Old Friends Re-Unite

Transfer to Ploiesti, Romania

The town of Ploiesti was established in 1596, during the reign of Mihai Viteazul (Michael the Brave). It rapidly flourished as a center for trade and handicraft manufacturing in the 17th and 18th centuries. The road connecting Ploieşti to Braşov was opened in 1864, and the railway arrived in 1882. Many schools and hospitals were built around this time. In the mid-19th century, the Ploieşti region was one of the world's leading oil extraction and refinery sites. The city is also remembered as the site of the self-styled Republic of Ploieşti, a short-lived 1870 revolt against the Romanian monarchy. Ploiesti is the 9th largest populated city in Romania with over 250,000 people. Ploiesti is located in Prahova County about 56km North of Bucharest in the historical region of Wallachia.

Laughter, The Best Medicine!

Sometimes, We Can Even Make People Glow!

Old Orhei Monastery

Sightseeing Old Orhei and The Raut River

  

Old Orhei is famous for the cave monasteries located there. This zone was ideal for the primary monasticism of early Christian community. It was isolated from the outer world. At the time when Christians came here there should have been smaller and bigger caves in the calcareous rocks cut by pre-historic tribes living on this territory. The Christians probably used existing caves and penetrated “inside the rocks” in order to “become a rock”. Christian life in the Old Orhei caves became eternal and saint. In the medieval period monastery life intensification made monks to deepen the caves. There also appeared new caves. Nowadays some caves are preserved well. Others were damaged, mainly by earthquakes which are frequent in this area. The researches show that tens of monasteries fell into waters of Raut River. However still many complexes are in good condition.

At the Old Orhei there are several monumental stone constructions which attract attention of both scientists and common people. The oldest fortified construction at the Old Orhei is the Gaetic fortress. It is situated on the Butuceni promontory. Its territory has oval prolonged form oriented from East to West. The fortress is connected to the surrounding area by narrow passage. It's easy to block if something happens. So, the place was ideal for building a fortress. The fortress was left at the end of III century BC.

More to Religion Than Just "The Cross"

My Moldovian Friends

What? Missionary Graffiti?

We did graffiti on a big white board in the center of town, this is set up for people to express themselves, so we thought we would do exactly that!  So, we "tagged" it for the Church in hopes to get some publicity and some phone calls from it. It was really fun! So yeah, that's basically what happened this week, trying a different approach to contact people and get the word out there. Who would ever have thought that Church Graffiti just might work? They say it does for everything else. It's sure worth a try!!

New Romania Bucharest Mission President

Ned Cromar Hill, 65, and Claralyn Martin Hill, five children, Romania Bucharest Mission; Rock Canyon Ward, Provo Utah Edgemont South Stake. He serves as a stake Sunday School president and as chair in a volunteer care clinic in the Utah South Area. He is a former stake president, counselor in a stake presidency and missionary in the Central German Mission. Professor of finance, and former Dean of the Marriott School of Management, Brigham Young University. Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, to Richard Giles Sharp and Bettie Jean Cromar Hill. Sister Hill serves as a Relief Society teacher and is a former counselor in a stake and ward Relief Society presidency, Young Women president, Primary teacher, nursery leader, and institute instructor. Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, to Joseph Eddy and Sara Elaine Kendell Martin.

Ned C. Hill is former dean of the Marriott School of Management (1998-2008) at Brigham Young University. He taught at Cornell University and Indiana University before coming to BYU in 1987. He graduated in chemistry from the University of Utah, where he was a laboratory assistant to Professor Henry Eyring. He earned a master’s degree in chemistry from Cornell and then a PhD in finance from Cornell. He is currently the National Advisory Council Professor of Finance in the Marriott School, where he teaches corporate finance. He has authored three books and over seventy academic articles. He has served as a bishop and stake president (twice) and his current calling is chair of the board of the Volunteer Care Clinic of Utah County. He serves on a number of other boards of directors. His wife, Claralyn Martin Hill, is a BYU Law School graduate and a University of Utah undergraduate. They are the parents of five grown children and fifteen grandchildren.