Cookies. McDonald's and Memories!!

The last week and a half has been very interesting. I spent 3 days of it cleaning and ironing everything I own to make sure I won't get scabies again. As of now I still have the bumps from where the scabies are but underneath are dead bugs...gross! I was not allowed to go to work for 4 days which was killer. I was so bored! In that time I got a lot of schoolwork done and caught up on all my t.v. series that I have been missing:) I also learned something that service really does bring something to special into your life that can not even really be described in words. In those 4 days that I was not allowed to go work I found reasons to be depressed, and thus an excuse to eat a lot, and was not even sure why. I found myself thinking about home way too much. On saturday I decided to go to the hospital and play with some of the kids there that don't have families. It was amazing how just three hours of serving others brought to me so much joy and happiness that I was on a high the rest of the day and into Sunday. I cannot imagine the withdrawals I will be going through when I come home. I even got a lil taste of what it is going to be like when these kids are not a part of my life anymore and man I am going to miss them.

Oh, and I made some really good friends with this one room in the Hospital. A boy named Paradu is from the orphanage for the older kids and had to have half of his leg amputated (the only thing I could understand when I asked why was something about bad blood). Anyway, he is a cute kid and there are about 8 other boys in that room and they are an interesting crowd. For an 1 1/2 I play card games, color, throw balls around and try to talk to them in Romanian. Today, however, they asked me to teach them English, that was fun.

On Sunday I got to teach primary! Sister Doina's family came and right after Sacrament Meeting her two kids, Pati and Stefan, ran up and gave me a huge hug. It was the funnest two hours ever! We sang songs, played Bula Bula, hang man, read stories from the Book of Mormon, colored and played with cars. Pretty much out here I just get to be a kid again and it is so much fun! I love having an imagination again and just loving everything about life. For my second calling I have been preparing and getting ready for the Branch Halloween Party this friday. I am excited for it and I hope it will be really successful.


At Dancu today I saw a lot of progress with the kids. We are working a lot with them on their counting and hand eye coordination and it has been great. I will fill you in more when I need to write another novel cuz I think this one is long enough!


Closest I can get to a good burger...and after 10 years of refusing to eat here the whole living in a 2nd world country made me give in!

Mom!! Thank you for the cookies! Look at that smile.....it says it all!