Hey hey so I'll get right into it. Transfers were this week and so I'll let you know what happened. Sadly... the Dynamic Duo had to go so me and Elder Dumbrell won't be together anymore but there's good news: we're both staying in Balti. So basically we got two newbies coming into Balti with us so we're now going to run the show here and we'll see how that goes. I will be with Elder Walch (I actually served with him last transfer). He's a great missionary and he's so funny so I'm pumped to serve with him again, I love that guy. We have a Ukrainian to come and serve with Elder Dumbrell so we got a bunch of yung boiz serving here in Balti. 

We decided that I will be taking the worse apartment but I will have the car so -5 to comfort but +5 to transportation. Also funny/cool thing. so we're checking the transfer board and we couldn't find elder Solov'iov and then we suddenly found his name in Romania!! So he's been asking for this for a long time but he finally got his dream and now he will be learning Romanian. 

We are working with some amazing people here and we had a great lesson on the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the Spirit was so strong. We still have a lot of work here but we're trying our best!

My pride is officially back to normal because I decided to cook some stuff that I actually know how to cook....Pizza. So I made some bomb pizza this week and now I'm feeling that I'm on top of the world which means I'll be humbled this next week. I also make omelets every morning so by the time I get back I'll probably be on the show Chopped.

On Saturday we had an activity with the youth and so we went ice skating and then we made crepes together. It was so funny and I seriously love the youth here. Every week I love Balti more and more. 

Interesting things:
-In Russian the word for safety is безопасность which literally means "without danger" so than means in Russia there is no such thing as safety, just a lack of danger hahah
-Yesterday we got pulled over because APPARENTLY ITS ILLEGAL TO TURN RIGHT AT A STOP LIGHT HERE. I'm sorry I'm just very passionate about how dumb this rule is and so we got a fine for 450 lei which is like 25 dollars so nothing too bad just some dumb stuff. 
-President and Sister Hettinger came to Balti this sunday and gave some amazing talks as usual. I love them and I'm sad that they won't be in our new mission:'( but we had interviews with them and they're just the greatest.
-We've been saying my subject title a lot and it means "I'm very happy to be here" but we say it with an American accent and it just makes things 10x funnier

So I love being here and I've been very grateful to be where I am. I love having the Spirit with me and testifying to others here. It's the greatest feeling in the world and I wouldn't want to be anywhere else. I love Alma 38:12 right now because it sums up Missionary work PERFECTLY. Love ya

-Старейшина Уайтинг

Okay so I forgot some stuff. A girl in our branch, Olga, got her mission call!! She's going to the Kiev mission so she'll be in our same mission!!!! She's super excited and we're so happy for her. Also I finished a duck dynasty puzzle this week. And yeah that's pretty much it actually. Oh wait we also went to Sister evgenie's this last week and it was so cool. She lives on a farm far away from the church and it's a 20 minute walk just to get from the bus station to her house and she still comes to church. She's a serious inspiration to me. We went to her house and she cried while she was talking about her patriarchal blessing. It was super sweet. After that she fed us some Borsh but we have heard some horror stories about her cooking but it ended up being alright. So we survived. It was really amazing though. 
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