a good week

buna! 

This week was a good one:)

The highlights:

Maria & ionuț: the cutest little Romanian grandma who takes care of her grandson (who is like a mega ball of energy, and I don't know how she does it) came to Pitesti on Tuesday! They live about an hour outside of the city, so they don't come too often, but they had to do some stuff in the city. We spent the morning with them and helped them with some of the work they needed to get done. 

-Robert: a recent convert here, who is a really awesome guy. He is an actor and his most recent role is Pinocchio. He likes talking our ears off about his acting gigs and it is quite interesting to listen to. We met with him this week and had a post-baptism lesson in town center. He should be getting the priesthood next Sunday and we are way psyched for him

-Rain: it rained about every second of every day this week. You should have seen when we were walking to the church and I was just in the right place at the right time and was drenched by a massive puddle, when a car came speeding down the street. Sora Berrett was in the clear, walking a couple feet behind me, but I was definitely in the splash zone. It was honestly pretty funny, and although I was soaked for the rest of the day, we couldn't stop laughing about it. 

-OUR GOLDEN NEIGHBOOR: we ran into Diana and her daughter Ariana a couple of weeks ago while we were leaving for our night run. We stopped and talked for a while and exchanged Facebooks, but it didn't really go anywhere after that. I had lil prompting to reach out to her again last week and she was so so happy to hear from us and was totally down to meet up. 

We are excited to be friends with her!!

I definitely felt the lord's help this week! I just want to say thank you for all the encouraging emails, texts, and messages this week, they really helped, and thank you for all the prayers!! They were definitely felt all the way over here in romania. It was cool to feel the power of prayer working in my life and I definitely felt angels round about me to bear me up! 

One of my favorite verses from this week, "33 Wherefore, be not weary in well-doing, for ye are laying the foundation of a great work. And out of small things proceedeth that which is great." (D&C 64:33) 

*Cue cliche bummer sticker phrase*:

Don't give up, and keep moving forward! 

Love, Sora Tobler 

FIRE

buna ziua tuturor!!

Comin' at you with another week from the great land of Romania:)) some things that happened this week...

1.Summerhasofficiallyarrived and I couldn't be happier. As an AZ girl you'd be surprised at how happy the sun makes me. 

2.We are still on the finding grind over here round these parts and have had some decent success in the last week. An old returned missionary reached out to us and gave us a golden referral the other day. We contacted them and they were way happy that we reached out, and we are going to meet with them sometime this week. 

3.There is a park right across the street from the church and we usually always go and sit on a little bench and do our studies out there. It is fun to people watch a bit and see all the cute little Romanian grandpas and grandmas with their dogs walking around the park.

4.Mission conference! We had mission conference this week and mission conferences are  always a good time . I'ts crazy to see how this mission has grown so much in the last couple of months and we are always changing and adjusting what we are doing and how we are doing it, trying to find what works best.

5.We went on a HIKE today and it was AMAZING. Been awhile since I have been outside of a city, and it was way nice to be out in nature for a bit. 

6.We may have almost burned the apartment down this week

Spiritual gifts here are SO COOL. I have been studying them this week and could go one for hours talking about them. We are promised way cool spiritual gifts for God, all we need to do is recognize them, pray for them, and develop them. Try figuring out a spiritual gift you have this week, or try and start developing a new one! 

Love

sora Tobler 

who let the dogs out

 Hope everyone is doing well and had a good week:)))

american pride

After getting out of quarantine this week, Sora Berrett decided that we were going to go out and try to find some of our members. We headed out towards Sora Maria's house, a member who before even meeting us was so excited that we were here in pitesti, that she called us everyday since we arrived! She lives about and hour outside of pitesti so we needed to take a MAXI TAXI out to her little house in the middle of a cute lil village. She was so cute and so so happy to see us. Her house was only about 6×6 feet and only one room, but she was so welcoming and had a little lunch for us. A missionary a couple years ago gave her american flag and she has been obsessed with america ever since. (See attached pics)

who let the dogs out

There are 3 little stray dogs that live right next to our house and follow us around everywere we go. I think it is because we gave them some hot dogs as we were walking home one day and now they are just our best friends.

neighbors

We have seen our neighbors a couple times, but really haven't had a good opportunity to speak with them. We were leaving to go on a run one night, and ran into them as they were going on a walk! They were so sweet and invited us over to dinner and were super interested and curious on why we were here. Little blessings!

paste fericit

Since most romanians are orthodox and follow a different yearly calendar than the one that we have in this United states, easter for everyone here in romania was this past week! Not complaining that I was able to celebrate easter twice and just so grateful for the reason behind easter, whether it is celebrated in april or may. As Paul says in Corinthians 15:22, "22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive." I know that christ lives and because He lives we too will be able to live again. I love the doctrine of resurrection and have loved studying it more in depth these past few weeks. Isus a înviat! Adevărat a înviat! 

Hope everyone has a great week:)

sora T