Week 13 – Bacău, Romania

Well I am for sure being transferred with my companion, and I am being moved to the wonderful city of Galaţi really crazy to me to have this attitude, but I am super excited to go and change what people think about it. I talked with my companion and we both agreed that we want



Week 12 – Bacău, Romania

I love hearing from you all, and hearing about all the small stories of life outside of my mission! It hit me the other day when I realized that it was Oliver’s birthday and that he turned 15! It just made me realize how much I am missing. I am blown away at how fast



Week 11 – Bacău, Romania

This week has brought no new stories. I really wish I could tell you some amazing thing that happened here but it has been really tough on me spiritually and mentally. I am really having a hard time with the language. I guess I have one story, but it is kind of sad. (I actually



Week 10 – Bacău, Romania

Things in Bacău have been really slow. Mainly because we only walk and over the past four days we have gotten 3 feet of snow. This typically makes walking hard. I can handle the snow here though. It is a lot lighter than Minnesota snow. There is one catch to the weather here. The wind is



Week 9 – Bacău, Romania

Another week has passed here in the wonderfully damp world of Bacău. It has been pretty damp, but it has been much warmer than past years, and today it rained! I think we are getting an early spring which I am perfectly happy about. This is week 9 and it really doesn’t feel like it.



Week 8 – Bacău, Romania

Well, where to even start. Our plane ride was very long and very boring. I spent a total of 15 hours in the air, and a total of 21 hours in travel. Things went pretty smoothly after that though. The country is really beautiful, but the cities are not.  They are trying to cram hundreds



Week 7 – Travelling to Romania

Today is the day that we would normally get an email from Nick.  Yesterday, we got something better.  A phone call!  This was the first time we have heard his voice in 7 weeks since we weren’t able to talk to him on Christmas while he was at the MTC. He is doing great!  The



Week 6 – MTC – New Years

Thank you for sending the pictures! I wish I could post more pictures but it is so difficult to do that here. I have gotten a package filled with medical supplies, and I could not have been more grateful. There is only one catch, I received the package the day I got better! That’s okay



Week 5 – MTC – Christmas

Craciun Fericit! Merry Christmas! I wish I could have seen the look on everybody’s face this morning. I miss home, but not enough to damper the work that I am doing out here. I have this burning desire to go out and change the lives of maybe only a few in Romania. I think I



Week 4 – MTC

I love it here at the MTC not because of the food, or the classes, but because I love being with the people in my zone. The others are all going to Italy and it is really cool to hear them talk in it and we even sing in it too! I love them so