Elder Austin Whiting

So first off a big fat shoutout to my boy Elder Evaga for leaving to Korea today. Best wishes man! Also thank you so much to everyone for the b-day wishes I feel so blessed to know you all. Nothing big happened this week but just a bunch of little funny stories so I'll fill you in on what went down. So this week was our break week for english so we had a lot of extra time so we did some BLOCK KNOCKING. oh man. I don't know why I love it so much but I think it's so fun haha. There is always something so weird or random or scary that happens everytime.  Block Knocking things: -We ran into this guy and we said "hey we have a message about Jesus Christ if you would like to hear it"(or something like it) and then this guy just stares at us and then says "who killed hitler?" (???????) we were just like "uhhhhh" and then he went on this huge rant on how hitler was found in south america being held by the catholic church and how the titanic w...

The 1st transfer is officially over! I am now halfway through training and things are just swell here in Chisinau.  So as I mentioned last email we planned on taking a lil trip to Romania for a day and so yeah we were in Romania for all of last Tuesday. It was so fun and I learned a whole lot. I'll go over our trip. Romania Trip: We woke up at like  2:30  to catch a plane to Romania and so we had a short, beautiful flight over to Bucharest. (the sky was so pretty). We got there and the APs picked us up. We then went to the Mission office where we did a little bit of training which was super cool. I'll talk about it a little bit more later.  We then drove around the city and ate at this super cool lil side resturant called Luca's and it was so good. They had these lil hot dog things and stuffed pretzels and it was fantastic. We then visited the People's Palace which is the 2nd largest building in the world and it was decently sized, I've seen bigger. ...

Alright everyone it's been another wild & crazy fast week here in Chisinau. It's been 6 weeks so normally it would be the end of my first transfer but our schedule is a lil off so this transfer is 7 weeks instead of 6 weeks. WOOHOO lets get started. So first, MOLDOVA GOES OFF. Literally every week they have some huge event going off. This week it was Chisinau's birthday so they blocked off the whole center and it was a huge sha-bang. I included some great videos for ya. My favorite thing to ever happen on my Mission so far happened this week and it has to do with my email title. So basically we were going block knocking with elder rubitskii and dumbrell and we were deciding who would start at the top of the block and who would start at the bottom. Keep in mind that this is a soviet block and so there are very few lights and its kinda late at night so it looks something straight out of a horror zombie game. We were sketched out but basically our trainers were ref...

I can't believe it's  Monday  already....Time is flying here and I guess that means we're having some fun. Missions are the best and the hardest I can't even explain it. I'm loving it though. I'll try to remember all of the fun, crazy, and spiritual moments of this week because there are many. First of all, my dear old grandpa Elder Morgan left us this morning today. :'( So there's some Missionary vocab I need to go over. When you first arrive into the field the place where you first serve is your "birthplace" and your trainer is your "dad." So Elder Morgan trained my trainer so that makes him my grandpappy. So yeah just some random mission stuff here. It was sad to see him go because he's one of the funniest guys out here and he could always make us laugh. He has a really strong testimony too so I'm excited to see how he'll do post-mish. ripip Chisinau is always going off on something so last week was the Chisinau...

Alright everyone it has been another AMAZING week in Chisinau and wow I cant believe its already another pday. The weeks are flying here idk whats going on. Also the keyboard Im on right now has some romanian settings to it so forgive me for all the grammar mistakes. Its not me...its the keyboard. I dont know where to even begin but I guess Ill start with the title. So we went to a bookstore the other day and I was looking for this one book to help me with Russian and I found HARRY POTTER IN RUSSIAN. YES. It was the greatest and saddest moment of my life because it had the sickest art covers and it was SO CHEAP. (crying bc I cant buy them). Funny thing is that harry potter in Russian is actually Gary Potter for some reason. Hahaha I cant wait to read it someday. This week we did a lot of service  on wednesday . A lot. As in the whole day we did service. Theres this volleyball court that we play on but theres a short steep hill you have to go up and down and theres these rea...