Inspired by Master’s message in the Alternative Living flyer and by the many stories from our sisters and brothers who have helped in distributing the flyers in all corners of the world, a team of eight initiates from different European countries made a plan to share Master’s compassion and blessing through the Alternative Living flyer to Romania, Moldova and Ukraine. 150,000 flyers were printed in the Romanian and Ukrainian languages to be distributed during the trip.

In order to reach as many cities as possible and distribute all the flyers, we divided our team into 2 groups traveling with 2 cars, leaving Budapest, Hungary on July 2, Golden Year 3 (2006). Having crossed the Romanian border, each group took different routes and stopped in different cities throughout the northern part of Romania. After 2 days of distribution in many cities, we crossed another border and entered Moldova.  Here one team remained in Chişinău, Moldova’s capital, for 2 days, while the second team crossed the border to Ukraine and reached its southern part where many beautiful cities lie on the shore of the Black Sea. After distributing the flyers in Chişinău, the first team entered Romania again and drove to different cities each day, crossing the Carpathian Mountains and going south until we reached the Danube River and then crossed the Carpathians again to the west part of Romania. The second team, after 4 days of distribution in Odessa, Ukr aine and other nearby cities, also came back to Romania and stopped in different cities for the last part of the trip before both teams came back to Budapest on July 11.

Whenever the circumstances allowed it, we gave the flyers to people directly. When it was really not possible, we put them into mailboxes, or on car windshields. In this amazing journey we distributed almost 150,000 flyers in 20 cities (15 in Romania, 1 in Moldova and 4 in Ukraine), and on average put about 4500 kilometers on our 2 cars in 10 days. Just one week before our trip, some areas in the northern part of Romania were heavily flooded and the roads were damaged and blocked, making traveling very difficult. However, from when we started, it didn’t rain at all; we had picture perfect weather, only sun shining in all cities that we visited for the entire time. This was another blessing from Master to facilitate the distribution. Sometimes we could see the heavy rain clouds showering ahead of us or behind us, or we could hear the thunder as if the rain was just about to start, but we never got wet when we distributed the flyers. The initiates also had to overcome various difficulties in crossing the borders to Moldova and Ukraine; but we always remained high spirited, and with Master’s blessing all the problems were solved.

On the very first morning when we arrived in Romania, there was an amazing coincidence. The first two people who received the flyer said that they are vegetarians because of their love for animals. So we considered this a “good omen from Master” for our trip. The Romanians are very nice and warm people, open to receiving the flyer and curious about its message. Despite the cultural and historical differences among the different parts of Romania that we visited, almost everyone that accepted the flyer said “thank you” and greeted us with an encouraging smile. After taking the flyer, many people stopped to read its content and some of them came back to ask for more information. They wanted to know where to buy vegetarian products and where we came from to bring this noble message. Some asked about our group and we gave them leaflets with Master’s teachings and more information about the Quan Yin Method. The noble ideal supporting this campaign and the fact that we were distributing flyers voluntarily in such far away cities and countries, for many locals was something incredible. Everyone greeted us very openly, wished us good luck, success and God’s blessing to carry on with this work. In one city one person even recognized one of our brothers from when he was distributing in another city and happily greeted him. In one Romanian city where 3 years ago we had a public seminar to share Master’s teachings, two ladies practicing the Convenient Method surprisingly showed up and were overjoyed to meet us again. During our conversation, they told us how much they prayed to Master in the last years to take care of them and our visit was like the answer they have been waiting for and also the reason for their over-excitement. We gave them many photos of Master and all the blessed candies that we had with us in our bags, which brought them even more joy. They also asked us to send their message of love to our beloved Master and tell Her that She is always in their hearts.

Despite the physical demands of the driving and distribution each day, we were still very highly motivated and did the work with the same enthusiasm and joy in each city. We felt Master’s love and blessing all the time and our journey was full of very touching experiences, many laughing moments and humorous stories, derived also from our different backgrounds and nationalities. In this way, long and monotonous hours in the car turned out to be good moments for sharing inspiring stories from each one of us from our own spiritual journey, making the driving pass very smoothly. Though we encountered some problems and difficulties, all of them were finally solved without much worry and effort; we just witnessed miracles one after another. We knew that God’s grace and love is always with us and we were able to complete the work with high spirits and great success.

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