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Hai să Facem Treabă România!

Hey y'all hope you haven't been consumed by copiii porumbului because this was a great week!

We have been continuing to work with the people we have already and while it's been going well, it's a very slow process. We had a lesson with a guy named Andrei and that went super well! He likes meeting with us and wants to read the Book of Mormon and pray, but now the problem is his desire to come to church. So we have decided to start slow with simple doctrinal points to help grow his testimony and desire to come to church. So we started with faith and just discussed the importance of faith and how we can grow our faith. We invited him to read Ether 12 on faith and we'll meet up with him again this week to follow up. We wanted to meet up with Elisei this week, but he always had things come up so he couldn't meet or come to church. He's our closest to baptism and we know we will set a baptismal date with him once he comes to church. We didn't do as much as we had hoped, but we made up for it by having an amazing exchange with Sibiu and igniting a fire over there for this last week of the transfer.

Speaking of the exchange in Sibiu, I was with Elder Church and we had a really great day! He's been out about 5 weeks, but he's got a fire inside of him which is super awesome to see! We had our focus be finding new people because he felt that was the weakest part of his missionary work. So we set out to find people and to work hard and it went super great! We had a good companion study to prep for the contacting session and then we went for it. We were with the other elders as well and we had 28 conversations, received 11 phone numbers, and got 5 new people...all in about 45 minutes of contacting. We all were on fire and I could tell we all were having fun doing missionary work. Elder Church is going places, especially if they keep up the fire that was started during our exchange. We then finished everything off with the baptism of Ionel and it was a great way to finish the exchange. Sibiu is doing great, we'll see if they can keep up the momentum with finding people, but they are still doing a good job out there.
At the first baptism in Romania in 2019 in Sibiu

I saw a great quote this week! "It simply isn't possible to be a disciple of someone you don't know." We cannot say we believe in Christ if we do not know who he is and what he has done for us. It simply is not possible. So let us come to know Christ!! Not to "știm" Christ, but to "cunoaștem" Christ (both words mean to know, but the first means to know a fact, the second means to know a person). The more you try to find and know Christ, the more you will become like him, which is our purpose on Earth. I love you all and I hope you all have a great week! LOVES!

Vă iubesc,
Elder Bowen

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