Fred and I left the MTC on Dec 12, at 8:30 am. We flew to New York, had a 3 hour lay over, flew to Paris, which was a 7 1/2 hour flight. We had a 3 hour lay over in Paris, then flew to Bucharest, and arrived there at 2:30 pm on Dec 13. We were meet by the office Elders and the CES couple that are also serving here in Chisinau, Moldova. They were attending Zone Conference, and we were so grateful to have their company. We went to the Mission Home and met with President Lundberg and his wife. They were so kind, warm,and gracious, and made us feel right at home. We ate dinner, and then they took the Telford's (CES couple) and us to the train station to catch the train to Chisinau. We say this is the Harry Porter train, but I think it's something else. (Ask me when we get home!) What an experience!! We had to go through tw0 boarder crossings, and then the tracks in Romania and Moldova are different, so they have to lift up the cars and change the wheels when they enter Moldova. It was a 700 mile (12 1/2 ) hour train ride. We arrived in Chisinau at 8:30 am Dec. 14. We were met by Elder and Sister Jacobs, and we were glad to see them. We were so tired all we could do was go to our temporary apartment and crash for about 5 hours. The Jacobs (the couple we replaced) took pity on us and had us over for dinner that night, and then we went home thinking we could sleep, but the time change tricked us, and we had a sleepless night. It took us about 7 days to get use to the difference in time. We are 8 hours ahead of Houston time. These are some pictures of our temporary Apt.
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