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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 Elder De Feo told us to "arise into the mountain" to find spiritual guidance to know what to do with our investigators. So Elder Thomson and I decided to do so--by standing on a pile of bricks we called our mountain. Elder De Feo thought that was super awesome and took a picture of what we were doing. So we are now on his phone, which is in his pocket, so don't be surprised when we are in one of his General Conference talks in the future haha. Overall it was such a great day and we were able to see so many awesome people.
Missionary Training (I pulled it from the blog of the Andersens, a senior couple in Romania)

Mission Conference in Bucuresti
See if you can find me :)


Thursday we had a lesson with Mihai about the simplest commandments like obedience, prayer, scripture study, and following the prophet. That led to him telling us he is struggling with not drinking coffee. So we are helping him quit coffee so he can be ready for his baptism on the 23rd. I'm excited for him and I hope everything goes well as he stops drinking coffee. We then reactivated a former investigator named Cătălin and he is a super cool dude! He really wants to come back and learn more so we are going to teach him again and hope that he is solid this time!!!

My buddy Elder Jacobson who is finishing his mission soon.


Friday we had a interesting day. Nothing much happened except sports night, where we Americans got beat up by the guys we were playing basketball with. We got kicked, slapped, cut, etc. all because the people we were playing with didn't really know how to play clean. So we got pretty ticked off and we kind of just left it alone for the time being. But next week, watch out haha.


Saturday we had a good English class and met this awesome guy named Dragoș who turned out to be a super cool guy. He wants to know more about our church because he has never heard about us so we think we can get somewhere with him!

Sunday we had a good time at church. Luminița was confirmed a member and that brought everything full circle. We then had another cool experience where a granddaughter of a less-active member came to church and wants to continue coming to church and be baptized. Her name is Roxy and we are super excited for her because she already has read the scriptures a whole lot and wants to know more really badly. So we have a great teaching pool for this upcoming week and we are super excited to get to work.

Keep being your awesome selves and I can't wait to hear about all the blessings you receive for being righteous sons and daughters of our Heavenly Father! Love you all!

Giant chess game in a mall
A turkey heart in my soup :)

Va iubesc,

Elder Bowen

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