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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.