December 29, 2014 - CRĂCIUN FERICIT, DRAGELE MELE.

OH MY GOSH HELLO BELOVED FRIENDS AND FAMILY. SO MUCH EXCITEMENT. CAN'T... CONTAIN.... 

OUR INVESTIGATOR IS GETTING BAPTIZED ON SATURDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY! AH! I'm so excited! Tensiana is this incredible girl who has had the desire to be baptized for quite some time, but didn't have her mother's permission to do so. We FINALLY got a hold of her mom this past week and invited her to a dinner at one of our senior couples' homes. We had an incredible lesson with both of them and she said it was Tensi's choice is she wanted to get baptized or not. SO SHE'S GETTING BAPTIZED! AHHH! We're so excited for her.

Okay. What else? That pretty much tops everything else from this week. Haha. But Christmas was awesome! I can't believe I didn't think to wish you all a Happy Christmas last week....but HAPPY BELATED CHRISTMAS. I hope everything was lovely and all your wildest Christmas dreams came true. I know mine did! We had a sleepover with all the sister missionaries in București on Christmas Eve and woke up and opened presents and it was so fun. Then we skyped and visited the senior couples and had lunch with one of the members we're working with, Geta. She's such an incredible lady. After that we had our Christmas district meeting and did a gift exchange in our pajamas. Haha. It was so fun. Then we spent Christmas evening with a recent convert and Tensi, our investigator, at one of the senior couples' homes. It was was lovely as all get out. Seriously, I wouldn't have had it any other way.

Okay. What else..... So remember how I'm in a trio and it's the craziest and most fun thing in the history of ever? Yep. Never thought those words would come out of my mouth....or out of my fingers.... I guess. Sora Tanner and Sora Honey are such a riot and we are doing WORK. It's so great. Man. I'm just in a really good spot right now. Life is good. THE CHURCH IS TRUE. Okay. Bye. And have the best New Year's EVER! Party extra hard for me because it's my second favorite holiday ever. Okay. Really got to go now. Sorry there was so much excitement from me. CAN'T. BREATH. TOO. EXCITED.

PROFITE DE ZILE.

Sora Schwab

The is all of the București surori from Mihai Bravu and Panduri at our Christmas Eve sleepover.

The is of our cute little Christmas tree!

The is of the pancakes I made Christmas morning with crushed candy canes...so good!

The is a creeper shot I got of Santa Claus. They wouldn't let me sit on his lap because I'm "too old."

The is of Sora Honey, Sora Tanner and I during the first snowfall of the season. It hasn't stopped since!!

The is us with Tensi and her mom. Tensi is on the far left. We're so happy about her decision to be baptized!!

This is my "Graffiti of the Week." Bucarest Hooligans.

The first is just a beautiful Buc sunset. :)

The second is of a building here in the city. They had this beautiful old building and didn't want to tear it down, so they just built on top of it! The bottom half is old architecture and the top half is modernized! Very cool.

The first is of me inside one of the incredible Orthodox churches we visited last P-day.

The second is of Memorialul Renaşterii or Memorial of Rebirth. It symbolized the end of communism here in Romanian and was build right after the revolution in 1989. The history here is incredible!