1 Year!

Worst winter in 100 years...

Us with the sister training leaders

I first heard it from this slightly eccentric lady at church, but then I heard it from one of the super normal ladies, then I heard it from another person, and our whole English  class confirmed it...everyone is saying this'll be the worst winter in 100 years! People died because of the cold 3 years ago, but they're predicting it'll be even worse. I can believe it too, it's been freezing all week, and I wouldn't be surprised if it started to snow soon :(.  Meeeh I'm praying that everyone is just exaggerating. But just in case.... I wouldn't mind some hand warmers for Christmas? :)

best burgers ever with the sister training leaders

Crazy dog

There's this dog who lives in a house near the church. He only comes up to just below my knees, and he has a limp. His fence is broken so just as you round the corner there's a little gap where he is able to sneak out. Oh did I mention? This dog is the most evil vicious creature I've ever laid eyes upon....So anyway...Sora and I were on our way to a lesson this week, with our investigator, Maria. We'd just finished some street boarding and we were walking towards the church. As we started to come around the corner there was a giant puddle so Sora cleverly avoided it by going around into the street, I decided to avoid it by walking next to the fence.... the broken fence. Sure enough within seconds I realized my mistake as the little gimpy dog pokes his head out to see who dared to enter his territory. The tiny beast bore his teeth and started growling. "RUN!!" I hear Sora scream, and next thing I know I'm being chased down the street by a barking, ferocious, 3 legged dog. In an effort to save me, Sora MacDonald began calling the dog and waving her arms frantically, of course this then resulted in the little monster turning on her and chasing her! In the end we narrowly avoided being bitten and had to walk about 5-10 minutes out of our way in order to avoid being bitten and having to get rabies shots.

Such a missionary

Maybe it's the nametag... but I swear that on my mission I've been asked out then in the past few years. At the end of English on Saturday these two guys attempted to ask us out. They lingered behind and were like, "hey, so what do you two do for fun?" The shorter one smiling at me, and the tall one leaning in towards my companion.

"Oh, we teach about Jesus." We told them.

"Yeah, but in your free time...?"

"We teach about Jesus! All day... everyday!"  We told them, playing completely innocent.

"You don't have a day off?"

"Well Monday we have free time, but we just hang out with the other 4 missionaries"

Poor guys.

Peoples

We have a couple of cool new investigators, we found through English classes. And Maricica is doing well, still won't pay tithing, but otherwise she's doing great. The Iasi branch is super awesome, the people are so loving! I love them! :D

Zone conference is in two days.... Moldova!!! YEAH! I'm soo excited. I'm leaving the country, how cool is that?! We leave for Chisinau Wednesday morning, we have zone conference all afternoon on Wednesday, then Thursday morning we're going shopping in Moldova! :D I wanna buy a Russian doll, a Cyrillic bible, and I'm buying Colin's Christmas present there too, which he won't get until I come home in April but I'm so pumped!

Also it's my 1 year mark this week!! 1 year on the mission! say what?!!

And Happy General Conference week!! We'll be watching it together this Saturday evening and Sunday evening. Sora and I are making caramel popcorn, the elders have promised brownies and apple pie, so it should be a real party!

Loves! Keep the Faith

Sora Rivera