Iowa to Romania

HEY GUYS! This week was a rocking week!!!!!!! Transfers Last Picture with Elder Solov'iov as he is headed to Moldova. Tuesday was the first day with Elder Thomson around. We managed to do some great stuff, like teaching Luminita for the last time before her baptismal interview. It was super great and she was just loving everything going on! Definitely super prepared for her baptism and life in the church which is super good to hear! Wednesday we had a solid time doing basically everything we could. We met a pretty cool guy named Daniel and talked about basketball and our purpose here as missionaries so that was awesome. We then visited a member at his work and we talked about life and everything, mainly so Elder Thomson could see the members again (he was here a year ago so that's lit). We then had Luminita's baptismal interview and it went super well! She passed with flying colors, making her baptism the next step on her path of discipleship. Waffles! ...

Pitesti! //Disclaimer, we didn't find any reference to chairs in the email, or pics, or anywhere, so your guess is as good as ours... At church with Elder Solov'iov and Luminita Hey guys this was a pretty sweet week here in Pitesti!! Tuesday we had a really strong lesson with two guys named Alex and Mihai. We had taught Mihai before, so our main focus was Alex. We taught them about the Book of Mormon and Joseph Smith, two things that both of them really need to know. It was a really good lesson and both Alex and Mihai felt the Spirit for sure. We gave Alex a Book of Mormon and committed him to read and pray about it. He gladly accepted and it'll be great to see how he progresses. Wednesday we had a spiritual feast as we had 2 lessons with 2 investigators. First was with our investigator Luminita about the Word of Wisdom and prophets. She loves prophets and she knows they are called of God to lead His church. So when we taught her about the Word of Wisdom, she un...

Hello everybody! Hope life is going great cause mine is! Tuesday we had a very big treaba day. We are prepping for big things here in Pitesti. But in order to do so, we needed to do a couple things. We started work on some English posters and cards to give to people to help them know we teach English. We hope for some results, but we will see as time goes on. Wednesday we tried to do some visa work for Elder Solov'iov, but the visa office people were very confusing and we weren't able to do anything that day. Super unfortunate but it is what it is. The highlight of the day was a lesson with our investigator Mihai. We taught him the Plan of Salvation and we thought it was a pretty good lesson. However, Mihai found it hard to believe what we were teaching. But we invited him to pray with a desire to know the truth and he was willing to do so. He is searching for the truth and we are trying to help him find it on his own instead of our convincing words. We hope that he conti...

Hey guys this was a pretty intense week for sure! Tuesday was a pretty okay day overall. We had a couple lessons set up with our Mihais, but unfortunately they both didn't go through. That was really rough cause I wanted to have lessons, but sometimes that is not how it goes. Instead we did some visa work for Elder Solov'iov and that was really all. Wednesday was a pretty fun day because we had exchanges with the Zone Leaders in Bucuresti. It was pretty darn awesome for the most part and I felt like I learned a lot. I was with Elder Welling and we had a goal to speak in Romanian for basically the entire day except for lunch and studies. And we did it! I felt really proud of myself, even though it was a lot for my brain but it was worth it. We didn't have the most successful day talking with people, but we worked hard and in the end we felt like our day was very successful. With the Zone Leaders! Thursday was another fun filled day of working on Elder Solov...