35th Wedding Anniversary In Iasi

Today is our 35th wedding anniversary and we decided to celebrate in two ways.  First we asked a new member of our branch  who is an artist to paint us a picture of the Romanian countryside.  He was pleased that we asked him and we were pleased with the pictureThe farmers field is growing beans and I love the red poppies.  It looks nice in our apartment. 

 Next, I got a new winter hat, called a cachula and we went for dinner with our district.  We actually found a chinese food restaurant and it was very good.

We spent some time passing out english flyers for our next session starting this week.  Teaching English for free is a great way to meet people and we always have a spiritual message after each class.  Of course we teach the advanced english because we don't speak Romanian.  Did I mention that they drive their cars and park their cars on the sidewalk.  I don't think I will ever get used to this.

Everyday this week, either the power or the water went off for a couple of hours.  Have you ever put your makeup on with a flashlight?

This is a pretty church we walk past. Iasi is the city of 100 churches, unfortunately they are all orthodox or catholic but we keep trying.  The gospel must be preached to all the world. 

Wanderers in a Strange Land

As we were doing our scripture study last week we came across a fantastic scripture in Alma 26:36-37.  God has been mindful of us as we have been wanderers in a strange land.

We had a wonderful Seniors Conference in Brasov where we got to see the beautiful city and tour the area.  Even got to visit Dracula's Castle which was great fun, and got some important training on our work.

Dan is standing by the opening to the secret staircase.  It was a wonderful day.

I thought you might like to see the pictures of the castle.  It was built in 1420 and the King of Romania lived there.  If you want some fun you can research Bram Stoker, the author of Dracula stories.

It's tricky here in Romania-this week while I was doing my wash the city just shut the water off-and kept it off for several hours.  Apparently this happens quite frequently and for that reason we store water in our apt. , the laundry will just have to wait. 

We had a wonderful missionary lesson tonight with the sisters and with a college girl they were working with.  She accepted the challenge to be baptised.  She made a profound statement, she said I wanted to read the Book of Mormon to gather information, I quickly learned that this book is much more than that.
 I'm gaining a new testimony of the Book of Mormon everyday here in Romania.  It is truly the word of God.