Another week has gone by, but it wasn't one of the best.
It was an amazing week the first 2 days. We contacted hard and got to
do another service project in little village named Cimişeni. We helped a
friend pick some more grapes, because that's
what people here do. It was very fun however, because all I had to do
was carry the buckets of grapes to a trailer and dump. However they can
pick so fast and so I had to start running. They got mad at me for
working too hard. (Btw, when elder Uhctdorf was
talking about hobbit villages and their simple, easy lives, it pretty
much describes moldovans).
So anyway we ate like 3 meals in about 3
hours, and it was placinte, goose, and compot. And yes I did get a goose
foot. I got to talk to all the people working
in the fields about everything, and they just loved us but did think we
were strange for not getting a Moldovan wife. However bad thing, we
used a community cup, used by about 20 people for dirty water. We will
go more into this later.
The next day we did an exchange which was good.
The next day when I got back with my companion, we were
just about to fall asleep when we heard a bomb go off in our house. But a
different type of bomb. We rushed into the kitchen where he sound had
come from, to see that our bottle of grape
juice our investigator had given us blew up. It had fermented and
expanded, and then we ended up with half juice half wine all over our
apartment.
After cleaning that mess up until midnight, we went to
bed, only for community cup (remember from the service project) came
back to haunt us. We vomited all night and the next day. I also got a
fever after the vomiting so that was no fun at all.
Sunday we felt good enough to go outside a little, and
we watched conference. However contacting was interesting because it was
wine day or wine weekend. Everyone was drunk. However it did look like
good food, and let me tell you I think that
wine day is the most beloved holiday in Moldova. Let's just leave it at
that.
So, a great week, but also a horrible week for
missionary work. However I do have some investigators and Moldovan
friends that were more than glad to give me medical advice for sickness.
But after hearing it there was no way I was going to
follow any of it. Lets just say that putting dill and salt in water and
then putting your feet into it does not work for stomach pains.
As for a spiritual thought, I really liked what the
apostles had to say about choosing Christ to be happy. We cannot control
how our life plays out in many ways. We cannot choose how to be blessed,
but as my mother was telling me, we must receive
and accept blessings. We might not get blessed the way we think we
should, but maybe that just means we haven't quite aligned our will with what God wants for us. Maybe we
won't even be blessed with some blessings until he next life. A simple way to recognize
blessings is look for he obvious. For example, if we pay tithing, we
will have temples and churches. Its almost too easy to see. If we
don't drink coffee, we will not become dependent or addicted and also we will have saved extra
$20 a week. Think of all the blessings you
will have after a year of saving. That's like 1040 blessings! I could go
on, but every action has consequences, so let's make sure that when we
are keeping our covenants with God, we recognize and appreciate at least the most obvious blessingsin our lives from making those actions. We can act and then recognize blessings. Blessings aren't just magic they are a consequence.
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