The Finest Example of Provident Living

Dr.Vera is the neighbor to the left of Olesea's family's new home. She is representing the seller in the sale of Olesea's home. She is one of the most AMAZING women we have ever met. She is the greatest example of the principal of provident living we have ever seen. She is the doctor for the village-the station wagon ambulance was parked in front of her home when we arrived. She is a widow of 4 years now and has more energy than all of my 5 children AND 10 grandchildren put together!

Dr. Vera lives on muddy roads in a village about an hour from the capital city of Chisinau. She has a house with a root cellar that is full of her bottled compote and vegetables of every kind. She had bags of her homegrown potatoes, onions, carrots plus she had two huge barrels of her homemade wine (important to Moldovans even if not to us LDS). In her yard she had a pig that she will slaugher herself (WHAT A WOMAN!!)on April 20th for Easter and share with her children's families. She has chickens too. Other animals were out to pasture somewhere out of sight. Everything is so neat and clean and orderly-even the firewood and kindling crib. Amazing. She had a grape vineyard for harvesting to sell, fruit trees, and vegetable gardens. Dr Vera has an impressive "summer kitchen" for baking her bread and bottling her fruit in. She has her own huge wagon too. The house is neat and large enough to entertain or have her family over for meals.

The electricity in the village was out when we were there but that didn't slow her down at all. She went to the summer kitchen and cooked us up some fresh eggs on the propane gas cook stove, sliced her homemade sheep cheese and bread then poured us some compote to drink. Delicious! We Latter Day Saints could learn many lessons from this incredible woman on how to work and live providently!

Dr. Vera, Lidia, and Galina. Galina lives on the othe side of Olesea's new home.

Dr. Vera "officially" receiving $2,000 payment for Olesea's home.

Dr.Vera's vineyard and some fruit trees in the winter.

Chicken house with the kindling crib attached.

The pig that she will slaughter herself for Easter.

She didn't tell me but I think his name must be Wilber.

Wash sink just outside the animal yard gate and near the summer kitchen.

Huge wagon in her driveway. Not sure how many ways she uses it!

She carried these bottles up from the cellar and gave 3 to us to take home.

We drank the 4th with her, Lidia, and Galina. Yummm!

Compote- drink the juice and eat the fruit. A Moldovan favorite.

She served us her homemade sheep cheese, fresh eggs, homemade bread, & compote.

This is the corner she lives on. The roads were too muddy to for our car to go further.