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Remember the little stuffed animals that the Humanitarian Project put out for us to make and send to countries like Romania for hospitals and orphanages? YES, our YSA's are making and stuffing them as a service project and they love it. And we are so grateful to have access to a sewing machine. These animals have been a good source with our Public Affairs as we took some to the Minister of Health to get his approval and asked him where they were most needed. He was very receptive and said he would find the very best place for them and we could deliver them as a group.
On Saturdays the YSA have Institute and we provide them with dinner. We usually cook for 18-20 and Elder Mc is well loved for his McFabulous food. Many around here call him Elder McFabulous. He goes all out in making such things as carmel corn, white chocolate popcorn, cookies, cakes and carmel apples and other goodies for FHE and othere activities.
We even got to put on a reception for one of our members complete with food, decorations and decorated wedding cake. All this is quite a challenge with using public transportation or walking with our cart to obtain product. The local watermelon are soooo good and yet so heavy to carry home.
We recently spent two days in Brasov with another senior couple checking out interesting sites to see and experience as we are planning our Senior Conference for October. We got our grand tour of Castle Braun which is widely known as Dracula's Castle. It is a delightful Castle that you can self guide through thus exploring a variety of "secret" places. It is know as Dracula's Castle because of the Irish writer, Bram Stoker, who wrote the novels using the character he created as Dracula in the setting of Braun Castle using Transylvania area of Romania.
We visited Rasnov Fortress (1600's), just fascinating, Prejmar Fortified Church (1700's), and rode the tram to the top of the mountain for a spectacular view of the city. The city in the 1500's was surrounded by walls and citadels; one of the entry gates called Catherine's Gate is said to have been the inspiration for Disney's famous logo castle. You will see the similarities. Rope street is the narrowest street in Europe; 1.3 M wide and 83 M long. We found at the end of a long day a nice restaurant in city plaza and enjoyed a refreshing glass of homemade lemonade before eating dinner.
Amongst all the activities, we also have been meeting with presidents and rectors of universities to offer them no cost lectures from some of our "associates" (church members) who live here. These include Pres. Hill; former Dean of Marriott School of Business (BYU); Tom Holst, Director of Chevron for Europe, Gary Spooner, Ford Motor in Country Director and two Embassy executives.
They have been very pleased that we would make the offer and we have agreements out to several of them for the school year 2012-2013.
Our association with the Secretary of State continues on a very positive track. We delivered the promised burrito to his office clearing all the security. On his way to the airport leaving for the United States, he called to thank us and said it was the best burrito he had ever eaten. He will be meeting with the Minister of the Interior this week to set up a meeting for us to discuss the digitizing by the church of Romanian birth and death records. We have been fasting and praying for this to come about as it has been shut down at lower levels of government by influential "un named" churches. We have felt the hand of the Lord in moving us in all of these directions.
We feel your love and support and you as you can see from the pic, our frig looks about the same as it does at home--Thank You McFadde grandchildren for the pictures. And a giant THANK YOU for all the CARE packages that surprized and delighted us. It takes a long time for them to get here, but we really REALLY appreciate them.
Va iubim si ladevedere,
Elder and Sora McFadden
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