Adventures of Romania

Strength comes from pressure I have been thinking about this process for a while and am convinced that there is a lot that can be learned.  As the fruit is placed into the press and squeezed beyond recognition it releases the best it has to offer, the juice.  Once the straining is over, the dross rises to the top where it can be removed.  As the process settles, the result is the pure juice of the vine called "MUST" (pronounced moost).  Now, what's the lesson here?  We are much like the fruit.  In life we feel squeezed by trials, struggles and temptations, many of which are beyond our control.  But as we endure the extreme pressure our impurities are separated and float to the top to be removed by One from above.  And in the end, we come out in our sweetest and purest form.  This is a "MUST"! There is strength when we gather as saints.  Dan and Mihai (center) both received the Melchizedek priesthood with the help of President Costi Darie...

  Faith grows from a single seed! The Mall de plante și ghivece den București (plant and pot mall in Bucharest).  The outside of the building is completely covered with 100% natural plants.  It's pretty cool.  We missed the peak of the bloom, but it is still magnificent.  It's awesome to see how tiny seeds can grow so completely, given the proper nourishment and light. Have you ever wondered the reach of a single seed?  Alma, an ancient prophet said it this way, "Now, we will compare the word unto a seed. Now, if ye give place, that a seed may be planted in your heart, behold, if it be a true seed, or a good seed, if ye do not cast it out by your unbelief, that ye will resist the Spirit of the Lord, behold, it will begin to swell within your breasts; and when you feel these swelling motions, ye will begin to say within yourselves—It must needs be that this is a good seed, or that the word is good, for it beginneth to enlarge my soul; yea, it beginneth to en...