bună!
time flies and another week is in the books. This week was the last week of the transfer:,) which is crazy. Sora anderson will be leaving me to be shipped off 14 hours away to Oradea, and I will be staying in Ploiesti. It was such a good week though and I loved pretty much every second of it.
-we had a mission-wide conference (For all the missionaries in romania) face to face for the first time since last year! We all gathered together in Buchurest and it was so fun to see missionaries who I have actually never met before face to face and see lots of old friends. Elder Kopischke, a member of the Europe area presidency, and his wife traveled from Germany and spoke with us. It was SO GOOD. What they shared with us was centered alot around 3 Nephi 11 and 18, and President Nelson's most recent talk about having FAITH.
- On the way home from the conference, we met and found 3 new people! We talked to the guy sitting across for us on the train for the whole hour, and even read a couple chapters from the book of Mormon with him, while we were talking with him, we noticed that a younger college-age kid a couple seats and rows away was listening to our conversation with the older man. As we got off the train, the younger guy started talking to us, and said he had actually met with missionaries about 3 years ago. He seemed pretty interested and we were able to get his Instagram. Lastly, we took a taxi on the way home from the train station and even our taxi driver was also so interested! He said he has always seen the elders on the streets in the past, and that he always wondered who they were.
- Lots more media stuff! we had a meeting with the Hungary media sisters and our media marketing mentor from salt lake, and the missionary department and had her help us with some of our ads. She also basically told us that the missionary department is rethinking the budgets, and they will probably start doing budgets based off percentage of people being taught that come from the ads, makes sense.... but for us that is NOT amazing, considering we have only 6% being taught! We are doing everything we can to get that number higher!
- We visited some older less-active members, who due to some health problems can't really make it to church anymore, but they are just the sweetest!! Our visit is probably the only "exciting" thing they had penciled in their schedules for the week, and they love having us over. Between the 3 houses we went to, I think I drank about 10 cups of grape fanta and we were not OK for the rest of the night, but it was a fun day.
- We went to the BEACH last week and I loved every second of it. Ok maybe every second besides the seconds we had when we realized that clothes here are optional for people on the beach! And everyone seemed to opt for the "no clothes" option! Nothing like a bunch of old clothes-less Romanians at the beach!
- FAMILY HISTORY IS SO COOL. I have been reading some great family stories from the family search app and I am truly INSPIRED. There is so much to learn from the people that came before me and I admire and look up to their examples. Read some family history this week!! I promise you that you will learn something!
Love you all:) vă iubesc 
Sora Tobler
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