Transfer time!

Well another six weeks have passed, and this time there are actually big changes. The transfer is here!

And I have to leave beautiful Sibiu! I have made so many friends here and learned so much. It will be hard to say goodbye after 6 months, but it is time for me to learn new things in a new city. I will be spending tonight and tomorrow cramming in as many goodbye lessons as we can. There are 6 people I really need to meet before I go, and I hope they all work out. I have to get all my packing done too. What is amazing is how much better this area is doing compared to when I arrived.  My first transfer in Sibiu we only had one or two investigators.

Oh, and my new city will be Galati (gah-LAHTS), on the banks of the Danube! I'm leaving Transylvania and heading east! And I will be serving with Elder F as zone leaders for the Romania East zone, covering Galati, Iasi, Bacau, and Constanta! I will finally get a chance to go back to my first area in Constanta!

But I am super excited for Galati. Elder W served there this summer and is telling me all about it. It is a small branch like Sibiu, and until last summer, had a missionary branch president. But there is now a Romanian branch president, and in August and September they had three baptisms, and the recent converts sound really cool. I think I will learn to love Galati quickly.

In Sibiu, Elder D will be staying and will be the new district leader, and there is no one I would trust more with the job. Big things are about to happen here. The sisters' investigator has a baptismal date goal set for Dec 27, and the branch is getting stronger. Elder C will also be staying in Sibiu, as well as Sora O. 

I am really looking forward to this next transfer. And Christmas is coming too! There are some pretty amazing decorations going up all over Sibiu and I hope I can find some time to take some pictures before I leave!

Thanks for reading!

Elder Lybbert