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Tulips. Pitesti is apparently famous for them

Hello everybody!!! This was a fire week and success was quite common this week!!!

Tuesday we were fortunate to have the opportunity to meet with a investigator in the morning but it turned out to be very interesting. This investigator's name is Luminta and she is a Pentecostal and every time we meet with her, she greets us by saying "Pace Domnul" which means Peace Lord. So that was really weird and then she took us to a store and ended up buying us button-up white shirts! We tried to refuse but she kept saying her Pace Domnul so we let her do it. She really loves us and it showed hahaha.

Wednesday was an awesome day as we kept the work progressing here in Pitesti. We set another baptismal date for May 12th with a guy named Mihai and this really got people pumped. President Hettinger is so pumped for us, mainly cause Pitesti has not had a baptism is 5 years and now we have 2 dates set!!! I'm super pumped for what is to come and Mihai is absolutely great!!!!!!

Thursday was a pretty normal day as we had to do some work for Elder Solov'iov's visa. But we still managed to do good things so that's all that matters. Hopefully all this work will pay off in the end haha.

Pitesti is a beautiful city

Friday we had the great opportunity to do service for a member named Marius. We helped him in his garden and to dig some dirt hahah. We were with him from 8 in the morning till 4 in the afternoon, but we were lucky to get some good food for our hard work haha.

Elder Solov'iov with a street performer

The weekend was full of a lot of stuff. We checked out a tulip festival that Pitesti has every year. Turns out they are the tulip city of Romania so that is pretty fun!! We also had a great time at church as Mihai came to church and is continuing to love everything!!! This week we didn't do much contacting, but we were definitely blessed with baptismal dates and great service to take up that time!

I love you and miss you all! Keep being awesome and rock the world!!!

Fountains at night

Va iubesc,

Elder Bowen

Pitesti Sunset

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