Elder Austin Whiting

Okay so to start out we actually didn't flood the church but I had to make my email sound more interesting. But yeah the church was actually flooded this week so I'll explain more on that. Also why do we spell "flood" with 2 o'? I'm just thinking about this and it looks so weird to me.......Russian is messing with my mind. Okay so it was a pretty normal week so I don't have much to report but I have a few interesting things that happened this week and also some cutural things that I think are funny. I accidentally lost my companion last P-day hahah. We got onto the most crammed trolleybus ever. (when you think they can't fit any more people someone will shove their way in). And so we were headed home and I could've sworn there were more stops but there wasn't and so my companion got off and I didn't. So I got off on the next stop and walked back by myself(which normally would sound really dumb but being a missionary it felt so weird...

2nd Week in Moldova Hey hey hey everyone welcome to the next update of Elder Whiting. It's been another wild one here in Chisinau and so I'll get right to it. So first of all to explain sidewalks, so apparently sidewalks here are free game to park?? It's whack but it's so funny. There's like so parking here so everyone just parks and drives on the sidewalks all of the time. Another funny thing I learned. In Russian there is no difference between a dove and a pigeon. Like it's the same word. And in the bible it talks about how the holy ghost descended in the form of a dove so basically what I'm getting to is everyone thinks that pigeons here are like sacred animals so they're everywhere. And nobody messes with them so the pigeons here will just walk right by you. Basically we still don't really have any investigators so we spent most of our time contacting. We found this one guy and we taught him a lesson this week. MY FIRST LESSON WO...

1st Week in Moldova Ohhhhhhhh boy. Oh boy I can't even describe to you how wild this week has been. This has by far been the most life changing, crazy, difficult, fun, amazing, confusing and emphasis again on craziest week of my life. Let's take this to the beginning Okay so I don't even really remember the MTC anymore lol I feel like I've been here for a month. Not really but yeah basically I said goodbye to my best buddies and it was all bittersweet. We left at  4:45  in the morning and I think that was actually the most emotional I've gotten about being away from home. I was tearing up a little bit as we were passing the exit with the innout because ya know that's my hometown. So we got to the airport and I saw the most beautiful thing in the world. CAFE RIO. Oh man was that amazing after MTC food haha. I called the fam back home and we hopped on a plane to minnesota and I slepted the whole time. We landed in Minnesota and had a 6 hour layover there....

Week 8 (Last week in MTC) To start things off this is MY LAST MTC EMAIL. Seriously this completely flew by. I can't believe I'm already almost out of here. A lot happened this week so I'll try to remember what I can.  First of all, we got FLIGHT PLANS this last friday. So crazy. I was almost more excited for flight plans than I was getting my call (not really. not even close actually but I was excited to say the least). So we (Elder Martindale, Elder Dumbrell, and I) leave the Mtc at  4:45 AM   on monday . We fly from Slc to Minnesota where we'll have a 5 hour layover, then Minnesota to Amsterdam. Yes. Amsterdam. And yes kate I will be singing Amsterdam by ID the whole time. We sadly only have a 1 hour layover there and then we go to Romania. We'll get to Romania around  1:00 PM  their time. It's about 13 hours of straight flying. I've never been more excited. Second important thing of the week was that we took a language assessment a week ago a...

Week 7 Alright alright alright. Another week has flown by here in the MTC and I'm going to be honest with you. Not much really happened this week. Well at lot happened but it's pretty much the same stuff that we do every week so I'll try to remember as much as I can. We got 47 new people this week and as ZLs we're in charge of helping all of them. During wednesday night I just gave a speech to them on why we have to change our language here and that we can't say 'guys' or 'dude' anymore, then literally all of the ZLs said 'guys' probably 50 times over the next hour. It was so embarrassing haha. Then we got to meet them all and there are some really cool Missionaries that came in. We got the Estonians, Lithuanians, Latvians, Ukrainians, and more Russians. One of the Lithuanians is an Elder that I played lacrosse with at BYU lax camp and he's one of the best goalies I've seen so that was really cool. Another Russian is the youn...