Hey everyone!!! 

-Sora Lund is from Maine currently. Her dad is in the Navy so they move around at least every 2 years! I love Sora Lund- We get along so well! This is our fourth transfer together. We have been together longer than any other sisters in the mission. She goes home on the 18th of December. I will then get a new companion.. still not sure yet... but I will train her on the city and we will do an exchange together then I will be out of Bucuresti! I have been here for 6 transfer so I am technically called a "Buc Rat!" So the little Idaho Girl-- Makes her way in the big city! ha I will probably get to go to one more city and I will probably die there! 

- We now have around 30 sisters in the mission! So crazy! We still have about 5 cities to open for sisters so I still have a possibility of doing that. By February we will have 40 sisters here. Which is crazy! Yes I am the old lady in the mission. I am in the top 5 sisters. 

Well thanksgiving sounded great! I am glad you guys had fun. Catching fire family movie night in my honor! Sounds great I am glad you all liked it! I am super excited to watch it in 5ish months! I am glad everyone is doing good! that sounds fun! That is so cute that little Dawson Prays for all of us! I love it! 

Well this week was very busy! Here are some highlights! 

Tuesday: 

MEMBER PRESENT LESSON! I was so excited! She came and so did our member present. We taught the plan of Salvation. Gave her a baptismal date that she said she would pray about! Wahoo! Our member present ROCKED! you guys all need to try to be members presents. They help so much! She bore testimoy and wow.. it was just great! We are meeting with her again on Thursday.. another member present! wahoo! We then got stood up for our next lesson.. but then we went to Presidents house to pick up the newbies. I love being a God mother! That is what we call them in the mission. If you take care of them the first night.. God mother! I have about 5 God daughters in the mission. They were super cute and fun! So dead tired. I forgot what that was like. 

Wednesday:
Transfer day! Well this day is always crazy and usually no missionary work really gets done.. we are helping people around the city.. dropping people off at where they need to be.. doing our STL duties and helping girls relax about training. it is a crazy day! We then had people stay with us again! I love hosting people! It is alot of fun.. but we had 6 of us so we have to wake up early to shower and so basically we don't get sleep.
Thursday: 

Missionary leadership council! and Thanksgiving day! Today was super fun! We had to wake up early and get to Presidents house on time. Good breakfast. Then we had to present it was so funny! We did it in Romanian to President and Sora Hill. Their role play names were Ritta and Bogdan! haha It was super funny! But it went well. They loved it! The meeting in General was super funny though! We had to redo all of our Key indicators ... again.. President was just like "these are standards of impossibility for our mission" which is kind of sad.. becasuse we can't really bring out numbers down because they are all ones. So we talked about it and switched our goals to not be weekly but for the whole transfer! So we will see how they go. It was just really funny we were talking about how we could help new missionaries.. and I don't know if you guys remember but I kind of had a rough start.. so I gave my personal experience of what really helped me and Sora Hill Says " Yes, exactly... Sora Polatis is who you can all look to as an example.. if she can do it then anyone can do it!" haha I could have been offended.. but everyone knows me in the room so it was just super funny!!! I know that Sora Hill loves me. Afterwords basically the whole mission was still in Bucuresti waiting for their trains so we all had permission to watch a movie... monsters university on the projector at the church! it was so much fun! 

Sunday: 

Well sunday was the national day for Romania! The day they became free! It was really fun. We were at church at we sang the national song. One guy in our branch is pro communism... he made quite the scene by standing up before the song.. leaving and making his son leave.. then coming back in after the song was over.... but it was still good! Relief society was filled with the women talking loudly about what to make for the christmas party. haha so funny... if you didn't understand the language you would think they all hated each other and were yelling! Well after church was a little rough.. we got on our normal bus.. to keep the story short: creep guys.. asking us to teach them how to repent... we just tried ignoring them.. we decided to get off at the next stop.. they got off with us... kept following us.. We keep saying leave us alone.. they finally did... then a couple minutes they ran up to us again... we then went the other way.. flagged down a taxi.. and made it home safe. Ate a candy bar and mac and cheese. I was not worried for my life or safety but I was just SO ANNOYED! ah serious lasa ma in pace!!! (leave me in peace!) We had a big vent session. Seriously it is just because we are so different! But ya really annoying!!! I will make sure I have my pepper spray with me always. 

Today: We were just out english contacting- First off I had to really pray for some good love of everyone around me after yesterday.. so anyways.. rollercoaster.. first 50 cards passed out .. normal people just take it and keep walking... TWO girls are really interested and said they want to come!... NEXT this old old women probably 80 years old with her cane... comes up to me and just starts YELLING AT ME! "WHAT IS THAT? WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?" I just smiled and said "its a free english class" She then keeps yelling at me.. I kind of thought maybe she said something like "HELP ME DOWN THESE STAIRS." so I kind of try to come and escort her down... well clearly that is not what she said - she then yells "LEAVE ME IN PEACE... GET OUT OF HERE!" I just looked over at Sora Lund on the other side of the stairs and I just start busting up laughing... it is sad when It just gets to the point that it is funny-- I have no idea why she hated me.. Her glasses were super thick and broken I am surprised she read my tag still.

I was not discouraged. I think I will be tough as nail when I get home... I mean after that we got with our zone leaders and he played the guitar and we walked by him and handed out cards. I realized even if 99 percent of everyone hates us.. I guess I have to at least try for 100 people so I can get the nice ONE! So it is great! I really do love being here. I mean I was really thinking about Elder Erying talk last general conference. He talked about how that person had a wayward child and she felt like God said "I trusted you with him.. because I knew you could and would love him." That is how I feel about my mission. I am really glad that God trusts me. He knew that I could and would do this mission no matter what. No matter how much people don't love us here. I will still try to love them and continue to work hard. I am so thankful for this experience to learn and grow. I know I am here for a reason. I think the things that we work the hardest for are what will mean the most in our lives. The church is true. I am loving the Book of Mormon! I am getting so much out of it as I have been using my study journal!!! it is great! Well i love you all! va iubesc!
cu mare drag! Sora Abby Polatis 

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Sora Dragu I LOVE HER!!