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Hot Chocolate and Sausages

Hot Chocolate!
Hello everybody! This week was an interesting week but it was still great!

Tuesday was a very beautiful day in Galati. For some reason, Galati was thinking it was not winter. But I am not complaining haha. But other than the weather, the day was pretty rough. We had 3 lessons planned but only one worked out and that lesson was a very awkward, rough lesson. But we pressed through and started English back up again. However, not many people even came to English and that was pretty awkward. But oh well!

Wednesday we visited a member named Sora Prada because she has been having some health problems lately. She went down to Bucharest which was a good for her. But other than that, we really didn't have much go on. Just a simple day for us missionaries.

Thursday we had a lesson scheduled with this Atheist but he ended up cancelling and it made all 3 of us frustrated. Us because another lesson fell through and the Atheist because he actually wants to meet and talk! Instead, Elder Dixon and I drank our sorrows away with hot chocolate from this pretty cool coffee shop so that was a plus haha. We turned the day around though with some pretty good contacting and conversations with people.
 
Sausages
Friday was probably our most productive day because we actually had a lesson!! It was with this man named Radu who we met on the street. He only wants to talk in English (even though he isn't the best English speaker) and we just taught him the Restoration. He was really into what we were saying and because he wanted us to speak in English, we had to speak very simplified and short to help him understand. It ended very well and he wants to keep meeting up with us. We gave him a Book of Mormon and we will see how that goes. We then finished the night calling people and trying to set up for lessons next week. In doing so, we ended up having this conversation with this girl named Maria who is going through a lot of stuff at the moment. She just told us everything going on and we were able to testify of ways to help, such as the Book of Mormon, prayer, and our lessons. She said she would totally be up to it once she gets back into Galati in May...So we have a potential investigator, but only when May comes haha.

Saturday was a very stressful day in general. We had to teach English for 2 classes and those both were pretty rough. Not many people showed up and it was quite awkward. We then had to prepare a lot of stuff for our Christmas play and that was really frustrating because we were given a lot of stuff to deal with. However, we managed to get everything ready for the program and it all ended very well. We had a Muslim English student come which was cool and a less-active member brought her boyfriend along which was pretty sweet! We then had a huge dinner together and it was super fun!

Sunday was a chill day. I had to give a talk in Sacrament meeting and that was quite a thrill. I talked about humility and made it as simple as possible with my Romanian. But it was super great and I could feel the Spirit strongly as I testified of the gospel. Not much else happened but it was a solid day overall.
 
The Branch Nativity

My Joseph Costume and the baby Jesus

While this week was a pretty rough one, I still had the opportunity to do a lot. I read the scriptures a whole lot this week and I was in the amazing Jesus chapters in 3 Nephi 11-30. Reading the words of Jesus to the Nephites is so powerful because every verse is so meaningful. However, I felt the Spirit the most reading 3 Nephi 30:2. It is essentially everything Jesus taught, His Gospel, in one verse. We must have faith in Christ, repent of all our wrongdoings, come unto Christ, be baptized in his name, receive the Holy Ghost, and endure to the end and we will live in the mansions of heaven that God has promised us.

I hope your weeks are super awesome and the next time you hear from me, it'll be CHRISTMAS!!!!!! Have faith in the Lord, trust in the Lord, rejoice in the Lord!

Me and Elmo!


Va iubesc,

Elder Bowen

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