Humanitarian Project

This past week was a big one for Elder Heninger, he worked 4 days of hard labour--of course I mean physical labour.  He worked with  a team of men from England who were volunteers and of course our own Elder and Sora Wolsey who is head of all Humanitarian work in Romania.  They built a drying shed to dry clothes year round at a hospital in Colonia.  The last one they had collapsed in the harsh winter last year, as you can see from the pictures that won't happen again.  They built this one to last.

Our missionaries were a great help and they worked really hard.

 This is the picture of all the super volunteers. These people are wonderful people who have come every year for 16 years to improve the condition of the hospital. 

All finished and Fabulous !!!!

We travelled across Romania last weekend to the very west side of the country to Oradea.  This area has a huge Hungarian influence and it showed in many of their buildings in Centru.  It was great to be able to visit another city and meet the district president and support and love him.

We love all the senior couples that we work with.  They all have so much to offer and we learn so much from them.

Here's
 Elder Heninger after eating a little lunch at the outdoor restaurant in Oradea.  He's always this happy after he eats.

I wanted to get some pictures of the beautiful country side, but some of the shots are blurry.  I love there hay stacks.

This is taken at 60 km.--I'm lucky I got it all.
On our way back we stopped in Sibiu, for training and to go to church.  It was wonderful testimony meeting and even though the numbers are small, the spirit of the Lord is present.  It is also a lovely city.

It is easy to see the buildings that have been restored and those that have not. 
Here are some amazing missionaries!!

We feel so blessed to be able to see so much of this country.  We love the people and the gospel.

Romanian Field Report

I enjoy the beautiful architecture of the buildings.  The designs are nothing like I have seen before.  This building is in Sibiu

We had a Young Women's activity and tied a baby quilt for a lady in our branch.  It was really fun and the first time the girls had done that.  I'm am serving as a councilor in YW now and really enjoying that.
We have been doing alot of travelling and meeting with different branches.  We are so happy about the progress we have seen in our old city of Iasi.  We still stay in touch with them and visit when they need
branch business done from the Mission Presidency. It's so exciting to see changes come with time.

This was the home of a very famous Romanian, George Enescu.  He was well know for composing music and is considered to be one the most beautiful buildings in Bucharest. 

We attended zone conference this last week.  It was our first one and we really enjoyed it.  The Elders and Sisters who serve here are amazing missionaries.  We are working hard to accomplish our goal of having 4 articles published in the paper.  We have had 2 already which is wonderful-it is thrilling to see pictures and stories of our missionaries in the local paper.

Here's a couple of our super star missionaries !

The driving is going good.  Beware of cement blocks in random places.  Except for one very poor dirt road our GPS has not failed us.

This detour took awhile to correct.

The weather is getting very warm but the humidity is out of control.  The hot muggy feeling is a challenge but we are happy we don't live in the extreme heat of Bucharest.  I'm still reading my Book of Mormon in Romanian I'm in Jacob chapter 6.
Thats the field report for today.  The Church is True and God is ever mindful of us.

We were loving every minute of this

What a thrill to be able to attend this glorious event,

Really Going Places Now

We had a wonderful Service Project on the 12th of May.  It was called Do It Romania, where anyone interested helped in cleaning the country.  Mormon Helping Hands were there and having fun.  It was great to work with our branch and help clean up this beautiful country.  We all hopped on the bus to get to our location and away we went.

This is a broom that is used alot here, it is made of twigs and used for outside sweeping.

We all worked hard and were very tired.

We also visited a mental hospital this last week with our humanitarian missionaries.  They helped in replacing the old washing machine that I thought you might enjoy seeing.

This machine does not spin out only wash by agitating back and forth and then clothes are placed in another machine to spin out.  Then the drying racks collapsed this winter with the harsh conditions we had so we will be helping our humanitarian missionaries replace the drying racks for the hospital next week.  When I say we, I mean them- I'm not too good with a hammer.

Lastly It was Elder Heninger's Birthday, so Happy Birthday to You

What a privilege it is to serve here in Romania.  We are so lucky to be able to be here and we are learning so many things while helping the church to grow.  We are grateful to our family who loves and supports us and to God who has given us all we have.  Keep the Faith!!

Lots of work to do now

We had a wonderful Seniors conference in Bucharest.  Great classes and great food and lots of sites to see.  We had reports on Training and YSA and Public Affairs and Humanitarian Efforts.  Lots of work done and more to go.

The Elders even sang which was fantastic!!

We took at little trip around this lake in this boat behind us.  It felt like Heritage Park, it was fun.

We went to the Park where the first apostle came to dedicate the land for missionary work in 1990.  It has a very hard name, I can't pronounce it or spell it, but was so beautiful.

The sites in downtown Bucharest were amazing.  The design and architecture blows me away.

This is an angel carrying a fallen soldier to heaven.  It is enormous and sits out front the Marriott Hotel.

This an original bank from before Communism and during communism was the only National bank  and still operates as a bank today.

Original Orthodox Church.  People were worshipping and lighting candles for others.

This church is from the 1700's. I got a few pictures on the inside as well.

This is the ceiling.

This picture is in the National Theater building, it is amazing. Two of our missionaries perfrormed here and they have amazing voices.  

Elder Heninger was asked to serve in the Mission Presidency with Pres. Hill. We are very excited and look forward to learning so much from him. We also get to drive a car Yahooo!! It's great, a little blue Skoda.

We are excited about the gospel and hope you are too.  We love you and miss you all.