Moving Day

Luckily we weren't moving by horse and wagon but we drove by many, many of them in the Romanian countryside.  We however rented an Opel made in Germany and it was almost big enough.

It was a fun drive and so much nicer than the train or maxi-taxi.  Here's a few shots of the trip. Several big orthodox churches.

All the small towns sell produce and baked bread.  It's kinda fun.

This is a huge loaf of bread it weighs about 5 lbs. It takes most of the width of the left side of the cars dash board. It was delicious and lasted three days and we gave half of it to the Sisters.

This is the road side stand where we bought the bread. She is cooking Kurtos bread, over a charcoal fire, it is sweetened with sugar and spices that are melted into the bread  as it cooks.

Now here are some pictures of our apartment.  It was hilarious- Dan said it was the first time he finished a realestate deal and got kissed on both cheeks. !!

Our apartment is newly renovated so we are  excited.

Sorry the kitchen and bathroom pictures only come in sideways

I would like to thank all my grandchildren and children who prayed for us to find a nice place to live in Brasov (Brashov).  We appreciate all their faith and prayers.  We still wash all dishes by hand and do not have a clothes dryer, take the bus to church and talk to random people about how we are missionaries from Canada and are here for 2 years to teach about the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  We feel so priveleged and blessed to be able to have this opportunity.  The Gospel is True !!

Wonderful Week in Brasov

We spent a wonderful week in Brasov looking for an apartment and we found one !!

This is in the hotel lobby.

We spent alot of time getting in and out of cabs so I thought this picture was appropriate.  Dan was awesome, getting newspapers, buying maps and calling ads.  He has been training for this mission for years, he's a natural. 

This is it!!

How do you like it??  Sorry I'll have to blog more pictures after we get the keys next week.

We are very excited because it is newly renovated and nice and new.  There is no elevator in the building (to break down) and we are located on the second floor. Just enough for lots of good exercise and not too much to wear me out.

This is our chapel!!Isn't it amazing.  We feel very spoiled to have such a wonderful place to meet.  Our branch is small but there are 3 children and 2 youth and several married couples.  We had supper with our branch president and his wife, attended the branch activity for women's day, attended the missionaries no smoking campaign, and attended church on Sunday.  We are beginning to get a feel for our city.

This is the Catholic Church downtown.  It is very big and beautiful.  This is an old WW2 Jeep that Dan thinks is Russian.  He was quite intrigued and had to take these pictures for his brother Ken.

Even though we haven't really driven a car for 6 months Dan loves to see the different cars here in Romania.  We saw a Toyota he had never seen before, it was a Corolla with a diesel engine.  There are lots of fancy Peugeot as well.

Here's two of our friends with their Russian Cachula's.  Don't believe anything a guy says wearing this hat.

Six Months Gone By

We had a great trip to Brasov looking for an apartment.  Travelling by maxi-taxi was cold and we both needed to warm our toes when we arrived.

We love the wonderful city of Brasov and look forward to enjoying many things here.  We stayed in a hotel that was 400 yrs. old.in the Historic part of Brasov.  It was so cool, kinda like old style European
Austrian culture.

It was right in Centru so we were able to walk most everywhere we went.

This is the main Piata (this word is pronounced Pe-at-za) or central courtyard of town. Very fun!!

 
We found two apartments that we thought would work and are in heavy negotiations as we speak.  This is right up Dan's alley, and he has enjoyed doing his real estate deals.  We are also dealing with our landlord to see if we can use this apartment here in Iasi for the sisters.  Missionary apartments are really quite complicated especially when the church needs the right to change people and apt. often and contracts can be difficult.

If you look closely you can see my neighbour is drying her clothes outside on the line.  Yes that's        -15C
and snow everywhere.  Who knew this was possible?

Here is Elder Heninger with two of our sweet friends from our branch in Iasi.  We will miss the beautiful people here in Iasi who have taught us so many things.  Six months flies by when your having fun. 

This was great!! Don't park illegally or this will happen to you.  The old crane picked up this car and swung it over to a flat bed and away they went.
Happy travels to you all.  We love and miss you.