Hey everyone!! This was a great week so listen up!!
We are really trying to increase our teaching pool and to get the people we are already working with to progress more. Because of that we enjoyed having a few lessons and finding some really great people who are truly interested in our message. We have really been working hard with our man Robert as he is on the path towards baptism. We had a really important lesson about feasting upon the words of Christ and how doing so will help him quench the fiery darts and the mighty storm of the adversary. We focused on this because he was losing the spiritual refresh he always received in lessons and he wanted to have a way to retain that refresh he obtains in our lessons. So we taught him that studying the scriptures, prayer to Heavenly Father, and partaking of the sacrament are critical points in having the Spirit to be with us all the time. Unfortunately, he didn't come to church the next day, but he texted us later in the day saying he was on the wrong path and that he truly needed to start feasting upon the words of Christ. Because of that, he read 9 chapters in the Book of Mormon, Mosiah 1-9, and he called us saying he felt a peace and happiness from reading and a sorrow and pain from the realization of his sins, which led to his strong desire to repent. We really want to keep this up and help him through the repentance process and for him to come to church so he can be prepared for May 25th. I have so much confidence and hope that this will go through and he will be baptized.
We also had some great experiences finding people. We tried sport contacting this weekend and we met these two guys, Tudor and Rares, and after defeating them in basketball, we started talking and getting to know each other and we were able to talk about our purpose as missionaries and they were very open about religion and wanted to hear our message and we established to meet this weekend. It's really cool to see how new methods of contacting and finding really do lead to success. We really want to diversify our finding and use members much more, especially returning members. We also want to start using our talents to find new people. We also have a huge push as a district and as a zone to improve with finding so this week should be the start of something great!
With this new focus of finding through returning members, we have been going through the member list to find members that have not been contacted very much and try to bring them back. We asked President Kiss for suggestions and he gave us a few names and now it's just the action part. We have a plan to establish a day in the week to just focus on returning members and then find new people from going to their places. I'm excited and it's something new that we want to try.
Christ is our Saviour and He truly loves each and every one of us. Never forget that. I love you all and I wish that you all have a great week!!
Va iubesc,
Elder Bowen
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| A photo from a kind couple who was visiting Cluj for a work conference. |
We are really trying to increase our teaching pool and to get the people we are already working with to progress more. Because of that we enjoyed having a few lessons and finding some really great people who are truly interested in our message. We have really been working hard with our man Robert as he is on the path towards baptism. We had a really important lesson about feasting upon the words of Christ and how doing so will help him quench the fiery darts and the mighty storm of the adversary. We focused on this because he was losing the spiritual refresh he always received in lessons and he wanted to have a way to retain that refresh he obtains in our lessons. So we taught him that studying the scriptures, prayer to Heavenly Father, and partaking of the sacrament are critical points in having the Spirit to be with us all the time. Unfortunately, he didn't come to church the next day, but he texted us later in the day saying he was on the wrong path and that he truly needed to start feasting upon the words of Christ. Because of that, he read 9 chapters in the Book of Mormon, Mosiah 1-9, and he called us saying he felt a peace and happiness from reading and a sorrow and pain from the realization of his sins, which led to his strong desire to repent. We really want to keep this up and help him through the repentance process and for him to come to church so he can be prepared for May 25th. I have so much confidence and hope that this will go through and he will be baptized.
We also had some great experiences finding people. We tried sport contacting this weekend and we met these two guys, Tudor and Rares, and after defeating them in basketball, we started talking and getting to know each other and we were able to talk about our purpose as missionaries and they were very open about religion and wanted to hear our message and we established to meet this weekend. It's really cool to see how new methods of contacting and finding really do lead to success. We really want to diversify our finding and use members much more, especially returning members. We also want to start using our talents to find new people. We also have a huge push as a district and as a zone to improve with finding so this week should be the start of something great!
With this new focus of finding through returning members, we have been going through the member list to find members that have not been contacted very much and try to bring them back. We asked President Kiss for suggestions and he gave us a few names and now it's just the action part. We have a plan to establish a day in the week to just focus on returning members and then find new people from going to their places. I'm excited and it's something new that we want to try.
Christ is our Saviour and He truly loves each and every one of us. Never forget that. I love you all and I wish that you all have a great week!!
Va iubesc,
Elder Bowen
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