This weekend was quite an experience. On Friday night, September 26, our office elders, Elder McBride and Elder Stromberg took Joshua and me to the train station. We were traveling through the night to Timisoara to meet President Lundberg and the assistants who had been on zone conference tour for three days. We were too late to get a ticket on the sleeper train, so the elders bought us tickets on another part of the train. While getting on that train, about 10 gypsy women crowded in ahead of us. They then pushed their way into a compartment of four seats where two Romanian girls were putting their luggage on the shelves above them. All the ladies crowded into this small compartment and then we heard screaming. After a minute or so, the women came out and then crowded around Elder McBride. They unzipped his coat pockets (which he had several) and tried to steal from him. Elder Stromberg and another man came and they all tried to push the women away and tell them to leave. Finally, they left the train. Fortunately, Elder McBride's money and cell phone were on the inside of his coat and they got nothing. I went back and talked to the two Romanian girls in their compartment who were shaking and scared. The gypsy women had all packed in around them so they couldn't move, and had grabbed their bags, wallet, can cell phones. When the girls started screaming, the women left. They dropped the items before going. One of the women was carrying a baby.
Joshua was very intrigued with all this excitement. He couldn't sleep for quite a while, but finally crashed around midnight. However, at 4:30 am, he woke up and was ready to go. However, we didn't get to Timisoara until a little after 8am. The assistants took us to the hotel and we got cleaned up and went to zone conference.
It was great to see the missionaries. They are all so wonderful. Zone conference is always uplifting and motivating. I was able to go later that day with Sora Larsen to visit one of her new investigators. We had a great time.
Sora Larsen and Sora Benson
Elder Sorensen, Elder Sandberg, Elder Sumbot, Elder Woodard, Sora Garff
The Zone
Sora Ertel and Sora Garff
1 comment:
Wow what excitement! From now on make sure you get the 1st class sleeper. I didn't sleep but at least we felt safe for the 12 hours trips we took from Arad to Bucharest.
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