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| With Alina |
So Constanta just
became EVEN better! I didn't think it was possible. But now, one of my besties
in the mission, Sora Abby Polatis, is here with me. We are having so much fun
every single day! We've set a ton of fun goals, and random goals and every
single day we are improving in the language and in our skills as missionaries.
It's awesome! Sora Polatis is from Idaho, from a big family of 8 kids. She has
one brother and one sister who are also serving missions! How cool it that?
Yeah, I know, sorry, those rhetorical questions in a mass email probably are
annoying, but still, she's pretty awesome. Oh... she also LOVES taking
pictures, so, get ready peeps! This transfer will be well-documented :)
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| With Sora Polatis on Transformers day!
I'm Optimus Prime, she's Bumblebee
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Themes and Fun
So Sora Polatis and one
of her old companions used to do themed days. Each day was a different theme
and they'd wear clothes/jewellery accordingly. Then they'd learn new words or
phrases also in accord with the theme. Now, we have decided to continue the
tradition. It's making every single day so much more fun! So far we've had
Transformers day, Shark Day (because we're attacking the transfer), Bug's Life
(just cos I felt like wearing butterfly earrings), and today is Sports Day
(because we're dressed to play volleyball for after internet :). So anyhoo,
you'll be getting lots of fun photos over the time we're together. We seriously
just laugh every single day!
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Shark Day!
our pony tails were our "fins" and we're wearing oceany/shark colours
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Language mess ups
So this week, as Sora
Polatis and I were teaching our new investigator Gabriella. Gabriella is really
awesome and we reckon she has a lot of potential to become a wonderful member
of the church. Only problem is that she's quite agnostic so we're starting
right from the beginning. As I began to explain to her, the nature of God, she
clearly didn't understand that God the Father and Christ and the Spirit are separate
beings, though one in purpose. Now, the words for "I am" and
"They are" are the same in Romanian. So I tried to say
"They are three separate beings" but, I didn't clarify which word I
meant and so it came across as "I am three separate beings, the Father,
the Son and the Spirit!" Blasphemous much? yeah... it was kinda awkward.
Thankfully the look of terror on her face made me realize that I needed to
clarify, and we quickly cleared up that little mess.
Green beans:
Since we had transfers
last week, which were brilliant by the way, we didn't have time to go properly
grocery shopping. But we figured that since there was a bunch of left-over
food in the house, we'd make it until Monday. We gradually ate through
the leftovers, until Friday afternoon, just before weekly planning, we thought
that all we had was a bag of frozen green beans. Now, for those of you who
don't know... I hate green beans! But, when I was with Sora DeRuvo she showed
me how to blend up vegetables into a rather tasty soup just by adding some
spices and stuffs. So I thought, hey, maybe green bean soup won't be too bad.
Sora didn't have any better ideas so I boiled them up and blended them and
added some spices and stuff. We sat at the table, blessed it and proceeded to
taste the green sludge. It was awful!! Green bean soup...aka slimey, bland
disgustingness, ugh what was I thinking? It resembled something from Tim Burton
movie. "Gross!!!" We both grimaced.... and kept on eating it.
"Ewwww! Ugh!" We kept on eating it.... We ate it awkwardly laughing
at ourselves for about ten minutes, then threw it out and had cereal for Lunch
instead. When we later told the story to Sora Cook she said, "Why wasn't
cereal your first choice? Why were green beans even an option?" Good
question Sora Cook.... good question.
Investigators and
stuffs:
Everyone seems to be
progressing really well. Alina has a bit of a desire issue, but we had a great
lesson with Elena from the branch and she seems to better understand the
importance of the restoration now. Andra is doing great. She is really
searching for and answer now. We're really going to focus this week on helping
her to understand her answer. She's been really struggling with Joseph Smith. I
love how, every time and investigator has a problem with a part of the gospel,
it is an opportunity for me to strengthen my own testimony of that principal.
Well, that has definitely been the case for me this week. My testimony of
Priesthood authority and Joseph Smith have grown tremendously. I love it!
This week is prime time
for English Contacting. We're really excited to try and get a big class again.
Through prayers and hard work, it'll happen! The Lord has been so merciful to
me as of late, and it truly inspires me to just work harder and harder so that
I can be a little more worthy of His tender mercies.
I love this mission!
It's really changing me. I mean, I'm still me. I'm still the same Jessi, just
hopefully, a better Jessi. I've really started to discover who I am here. Which
talents I've been blessed with, and which weaknesses I get to work on. I love,
that every single day is perfectly custom-designed just for me and I get to
make the decision to make use of it.
This church is true!
Keep the Faith
Love Sora Rivera
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