12 February 2018 - Week 45

Our week began with a trip to a small town a little outside Arad where we took Sora Mogos to search for a birth record for her grandmother.   We visited the office of the town registar and were told they would call her when they have it for her. Hmmm... not sure how long we should wait until we pay them another visit.  We will see. 

Following our trip to Livada we stopped in centru to do an errand and found this cool picture made from colored pencils. It is fun to look at and imagine how to put a similar one together. 

Here is a photo from our walk in the woods this afternoon.  Like so many Romanians, the guy is using his bicycle to haul firewood. I don't think he liked me taking his picture.

Here are a couple of other wood cutters who were getting wood on another day.

The next day we made another visit to Sora Muscan.  The Elders are teaching her the "Endowed from on High" lessons for temple preparation.  She has a desire to go there soon.  

The Elders will both be leaving for home at the end of February and in a desire to continue with their connection with the gospel after they arrive home, have been meeting with us to go through a program called "My Plan".  It is a self-reliance and future preparation curriculum for returning missionaries.  We have enjoyed imparting some Grandparent style wisdom to them.  They both have strong testimonies and we think they will be fine.

Sora Piper had met with the Sisters to find the name of ancestor for baptism for the dead, but they wanted us to come with them and bring our computer so she could tell us the information and get it into the FamilyTree.  We had a great visit.  Sora Piper is a sweetheart.  I took a photo of her wedding photo so we could put in the memories on her page.  So cute. 

Brent has a new responsibility in the district.  He has been asked to be a financial auditor along with becoming part of the District President.  Saturday we had the dreadful financial audit.  It went well.  We were done in an hour and a half.  Then we drove to Timisoara to do their audit too.  President Toth and President Ipubescu rode with us.  That audit went fine too.

The Elders and Sisters wanted to have breakfast for Sunday dinner.  We made omelets in ziplock bags and waffles.  Smoothies and apple-raspberry juice rounded out the meal.  We had some trouble getting the omelets cooked.  We probably needed a bigger pot or maybe 5 eggs plus ham and cheese is just too much to try to cook in one ziplock bag.  

After our breakfast dinner, we went to Timisoara again to help the Elders learn how to get some family history names for baptisms for the dead.  They have both served as youth Family History Consultants at home and were excited to see the new features in FamilySearch. They were confident they could get some names to enter into the computer from their members.