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Week of LOTS of studying

Hello everyone!! Hope y'all had a fine week because that would be awesome! 

Tuesday we started this new study curriculum and it has really helped the companionship grow and become way more unified. This week was studying just the Restoration and we started making our Preach My Gospels (their missionary teaching and study guide) so filled with highlights and notes so we can be the best teachers of the Restoration as possible. We also had English and it was super great because these 2 moms came and brought their children and they are the most adorable little girls as you would imagine! Made English wayyy better haha.

Wednesday we went to Sora Delia's and she made more amazing food. It was chicken with potatoes and I was like in heaven because chicken and potatoes are amazingly amazing haha. We then did more studies and then hit up blocs for knocking. We didn't have much success but you have to get through the bad to find the good. Otherwise, work would be too easy! To finish the night, Sora Delia invited us to go see traditional Romanian clothing which was actually quite cool. It was a very meaningful member interaction!

Thursday as you can probably guess was full of studying. But it was really meaningful because while nothing big happened, we were able to really get unified as a companionship. I never have enjoyed studying so much ever! When you have a set curriculum for studying, you become engulfed in what you are trying to accomplish and you grow way more than you ever thought you could.

Friday was a pretty hard day overall. We hit a lot of dead ends bloc knocking and a potential investigator turned out to be not interested after all. It's these moments you wonder what you are doing wrong or what you need to do better to have success. I really have tried to work my hardest and it's discouraging when there isn't success to come from it. However, success isn't measured on a number basis when you are a missionary. You are successful when you feel the Spirit testify where to go and what to say. You are successful when you develop Christlike attributes and become more and more like our Savior. You are successful when you become consecrated to the work and submit to the will of the Father. I may not be successful in baptisms or investigators, but I know I am growing as a missionary, as a friend, as a person, as a child of God. I personally am coming to Christ through this mission and that is a conversion that is stronger than any other conversion.

Saturday had another great English day (mainly because of the kids again haha) but the meaningful part of the day was talking with President Titi. We talked about what we think is not working here in Galati. And that got us really thinking because we want to know what's wrong. At the end of the day, we didn't come to a conclusion of the problem but we decided to fast to know what we were to do. And fast we did!

Sunday was an amazing day! We went to church and it was Branch Conference and we had 19 people come!! Super awesome!!!! All the talks were centered on Book of Mormon and how we need to study and feast upon it instead of just reading it. It was super great and you could feel the spirit so strongly. We also had Mihaela and her boyfriend Ionut come and that was awesome!!!! Church is so great I love it!!! We also went to Familia Stancu and had a nice family home evening with them. 

"If you are on the right path, it will always be uphill" - Henry B. Eyring.
Life is hard, but hard is good! Keep pushing forward and you will have an awesome life. I love you all and hope everything is going great for you all!

Va iubesc,
Elder Bowen

The trees were frozen.

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