craciun fericit

Where to start lol I think last time I wrote I was still in quarantine recovering from what was maybe covid 

Well... to update yalll we are out of quarantine and have been back to work as normal.

We had a baptism on saturday!!!! The whole week we had been preparing for the baptism, printing programs, cleaning the church, etc, but saturday it finally happened! Gabi was baptized! Let me tell you it was a miracle that she was baptized! Yay yay! It was such a good day. She was so so happy and you could just see the light in her face. I also gave a talk on the Holy Ghost at the baptism in Romanian. It was my first full talk in Romanian and not going to lie, it was pretty terrifying, but it ended up being ok:)

On monday we had dinner at the Larson's house (the cool FBI american family). They are seriously the coolest and made us and the elders mexican food, and gave us some cute christmas gifts. They also sang me happy birthday and it was an all-around good time.

Tuesday we went with our branch president to the store and bought a bunch of food to make Christmas gift care packages for the members. We then spent the whole morning driving around the city dropping them off and meeting with the members:) lots of the apartments we went to were of members that I haven't even met yet since lots of them haven't been able to make it to church for awhile with the pandemic. We have the best ward, I'm convinced. Oh and I also turned 20.

Yesterday we went to a member's house in the afternoon. She is from Puerto Rico, but is married to a Romanian who is not a member. They were seriously the sweetest and she baked us flan and offered to give us tamales when she makes them again. I love tamales so I was pretty psyched. We also stopped by Marilena and Vlad's house last night to give them a little christmas gift. They started caroling to us and it was so so sweet. They are seriously my fav. To end the night, sora gunn and I went to the one taco bell they have here in the mall food court and had a yummy christmas eve dinner of some tacos.

Today we went to watch one of our friends Dany perform at a concert at an orthodox church. It was really cool to see how people here traditionally celebrate Christmas.

I hope everyone has an amazing day filled with family, love, and CHRIST. He is the greatest gift any of us have ever been given. One of my fav scriptures is 

 33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

We can always find peace in Christ.

Sora Tobler

romance

Was a fast, long, hard, fun, normal, exciting week.

I had 3 exchanges this week which was kind of alot, but I love Sister Wilcock and it was fun to spend time with her this week!! 

We had our last meeting at church yesterday since church is closing down indefinitely again, but it was a fun excuse to get pictures with all our members and friends while we were there. We also wore some traditional Romanian dresses and all of our older members were so excited and very happy that we looked like Romanian girls and it was so sweet and fun haha.

We have zone conference this week which should be fun, and I am looking forward to that! 

A short scripture that I like lots for your week:

22 Nevertheless—whosoever putteth his trust in Him the same shall be lifted up at the last day. Yea, and thus it was with this people. (Mosiah 23.22)

Such a simple comforting verse that brings me lots of peace. 

Trust in God. He will catch you.

Have a great week:)

Sora Tobler  

FBI and a husky

 Hi! 

I'm chillin in Bucuresti for a couple more weeks. yay. We had mini-transfers this week, because we got new missionaries, but I am staying put in bucuresti until at least the beginning of December. Can we talk about how crazy it is that it is already almost December?!

We had a member dinner this week! My first member dinner in Romania. It was actually with an American family that is in our ward here in Romania. The dad works for the FBI in Romania and they just moved here a couple months ago and will be here for the next 5 years I think. They are seriously the coolest and it was so fun to go to their house this week and eat some good home cooked american food haha. It is kinda fun having them in our ward too, because we get to do romanian-to-english translations for them every Sunday in church. Translating is still really hard for me, but I think I'm gonna give it a shot in Sacrament meeting next week.

Had a fun lesson with our friend Marilena and her Husky. I started talking to Marilena on facebook like 3 weeks ago and have met with her 2 times. Yesterday we met with her at a park and had a restoration lesson with her. Although the park was super noisy and kinda distracting and her dog was being crazy as we were walking around, the spirit still was so strong and we were able to ask her to be baptized:)

I recorded a song! An elder in my zone has a bunch of recording equipment and we recorded something for a Christmas project we have coming up.

So grateful and happy to be here and share with people something that has blessed my life so so much.

Luv ya :)

Sora Tobler 

1 one of our favorite food places in the metro. Looks sketch, but it's good I promise

2 the Larson family!!

3 the larson family gave me some canned pumpkin (non existent here in romania) that they brought all the way from America, so I could make some pumpkin cookies.

I was very happy

4-5 fall