meatball muffins

You know the drill, here are some highlights from this week:

-we made banana muffins this week and 2 of our members thought they were meatballs. Another recipient thought we were at his door with "the priesthood" (the words for "muffins" and "priesthood" are unfortunately very similar)

- It somehow became fall overnight! Had to break out some sweaters this week

- We love prayer! We thought we lost our keys on one of our walks home and had a good Lil panic attack trying to find them as it was already very late and dark outside. Said a quick prayer and found the keys in sora Anderson's backpack (which we had already thoroughly searched) 

- accidently signed up for tennis lessons!

- Sent out a total of 100 referrals from our Instagram page! 

- Finally got in contact with a less active member who hasn't been in contact with missionaries for a good long while now! She was so happy to see us and even gave us some of her aloe Vera plant on our way out the door. She recommended we use it as a face moisturizer "to help with aging" 

- one of our friends after our lesson with her at the church was FLOORED when we told her that we didn't live at the church and just go there practically everyday. She was somehow convinced that we live there full-time like nuns.

One of my favorite verses from this week, "26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. 27 And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them."

Love you all and hope you have an amazing week:)

Sora Tobler

a very riveting round of bingo

Hello hello! I apologize for the missing email from last week.... I just never got around to writing one.

to fill you all in on what you have missed these past 2 weeks, here is the highlight reel:

- our friend Florea is still progressing lots! He came to our ward activity on Wednesday, we had a lesson with him on Saturday, and he came to church on Sunday! 

- The ward activity was actually a major success. 

We "hired" elder and sisters Matthews (a senior couple in bucuresti) to be our party planners, and they did a great job. Sora Matthews came prepared with games, snacks, prizes, and we basically didn't have to do any work. We also played some bingo which was quite exciting. Lots of our members ended up showing up and while the power in the chapel went out half way through, it was a good time.

-we helped our sweet members order some garments. The church website still isn't translated into Romanian, so to order things from the church website, a lot of the members need our help.

-we love the Ruckers!!! The mission president and his wife are the actual best, and I am constantly amazed at the sacrifices that they make for us.

I am so very grateful for repentance! 

Daily repentance, hourly repentance, etc. 

Part of me falsely believed that by this point in my mission, I would be a "perfect" missionary, but that is not how life works. I am still messing up all the time, but through the atonement of Jesus Christ and through repentance, I am able to keep trying, get back up, and start again! 

Take the time to repent daily this week! 

Repentance is positive! 

Repentance is change! 

Love you all lots! 

Sora Tobler 

pioneers of romania!

 buna!

-surprise! sora Anderson and I are staying together for this next transfer! after being convinced for the whole week that 100% sora anderson would be leaving (she's already got a solid 6 months here in ploiesti) we were very ecstatic that she will be staying. 

- we started to meet with our new friend Razvan. he called our number one day out of the blue and we had no idea who it was, but he straight up told us that he wants to start meeting with us! our first lesson was so good and we are excited for him!

-our Instagram is hopping. we run the Instagram and it is going quite well. while we are still building up our following, we send out a couple referrals every single day just from our Instagram page, and my testimony of media work grows everyday. 

-our members are THE BEST. We meet with 2 sisters this week and they are amazing. Sora Matei and Sora Banita have been members for almost 20 years now and have the strongest faith. while being baptized with their husbands and kids, they are the only people in their families that have remained active and have stayed strong to their testimonies over all these years. they have a testimony past the point of going back. they are the PIONEERS OF ROMANIA and such great examples to me! 

"37 And how blessed are they! For they did publish peace; they did publish good tidings of good; and they did declare unto the people that the Lord reigneth." (Mosiah 27:37) 

how cool that we are quite literally publishing peace and good tidings on social media as missionaries right now! 

go publish something uplifting this week! you never know who needs to see it! 

cu mare drag, sora Tobler

1. prietenii mei

2. best view

3. another transfer for the books

4. we are becoming Romanian

5. Brașov surori 

6. 

a dog bite and a baptism

Buna buna dragi frati și surori:) happy august! Where does the time go?

just a quick rundown:

-while closing the church building after sacrament last week we accidently locked someone in the building! We thought everyone had left as we locked and set the alarm on the building. As we were walking away, the alarm started blaring and one of our members was trying to leave from one of the side doors. We felt very bad at first, but luckily we all got a good laugh out of it.

-our 9-year old friend Alex got baptized!! It was the sweetest. He was baptized by his dad who is a convert of a couple years now, and it was the sweetest thing to see their family so happy at the baptism. We also had a good number of our members show up, which was amazing.  It is such a big sacrifice for them, considering it is pretty hard for them to travel to church just for sunday, let alone for the baptism on Saturday. 

-sora anderson was bit by a dog on one of our morning runs. Before you get too worried, she is fine, and it was nothing serious, but we were slightly freaked out by it. 

- 2 past missionaries from the US (moms from Utah) who served here in 1994 were at church this week and it was so fun and interesting to talk to them! They gave us some contacts of people they worked with and baptized all the way back then 27 years ago, and we are excited to be busy this week contacting them. 

- I will never be taking the air-conditioning in buildings back home for granted ever again. 

- our friend Florea is still progressing and came to church again yesterday! 

The power of prayer is real. We were teaching our friend the basics of praying and it was amazing to see how he came to the knowledge that he was able to talk to his Heavenly Father through prayer. Sometimes I take prayer for granted, but the knowledge that we have that we can have a conversation with our Father in Heaven through prayer is amazing. Take the time to say more meaningful prayers this week! 

O săptămână foarte bună! :)

sora tobler