Hey Mom and Dad,
It was weird not getting an email from you this week...but at least you had Kelly write. It sounds like you had a good time in California before you headed off on your cruise. You will have to feel me in on everything when you get home.
Let's see... this week we had transfers. So since we have to make sure no one travels alone I got some awesome travel plans haha. I left my apartment in Ruse around 5:30 am and headed off to Varna, then went from Varna to Burgas, then from Burgas to Sofia. By the time I got in to Sofia it was 10pm. I stayed the night there and then the next morning took a bus and went to Blagoevgrad. Blagoevgrad is a pretty small city, surrounded in mountains. It is pretty. I am now serving with Sister Bingham. She is from Leola, Utah which is apparently a very small town. Things are going well here, just trying to get adjusted to everything.
On Thursday I found out that I needed to give a talk in sacrament meeting. Apparently the Branch President here always uses the missionaries to speak...especially the "older" missionaries. So I will probably be speaking a lot here in this branch. My talk went well I didn't feel very nervous at all. I based my talk off of one of the General conference talks. The title of the talk is "Sacrifice" by Dallin H. Oaks. I talked about how we need to be making little sacrifices everyday; that is part of being a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. I used examples from the Bible, The Book of Mormon and my own life. Too say the least I think it went well. Maybe by the end of this transfer I will be a better public speaker...in Bulgarian.
We have a lot of work to do in this Branch because it is at the point where traditions have started to influence things and people say, "well we do things differently in Blagoevgrad.." So us as missionaries need to try and change things up a bit. The people here are pretty nice and friendly. Blagoevgrad is known as the "University town" there are two American University's here. You have to pretty much speak really good English to be able to go there. So we end up meeting many people who speak English.
The Elders are really nice. Elder Garrett has been her for a little over a year and he is from Highland, Utah. Elder Killpack has been in Bulgaria for almost a week and he is from Idaho Falls, Idaho. They are both great and we all want to work as hard as we can. Later today we are going to the "zoo" and to go play tennis! I am really excited. However, the zoo here is free and from what I've heard it's nothing like a normal zoo... I will take pictures.
Well that's about all I can think of. I really miss the people in Ruse. It's so hard to leave cities. I know that things will be great here as well. I hope you all have a great week! I love you.
Love,
Sister Farnsworth
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