Hello everyone I hope you had a great week. My week was what the Russians call крута. Also probably the busiest week of my life. Got some fun stuff from this last week so we'll see if I can remember everything. davaiy 

So funny story... On tuesday we had this super important skype meeting at 12 that we had to be to so at like 10:45 we hop on a maxi taxi. We knew where the maxi taxi route started and we knew that it ended right where we needed to be so were like "chill this will be fine, we have like an hour and we can study on the way" hahahah so naiive. So after driving the wrong way for like 45 minutes we realised that we made a mistake and that the maxi taxi wasn't turning around for a while. We asked him when we would be at the end and he laughed at us and told us it would be a while so he basically kicked us out. At this point we weren't even sure if we were in Chisinau so we hopped on a random bus that took us back to center. We then proceeded to book it to the office.I'm not sure how but we turned a 30 minute walk into a 5 minute run. blessingsonblessingsonblessings. So we made the zone call with about 30 seconds to spare. 

The next rad thing that happened this week is I am now an admin for the church facebook page in Moldova so if you occasionally see that I am on FB don't be alarmed. We've been trying to find people to teach and it's surprisingly more work than you would think lol. Also we got cleared to make memes but I think that the Church's version of memes is much different from the world's version of memes. Which I guess is a good thing. It's just a cool picture with some words on it. You already know I will be boosting the FB stats here in MD baby.

We had Zone Conference this week which was super super хорошо. President Hettinger is a homie and a spiritual giant. He spoke about tightening up our work here and he said the exact things that I think we need here. So my motto has been tight tight tight because we can always be doing something better with our time and always be working hard. 

We went and tried to meet up with Boris again but his wife said he wasn't дома even though we were pretty sure he was дома. We'll get him this next week.

I've only fallen once on the ice so far so I'm pretty proud of myself. I've had some clutch saves. 

Oh yeah I just remembered that we met with this chinese guy named Mao last night and he's probably my new favorite person. He literally talks to everyone and he wants to be friends with everyone. When we gave him a chinese book of mormon he hugged us haha. He loves Romanian and hates Russian (the irony) so that's fun. 

Basically that's about it but we've been working like crazy out here. Our schedules are packed here and we are meeting with people pretty much all day every day. It's the best feeling in the world. I absolutely love Missionary work and I love the people here. 

Hebrews 11 is one of the coolest chapters about faith I've read and I can't believe I can't remember reading it. It gives tons of examples about people who did amazing things through faith. Look it up & read it right now. 

That's all folks, love ya























-Старейшина Уайтинг

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