Well, this week was an eventful one let me tell you... so sorry if this long lol
Friday, we finally got out of quarantine (thank goodness) and we were able to GO OUTSIDE. After living in Budapest for almost 3 weeks, I actually got to see where i've been living, kinda crazy. President and Sister Rucker took us all to this really cool restaurant for lunch and it was probs some of the best food i've ever had (or maybe my standards were just very low, because the quarantine food we were eating was not all that great haha). After that, we all went to the mission home/office and found out about the "mission impossible" expedition that had been concocted to get us to Romania on Monday (burner phones, official documents, and important instructions included lol). I also found out that once I got to Romania, I'll be serving Bucharest, the capital, with Sister Bauco!
very excited about that.
Saturday, was our p-day and we got to see the city some more and ate sushi for dinner (so that was great). We also went on a run Saturday morning and saw the SWEETEST THING:
At like 6:45 in the morning, we saw this teenage boy walking along the river by himself, placing burgers by the all homeless people that were sleeping there. It made my heart very happy.
Monday, we woke up at 5:00 am to get to the train station, and catch our 18-hr train ride at 7:10am. The border crossings on both the Hungary and Romanian side were smoother than we all expected which was nice.
About 7 hrs in to what was supposed to be a direct train ride to Bucharest, the train conductor guy came around to tell us that the line was actually ending in like 10 mins and that to get to Bucharest, we needed to hop off, catch a bus, ride it for 30 mins to another train station, and then catch a new train to Bucharest... between his broken english and our pretty nonexistant romanian we were all very confused and stressed. Luckily, this really nice guy who spoke English (who we ended up giving a book of mormon to) and the train conductor guy, helped us out and helped us carry all our luggage off the train and direct us to the bus that we barely caught haha. After the bus ride in the middle of nowhere, we finally got to the second train station and with the help of a couple really sweet romanian grandpas and the English speaking guy, we got onto our second train lol.
While we were passing this really pretty lake, the old man sitting next to me started going off about how on the other side of the lake was Serbia, and how the lake was formed by one of Romania's communist dictators, and how life was during communism haha ngl my vocabulary about communist history is pretty minimal so....at least I think that is what he was talking about.
We finally pulled into the Bucharest train station at 2:00 am in the morning and met some of the missionaries serving here! It was a long day, but there were so many miracles along the way, and I know the only reason we got here is with the Lord's help:)
Vă iubim!!!!!
Sora Tobler
(pic 3 is of an old man on the train explaining to me Romanian History hahaha)
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