Hello everyone! This week was super lit
and super fun!
The Iowans! Bowen, Redenbaugh, Sheffield |
Wednesday we did exchanges with the Zone
Leaders and I went with an elder named Elder Forsyth. He is an awesome guy and
I love him to death and an exchange with him was really awesome. We had some
pretty good success contacting and met a lot of awesome people that you would
never meet in Galati haha. But the highlight of the day was on the train ride
home. We sat by this younger
guy but we were so tired that we just wanted to sleep and not worry too much
about him. After about an hour, he accidentally kicked me, so I woke up and we
then started talking because he spoke English. His name is Emilian and he goes
to a private Orthodox school in Galati. When we were talking, he got really interested
in why we are in Romania, what's our purpose, etc. and we were able to give him
essentially the whole Restoration lesson and a Book of Mormon. After a little
bit, things started winding down and we were talking with all of his friends.
While one of his friends was talking to Elder Sewell, he pulled me to the side
and started talking to me and how he's asked himself some big questions like
"What will happen to me after I die?" and "Why did God create
me?". I was then able to teach him about God's love for us and the Plan of
Salvation and afterwards he sat there and was amazed. He told me that he has
had those questions since he was 8 years old and he finally found his answers
and felt peace and understanding. Nothing compares to testifying of God's pure
love for us and having the person feel the Spirit so strongly and so clearly in
such a way as Emilian. It just shows how strongly the Spirit can be when
someone is prepared!!!
Thursday was a very relaxed
day because we got home really late and we slept in a little bit. We also had
to do some shopping and laundry because we couldn't do that before Zone
Conference. But we still taught English and that was alright. It was a nice
chill day after a super awesome day.
Friday was a nice day. We did
our weekly planning and it was super awesome because we have a really nice
teaching pool to work with. Nothing much happened besides that but weekly
planning is always super awesome, especially in our case haha.
Saturday was a fun day full
of English and cleaning the church, but we also did some Less-Active member
hunting. In doing so, we met up with this man named Cornel. He was really happy
when we came to his house and we were able to have a really nice conversation
with him. We invited him to church and he said he would try his best to come.
Sunday was the day that
either could've been terrible or amazing. And it ended up amazing! Our
investigator Gelu came to church and that was super awesome to see him there.
He really enjoyed church and got into the discussions we had. We were able to
teach him afterwards the Plan of Salvation and that was a pretty good lesson
with him overall. Cornel also came to church and that was super awesome also!!
Everyone we wanted to be at church came and that made church that much better!
Never forget the many
blessings you have around you. You have been blessed with so much that you
would never expect to be blessings. I love you all and hope you are all rocking
the world! Keep being awesome!
Va iubesc,
Elder Bowen
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