Well my friends I must say I can now check being contacted by the Jehovah's Witnesses off my bucket list. They came to our door on Tuesday. Super nice older ladies. To be honest that run in made us 10 minutes late getting out the door in the morning (well I guess technically we were in the doorway) but their video they showed us was very interesting. I kept waiting for them to notice our name tags but they never did. Maybe we need bigger tags lol. We didn't really know how to handle it, so now we have several JW pamphlets and business cards in our apartment, and they say they will come back next week. It was only a matter of time though...we see the JWs every day here on the streets, and the Mormons have become good friends with them. In fact sometimes we contact right next to them- respectfully of course. :)
Good news: President has been really stressing creative contacting here in the mission this next transfer, and the Chisinau Zone is so ready for that! We ordered new street banners, we are going to carol in the winter, some elder had some idea about using popping balloons or something, and we are going to contact the pants off of Chisinau these next few months. SO excited!! Honestly contacting as a Zone is so effective and so fun and brings so much energy! (even if sometimes we look ridiculous).
MIRACLES: One super cool experience this week for Sora D and I was meeting Tania and her family! We were going and trying to find all the less actives on the branch list (it's honestly like a detective/scavenger hunt type thing here...Somehow people, and even houses, disappear off the face of the planet) and we were looking for one lady who lived in the far outskirts of the Botanica sector. We asked everyone how to get to this one neighborhood and no one knew. Just before we were going to give up, we find the developer who apparently built that area on the opposite side of the city who was going in that direction. Wow crazy coincidence. Then...we literally walked forever and couldn't find the right street. Literally right when we were going to turn around, we found it. Then...we found the house but no one seemed to be home. We were going to leave a note, but just before we left, Tania came out!! She said she was one of the first members here to be baptized in Chisinau, and she hasn't been to church with her three kids in years. But she misses church!! She says church brought her so much happiness and that she wants to come back! So we will be working with her and we are so excited! Anyways, I know that God helped us find her, and that we were able to meet her because we had faith and didn't give up! So many moments we were going to turn back, but then MIRACLES! Super cool, and we are very excited. :)
Low point of the week: I got pooped on by a bird for the first time in my life. Had to happen at some point.
High point of the week: WE FOUND MOLDOVAN COSTCO!!! It's called Metro and we now have a membership card (it was free yay). Honestly though it's a gold mine and so much cheaper to buy things in bulk. To be honest it's more like Costco, SuperTarget, and HomeDepot all combined in one.
Anyways this email is very long, but this week was very exciting. I love you all and I love hearing from you! I hope you all are safe with the hurricanes going on and such. And if anyone would like to update me on the Utes this football season, I would be forever grateful.
With Love,
Sora Ebert
Very sorry, I forgot to take pics this week. But we took this cool photo of our street board while contacting (just so you know, we moved to a place with more people to contact lol)
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