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Resist the Hun

We have been trying hard to get lessons with our friends, but it's been hard with all the meetings going on. It was great to have Gabriel at Zone Conference and I know the Spirit touched his heart about the Gospel of Jesus Christ. But he has been stubborn with us and is not trusting in God and saying that God does not love him, which is making his progression kind of stagnant. We have a very roller coaster relationship and it's been really hard to keep the Spirit a constant in his life. It's really hard and we are hoping to have him be the one choosing his path instead of just us telling him what to do. We are keeping the Spirit in our preparation with him and we're going to make sure this week to continue to bring him closer to Christ. He has been our most progressing friend at the moment because inability to meet with people, but we are going to get lessons set up and continue to get people to come unto Christ. We got this great guy to church this week named Tudor and he has a lot of potential to progress. He is really curious and wants to learn, leading to him to come to church and accept a Book of Mormon. So now we just need to set up lessons to make sure he doesn't fall away super quickly. We have a bunch of other people that we really hope to set up lessons with so I'm excited to have lessons with people.

We had this great branch activity yesterday in the park doing missionary work! It was just a small activity to try and get the members involved more in missionary work and it went well! We paired up with a member and that led to an instant friend for the people we talked to. We had a good amount of success and I would definitely want to do it again, but maybe at a different time, different place to get more members there. The people were out, but we didn't have that many forces to go and talk to people. Nevertheless, it was a fun time and I really hope that this little activity leads to more involvement with the members in missionary work!

We also had a really good exchange with the Sibiu elders! It was unfortunate that the other elders from Cluj couldn't come, but we were able to do great things together! We had a successful time talking to people, got a bunch of numbers, and had a fun time. We tried to do some sport contacting in the park and because of that, we got 3 numbers and set up a return lesson with someone, so I will take that as success for us elders here in Cluj!

I love the verse in Alma 15:16 where Amulek forsakes his life for the word of God and I feel like I am doing that here in Romania and it inspires me because Amulek was such a great missionary and saw so much success and that's because he put the Lord first and His Gospel was constantly on his lips and mind. It gives me the energy to get up in the morning and to do this marvelous work. So this will be a great week and I am so pumped to go out and do God's will and bring souls unto Christ! I love you all and I hope and pray that this week goes super great!!

Va iubesc,
Elder Bowen



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