Wow. I haven't written a real general email in awhile.... Sorry, guys! /: Life has been so, so crazy. The end of a super intense transfer and the beginning of a new transfer has proven to run me right into the ground. I've been really sick these last couple of weeks and have just started going back to half days of missionary work. So that's been a riot! (Not.) So I honestly don't have a TON to report on. The Three Blind Mice (that's what Sora Tanner, Sora Honey and I called our trio......I don't know. The Three Muskateer seemed a little cliche and we were white-washing so it made much more sense....) were officially split up with the end of this last transfer. Six weeks ago, I never thought I'd say it.... But that was one of the most fun transfers of my entire mission. They put three of the craziest personalities together in one companionship and some of the other missionaries didn't think we'd get out alive... But we got out with a baptism, leading numbers for sister missionaries in our mission. lots of great memories, maybe a couple bruises and friendships to last a lifetime! :) When transfer board came out this past week Sora Honey and I were pleasantly surprised to be staying together! Sora Tanner is still in our district and is now serving with a girl who just came from Orhei, Moldova....the last city I served in! So it's been really fun to all stay together here in București. Sora Tanner and I are still Sister Training Leaders for the București Zone, so it's been kind of interesting trying to plan when we're in different companionships....but it's nothing we can't handle! I'm just happy to still get this opportunity to serve the other surori in our zone! Anyway, a lot of you have said that I should say more things about our investigators in my emails.... So here goes nothing! We're working with a couple called Haidham (pronounced high-thumb) and Suada that we're SO stoked about. Haidham contacted US on the street and told us how much he loved what we're doing and how he'd love to talk to us more. Apparently he was contacted by Elder Fransen, one of my Romania teachers in the MTC, when he was serving here! We met with them and they are some of the coolest people I've met in Romania. Haidham is from Jordan and speaks Arabic and Suada is from Armania and speaks Armanian. They are both students here and speak English and Romanian (and multiple other languages) fluently! They love to travel and I have so much in common with both of them! They are so genuinely incredible. They have so many questions about our church and are so open and honest with us....which we LOVE! So they're awesome. We also started working with a girl names Alexandra this week. I contacted her on the metrou about our English classes and she texted me (which literally never happens, guys....)! We met with her and she said she really wants to work on her faith and she thinks it's awesome she can do that while learning English! So we're pretty stoked about her too. That's just a little peak into my missionary life. We went lazer tagging with our zone this morning and Tensi, our little recent convert from last transfer came with us and it was so much fun! Anyway, life is great! I've decided to study humility this transfer again, and I would like to take a different approach to it than I did a few months ago.... SO ATTENTION ALL: If you have any incredible insight or talks or scriptures or anything that's helped you understand humility better, please send it this way! I love you all. Hope the week is lovely.
PROFITE DE ZILE.
Sora Schwab
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| This photograph is the last one we took of The Three Blind Mice in the gara on transfer day. One of the days we were stuck inside because I was sick we made these trio shirts. They refer to the three blind mice song.... Theirs both say 3 Blind Mice and mine says "see how they run," like in the song! |
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| This photograph is of Elder Manning and I with Elder Cloward as a photo bomber. Elder Manning and I were a two-man group in the MTC and we got to see each other at transfers. It was awesome to catch up with him! I hit the year mark of my mission next month and he hits his half way mark. We were both talking about how crazy that is and how time flies out here!! |
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| This photograph is of me with a bunch of hanging fish. Obviously. We went to visit the Second Counselor of the Branch Presidency and his family this past week and they live a little bit outside of Bucureșt. Anyway it was farm land and there was stuff like this everywhere. |
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| This is my "Graffiti of the Week" photograph. |
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