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11 February 2013

Ceau,
I am writing you today from Bucaresti. The last week in Sibiu was a bitter sweet one. We were able to meet every other day with Florina. She is the cuttest lady and her daughter is wonderful. She loves the gospel. She wants to learn all she can. She wants to be baptized, but she knows she needs to correct a few things in her life before she can make that commitment with God. I am constantly in wonder at how the Lord prepares people for the gospel.
Sora Zimmerman and I safely made it here last night after spending Sunday in Ploiesti. It was a wonderful experience. There were about 70 people or more at church, and it is actually held in a capela (building) and not a villa. I was not used to that seeing as the biggest congregation I have participated in since leaving the MTC has been about 20. However, the greatest things I realized as I was able to bear my dying testimony is that no matter where we are, in a 5 member branch who meets in a house or a 200+ member ward, weather you know the people that are sitting next to you or not, the spirit is the same and can be felt by those who are there. There are so many people here in this beautiful country that are without the gospel, but I have so much hope and faith that in the future the work will move forward and many will be able to feel of the spirit that comes from the gospel. I am so thankful to my Heavenly Father that he has given me this opportunity to be spend 18 months as one of his servants and to serve his children here in Romania.
I will keep this short and end with a verse from 2 John 1:12
"Having many things to write unto you, I would not write with paper and ink: but I trust to come unto you, and speak face to face, that our joy may be full."
Va Iubesc,
Sora Remsberg

4 February 2013

Ceau!
This will be my last letter home from Sibiu, Romania. Next week I will be in Bucaresti for exit interviews with President Hill and preparing to fly home. I can't believe how fast it is coming. I'm not quite sure yet if I will have time to go to the internet, so we will see.
This week started off really slow, but ended wonderfully. I am so blessed to be here and to teach and be taught by the spirit, members, investigators and people we meet on the street. Florina was at church again this week and she even brought her 12 year old daughter, Denisa, with her. We were able to watch the Restoration DVD with them after church and it was just a wonderful experience. Everytime I watch that short film, the spirit reconfirms to me that Joseph Smith really did see God the Father and Jesus Christ and that through him God's church was once again restored to the earth in it's fullness and the authority of God was brought back upon the earth.
This week I have studies a lot out of 2 Nephi 4. I love what a strong and spiritual man Nephi was, but at the same time so humble and wanting to do the Lord's will and to shake himself of all his sins. I love what he says in verses 20 and 21.

20 My God hath been my asupport; he hath led me through minebafflictions in the wilderness; and he hath preserved me upon the waters of the great deep.
21 He hath filled me with his alove, even unto the bconsuming of my flesh.

I know that the Lord does support each and everyone of us through our trials and he will fill us with a love and a peace that we cannot find anywhere else as we turn to him and ask for his help through prayer. I have seen this in our work each day and in the lives of those we work with.
Va iubesc,
Sora Remsberg