Botezed

Botezed

(The subject line for this email is really a shout out to Sora Cook.... I'm fully aware that botezed is neither english nor romanian.... I guess it would translate in Romanglish to baptism'd)

Lessons learnt this week:

1. Random strawberry-smelling powder + milk + freezer... does NOT equal ice cream, no matter what the packet says.

2. Turnips make all the difference!

Sora MacDonald was making Bors. A kinda soup stuff with vegetables. She kept wining saying that it didn't taste like Romanian Bors. But, Sora Heim had convinced her to buy a turnip. I somehow had always thought turnips were an imaginary vegetable made up by Beatrix Potter. Turns out, they exist. They kinda resemble a mangled potato, but they're super hard. After trying for about 10 minutes to cut the turnip I finally succeeded. I purposely cut it into defined triangles so that as we ate the soup we'd know exactly which pieces were from the turnip. We threw in the turnip  and finally about about an hour of stewing, Sora MacDonald squealed excitedly that it was tasting Romanian. Maybe it was the 3/4 bottle of sour soup bors stuff she'd also added... but I think not, I reckon that turnip made all the difference!

3. I'm still terrible at football... and all sports

We had a sports night where we played football this week with the YSA. Bineinteles Sora and I were dreadful and kept getting distracted until a ball would fly past our heads. But after about an hour of playing and about 19 attempts by Radu, setting me up for a goal, I finally scored! yay :)

4. Liver is not for eating

I ate a stew.... it had liver. I think the entire liver was in my bowl. It seemed to multiply as I ate it. The texture was somewhere between a sponge and gritty oatmeal.

5. I duno what I learnt by this but it was cool...

As we walked home from sports night we met a really cool lady who was rescuing a cat. There was a tiny little kitten and she was trying to find a home for it. And no... she wasn’t a crazy homeless woman, she was a put-together business woman who just happens to care about animals. She gave us her number and wants to know more! yay :) oh and don't worry, we found a nice lady who has a cat lady for a neighbour, she took the kitten home.

6. This work truly is the Lord's work.

We as missionaries get a front row seat to people's conversion process, but if there's one thing I've learnt from watching Monica's baptism on Saturday, it's that, this had nothing to do with me. 3 days before I got to the city she randomly came to church and told the sisters that she wanted to be baptised. She'd been to EFY (Especially For Youth) this summer and gained a testimony there. We went through all the lessons with her, and she was beautifully accepting of everything. As we moved onto tithing, she said, "oh yeah I know that, it's where you give 50% of everything you earn right?" ... we quickly informed her it was only 10% a very pleasant surprise for her. All day Saturday, and yesterday as she received the Holy Ghost, I felt like Ammon, Alma 26:11-12:
 11 But Ammon said unto him: I do not boast in my own strength, nor in my own wisdom; but behold, my bjoy is full, yea, my heart is brim with cjoy, and I will rejoice in my God.
 12 Yea, I know that I am nothing; as to my strength I am weak; therefore I will not boast of myself, but I will boast of my God, for in his strength I can do all things; yea, behold, many mighty miracles we have wrought in this land, for which we will praise his name forever.


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