the walls. So, she was yelling at him, and mind you she works the night shift at a bank (why a bank has a night shift I am not entirely sure) so she was out of it because she hadn't had a chance to sleep, but wanted us to come over before she went to work, poor lady was dangling on a string that was about to snap. And all i knew how to say was that life is a blessing even when its hard. She just looked at me, and Sora Larsen was laughing at me as soon as we left. It was sad.
Anyway on a funnier note, we had a combined branch activity on Friday, and I was just setting up chairs minding my business when this rather scary girl maybe a little older than me was walking around the church with Georgiana, a convert as of last Sunday, pretty much stuck to her,against her will, the girl (I'm not entirely sure what her name is) comes over to me and grabs my arm and tells me to come with her. Now, mind you she's about 8 inches shorter than me but remarkably strong my shoulder pinned under her arm and as we are walking around she is asking me about my family,I'm a little too frightened to be honest to really concentrate enough to understand, we come back around the church and this girl literally picks me up off the ground and sets me on a chair and tells me to sit there and then wispers something in my ear and the only word I understood was "crying"
and I'm like what the... and I look at Georgiana and she smiles at me and all of the sudden bursts into tears and starts talking to me, and all I catch is that her 21 year old friend died two days ago and she was a sinner and so God isn't going to love her anymore. It was intense.
Okay, maybe that isn't very funny, but the elders were laughing pretty hard, and did basically nothing to help. Good old elders. Anyway, things are going well, I still understand basically nothing, but I'm faking it better Ithink, sadly to say.
Anyway, Sorry I don't have any good stories from this week.
Love ya,
Nicole
5/5/2008
After a ridiculously long labor (26 hours and 28 minutes to be exact, one that included my wallet and umbrella being stolen by lame Frenchies, don't worry mom, it wasn't some dramatic mugging, I fell asleep on the airplane, my fault.) I was born on a crazy hot Romanian day to a Sora Kella Larsen, in the city of Bucharest! Thats right, Bucharest. Sectors 1,5 & 6! (which means about 7 hours of church every Sunday because we are the only sisters for 2 branches) After being completely disoriented and slightly delusional from jet lag I got settled into my sector 5 apartment, which is ridiculously nice, my jaw dropped when I saw it.
Anyway, on to stuff that matters. My companion is awesome. Everyone told me at transfer meeting that she is the best sister in the mission, and I can see why, she's dead serious about missionary work and I love it! Sora Larsen is super easy to get along with, luckily. I've had the most amazing week so far!
Tuesday when I first got here, I went with Sora Davidson and Sora Kiss-Maxim (who is Romanian) block knocking(door to door) and street contacting, and that was madness, but awesome. A lot of people refused to answer the door because it was Easter (2 days before) It made the sisters so mad, but it made me laugh. We could hear the t.v. on in one apartment and people talking to each other and when we knocked it went all silent inside and no one came to the door and Sora Davidson started yelling at them that she knew they were home and that they should answer the door, then they would yell back, "no, its Easter" and she would yell, "Jesus would answer the door!" I seriously almost fell on the ground laughing, it was hilarious (to me anyway), but the other missionaries I guess are so sick of Easter being people's excuse for not talking to them that they just get mad. Anyway, I thought it was a good time.
Then Wednesday we went Street Boarding which is where we have a big board thing with church pictures and stuff and some missionaries singing hymns and we street contact people. It was fun, and I learned that I don't mind stopping people in the street but when they say something back I can never understand, so I am pretty much useless, good thing my comp is amazing at the language.
Thursday, my first coherent day we taught 4 less active lessons, which I thought went somewhat well (considering I got basically nothing that was said I could be wrong I think I now know less Romanian now than I did weeks ago, I understand nothing, but I speak alright... strange, you'd think they'd be the same level but nope). Friday we were supposed to meet with a lot of people, but we got blown off by all of them, so we ended up painting a wall... long boring story there, luckily I didn't ruin my clothes I was so paranoid, I'm sure I looked totally awkward trying to keep my body as far away from the paint brush as I could.
Saturday was awesome! Okay, so I guess a couple of weeks ago Sora Larsen and her companion met a woman on the bus named Magda and she had her 4 year old son Alexandru with her and she seemed somewhat interested and so the sisters asked for her # and she was like, "Oh, I don't know what it is, give me yours and I'll call you later." so they did, expecting nothing because thats a lame excuse. But Wednesday she called! So we went to visit her but she wasn't there so we were way bummed. Then She called us the next day and was like, "how come you never came to see me?" We explained that we did and found out we had the wrong address, so she gave us directions and said to come over right now because she was home. So, we met with her and she was awesome! She has three kids and a husband who was way nice, and she has been searching for the right church to join. she was born orthodox, but didn't like the churches, said they were too dark and scary for God to want to be there, and then she met with J.W.'s for 6 months and was almost baptized with them, showed up to her baptism date and saw how they did baptisms, and she said she could feel that it was wrong and snuck out the back door! Hahahaha! I loved that! So, she seemed to like what we said and invited us to come back next Saturday. Her husband seemed to be somewhat interested but didn't want to show it, he kept walking in and out of the room, and standing near the door, and occasionally nodded at things, but was super quiet. I felt bad, because it could have been such a great lesson, but her 4 year old son was insane (super crazy cute) and all over the place. So he was a big distraction, but we're now prepared for that.
Anyway, sorry that was such a long e-mail, church was intense, I met a lot of people that I don't remember their names and could understand nothing of what they said. But thats okay, I will.... hopefully one day.
Anyway, things are great! Have a fabulous week! And Mom Happy Mothers Day!
Love you all a ridiculous amount!
~Nicole
P.S. those curious where the older district is: Smith & Hale- Buc, Anderson & Ertel- Oradea, Colliar- Sibiu, Cannon-Ploiest, Poulsen-Constanta, Foote (now Elder Brian)-Galati, and Rakozy- Arad.
P.S.S. Oh, yeah mothers day! my phone # is 0753.058.809, but I will try and call around 8 in the morning, because my comps dad is a bishop and will be at church from 7a.m. to like 3 p.m. so she is waking up at 4 Mon. morn to call. so I will just call you in the afternoon after church is out, so hopefully around 8a.m.... don't be mad if its a little later. (it was either that or 9 pm your time) Just remember I'm in church from 8:30 until like 3 here. So that was the only option. Love ya!
Anyway, on to stuff that matters. My companion is awesome. Everyone told me at transfer meeting that she is the best sister in the mission, and I can see why, she's dead serious about missionary work and I love it! Sora Larsen is super easy to get along with, luckily. I've had the most amazing week so far!
Tuesday when I first got here, I went with Sora Davidson and Sora Kiss-Maxim (who is Romanian) block knocking(door to door) and street contacting, and that was madness, but awesome. A lot of people refused to answer the door because it was Easter (2 days before) It made the sisters so mad, but it made me laugh. We could hear the t.v. on in one apartment and people talking to each other and when we knocked it went all silent inside and no one came to the door and Sora Davidson started yelling at them that she knew they were home and that they should answer the door, then they would yell back, "no, its Easter" and she would yell, "Jesus would answer the door!" I seriously almost fell on the ground laughing, it was hilarious (to me anyway), but the other missionaries I guess are so sick of Easter being people's excuse for not talking to them that they just get mad. Anyway, I thought it was a good time.
Then Wednesday we went Street Boarding which is where we have a big board thing with church pictures and stuff and some missionaries singing hymns and we street contact people. It was fun, and I learned that I don't mind stopping people in the street but when they say something back I can never understand, so I am pretty much useless, good thing my comp is amazing at the language.
Thursday, my first coherent day we taught 4 less active lessons, which I thought went somewhat well (considering I got basically nothing that was said I could be wrong I think I now know less Romanian now than I did weeks ago, I understand nothing, but I speak alright... strange, you'd think they'd be the same level but nope). Friday we were supposed to meet with a lot of people, but we got blown off by all of them, so we ended up painting a wall... long boring story there, luckily I didn't ruin my clothes I was so paranoid, I'm sure I looked totally awkward trying to keep my body as far away from the paint brush as I could.
Saturday was awesome! Okay, so I guess a couple of weeks ago Sora Larsen and her companion met a woman on the bus named Magda and she had her 4 year old son Alexandru with her and she seemed somewhat interested and so the sisters asked for her # and she was like, "Oh, I don't know what it is, give me yours and I'll call you later." so they did, expecting nothing because thats a lame excuse. But Wednesday she called! So we went to visit her but she wasn't there so we were way bummed. Then She called us the next day and was like, "how come you never came to see me?" We explained that we did and found out we had the wrong address, so she gave us directions and said to come over right now because she was home. So, we met with her and she was awesome! She has three kids and a husband who was way nice, and she has been searching for the right church to join. she was born orthodox, but didn't like the churches, said they were too dark and scary for God to want to be there, and then she met with J.W.'s for 6 months and was almost baptized with them, showed up to her baptism date and saw how they did baptisms, and she said she could feel that it was wrong and snuck out the back door! Hahahaha! I loved that! So, she seemed to like what we said and invited us to come back next Saturday. Her husband seemed to be somewhat interested but didn't want to show it, he kept walking in and out of the room, and standing near the door, and occasionally nodded at things, but was super quiet. I felt bad, because it could have been such a great lesson, but her 4 year old son was insane (super crazy cute) and all over the place. So he was a big distraction, but we're now prepared for that.
Anyway, sorry that was such a long e-mail, church was intense, I met a lot of people that I don't remember their names and could understand nothing of what they said. But thats okay, I will.... hopefully one day.
Anyway, things are great! Have a fabulous week! And Mom Happy Mothers Day!
Love you all a ridiculous amount!
~Nicole
P.S. those curious where the older district is: Smith & Hale- Buc, Anderson & Ertel- Oradea, Colliar- Sibiu, Cannon-Ploiest, Poulsen-Constanta, Foote (now Elder Brian)-Galati, and Rakozy- Arad.
P.S.S. Oh, yeah mothers day! my phone # is 0753.058.809, but I will try and call around 8 in the morning, because my comps dad is a bishop and will be at church from 7a.m. to like 3 p.m. so she is waking up at 4 Mon. morn to call. so I will just call you in the afternoon after church is out, so hopefully around 8a.m.... don't be mad if its a little later. (it was either that or 9 pm your time) Just remember I'm in church from 8:30 until like 3 here. So that was the only option. Love ya!
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