quick trip to Germany

Wow, what a week. I went to the temple in Germany!

To start from the beginning of the week, this past p-day we went on a beautiful hike in Romania that was seriously the prettiest thing I have ever seen.

Wednesday we headed out on a train to Bucharest to meet with all the missionaries that were heading to Germany. There was 6 of us missionaries total from Romania. We took a flight to Frankfurt and not gonna lie,  it was weird to be at an airport again, but not to be going home.  After a long day of traveling, we finally got to the Frankfurt temple late Wednesday night. The Temple Presidency gave us a special tour and they were seriously the coolest. Also mega miracle, one of the sisters lost her passport the day we were supposed to leave, and she wasn't able to come with us, butttt the next day she was able to get an emergency passport in a matter of 2 hours and fly to Germany by herself and still go through the temple!!

Thursday was the day we finally got to go through the temple!!! It was such a good day and we were all so happy that after a YEAR of being out on my mission, we finally were able to go to the temple with our Mission President & his wife.

We also did baptisms later that day and it was overall just a great day and experience! All the German church members from the surrounding area also cooked us tons of amazing food for every single one of our meals there. 

On Friday we were able to go through the temple one more time, and then we headed out to do some sightseeing in Frankfurt before we had to catch our flight back to Romania. 

Overall it was an amazing week and I am so grateful for the beautiful opportunity that we had to finally go.:)

"And we ask thee, Holy Father, that thy servants may go forth from this House armed with Thy power, and that Thy name may be upon them, and Thy glory be round about them, and Thine angels have charge over them;"

--Doctrine & Covenants Section 109:22 

Hope everyone has a great week:))

Sora Tobler

Sibiu, schimb, SAINTS

happy new year! 

to start the year off on an exciting note-- I am leaving buchurest! I found out on friday night that I won't be in buchurest any more... kinda sad because I was really enjoying the city life there. I am getting transferred to sibiu! Sibiu is a really small town in central western buchurest in transylvania:))) i have heard it is one of the prettiest places in all of romania and am so excited serve there. I'm also gonna be the STL and am excited.

My new comp is sora anderson, and she is seriously so sweet! She just finished her training in sibiu and I'm so psyched to be comps with her. 

Earlier this week, sora Gunn and I really learned a lesson about not procrastinating.... the office elders in Hungary have been wanting for us to send them a scan of our new friend Gabi's baptism certificate for awhile now. We finally got around to it on the 31st, New Year's Eve, the last possible day that we could get it to them. While scanning it, we realized we actually didn't have gabi's signature on the paper. We called them and they said they absolutely needed her signature... soooo we basically dropped all our plans for the rest of the day and headed over to the bus station to where Gabi lives. Good thing she lives about 2 hrs by bus outside of buchurest hahaha. after spending the whole afternoon with Gabi in her town, missing the bus back to bucuruest, waiting for a couple hours, and finally catching another bus back, we accomplished the mission lol. 

Let me just say God really helped us out to get that signature haha

I am almost done with the first volume of the book Saints, and all I can say is it is SO GOOD. I'm so so thankful for everything that the early members of the church went through so that I can continue to share this truth with others. Thankful for Jospeh Smith and the restoration! Go give Saints a read if you haven't yet!

I am so so grateful for the new year and christmas that I have been able to spend in romania <3

Ciao ciao 

Sora Tobler  

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

corona time

 buna! 

A quick update from last week!

-still in quarantine

-got corona (probably) we haven't been actually tested or anything, but we got some pretty sick Corona symptoms and found out lots of people we had recently spent alot of time with has tested positive

-snowed alot!

-being inside all day we had a lot of time to find and start teaching new people.

-gabi's baptism is on saturday! Yay!!! She was even telling us the other day that she maybe wants to be a missionary like us! Wouldn't that be sick.

-will have 6 months in the mish on wednesday,  wow! How has it already gone by so fast?!

-love being a missionary  wouldn't want to be doing anything else at this time in my life. Seriously it brings me so much joy:)

new comp + quarantine

 Yay for a suuper long but good week:)

Tuesday was Romanian Independence Day! While most celebrations were cancelled with covid it was still a good time.

Wednesday the whole mission got together in Bucuresti to meet with president and his wife! There were 11 missionaries leaving this week so President and his wife came to Romania to say goodbye to all of them. 

Thursday, said goodbye to Sora Bauco and I am now with Sora Gunn! She was already living in another part of bucuresti so all day we basically just moved all her stuff over from her old apartment to the one I was living in. Let me tell you trying to move things around in a big city without a car is kinda a struggle, but we managed.

Yesterday we found out that we have to be in quarantine again until the 16th! One of the missionaries tested positive right after we had all been together with president and his wife, so all the missionaries in romania are now in quarantine! Luckily we were able to run to the store one last time and buy supplies for the next almost 2 weeks. We are all stocked up now which is good haha

Our girl Gabi is still doing amazing and on track to be baptized the 19th! We meet with her about every night and I seriously love her so so much, she's awesome. 

This week has taken alot of faith!!! Lots of faith that things will work out. Faith that what I am doing is actually making a difference. Faith in Christ. We just have to keep moving forward with faith even when we might not understand things<3

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  

ALOOO

 Hope everyone had a great week.

This week in Bucuresti was way good and we had lots lessons this week.

This week summarized: 

-Meet this girl named Gabi who is the coolest and just moved to Bucuresti for college

-Had a lesson in an H&M, suprisingly went pretty well

-All the new missionaries came to Bucuresti for a conference which was way fun. 

-Sora Gunn (a newbie like me) and I had a lesson just the 2 of us with this Guy named Costi at a coffee shop (our trainers thought it would be a good learning experience for us to do the lesson by ourselves) it actually went really well and now Costi is one of our most interested friends. Probably one of the first times since getting here, I've felt like I've used the Gift of Tongues. Letss go.

-Spent a whole day at the church making a video for our Facebook page... stay tuned it's gonna be way good.

-Ate a yum traditional romanian desert called papanaşi. It's like a doughnut with cream and jam and was very good

good

-Facebook finding is actually going very well here and we found like 4 new people this week who we are now teaching

teaching

-I brought a burrito to the church for my lunch on sunday and put it in the fridge at the church and one of the members just ate it!

-Teaching by the Spirit is REAL. The spirit is what's doing all the real work around here, I just try to get out some understandable phrases. 

-Oscar is committed to Baptism!  

-Today for p day we went to a mountain ski resort place and I am writing this email from a train back to Bucuresti. 

This week was really good and I have been feeling extra grateful this week. Grateful to be here on a mission, for my family, my friends, a healthy body, the atonement, eternal families, the list goes on... There is so much to be grateful for. Life is way to short to take things for granted and to not tell the people you love how you feel! Tell the people you care about how much they mean to you this week

Sora Tobler