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Hey everyone this was an awesome week!

It seems like every week is a great week here in Pitesti and I think it's because we are bringing souls unto Christ and fulfilling our missionary purpose!! First off, our baptismal dates are doing super great and they are getting ready for baptism. Mihai came to church and afterwards we had a lesson with President Constantin about what will happen at the baptism and afterwards and it was a good moment. He wants President Constantin to baptize him and that's super cool and Constantin is super excited. We had his interview today and he's prepared and ready and it'll be a good ceremony of Saturday. We'll continue to help tighten up his loose ends, but it should be good this week with him. Dragos also came to church and he enjoyed it. The awesome miracle with him was that he had an exam this weekend for university and we promised him that if he reads the Book of Mormon, he will pass his test. So after his exam, we called him to see how it went and he said he got a 10, or a perfect score, on his exam and he credits that to reading the Book of Mormon. He now knows that it is a true book and continues to read it. That was awesome and we continue to meet with him and help him grow in the gospel and be prepared for baptism. It truly was a miracle filled week for us.

But the biggest miracle actually came from a member. This week Luminita brought her daughter, Rahela, to church. She told us about her and that she might be interested and so we invited her to invite Rahela to church. And this Sunday, it happened! So we talked to Rahela and turns out she wants to know more about our message which is awesome!! We are now trying to get in contact with her more to become good friends and to start having some joint lessons with the Constantin family, which will be awesome!! We are also as a district trying to get Rahela some youth friends from Ploiesti that can help her progression as well, which should be great. Pure and simple, it's a fun time to be in Pitesti!

I really love the prophet Jacob in the Book of Mormon, especially with his confrontation with Sherem, a man who denied Christ. And this man came against Jacob to contend with him and hopefully defeat him in his words, but as Jacob 7:5 says, "And he had hope to shake me from the faith, notwithstanding the many revelations and the many things which I had seen concerning these things; for I truly had seen angels, and they had ministered unto me. And also, I had heard the voice of the Lord speaking unto me in very word, from time to time; wherefore, I could not be shaken." I have felt that unshaken faith here in Romania and it is a good feeling. I know these things are true and that Christ is our Savior and Redeemer and He truly loves us all. I hope you all can feel that love from Him in your lives. I love you guys and I hope you have a great week!!

Va iubesc,
Elder Bowen

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