Hey everyone! This was a crazy week for sure!
So transfers happened and good news, I am not leaving Cluj!! But I will not be with Elder Dahl because we are both training new elders up here!! I'm still a Zone Leader, but I am on double duty now which is pretty crazy, but I am super excited! This next transfer will be a great one!!
We truly finished the transfer strong, both as a companionship and as a zone. This week we really wanted to find people and teach lessons, getting back to the basics of everything. We had a companionship study and focused on improving our finding so we can have more people taking the lessons and coming to church. We focused on finding new areas of contacting, better teaching in finding situations, and varying our finding methods. We found great success this week with varying our methods, as we found 3 new people from the Area Book that we had not tried yet. One of those was a man named Florin, who came to church and really wants to learn more about the gospel, another was a guy named Daniel who expressed a real interest in the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and the last named Sami who called us to reschedule a meeting because we wants to meet up so much. Because of our refocus, we have seen more opportunities to share the gospel and to bring others unto Christ. Now we want to use this momentum and start the transfer in an even greater, more energetic fashion.
I had an awesome opportunity to go on an exchange with Elder Coberly this week and we did a lot of great work! Our goal was to contact by the way and talk to as many people as possible, and we did it. We talked to people on the metro, going from place to place, and we saw more and more chances to talk to people. We had over 20 conversations throughout the day and set up many lessons as well. We strove for excellence and we achieved such in a great manner. That day set the tone for the week and is the pillar of what I want this new transfer to be as well.
We had a cool moment with a returning member named Emil this week! We were given ministering assignments from the Elders Quorum and us missionaries were put with him to help do ministering together. This was really cool because right afterwards, he talked with us and wanted to set up a time to meet up so we can establish a plan with our members. He not the most active member, but I can already tell that this will help his testimony and the testimony of others through ministering. I'm super excited and we will see how everything at least starts out this week.
We should be obedient to the Lord's council and commandments, for He will be "bound when [we] do what [He says]; but when [we] do not what [He says], [we] have no promise." He is willing to help us and guide us, but we must heed to his word and do what He says. It's not the easiest thing to do, but we will be blessed as we work hard to follow His teachings. I love you all and hope you have a great week!!
Va iubesc,
Elder Bowen
So transfers happened and good news, I am not leaving Cluj!! But I will not be with Elder Dahl because we are both training new elders up here!! I'm still a Zone Leader, but I am on double duty now which is pretty crazy, but I am super excited! This next transfer will be a great one!!
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| On the train. |
We truly finished the transfer strong, both as a companionship and as a zone. This week we really wanted to find people and teach lessons, getting back to the basics of everything. We had a companionship study and focused on improving our finding so we can have more people taking the lessons and coming to church. We focused on finding new areas of contacting, better teaching in finding situations, and varying our finding methods. We found great success this week with varying our methods, as we found 3 new people from the Area Book that we had not tried yet. One of those was a man named Florin, who came to church and really wants to learn more about the gospel, another was a guy named Daniel who expressed a real interest in the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and the last named Sami who called us to reschedule a meeting because we wants to meet up so much. Because of our refocus, we have seen more opportunities to share the gospel and to bring others unto Christ. Now we want to use this momentum and start the transfer in an even greater, more energetic fashion.
I had an awesome opportunity to go on an exchange with Elder Coberly this week and we did a lot of great work! Our goal was to contact by the way and talk to as many people as possible, and we did it. We talked to people on the metro, going from place to place, and we saw more and more chances to talk to people. We had over 20 conversations throughout the day and set up many lessons as well. We strove for excellence and we achieved such in a great manner. That day set the tone for the week and is the pillar of what I want this new transfer to be as well.
We had a cool moment with a returning member named Emil this week! We were given ministering assignments from the Elders Quorum and us missionaries were put with him to help do ministering together. This was really cool because right afterwards, he talked with us and wanted to set up a time to meet up so we can establish a plan with our members. He not the most active member, but I can already tell that this will help his testimony and the testimony of others through ministering. I'm super excited and we will see how everything at least starts out this week.
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| Missionaries serving in Cluj! |
We should be obedient to the Lord's council and commandments, for He will be "bound when [we] do what [He says]; but when [we] do not what [He says], [we] have no promise." He is willing to help us and guide us, but we must heed to his word and do what He says. It's not the easiest thing to do, but we will be blessed as we work hard to follow His teachings. I love you all and hope you have a great week!!
Va iubesc,
Elder Bowen
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