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Two and a half more weeks. Ok, so this week was super eventful. So much fun stuff happened. Stephen agreed to be baptized, but he is worried about what his Orthodox parents will say. We are trying to help him understand that if he puts his faith in Christ all things are possible, and Christ helps his children accomplish his commandments. So YAY for us.

One of our teachers, Fratele Frandsen ripped his clacival out of his shoulder girdle in a motorcycle accident. That hurts. But, he still comes to class to teach us.

Let's see...Our Zone President told us our success is based on how many baptisms we get, and we shouldn't take no for an answer. Apparently, Romania also has only 1000 members and was under the Soviet Union (of course us cultured individuals know that Ceaucescu [spell check WIN] ruled Romania as it's own communist country, and that there are about 3000 members in Romania, but those statistics don't matter, and all those missionaries who have dedicated two years before us did absolutely nothing and failed their missions because they weren't baptizing thousands of people) ...breathe...

Tuesday was fun!

Neil L Anderson came and spoke to us for devotional. It was brilliant of course. He gave us 10 things that Prez Monson would have told us if he were there.Also, we sang Happy Birthday to Prez Monson (well, a picture of him anyway.) Speaking of his birthday, we convinced our teacher Saturday evening to listen to Prez Monson's birthday celebration broadcast. That was a great break.

I wrote all the names on paper Romanian Flags for the new district that arrived wednesday. 11 elders and 1 sister, Sora MacDonald. She is now technically companions with Syster Chesley, only because they need to have her with one other sister in the system, but we are more of a group of 4, since they can't really drop eachother off places, unless all the elders met somewhere to pick both of them up. She's pretty great, so hopefully I'll have good stories to tell. She did say she would go to the morning workout classes for sisters, which means I get to go running in the morning again.

The bookstore here also got a shipment of mini Preach My Gospels (English), so that's great. You can order them online too. I wish they would make Romanian ones.

This week we started teaching eachother's companionships as investigators, so that is cool. It's good practice to know what we should learn to say, and good ways to interact with investigators. It also helps us better understand who our investigators are and how they feel as they come to a knowledge of Christ. I think this is where converts have a great advantage over those who were born into the church. I think that's it, but that's not saying much.

Last night Sora MacDonald said somthing and I thought she was speaking another language besides English. I'm losing my mind!