Transfer 7

TRANSFER 7

Amy and her boboaca (new missionary) Sora Cook on pday in front of the theater in Arad, Romania.

25 June 2012

Hi,

This week has been really fun. My new companions name is Sora Cook. She is from Sandy, Utah. She is the youngest of 8 children. She is a dancer, a hair dresser and she was going to University of Texas before her mission. I love her. I don't think I could have been blessed with a better companion to train. She speaks so well already and she has no fear. We are focusing a lot on English contacting because we will be starting again next week and we really are really hoping we can find new investigators through english. It's fun to train because she doesn't really know what she is doing yet and I get to show her. The hardest part is knowing that I will be a really big part at creating her habits on the mission and I want to make sure they are really good habits that allow her to be successful here.

Sorry, I don't have much to write because a lot of our week was filled with saying goodbye to a lot of people for Sora Schuld, then lots of traveling and then just getting Sora Cook settled in. Next week I will write so much more. Promise. However, here are some pictures. This is of the whole district and the other is when I met Sora Cook at President Hill's house last wednesday.

Va iubesc,

Sora Remsberg

18 June 2012

Ceau!

I would like to start by saying Happy Father's Day to all the fathers, especially to my dad! I am so lucky to have him and his example in my life.
I cannot believe it. It is the end of my 6th transfer. We will be heading down to Bucaresti tomorrow at 7pm with a sleeper train. My companion will be going to Cluj and I will be training! Can you believe it? I am super excited. Arad is such an awesome place to start your mission. I am excited to meet her. It seems just a couple weeks ago that I flew into Romania. I was so tired and so shocked about everything. Time just seems to go by so quickly. I now find it normal to not speak in English. I now find it normal to wear a skirt all day. I find it normal that there are tiny little pretzel stands all over the place. I find it normal that I ride in buses and trams all day. I find it normal that people stare at my nametag all day. I just love all the little things about Romania!
It has really started to warm up this last week. Summer has come. It stays light later and everyone is outside which makes it easier to find lots of people to talk to. We are meeting with a man from english class. He is so prepared for the gospel. He is married and has a 2 year old son. They have started coming to Family Home Evening. I can just see him as a Branch President in a couple of years.

This week we taught a lot from the Family Proclamation to the World. I forget how lucky we are to have modern day revelation and guidance from living prophets and apostles. What they teach us and what they do is exactly what Christ taught us when he was here. As the world continues to change I realize more and more how the gospel does not change. It was the same for Adam and Eve. It was the same for the prophets and people in the Bible, it was the same for those in the Book of Mormon and it is the same for us. We need to realign ourselves with the basic principles and doctrines of the church. It is easy to talk about rules or ideas or deep doctrine, but the gospel is simple. It is easy enough for even a child to understand. We must become as little children, meek and submissive, loving Heavenly Father and desiring to do his will.

Va Iubesc,

Sora Remsberg

4 June 2012

Ceau (pronounced Ciao)

This past week we had zone conference. I feel so uplifted and I feel like we received so much personal revelation and direction to help us become better missionaries and a better people. I know that President and Sora Hill are called of God to lead and guide this mission here in Romania and I am so blessed to have them here, as well as all the other missionaries that I get to serve with.

I will share with you one thing that President Hill told us all before the close of conference, I believe it can apply to anyone. He was asked by one of the zone leaders "What are the goals that you have for the missionaries here in Romania?" His response was comforting and not all too unexpected. He said "I want them to be worthy of the spirit at all times, to work hard, and by the end of their missions to become the missionaries they wanted to become." How simple. As I have had time to think about these three things I have really started to think about the missionary I want to become, or for a matter of fact, the person I want to become. We are all blessed with the gift of agency. No one is going to force us to do things that we don't want to or even force us to do the right thing. We decide our destinies. However, how much easier is it when we align our will with that of the Lord and do the simple things such as remaining worthy of the spirit, working hard and striving to become the people we want to become.

We are still working a lot with the less-active members in the branch and we have been given a lot of new materials to find other investigators through different methods. I am excited for this week! The gospel is a gift. It can solve any problem in our lives if we just let it.

Va Iubesc

Sora Remsberg

Ps. The picture is of the sisters in my zone at zone conference