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Apostle, Birthday and Wheelchairs

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Come Listen to a Prophet's Voice Elder Dale G. Renlund of the Quorum of Twelve Apostles along with his wife Ruth and Elder Jack Gerard of the Europe Central Area Presidency and his wife Claudette visited Romania.  We had a District Conference where over 600 church members from around the country came together.  We also had the opportunity as a mission to spend a few hours with them the following day.  What a wonderful Spirit filled experience. We stopped by the Mănăstirea Hadâmbu on our way to Bucharest.  Another beautiful structure.  Anticipating a very old church it appeared not that old.  As we were walking around after going inside, we saw the very old wall with an opening.  Of course we must go through.  Low and behold we found the old church! Built in  1659.  I tried the door but couldn't get it open.  As I was standing there in awe, the door opened and someone came out.  The door was so heavy that I wasn't giving it what...

Trauma, visits and hearts

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New arrivals Surori Baker and Later, Vărstnici Anderson, Roberts, White, Christensen We have had another round of transfers which brought us three new faces.  Sora Baker (3rd from left) joined Sora Later, Vârstnicul Anderson (3rd from right) joined Vârstnicul White and Vâstnicul Roberts (far right) joined Vârstnicul Christensen.  We are excited to have them for at least the next six weeks.  We are blessed beyond measure to have the opportunity to work alongside of them in this amazing work. You can draw your own conclusions as to what may have happened but suffice it to say the P-Day activity was cut a bit short and the next 13 hours were spent at the dentist (1 hour), taking X-rays (separate location-1 hour), ER (separate location-7 hours), CT scan (separate location-4 hours).  Bedtime curfew violated (2:30 a.m.).  Next day dentist (glue job-1 hour, root canals pending).  We won't mention names to protect the innocent, but the flat back pose might give it ...