tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53439762659433536082024-03-14T05:15:11.969-07:00Elder Scott HarrisUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger79125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5343976265943353608.post-28355152991585348052015-05-04T22:47:00.001-07:002015-05-04T22:47:44.223-07:00May 4, 2015So this week we had my last ever zone conference. That was pretty monumental. President had us do some excercises to stretch out and whatnot, so he called 3 of us up to the front to do clapping pushups and it was hilarious because we were probably the 3 shortest ones there but the only ones that could do those. We also had a record number of people at church this week: 53! Apparently, that's a record for here in Chisinau so that was pretty exciting. We went to this place called Orhei Vechi today as well, but I forgot to bring my card reader so pictures will have to wait till next week.<br />
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I'm desperately trying to think of exciting stories from this week, but I'm just drawing blanks. We made pizza yesterday and I learned how to toss a pizza, so that was really fun. We met a guy who told us that Moldova is the 51st state in the USA because the US is just using the politicians here like puppets.<br />
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I'm sure I'll think of more stuff to tell you guys when we talk next week. Have a good one!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5343976265943353608.post-78354241722286712442015-04-27T11:14:00.000-07:002015-04-27T11:14:35.839-07:00April 27, 2015So this week we saw a guy riding a bike while wearing roller blades. I guess more wheels make you faster? Anyway, he was going up this hill and he wasn't able to make it to the top and so he had to do this awkward straddle-the-bike-roller-blade-up-the-hill thing and it was sooo funny. But that makes you think, are there times when I'm trying to ride my bike while wearing roller blades? Maybe we're just trying to do too many things at once and really one of them is just superfluous and we would just be better off with just one.<br />
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It's pretty fun being in a new city and getting to know all the new people here. It almost doesn't feel like I only have a month left on the mission. It kind of feels like it's just starting again.<br />
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So we went to this tower museum today and it had a pretty cool view from the top. All you see in the pictures is Chisinau. It's pretty huge:<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5343976265943353608.post-55136970949600996862015-04-20T08:38:00.000-07:002015-04-20T08:38:07.894-07:00April 20, 2015So this week was pretty fun with getting transferred and whatnot. The thing about doing transfers from Chisinau is that the phones don't work in Romania, so you kind of just have to go with the flow and hope everything works out because no one can contact you at all. Well, on the day we were supposed to go back to Chisinau the guys I was supposed to go back with weren't at the train station, so I wondered if they knew when the train was. I had the tickets so I wasn't too worried. <br />
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They finally show up an hour before the train is supposed to leave, which is plenty of time. But then they go, "so where are our bags?" And that was when we knew we were going to have trouble. The office has been doing some weird stuff recently by not helping people out at all like they used to, so for this transfer day, they made all of the new trainees carry their bags all around town to the train station which is a huge pain. There was a reason the office elders used to just take all the bags to the train station for them. But anyway, the trainer thought that they would bring the trainee's bags to the train station like they always did in the past, but this time they didn't. And this was happening at rush hour so it was highly improbable that they would be able to make it to the office and back with the bags before the train left. They called the office elders to see if they could help them out, but then nope of course not. Oh and another thing is that there is only one train that goes to Chisinau and it only comes to Bucuresti every other day. So if we miss the train, we'd have to stay in Bucuresti for another 2 days, and I had already been there for 2 days, so that would mean 4 days in Bucuresti.<br />
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Anyway, they take off to get the bags while I just waited at the train station hoping that they'd make it in time. With 5 minutes to spare, they made it and it turned out that they had to take a sister's bags as well because for whatever reason the office decided it was a good idea to fly her to Chisinau but have us take the train with all of our stuff PLUS hers. Anyway, we got all the missionaries at the train station to help us carry all the junk and we just took off running. I show the tickets to the guy at the train and of course, he tells us that our wagon is the one at the exact opposite end of the train. So we take off again trailing all the stuff for everyone going up, and when we made it about halfway up the train, the conductor blows the whistle and the train lurches forward. We just opened the first door we found and threw all the bags up into the train and climbed in ourselves, with the train moving. It was definitely an adventure. <br />
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Then I figured when we got to chisinau we would just go home, but instead we went to the other elders apartment to drop off them off with all their stuff and then I got to travel the whole city the rest of the day in just my slippers. And the senior couple that picked us up and took all my stuff with them went to orhei that day and didn't get back till that night so I didn't have any clothes or anything at all until that night. But you know we still went to the youth activities and all the other stuff that happened that day. It definitely was an adventure. So lessons learned from the story: Don't micromanage things. It doesn't work out. And then when things don't work out your way, you've got to just go with the flow and things will work out. <br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5343976265943353608.post-43090390879160669132015-04-13T10:20:00.001-07:002015-04-13T10:20:52.718-07:00April 13, 2015Well, this week was Easter here and it was pretty good. Everything exciting happened in the weekend. First of all, I'm getting transferred for my last transfer, which kind of sucks because I was really hoping to stay here but alas, I guess I'm needed elsewhere. What's interesting is that I'm getting transferred back to Chisinau. Remember when I served there a year and a half ago for 2 weeks? Yep, so I'm going back now, which I think has to be some kind of joke because what are the chances for that to happen? But yeah I'm excited to go back it'll be good. I'm still really sad about leaving my pretty Timi right as it's starting to get really nice. And our English classes were just starting to take off really well as well. We were just so set here and now I have to go. It's too bad but oh well.<br />
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For our last English class, we had a big old barbeque and we figured not that many people would come because it was right before Easter and a ton of people usually go out of town but a ton of people showed up. We were even a little bit cramped because we had more people show up than we originally guessed. It was awesome because we really just got to destroy the teacher/student relationship and make it more of a friendly thing to show them that we're just normal dudes. That's the reason why our English classes are successful, not because we offer some great english program or because we know all the grammar and whatnot. So I was really glad that we were able to have such a great turnout.<br />
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Also, we got invited over to one of our English students' house out in the country for Easter and they served us the biggest meal ever. It was like 5 or 6 courses. Ridiculous. We had soup, bread with some spread, deer sarmale, lamb leg, turkey breast, and this stuff called drob which is like a meatloaf made from lamb organs. Apparently it's traditional Easter food. It's actually not too bad. But the meal in general was really great and their family is super awesome.<br />
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Also, random thing, we stumbled upon the most venomous snake in Europe the other day, the horned viper. My companion kept telling me to pick it up but then after we looked it up I'm glad I didn't.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5343976265943353608.post-38543175303408576632015-04-08T16:41:00.001-07:002015-04-08T16:41:40.546-07:00April 6, 2015It's not quite easter here yet, but Romanians are definitely prepared for it this week. They've got the huge Easter market out in centru here where they sell all kinds of stuff. One thing they have that's really cool are those hollowed out painted eggs. When I saw them, I decided that they couldn't be that hard to make, so I went home and tried hollowing out my own egg. Turns out, it's really hard and takes forever to do. I spent probably half an hour milking the egg with a toothpick to get all the egg out of the shell. So tedious. I decided that the eggs are worth buying after all.<br />
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We went with the branch president this week to buy some groceries for a member and it went pretty well at first, but then she wanted to buy some lightbulbs. The problem was that she didn't know what size her lightbulb sockets were at home, so she just guessed. She bought a ton of stuff so it took forever at the checkout counter and everyone was getting kind of fed up behind us. Then once we finished checking everything out, the lightbulbs came up and she asked the guy who was checking us out if they would fit a normal light bulb socket. He said no, so she decided that she didn't need the light bulbs anymore and to un-check them out. That was when total mayhem broke loose. No one could figure out how to un-check them out, so they just struggled for about 5 minutes until they got the manager to come do it. She had no problem figuring it out, but either she got told wrong or heard wrong or had no common sense at all because instead of un-checking the light bulbs, she unchecked everything EXCEPT the light bulbs. So then we had to go back and recheck EVERYTHING all over again. It was definitely the most stressful trip to the grocery store of my life. But we got the job done and we helped out a member and that's what's important.<br />
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It's supposed to be in the high 60's by the end of the week here and we're incredibly excited.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5343976265943353608.post-18066813283362833182015-04-08T16:27:00.000-07:002015-04-08T16:27:27.561-07:00March 30, 2015This week was pretty good. We visited a less active member with our branch president and he insisted on showing us The Other Side of Heaven, which I think made the branch president kind of uncomfortable for whatever reason. Eventually we were able to get him to turn it off and we were able to talk a bit.<br />
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Another piece of exciting news is that my Austrian trainer came back to Romania with his whole family and I got to see him today which was really cool.<br />
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Oh and I guess I'll explain the pictures. We were in centru the other day and saw this lady fire dancing. Some of them are leftovers from a while back when I was in Bucuresti. Also, around this time people start doing their spring cleaning and they just kind of throw their stuff out on the streets in front of their houses so there's a ton of trash all over in the neighborhood the church is in. It's also just been really pretty here because all the trees are in bloom, which is nice. There are a ton of pigeons that hang out around centru. Also, we went into the giant Orthodox cathedral so there are some pretty cool pictures of the stuff inside. It's HUGE if you can't tell from the pictures. It kind of reminds me of the Blue Mosque in Istanbul, but obviously not that huge. The orthodox priests sing their church service, and it sounds a lot like the call to prayer at the mosques. Also, the hollow-domed architecture is very eastern looking, so it's kind of like a merging of the two cultures. Pretty neat. Anyway, have a great week guys!<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5343976265943353608.post-27403939105876246202015-03-24T21:30:00.002-07:002015-03-24T21:30:47.403-07:00March 23, 2015Despite our new advertizing tool, we had about the same number of people show up to English this week. We think it's because the weather is so nice that no one wants to sit around inside anymore. They've got better things to do. However, our core students from last class all showed up, so at least that made us feel like we're good teachers.<br />
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This week I got to give a talk in church and of course I forgot about it until saturday night, so my performance on monday was a full wing. I got some scriptures that I could use and I found a cool talk on the subject. But it was in english. So I decided I would look it up in Romanian when we got to church and then use that. However, that talk of course wasn't translated in Romanian, but I liked it so much that I decided I would just translate it myself as I was reading it. The member who gave a talk before was supposed to take 20 minutes for her talk and then I would take 20 as well, but then she ended up wrapping up 10 minutes early, so I was blessed with another 10 minutes of speaking time. I've never given a full 30 minute talk before, but you know, I figured I could do it. I prayed for help and after that I was feeling pretty confident. So I get up and just go for it. I had no problems until I started reading from the talk in English. I learned pretty quick that translating in real time into a foreign language is pretty tough. But I made it through that and continued giving the talk. I got into that flow zone where you don't even hear yourself talking or think about what your saying it's more of just your brain talking for you. I think the translating sapped my powers because once I got to about 25 minutes in I realized I just couldn't even understand what I was saying. Once I realized that, my mind just shut down and I kind of stuttered to a halt. But I was able to recover with a great scripture coupled with a metaphor and dismounted gracefully with a testimony and stuck the landing. After the fact, I had the greatest post-talk relief wave of my life. I wasn't really nervous to begin with and my audience wasn't huge, but the relief was great all the same. I realized then that that was the longest talk I had ever given, regardless of language. And I didn't prepare it hardly at all. I was pretty proud of myself after that because there was NO WAY I would have been able to do that before the mission. Even in English. My prepared talks usually crapped out at around 3-6 minutes. Now I'm cruising with the 30 minute foreign language fully winged talk. And it felt pretty great. God was definitely with me, there's no way I could have made it otherwise. So the moral of the story: don't be forgetful.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5343976265943353608.post-53880496708477177982015-03-18T09:51:00.002-07:002015-03-18T09:51:34.634-07:00March 16, 2015Well first of all, Orthodox easter is different than our easter, so it comes a bit later. This year it's april 12. Easter is a pretty big deal here, it's actually bigger than christmas, so it's huge. But pretty much the biggest thing that happens is the midnight mass. Everyone goes to the church where they have a flame (indirectly) from Jerusalem and you light your candle off it and take it home with you then put it in your window. Then there's also the easter egg WWE where you take your boiled eggs and say Jesus resurrected then someone else responds yes, he resurrected. Then you smash your eggs together and whoever's egg didn't smash is the winner. They also have the nice little easter markets where you can get really cool painted eggs and other spring-y stuff. Oh and of course there's the easter feast where you HAVE to eat lamb. It's the traditional easter meal. So yeah, there are some romanian easter traditions for you.<br />
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In other news, the Alstons, a senior couple that used to be here in Timisoara came back for the weekend because they're going home in a few weeks. They were here last time I was here and they're pretty much the coolest people of all time. It was super awesome to be able to see them again before they go back.<br />
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Also this week we were officially given permission to make a facebook page for our English classes with the help of the Masons, that family that lives here. We put it up exactly a week ago and now we have over 500 people on the page, so hopefully we get some good english classes this week. We're working on honing our skills as teachers so the classes are worthwhile and make people want to bring their friends and come back.<br />
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It's been dreary and cold this past week but then it got warm today and everyone seemed to come out of hibernation. The streets were incredibly packed and everyone went out to eat at whatever outdoor restaurants were open this week. We're really hoping that the weather stays this way because everyone is actually outside and we're not just walking around a ghost town.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5343976265943353608.post-10421022993417308672015-03-09T13:30:00.001-07:002015-03-09T13:30:32.903-07:00March 9, 2015Well here it's been pretty good. We got to visit a member this week and she made us sarmale, which is the greatest stuff ever. I'll have to make it for you guys when I get home. She told us that her son, who's about 23 wants to come back to church! She said it was out of the blue and she didn't prompt it at all, he just totally wanted it all of his own volition. I thought that was pretty cool and can't wait for him to come. We also got to visit a family who lives out in the boondocks. They're not members, they're just a really great family and we met them through english. They're really cool and incredibly nice. Hopefully, now that we know them, we'll be able to visit them more often.<br />
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A missionary from 2001 visited the branch this sunday and he was pretty cool. The members kept giving him a hard time for being fat and bald because apparently he used to be skinny and had hair. He showed them his wife and they asked him if he was the only one who eats in his house and told him to let his wife eat some.<br />
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We're also teaching primary here to the american kids. It's pretty fun and we're teaching them how to sing I am a child of God in Romanian, but now I know why they have young couples teach nursery.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5343976265943353608.post-8596883536132403812015-03-02T10:00:00.000-08:002015-03-02T10:00:12.317-08:00March 1, 2015So this week, we had zone conference in Cluj. That was my first time going to there and it seems like a really fun city. It's kind of like Timisoara, but more hustly and bustly and more college students. But I really like it here in Timi, which is why I'm glad I'm staying here for another transfer. I only have one shot left to go somewhere else now, since I only have one transfer left. Pretty crazy right? I still don't really know anything about where I'm flying in or if I even get a choice or anything. Aparently, those in the group ahead of me also have no idea, so yeah, I guess that's pretty reassuring. I hope they figure it out or let us know or something.<br />
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Well, today we went into the cathedral here for the first time since I've been here and it's incredible. Apparently it's the tallest cathedral in some region, like Romania or something. Anyway, it's really tall. And the inside is completely hollow so it's that much more impressive from the inside. My companion was wearing his had when we walked in and some lady came up and scolded him for wearing a hat in the church, and then she kept coming back to us to tell us stuff. Eventually, we got her to take us upstairs, which was really cool. Then she said that if we came back tomorrow she would take us to the bell tower, which would be super cool so we're definitely going to do that. After the cathedral today, Elder Cooper decided he wanted to try to catch a pigeon because people do it all the time here and birdman has trained the pigeons to not be afraid of people. So we thought it would be easy, right? Well, not so. It eded up being really tough. We all thought Elder Cooper was just being too timid, so we all tried to prove that it was easy. You kinda get stagefright when you're out there though because so many people watch you bend down to try to pick up a pigeon. I ended up punching a pigeon (on accident!) and after that I gave up. We ended up not getting a single pigeon, which was sad. And Elder Coopeer ended up kneeling in pigeon poop. But we walked away having learned an important lesson: only birdman can catch the pigeons.<br />
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We also found a korean restaurant this week, and since it was full of asians, we thought we'd try it out. We walked in an were greeted by the cook with a cheery "bu-a eewa!" so we knew we were in for a treat. The only non-asian there was our waitress, so of course the food was really good. We were quite pleased with our find.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5343976265943353608.post-22036166282988667782015-02-23T12:59:00.000-08:002015-02-23T12:59:03.662-08:00February 23, 2015So I got a haircut this week and it's the greatest haircut I've ever received. It was so great that I thought I needed to tell you guys about it.<br />
Well, the American family is officially moved in and the dad is called as branch president, so there go my days as branch presiding elder. They are a really cool family and I think it's going to be great with them here. They've already fed us twice, which is way more than we're used to, and we played settlers of catan with them and their kids, so we're doing well.<br />
Our English classes are going incredibly well. We actually just got invited to attend a symphonic orchestra tomorrow with a couple of them, which we're really excited about. We're doing this pretty cool thing for our spiritual thoughts actually. An elder in the district came up with the idea of telling stories from the book of mormon and showing what we can learn from them. They make for some really entertaining spiritual thoughts, especially when we reenact the stripling warriors fending off the lamanite army because they did not doubt the truth of what their mothers taught them. I doubt anyone has tried to incorporate belly stabbing or throat slitting into a spiritual thought before, but we managed to get it in and keep it spiritual at the same time. We're excited for the weather to be warming up and we can start going out to the parks and stuff, so that'll be really great. <br />
Sorry I haven't sent pictures in over a month, but here are some now.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5343976265943353608.post-76217083672996690282015-02-16T11:39:00.001-08:002015-02-16T11:39:36.125-08:00February 16, 2015Well, this past week we had some good english classes. Since saturday was valentine's day, we taught our class how to ask someone on a date. They all seemed to like that, especially when we did some examples for them of good and bad ways to do it. We taught them how to start a conversation on the phone and they seem to love learning that the correct response to what's up? is always nothing. So about the new family that moved in, they're basically the Weasley family, like from Harry Potter. They were in Budapest this week, so we still don't really know too much about them, but we'll find out more tomorrow when we go to their house.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5343976265943353608.post-48632839065912085632015-02-09T22:37:00.003-08:002015-02-09T22:37:54.626-08:00February 9, 2015A new family from America moved into the branch yesterday and they seem really great. He's the chair of Mormon studies at some California University, and there are apparently only 3 of those in the world, which is interesting. He's going to be doing something with the university here for 5 months, though exactly what I have no idea. Anyway, they have 3 little kids and since our branch consists of only grandmas, they were really excited about them moving in. Oh and he's supposed to be the new branch president once he gets things settled.<br />
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We started up English this week and it's going really well. Our students really like the class and some of them even brought their friends for the second class. We played do you love your neighbor for the first class and that seemed to really break the ice and get everyone comfortable with us.<br />
Also, we had a special transmission for the 3rd hour of church for celebrating the land of Romania being dedicated for 25 years. Other than the technological mishaps, it was good. I had to translate for it for the new American family, which was kind of rough because I couldn't hear and I haven't translated in a while, but I warmed back up to it by the end.<br />
Anyway, have a great week!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5343976265943353608.post-4629571272417279202015-02-02T21:54:00.002-08:002015-02-02T21:54:36.317-08:00February 2, 2015So this week, probably the most exciting thing was we went to an orphanage to do service, which was basically playing games with the kids and helping them with homework. Well, I helped them with homework. Everyone else played games with the kids. Well, I asked the girl what homework she had, she showed it to me and it was order of operations stuff. You know, in math. Like you do division before addition and that kind of stuff. Well, these problems were HUGE. Gigantic long strings with parentheses inside parentheses and all kinds of crazy stuff. At first I was like wow she must be super smart. Then I find out she doesn't even know how to divide and that she's just been walked through problems a million times and now has no idea. She was just given wayyyy too difficult of problems. Anyway, so I couldn't just take that lying down and I had to at least teach her how to divide. We started out by drawing balls and circling them in groups and then counting the groups. That seemed to take and then we could work on doing it with just numbers. However, she was the only one doing homework while all the other kids were playing, so it was a losing battle. So she got to go play and math would have to wait I guess.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5343976265943353608.post-69348194674734413492015-01-26T13:18:00.003-08:002015-01-26T13:18:53.784-08:00January 26, 2015Well, this week was mildly interesting. We had transfers on wednesday so I got to bring back the crew for another one. I got to ride first class on the sleeper train which was super intense. They give you a toothbrush. For some reason, I always sleep amazingly on trains, probably due to the back and forth rocking, so that was really nice. I'm at that point in my mission where all of my friends are now leaving. It was super weird seeing people for maybe the last time out here. Oh another thing, the sisters in our city got removed, so now we have no sisters in this city, which is pretty unusual, since we have almost as many sisters as we do elders. But since they left, we got to move into their apartment, which is basically a grandma apartment. We have chandeliers and really nice beds. It's kind of weird since I'm used to dude apartments with broken couches and spider-bros and nothing in the kitchen. I'm not sure how I feel about it. Anyway, remember how we have no branch president? Well, I got asked by the district president to be the "temporary presiding elder" in the branch, so that's something. It basically means that I have to do all the things that a branch president would do, but I don't have the calling. We're waiting for a guy to move in here from the states to take over as branch president in February. Anyway, that's the news for this week, hope you guys have a great week!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5343976265943353608.post-42347783959951374492015-01-19T17:22:00.000-08:002015-01-19T17:22:17.961-08:00January 19, 2015Well, the exciting news of this week is transfers. Actually, I'll keep you suspended a bit and tell you a different story first. You may proceed to the edge of your seat. So on Friday, we held an activity at the church where we invited our english students because we haven't been having english classes this transfer due to the back to back holidays in December. So at this activity, an english student brought over her xbox and kinect and we did some games on there. We played this dancing game where you dance along with the songs they play and you get points for doing the moves correctly. Classic. Anyway, we got to dance to "in the summertime" and "prince ali" (from alladin) and other classics. There was an elder in the district who loves the song careless whisper by george michael and he just HAD to dance to it, but he couldn't do it alone so he got me and another elder and a super cool english student to do it with him. Little did we know it would be a partner dance. We just went with it anyway, and it we pretty funny, since we had to dance with dudes and we were all super uncoordinated and just really bad at dancing. Well, near the end of the song there's a part where the girl character (me) had to do a twirl and then do one of those backward lean things that are so dramatic. I decided that it wasn't dramatic enough though so I lept into the twirl and threw myself back, thinking Miroslav, the english student would be able to catch me easily. Not so. He tried, but the floor did a much better job. Needless to say, we both ended up on the floor and then out of commision for the rest of the song.<br />
Alright, so back to transfers. We found out that I'll be...staying. However, everyone else in the district is leaving. I'm the only one staying. It'll be weird, but change is good. Also, since we had a missionary branch president and he got transferred unexpectedly, so we don't have a branch president. We don't quite know what we're doing with that yet, so it'll be an interesting week figuring that out.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5343976265943353608.post-84747071077378327002015-01-12T18:04:00.000-08:002015-01-12T18:04:02.670-08:00January 12, 2015Okay well the week was pretty good. We went up to Oradea about 4 hours away for an exchange with the zls. It was pretty normal, I mean I got to see my best buddy Brown but you know. Anyway, it was the return trip that was noteworthy. So we get on the train, and then after about a half hour the conductor comes and checks the tickets. He sees my companion's bag and starts talking about it. He wasn't really paying attention so he thought the guy wanted him to open it up and show him what was inside. So he starts doing so and then the conductor is like, noooo I'm looking for a bag to use in my work and I want one like that, how do you like it? My companion chills a bit and talks a little and then the conductor is like, you're not romanian are you? Nope. He then goes, ohhhh you're mormons aren't you? grabbing my companion's jacket to reveal his nametag. He just chuckled as he left the cabin. Later, the train stops in the middle of nowhere and just stays there. Conductor-bro then comes back and tells us the train is broken and they need to fix it and we'll be up and running soon. An hour later, we start moving again. So that's another hour on the already 4 hour long train ride. After about half an hour, our train stops yet again. By this time, night had fallen. We were informed by conductor-bro that we broke down again and that a new train was coming to get us and he would tell us when to get off. Soon another guy with an official looking uniform and a beefy stache to match told us to get off so we could get on the new train. So everyone on the train got out into the freezing and snow. Then, the conductor approaches us and says hey I told you guys not to get off until I told you! We explained that some guy told us to get off, which in that moment sounded pretty lame, but then he was like, which one? That guy there on the left? We answered to the affirmative and then conductor-bro goes over and chews the guy out for making us get off the train early. As we waited in the snow for about 20 minutes for the new train to come, conductor-bro walked by us, looked at us, paused, shook his head and moved on, as if to say "you were the chosen ones." So then our new train comes up and it's straight out of the Soviet Union. Imagine a super old and rickety train with plastic seats. Yep, that's what it was. So after we get going on there, it is announced that our train would only go to Arad, a city that is not Timisoara. So after about another 2 hours of riding in the train, we make it there and had to get off, then get new tickets, which we refunded, and then wait for and get on the train back home. It truly was an adventure. The train ride only took about 3 hours longer than usual!<br />
In other news, we found the college campus this week. Not that we didn't know where it was before, but now we know WHAT is there. Donuts. Huge, nutella filled, donuts. Needless to say, I'll be fat by the end of the week.<br />
Have a good one!<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5343976265943353608.post-21889396111250243572014-12-15T22:28:00.002-08:002014-12-15T22:28:47.833-08:00December 15, 2014Well, I was technically transferred to Timisoara on Wednesday, but in an incredible turn of events I was allowed to stay in Buc until Saturday so that I could play for the Christmas concert. It was suuuuuuuuuuuper cool. Despite all the headache and dealing with people, it was really great. We had a couple famous people show up and perform at it, including Antonia Iacobescu (Romanian pop singer) and Fang Shuang (Chinese (?) opera tenor who also speaks Romanian). My buddy accompanied Antonia, but I got to accompany Fang Shuang on his piece. It was a really cool experience and I'm super glad I got to stay for it. I also had 4 English students as well as my piano student show up, so that was great and I got to chat with them for a bit. Right after the concert, we had to leave and to catch a train to Timisoara. We had about a gagillion packages for everyone as well as all my own stuff to take with us. We enlisted a couple other guys to help us out, but in a fury of miscommunication, they got tickets for a train before ours so they couldn't help us get our stuff on the train, and to top it off, they also left one of their own bags with us. We had to call in backup and they got there just in time to get all of our stuff on the train. Once we finally got all settled on the train, the guys we were sharin a cabin with showed up. They turned out to be professional soccer players and pretty much the coolest guys ever. We talked with them a lot about what we're doing here in Romania and what we believe and whatnot. We had some really good conversations and became such bros that I thought I'd offer them some good n' plenty that I got at the embassy the other day. They were a little stale, so they were pretty tough to eat due to the fact that they're already pretty rough on the teeth to begin with. i don't think they liked them at all hahahha. They kept calling them rocks afterward and laughing at me for eating rocks. Well, I made it safely back to Timi, so things are all good. It's pretty weird coming back to a city you've already been in, but it'll be great. I liked it the first time, so I'm sure I'll like it again. Hope you guys have a great week!<br />
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Have a great week!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5343976265943353608.post-34064824779796282322014-12-01T14:19:00.001-08:002014-12-01T14:19:40.471-08:00December 1, 2014We celebrated Thanksgiving the proper American way. We had a huge feast put on by the senior couples here in Bucuresti and the people from satellite cities also came out for it. It was prety monstrous. Like I carved 4 of the 8 turkeys monstrous. But most importantly, we were able to set up a HUGE turkey bowl football game with all the missionaries that came out for it. We had enough people for 2 full football teams, and we all got decked out in nasty old second hand grandma sweaters. Sadly, I don't have pictures yet, but we'll get those soon.<br />
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In other news, today is Romanian Independence Day, so they had a huge military parade that we got to watch. The actual parade wasn't too exciting, because you couldn't see anything, but before it you could go up and see the tanks and whatnot while they were waiting for the parade to start. Super cool. You'll have to see the pictures.<br />
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Another elder in my district and I are going to be performing (with everyone else, we're not that special) at the United States Embassy this coming Monday. We're going to do a sweet version of I Saw Three Ships by Jenny Oaks Baker and it's going to be awesome. We're really excited for it and we've been practicing like crazy for it. Hopefully it works out well.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5343976265943353608.post-54411715148098519532014-11-24T11:13:00.001-08:002014-11-24T11:13:49.923-08:00November 24, 2014Our week was pretty good. We started it off by doing a visit with a member of the district presidency to this guy who used to be branch president here but now he's less active. He lives kind of outside the city and his wife isn't a member. We went over there and had a really great lesson with them. We were supposed to go again today, but their schedules changed so we're going to have to try again later this week. We'll see what happens with that from here.<br />
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In other news, we started a new streetboarding campaign because we have this event coming up where one of our mission president's friends, who is a manager of temple construction or something like that is coming down to give a fireside. Right now he's in charge of the construction of the Rome, Italy temple. We were supposed to contact for it, and it really didn't do any good to just stop people on the street for it, so we got some corkboard and 2x2's and built an easel and now we go out and just have a board with pictures of the temple on it and the event poster and people come talk to us! Much very good. However, we had a slight issue with the wind the other day and now we are needing to repair the frame of the board, but we'll be back up and running in no time. This streetboarding thing is actually working pretty well because people see it, are interested, and come talk to us. Much less frightening than a couple dudes approaching you for no reason to talk to you about something you've never heard before. We even had a cop come up and ask us about it. Usually, they just kick us out, but this guy was nice. Hopefully we don't get fined later or something.<br />
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Anyway, we're celebrating thanksgiving with all the missionaries in Bucuresti and the outlying cities and then staying for the fireside with that guy that I just talked about. Should be a good time.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5343976265943353608.post-19005020816468003472014-11-18T22:37:00.002-08:002014-11-18T22:37:32.240-08:00November 17, 2014So for this week, we had a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy, Elder Kearon come and tour the mission, so we had a huge tripe-zone conference and then an MLC. It was really great and he was probably one of the most quotable people I've ever heard. My favorite quote by far was: "Be happy, but for goodness' sake do not be satisfied." I really liked that because a lot of people are content with their situation and just blindly let their life and goals and dreams and visions pass them by. They just survive life without living it. On the other hand, there are also those who are never satisfied with anything and are never happy. They just complain and complain for the sake of complaining. Nothing will ever make them happy with their situation. To me, this quote means to take the good parts of both scenarios. You see what's good in every situation so that you don't get bogged down with being unhappy. You choose to be happy instead of happiness being thrust upon you. However, you are always striving for something more. You are not content with your current state, which might be fine, but you know it isn't enough. You are always craving, starving, and stretching for more. This is what leads to growth. One situation without the other is just stagnation, but when put together, they become growth. It's like those find-happiness-in-the-journey stories. You realize along the way to some great destination that the real happiness came from the journey and not the end. However, you cannot find happiness on your journey if there is no journey. Aimlessly wandering around pretending you're happy is no way to live life. You need to have a reason to be striving and searching for more, but at the same time being able to enjoy and feel happiness in the moment.<br />
In other news, there was this guy who came to church this past week, so my companion and I started talking to him. Turns out, he's friends with a member in our branch and that he was actually contacted by missionaries over a year ago and was about to be baptized, but then he left the city to go work and lost contact. Now he's back and wants to pick up where he left off. We were just super stoked by that and now we have another great guy to teach!<br />
Have a great week!<br />
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Story of the week. We were standing at a bus stop going home one night, and there were these two drunk guys arguing in the middle of the street, which happened to be one of the busiest streets in the city. Normal. So they're just arguing about nothing and getting really worked up about it, then this guy pulls up in his car and starts to park on the side of the road. The one drunk dude starts waving his hand like he's parking him or something, like that would help at all anyway. Then out of nowhere the other drunk dude sprints over and tackles him to the ground and they start wrestling each other in the middle of the street. They eventually both get up and start running around after each other. One of them picks up a paving tile from a nearby construction site and chases the other one with it, eventually hurling it out into the street. Our bus finally showed up and we got on. The last thing we saw was these two guys throwing paving tiles around at each other as we pulled away.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5343976265943353608.post-9999780476978603782014-11-10T12:19:00.000-08:002014-11-10T12:19:31.159-08:00November 10, 2014The sisters in our district had a baptism this week and they didn't plan for it at all, so I got a call the evening before asking if I could do a musical number. I had nothing prepared, so I and another elder here who plays the violin got together and we improvised a 3-hymn medley from the hymnbook, complete with an improvised key change. It was quite the effort and in the middle of it the hymnbook decided it didn't want to be on the page I was on, so it just fumbled about till it got where it wanted to be, and I had to constantly remind it that no, I had no intention of changing songs in the middle of one and that the page I was on was plenty good and that we should stay over there. It ended up going really well though, mostly thanks to Elder Christiansen's violin playing. Also, we have a series of concerts coming up in this transfer, and it turns out that the only pianist in all of Bucuresti is yours truly, so I'm going to be able to play for ALL of them. Should be fun.<br />
We also got to go inside Casa Poporului today (finally) and it is truly impressive. It's incredibly huge, way huger than you'd think. It's kind of a deceiving building in that it doesn't look as big as it is, but man is it something. We didn't take pictures inside: a senior couple did that, so we'll probably have those ready by next week. I also think there's a facebook page they might put them on. It's called friends and family of the romania moldova mission or something along those lines. The senior couples take care of that. Anyway, most of the pictures this week are from Casa Poporului, some are in the elevator and the ones in the bathroom are there because you have to take a selfie in the bathroom at Casa Poporului. In fact, Casa Poporului is a really interesting building because it was built under Ceaucescu, so naturally everyone kind of sees it as a symbol of communism and therefore have a kind of negative outlook on it. However, they put in a ton of work into it and it's kind of a national pride thing because most of the materials are from Romania and all the carving and decoration was made all over Romania. Therefore, they have this really strange love/hate relationship with it. That's why they don't really care too much about it. As in you can see tape residue on the floor from where they used to have carpet, there are a couple missing window panes here and there, there's a huge crack that runs the length of a room due to an over-expansion on one of the expansion joints that they haven't fixed yet, stuff like that. And that's why I could do a backflip in the biggest room in Casa Poporului and no one batted an eye.<br />
Also, our recent convert just got the Aaronic Priesthood this past week, but we weren't able to see it because he was with all the young adults in a city called Busteni up in the mountains on some kind of excursion. We're excited for him though. Also, this is our last week with him because he moves to England on Saturday. I'm so sad to see him go, but I know we'll keep in touch, so that's at least comforting.<br />
My companion was sick this week, so I got an entire day to listen to jazzy piano and clean our apartment. Now, it's really really really clean.<br />
Our English classes start up this week and we've been getting a lot of phone calls from our contacting, so we're hoping it'll be a good turnout.<br />
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Cu Drag,<br />
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Harri (as they call me here)<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5343976265943353608.post-76484618905503141802014-11-03T10:06:00.001-08:002014-11-03T10:06:56.860-08:00November 3, 2014Let's see... this week. I feel like I have a grandpa memory every time I try to think of the past week. So on Tuesday, we had a lesson with our recent convert, Alex at a senior couple's house. They made us some delicious food and we had a great lesson. We got to talking about Romanian food, and I told them about my adventures with learning to cook Romanian foods and how I learned how to make ciorba last week. I told them how I made it, and my recent convert was just absolutely appalled at how I did it, saying that it was the way that the oldest of grandmas in the countryside make it. He took it upon himself to show us the "real" way to make ciorba, which he did on Sunday. After church, we set up in the kitchen and made some ciorba and chicken and potatoes. It was super good. Look at the pictures. We were also able to meet with some a less-active part member family that came to church that week! We were really stoked about that. Oh yeah also my last companion and I are staying together again for another transfer! Wooot we're excited we're gonna get stuff done. We also have a fireside coming up on Thanksgiving and some cool Christmas recitals and stuff heading into the holiday season, so we're going to have a busy month! Have a great week!<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5343976265943353608.post-80910593233751474162014-10-27T15:50:00.000-07:002014-10-27T15:50:54.710-07:00October 27, 2014Well, our week was pretty interesting. The life lesson from this week is that the Lord will answer your prayers. So I told you about the fun run last week. That happened on Saturday and it was all good to go. Everything was set up and running smooth. We just had to pray for no rain. Approaching the weekend, no rain in sight. The weather is nice and relatively warm and wonderful. Friday comes along and the temperature drops to 10 celsius. That was kind of worrying, so we checked the weather for the next day, hoping that it would just be a little chilly spell or whatever, but no such luck, the next day was supposed to be even colder. We didn't expect the cold to be a problem with our fun run, so we started preparing plan b. However, we still had the permission to do the run and we figured there would be some hardcores that would show up as well. Saturday, as we closed in on the event, just hours away, the sky darkens and we start to see glistening in the air. At first, I thought I was just dehydrated, but then it got denser to the point that we could clearly tell what it was. Snow. It snowed all day. We ended up getting about 3 inches of snow. So that's the life lesson. Our prayers for no rain were answered. No one ended up showing up to our event except us and the police, but that didn't stop us from still running around the lake in the snow. We had to salvage our event somehow. We then had another activity in the chapel later that night with all the side activities we were planning on having at the fun run. It ended up working out well in the end, despite the wintry intervention. <br />
Alex, our recent convert is still doing great. Oh yeah and on Sunday, the district president was at church, and afterward he ran outside yelling: "snowball fight!" so the other recent convert of one week runs outside and tackled him into the snow and rubbed his face in it.<br />
Here's some pictures, but I have more that I took on my film camera which I'll be able to show you later:<br />
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