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Hey everyone!! This was a great week for us here in Cluj-Napoca! For starters, transfers happened and Elder Stark and I are staying for another transfer together! I'm super stoked and we are going to get even more work done than we did this transfer so I'm pumped!!! Also found out that Elder Kemeny will be coming to be my Zone Leader buddy so it'll be a great reunion for us!!!

Well this week was a huge bounce-back week for us here in Cluj. We came in with an end-of-the-transfer, get work done feeling and it went great! We hit the finding grind hard to begin the week and that resulted in some great lessons at the end of the week, which led to us finally getting someone to church. Everything just seemed to go right this week with people and it was awesome! I have no words to describe the joy I felt when Gabriel not only came to church, but also played the missionary role and is bringing his mother and grandmother to church with him next time. I have no words to describe our lesson with Alexandru about the Plan of Salvation and how he just understands it's importance and beauty, alongside the feeling he receives when he reads the Book of Mormon. He doesn't understand 100%, but he feels like it is important and that is why he keeps reading. We are working hard to continue the momentum from this week into the weeks that are to come, but to reflect on this week is super satisfying and I am excited to do it again this week.

I was reading from the Book of Mormon and a verse stuck out to me a lot. It's from Alma 5:27 which reads... "Have ye walked, keeping yourselves blameless before God? Could ye say, if ye were called to die at this time, within yourselves, that ye have been sufficiently humble? That your garments have been cleansed and made white through the blood of Christ, who will come to redeem his people from their sins?"
If we are called upon to die at this very moment, are we sufficiently humble to be saved. It doesn't even have to be humility, what about sufficiently faithful, hopeful, charitable, virtuous, diligent, helpful, etc.? We are imperfect but we don't need to be 100% humble or faithful or charitable to be saved. No, we must be sufficiently humble and faithful and charitable, etc. and we do that by following the example of Jesus Christ. God loves us and our desire to TRY and we must be willing to put forth the effort to see the blessings. So let us get to work and become like our Savior Jesus Christ. I love you all and I hope you all have an awesome week! LOVES!

Va iubesc,
Elder Bowen




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