buna buna buna

buna buna buna 

A solid good week here in Transylvania Town. 

Nothing super big and exciting happened this week but just a lot of small things and miracles that made this week so so good! 

-We had zone conference this week which is always a really good time.

-Had an amazing lesson with our friend Alexandra about faith and we read from the children's book of Mormon about faith in Alma 32. It was so good and the spirit was so strong and she really liked it. Also she came to church yesterday 

-Gave a fire talk about prophets and general conference in church! So so excited about general conference this weekend and you should be too!

-our friend Ade dropped us, (but after she did that i asked her if she knew anyone else who would be interested and she gave us 3 of her friends to teach and reach out them). 

-One of the friends we are teaching, Ioana, is a nail lady and today for p day she did our nails and we gave her a Book of Mormon hard copy and she was so excited about it

-Tried our hand at cooking a traditional Romanian dish, Arde umpluti, it was not my favorite, but sora Sorensen seemed to like it.

-A missionary currently serving in England reached out to us about his sister who is not a member and currently living in Sibiu. We have been talking with her recently and she is GOLDEN. And already ready to be baptized practically. We are going to start having lessons with her and her brother and his companion and she keeps talking to us about how her brother is gonna baptize her when he gets home from mission in April! Yay! 

-ran 8.5 miles on Saturday. Not gonna lie I'm pretty proud of myself and we ended up doing it relatively fast!

I'm so excited for general conference this week!!! If you're not... then you're missing out:)

I invite you all to watch it, and watch it with specific questions. I can promise you that they will be answered in one way or another:) 

also I hope everyone has a great Easter week focused on CHRIST.

Love Sora T

halfway?!?!?

 Wow wow we are half way there? How have I already been a missionary for 9 months? 

As a quick update:

We are in quarantine again because one of our friends was sick.

Had an exchange this week.

Our friend Ade is still doing pretty well! We had to set some standards with her the other day we we told her that we couldn't babysit her 1 year old daughter, but other than that she is doing well.

For 9 months here are 9 things I have learned so far-

1. You never have 2 really bad days in a row. The past 9 months have been been full of their fair share of some rough days, but I can confidently say that the day following is also a bit better than the previous. 

2. I actually like running ! Waking up at 6:30 is still hard lol but I actually quite enjoy a morning run

3. The lord hears our prayers! The power of prayer is so so true and I cant even count the number of times that I have witnessed the power of prayer at work here in my mission.

4. I'm convinced that romania has the best bakeries and pastries hands down. Chocolate covrigs from a shop called luca are the best snack/desert ever. No one can convince me otherwise.

5. We are all Gods children. Doesnt matter if your from Romania, Arizona, or under a rock. God loves us all

6. The lord works Miracles every day all around us. Big/small. Just got to open our eyes 

7. I really took my car for granted. Public transportation is great and allllll....... butttt.... I kind miss my car ngl

8. The gift of tongues! Exists!!! If you told me 9 months ago I would be able to understand and be able to speak (decent) romania I would have laughed.

9. The work of the lord rolls forward despite a global pandemic or anything for that matter. So grateful that I can play a small part in his great plan. 

I could keep going, but for the length of this email and for the asthetic of it being 9 things for 9 months I will stop there.

Love you all. See you in 9 months ;))

Sora Tobler 

Toast Tragedy

Not gonna lie, I dont have anything super exciting to share this week and this week was kind of long, but I guess some weeks are just a bit longer than others! 

We had a birthday party for our member friend eugene at the church on Tuesday which was fun. We're still not really allowed to meet inside the church for gatherings other than church on sunday, so we dragged a table outside and sat out there to play some games with him and eat cake. He was very persistent that we make a pokemon cake, so that's exactly what we did. I would say it turned out alot better than I thought.

Lesson learned- serrated knives are very sharp and are not my best friend. I almost sliced the top of my finger off cutting some bread for lunch the other day. What's a girl gotta do for some avocado toast 

Our friend Ade came to church face to face this week and she liked it lots! She told us she is going to bring her kids next week and we are so excited. I also translated for our one friend that just speaks english and not Romanian. I have translated church before, but it's been a while, and ngl translating real time Romanian to english for the duration of church is kind a brain drainer 🤪🥴 and afterwards I'm a little fried. I'd say I'm getting better though

Also I'll be exactly halfway done with my mission this next week 🤯

Don't stop trying, don't stop growing, don't stop moving forward. Life is about change, and growth, and continuing to endure even if things are hard! Christianity isn't comfortable!

Also happy birthday shout-out to the best dad ever @Marc tobler. Anyone who knows my dad knows that he is actually the coolest. I love you and happy birthday!! 🥳

love you all,

Sora Tobler