Goodbye Elder Wykoff & Sora Holeman

Transfer day is always exciting but not usually a surprise for the missionaries that are in Moldova. Since they are only allowed to stay in Moldova 90 days they know exactly when they are being transfered. We will miss Sister Holeman and Elder Wykoff because they are excellent servants of God. Sora Olson was going to be without a companion for 2 days so she hung out with us. We took her to our apt and she was rather "impressed" with our 'world famous' pink kitchen!

Sora Olson tagged along with us for an all day trip to southern Moldova. First we site monitored Slobozia Mare's water project. She learned more about villages getting water than I think she really wanted to know. Then we went to do an initial visit with the mayor of Taraclia to get him started on the engineering study so his village can get clean water. The mayor took us to his home and we ate with his family. They were awesome! They loaded us up with fresh apples from their tree by the front door and sent us on our way. While there Sora Olson really wanted to get a photo taken of her with one of the many geese. We stopped several times and try as she may she never could catch one. She had a great photo on top of the village entrance sign to the village called Brinza. She was so tickled that the village name translated is "cheese". How would you like to be from the village of cheese?

"Here goosie, Here goosie..."

See how they run...

Sister Olson is a terrible goose catcher!

Then we drove a couple more hours to meet with Maria about helping her with her community facility for the disabled. She and her son met with us and showed us where they want help creating a laundryroom. Sora Olson was part of it all and really saw how much we have to work at our mission. We love Sora Olson-she is one of the hardest working missionaries who has a knack for making people comfortable and loving her. Her companion, Sister Wilson arrived at 2:00am. She is from Australia so it is fun to listen to her Romanian with an Auzzie accent!