Hello family!!!
How are you all doing? I hope moving is going well, Matt. Chad and Kellie, what have you been up to of late? Adam and Ashley, how are you? Mom, Dad, Erin, I just talked to you! Hooray!
Here's a bit of an update of life aici în România. This week was interesting-- there are so many ups and downs, but I think that the downs make the ups sweeter, and there is a lot to be learned from both. Sometimes it's just so hard to think about the struggles that these children go through, especially because I love them so much, and it just doesn't seem fair that such amazing children have such undesirable circumstances. When I forget to have an eternal perspective, there seems like a lot of reason for despair, and sometimes it seems like there's no hope. But I know that angels watch over the children that I work with, and though this life is not fair, I know that in the eternities, everything will be fair, through the Atonement.
On a bit of a lighter note, we visited the countryside last weekend in NW Romania, and it was SO beautiful! It was just one of those experiences that rekindled my love for life. It was so refreshing just to look around at the absolutely beautiful scenery, and the group of girls I went with was SO fun. We stayed in a traditional-style house in a small village, and it was just so quaint and beautiful in its simplicity. I will gladly share more of my pictures when I return home, but for the time being I'm just going to attach some of them to give you a taste for the beauty of the countryside and the fun that I had with my friends there.
Vă iubesc foarte mulţ!
Sara
P.S. Matt, I wish you could have been there to really capture the beauty of the countryside! These pictures just don't quite show how absolutely beautiful it was.
P.P.S. Explanation for pot tree-- there are three meanings: 1) it's tradition (not so deep here) 2) it means that there's a daughter living in the home who is ready to get married (because she has lots of pots!) 3) it just make sense (of course!) When you have too much stuff inside, you put it outside and hang it on a tree.
Hi Family!How are all of you doing? I hope that everything is going well for everyone! I miss and love you all!So, let's see... just an update on life here. It is good! I had a bit of a mid-semester rough spot, but things are definitely better now. I just love seeing my kids at the orphanage and hospital every day. It's been great forming personal relationships with each of the children and getting to the point where I know more about them and how to interact with them. It is so rewarding to watch them progress! (I can't wait to be a mother one day... it must be even more exciting when they're your own children!) I've been working on walking while holding on to only one hand with one of the toddlers, and the highlights of several of my days in the past two weeks have been smiles from a perfect 5-month-old baby whom I absolutely love. Some of my friends have accused me of being obsessed with a few of the kids, and one of my friends called me nebună (crazy) after I got really excited after a particularly adorable smile... let's just say it will be hard to leave them! But I'm not the only one who has plotted to steal one, two, or all of the kids and take them home in our suitcases since Romania doesn't allow international adoption. We've all become quite attached to them, and hope that we're able to impact their ability to form loving attachments with people, which is one of the great struggles of institutionalism.There continue to be ups and downs every day and throughout the week, but the ups are so sweet and just perfect sometimes that it makes the downs worth it. We have our mid-semester retreat starting tomorrow. We are traveling to Brasov, Romania, and I think it will be a good time to relax, reflect, and rejuvenate. I'll let you know how it goes when I get back!Love you all!Te pup! (yes, that's pronounced just like 'poop'. It means 'I kiss you,' which Romanians, like many Europeans, do as a form of greeting and farewell. The kissing, not the pooping :) Sorry, just thought I'd clarify. Gross. What a gross sense of humor I have sometimes. You'd think I have 3 older brothers or something. Seriously.)
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