Zone Meetings in the Attic

Me in Bacau

I is knowing English...Another beautiful week here in Iasi with my beautiful companion trecut prea quickly! Some bright spark decided to have the entire church villa painted, beginning on Tuesday, which also happened to be the first day of English Classes! The furniture was pushed up together in the center of every room and covered in tarps. So all of our students and potential new investigators arrived Tuesday evening to a little ghetto table on the street outside the church, where we had them sign up and register their names and phone numbers. It was a little random but on Saturday we had a real first class, and it was awesome! We have a bunch of potential new investigators, including one girl called Flori who is coming to our advanced class. She speaks awesome English and thinks we're super cool ;) So despite the painters, English is looking hopeful! 

In the graveyard at Halloween

Our Zone in the Attic

Zone Training... Also din cauza the paint, we had to move our zone training meeting to Bacau. Bacau is a 2 man city. Adica the district consists of 1 companionship of elders, one of the elders is the branch president and the other is the district leader. Since it was just a 2-man I'd been thinking it was some dinky little town, turns out its actually a decent size city. It reminded me a lot of Arad. We arrived in Bacau, Wednesday, around noon after a 2.5 hour maxi taxi, to find out that the same people who'd decided to paint our villa were also painting the Bacau villa. We walked in to find paint fumes and tarps covering the furniture again. "Don't worry, we're going to the attic!" the zone leaders informed us. did they just say attic? yes they did.... 

We climbed the old wooden stairs to the cold, dusty, attic, where the elders had arranged chairs in a circle around a white board. They brought an extension cord up so that one of the Elders could play a keyboard on his lap. Surprisingly, it turned into a fantastic and uplifting meeting, including words from the apostles, magic tricks, and bow ties. We gave a presentation about using time wisely and accountability. And being the only sisters in our little zone we of course had made cute little handouts! For a musical number, I sang 'I know that my Redeemer Lives' in Romanian. It was really good to sing properly again.

Only in Romania...There's a little shop here in Iasi that specializes in clothing for fat people and translation.

 and Bacau :)

This scripture has been playing on my mind all week... Mosiah 4:9 Believe in God; believe that he is, and that he created all things, both in heaven and in earth; believe that he has all wisdom, and all power, both in heaven and in earth; believe that man doth not comprehend all the things which the Lord can comprehend.

I know that God's plan is perfect, and the Atonement is infinite. Love you all! Keep the Faith!

Sora Rivera

Pics: me in Bacau and Bacau :)