I Love Missionary Work!!

 I am going into my last full week as a missionary! Wow! Where does time go! I can not believe that my time in Romania is coming to an end but man, I am so grateful for Heavenly Father's love and care for me and am even more grateful for the opportunity I have had to share that love with others here in Romania!!

This week we had two different member meals and it was so uplifting being able to talk with both members about the work here in Romania, the gospel, and how we can work better together to help those here in Iași! I love and respect the members here in Romania so much!! Their faith is so strong! I learn so much from their testimonies and willingness to follow God no matter what His plan is for them! They are great examples of following by faith not fear!

We had a lot of success this week with finding new friends to teach, teaching lessons, and serving others! I love doing missionary work! Honestly, it brings so much joy to my life! I definitely will continue to serve the best I can when I am home but man. . . I am really going to miss the service I have been able to immerse myself in these past 18 months!

We also had our District activity this week at a friend of the missionaries home. His name is Alin and he is actually going to school to be an Orthodox priest. He does not believe all the same things we believe but he is such a great example to us, as missionaries, and has a lot of wisdom and very wise advice to share! He lives in the countryside by a small forest so we walked around and picked up trash for a couple hours and then had some time at the end to have a Gospel discussion together! I love that despite our different beliefs we were still able to both learn a lot from each other! Alin also has an almost 3 year old son and the majority of the day he was my little buddy, picking up trash and walking around! Honestly made my whole day! I love children, their curiosity for life, and their pure and sweet souls! Made my whole week!

This Sunday was my last normal church service and Sora Núñez and I were able to sing together for sacrament meeting! It was so pretty and the spirit was so strong as we sang! Ahhhh, I have so much love for the members here and just Romania! My heart 😍 

Love you all! Thank you for your love, support and prayers! I hold you all very near to my heart each day 😊

Sora Acton

The 8th was woman's day so our English class friends

brought us flowers! Made my day! I love flowers 😍

Thursday night at a restaurant we like to eat at, 

we met an inactive member who is visiting Iași

for the next couple months! She ended

up coming to church on Sunday!

Lunch at Sora Genovevas with her son Ionuț!

I love them so much! We are always 

laughing when we are together!

Lunch at Sora Stoica's! And then the next day we saw

her on the train on our way to our district activity 😊

Service at Alin's

Președintele Popovici is such an amazing

Branch President! On Thursday, we showed

up to the church with snacks on the counter

for us all! He is so kind, hard working, and

full of faith and love for all!!

Branch pictures after church! It was such a happy day!