Dear Mom and Dad,
So to start off, bowling last Monday was so much fun! The bowling alley was not as bad as I expected. Probably because it is right by the American University here. Did I ever tell you that in this little city where I am serving there are 2 American Universities?! It is pretty cool, it reminds me of Rexburg. Just because there are quite a bit of college students everywhere. Oh and they have to speak really good English to go there. Anyway, so I have spoken with people all over the world in English. It is pretty funny when I go up to someone asking them a question in Bulgarian and they say "sorry, I don't speak Bulgarian" I get a big smile on my face and just think to myself.."perfect, because I speak English!"
Wow, that's great to hear that Dad did so well in bowling! Great way to start off the season.
It's also neat to hear that you participated in a service project! It sounds like you had a lot of fun participating in that. I wish I participated in more service opportunities back home. Oh well, I will have the opportunity when I am back!
So I went to Sofia last Tuesday for a little training thing. It was pretty fun seeing everyone and being enlightened on how to be even better. I checked the mail and I got a letter from Bishop Ricks! I was so surprised! It was so nice of him to write me a letter. I am going to attempt to write him back and send some hand letters. Hopefully they get there!
Lets see on Friday we had a "fun night" with the branch. It was pretty fun getting togather with some of the branch members. I love how much they love our American games. For example, they love the game "musical chairs" even they old people... ha ha it is pretty funny.
We taught some pretty good lessons this week about the Plan of Salvation. I love teaching others about this because it answers so many questions people have about their life. For the most part things went well and you could see the hope in their faces when I told them we will be able to live with our families forever with Heavenly father and Jesus Christ. There was one man we taught who kept saying how he wants to show us pics of what happens after death.... Anyway... ha ha. Things are good here and we are finding new people to teach all the time because sometimes people just start ignoring us and what not. But everything is good! Thanks for all your prayers.
OK so there was this one time this week when I was contacting on the street and this guy started talking to us and told me in my face that I don't know anything about Jesus. Oh man... let me tell you... I was pretty upset. Don't worry though, I kept myself calm. He kept going off saying other things that weren't the most nice... and I tried to explain some things that he was confused about, but he wouldn't listen. So I just bore my testimony with everything thing that I had and wish him a good evening. It felt so good to just testify with everything that I had. I knew that sharing my testimony was the only thing that I could say that he could not argue with. Anyway, it was a great moment.
Also, it started pouring down rain the other day when we weren't expecting it and we got soaked! It was pretty funny actually except it was freezing cold water! The past few days have been super wet. Normally it wouldn't be so bad but everything floods here so fast because they don't have a very good draining system. oh well, we just laugh about how soaked we get while contacting and when we get home we try to get warm!
Well I think that's about it for this week. I hope you have a great week!!! I love you so so much!
Love,
Sister Farnsworth
Monday, September 17, 2012
Monday, September 10, 2012
September 10th 2012
Hey Mom and Dad,
I will try and answer some of the questions you asked me. I am really close to Greece and Macedonia right now...maybe an hour away..? Not too sure. Pretty much all the food is the same all around the country; traditional Bulgarian food. No, Mary isn't the only young women in the branch, but the other one isn't as active. Mary is so strong! The branch here has maybe 30 people in it. It is really small and not too many people come. Hopefully that will change soon!
Glad to hear that you have some great classes and students to work with this year! I bet you are very busy all the time, but hopefully it will be less stressful with these classes! That's exciting that bowling starts! I'm sure it will be fun having Sister Ricks on the team again.
I am actually going bowling today! I found out that there is an old ghetto bowling place here, so we are going to try it out!
This week was really good and busy. We had quite a few lessons with some great people. We are hoping that they stay interested so we can keep meeting with them! Also this week, I was out contacting and met this guy from Portland, OR!! He is originally from Bulgaria and was a gymnast. He moved to Portland 20 years ago and works in Vancouver at Naedenov... you know that gymnastics place?! It was so crazy! What a small world that I happened to meet someone who is living there! It was fun having a conversation with him.
Also, this past Thursday was Bulgaria's Independence Day. So when we were out contacting there were quite a few news cameras out. We aren't really supposed to go around news cameras and stuff because of things that could somehow give us a bad image... so we avoided the scene. However, somehow a news reporter came up from behind me and started asking me questions! I didn't answer because I had to keep working... so who knows... I could have been on Bulgarian T.V. for a few seconds.
Other than that, this week we've been working a lot with members. trying to get them really strong and what not. I am starting to get to know these people well in this city, and want to help.
Oh yeah, yesterday at church the Relief Society President asked if I would give the lesson for Relief Society for that day because no one else had it. Oh man, I agreed and read the lesson and taught as I went. It's a little more difficult trying to translate as I go... but it is good for me haha. So yeah things are always fun, always gotta be ready for anything.
I hope you have a great week! I love you all so so much! Thanks for everything!
Love,
Sister Farnsworth
I will try and answer some of the questions you asked me. I am really close to Greece and Macedonia right now...maybe an hour away..? Not too sure. Pretty much all the food is the same all around the country; traditional Bulgarian food. No, Mary isn't the only young women in the branch, but the other one isn't as active. Mary is so strong! The branch here has maybe 30 people in it. It is really small and not too many people come. Hopefully that will change soon!
Glad to hear that you have some great classes and students to work with this year! I bet you are very busy all the time, but hopefully it will be less stressful with these classes! That's exciting that bowling starts! I'm sure it will be fun having Sister Ricks on the team again.
I am actually going bowling today! I found out that there is an old ghetto bowling place here, so we are going to try it out!
This week was really good and busy. We had quite a few lessons with some great people. We are hoping that they stay interested so we can keep meeting with them! Also this week, I was out contacting and met this guy from Portland, OR!! He is originally from Bulgaria and was a gymnast. He moved to Portland 20 years ago and works in Vancouver at Naedenov... you know that gymnastics place?! It was so crazy! What a small world that I happened to meet someone who is living there! It was fun having a conversation with him.
Also, this past Thursday was Bulgaria's Independence Day. So when we were out contacting there were quite a few news cameras out. We aren't really supposed to go around news cameras and stuff because of things that could somehow give us a bad image... so we avoided the scene. However, somehow a news reporter came up from behind me and started asking me questions! I didn't answer because I had to keep working... so who knows... I could have been on Bulgarian T.V. for a few seconds.
Other than that, this week we've been working a lot with members. trying to get them really strong and what not. I am starting to get to know these people well in this city, and want to help.
Oh yeah, yesterday at church the Relief Society President asked if I would give the lesson for Relief Society for that day because no one else had it. Oh man, I agreed and read the lesson and taught as I went. It's a little more difficult trying to translate as I go... but it is good for me haha. So yeah things are always fun, always gotta be ready for anything.
I hope you have a great week! I love you all so so much! Thanks for everything!
Love,
Sister Farnsworth
Monday, September 3, 2012
September 3rd 2012
Hey Mom and Dad,
Wow, sounds like you had a great vacation/cruise trip! I am so happy for you guys! You deserve a great time!
So, not too much happened with me this week. Just the same old stuff. Last pday we went to the "zoo"... oh man I think you would be appauled if you went to this Zoo. There was only around 15 animals total and they were all in these little cages! It was so sad. They looked so miserable. Then afterwards we played tennis on clay courts! I love playing on clay courts! It was so much fun! The Elders in my district are really good so it's fun to play against them! Today we are also going to play tennis with a girl from the ward. Her name is Mary and she is the cutest girl ever. She is 14 and has the strongest testimony in the whole Branch here. We are her Young Womens teachers. Everytime she says something you feel the spirit.
Yesterday we had testimony meeting. It was nice. After the President bore his testimony no one was going up. PLus we as missionaries try and have the members go up before we do so we usually wait to go if there is any time left. So we are sitting there and all of a sudden President of the branch say "Sister...Far...far...farnz..." They cannot say my name at all... ha ha I pointed to myself and he shook his head yes. They lady sitting next to me started laughing... I couldn't believe I was being called out... I just wasn't expecting it at all. Anyway, I bore my testimony and it was good. It was just kinda funny how it happened!
Yesterday we had testimony meeting. It was nice. After the President bore his testimony no one was going up. PLus we as missionaries try and have the members go up before we do so we usually wait to go if there is any time left. So we are sitting there and all of a sudden President of the branch say "Sister...Far...far...farnz..." They cannot say my name at all... ha ha I pointed to myself and he shook his head yes. They lady sitting next to me started laughing... I couldn't believe I was being called out... I just wasn't expecting it at all. Anyway, I bore my testimony and it was good. It was just kinda funny how it happened!
Another funny thing... Yesterday we went contacting with the Elders at this park with a trail(it's actually really pretty) we were asking anyone we saw. All of a sudden this guy probably in his 20's was riding on a bike coming towrds us (usually we don't stop people on bike because they are going so fast and they say no) I decided to try just because. So I say "Excuse me" really loud. Then the guy on his bike slammed on his brakes and stopped. I was so shocked! I told him who we were and what we wanted to teach him. He was interested and gave me his information! I couldn't believe it at all! Anyway... that was a pretty cool experience. Hopefully things go well with him.
Everything is going well here. I hope you all have a great week! Love you so much!
Love,
Sister Farnsworth
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