Iowa to Romania

HammocKings! Hey guys this was a crazy week on so many levels!!!! Tuesday was a pretty packed day. We had 3 lessons with 3 investigators and they all went well. Our first was with Mihai and we helped him try and get back on that path towards baptism. He's been kinda flaky and this lesson was to really help him get back on track. We then had a lesson with Victoria and this was one of the highlights. We taught her about the Restoration and reestablished those expectations that we have for her. Turns out she has read from the Book of Mormon and is starting to see the similarities of the Bible and the Book of Mormon. She is starting to really progress and only big things are going to happen. We then taught Catalin a little about faith. This is what we really want to focus with him if he is ever going to progress any time soon. Overall, it was a bomb day! Am I real? Wednesday we had a slightly worse day as we only had 2 lessons to teach. The first was with Mihai ag...

Hey guys this week was pretty good over here in Romania!   Blurry Selfie Tuesday we had a good day, even though Elder Thomson had allergy attacks that weren't fun at all. But we managed to get through the day and get on our train to Bucuresti for our exchanges with the Zone Leaders. And then a fun little added note was that we took a quick detour to the Hettinger's place for our interviews. So we had some late night interviews with President and Sister Hettinger and it was our end of our night. Everything went great and we were ready for our sweet day in Bucuresti. Wednesday was our exchanges and I was with Elder Krieger. It was a pretty basic day of just contacting and studies because nothing was really planned for the day. But at the end of the day, we had a good review of the exchange and talked about how we can improve and rise up to the next level as the mission itself starts changing. It was a really good time and I really hope to use what I learned to my...

What is up everyone?? This week was a baller week and a bunch of stuff went down!!! Tuesday we had a good day as we taught our investigator Mihai about keeping the Sabbath holy. He seemed to understand it and promised to keep it which is a good sign. He is looking good for the 23rd and we hope we can meet with him a lot this upcoming week so he is 100% ready for his baptism. He also has read up to Omni in the Book of Mormon so that is super awesome! Prayers out to him to keep moving forward and to be prepared for his big day! Wednesday was a pretty meh day. We did studies and such but then we had to leave to Ploiesti for our exchanges with the elders over there. Thursday was our big exchange and I was with Elder Ward once again! It was a pretty awesome day for the most part. We did a lot of contacting, member work, studies, everything possible. Probably the highlight of the day was when we went to a less-active member's place and talked about family history with him. Then...

Our Mountain! Elder Thomson and Bowen Hello everybody!! This was a super fire week here in the great city of Pitești!!!! Tuesday was a pretty slow day overall. We were able, though, to get a pretty cool new potential investigator named Gheorghe. He is an older man who knows the branch president in Panduri and he respects us a whole lot. He said he really would like to meet up so we are excited to see how that goes. Wednesday we had a really special Zone Conference in București. Elder De Feo of the 70 (one of the central leadership groups of the church) came and he had a whole lot to talk about. It was a super spiritual event for everyone there. A huge focus was about letting the Spirit teach us instead of him. He told us to write down what we felt in our hearts throughout the conference while also writing down what we were taught. That was super cool and I felt the Spirit teach me in more ways than I thought possible. A cool part of the conference was when El...