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Life Changer, Miracle Arranger

Hey everyone, I hope you had a great week because Pitesti did!

This was a good week that was capped off by a great baptism. It may have been a sketch baptism with tape all around the font, but nonetheless, Mihai was baptized and that was the highlight of the week! It was great to see Mihai enter into the waters of baptism and to receive the gift of the Holy Ghost and to truly see him come a long way. He has great desires to do good and help people. But he has a long ways to go in his progression and that is why we are going to work super hard to strengthen him and continue to teach him the doctrines found in Preach My Gospel. We talked to him about the priesthood and helped him understand what will happen and what his role will be with the priesthood. He's actually pretty excited to start passing the sacrament/blessing the sacrament which is great. But he will definitely be a work in progress as there are so many things to help him with, but he's ready for the step by step progress.


We have also been working still with Dragos and he's continually making time and effort to read from the scriptures and to come to church, even if he doesn't have the time to do so. This last week he had to leave pretty early from church, but he came long enough for the sacrament and then left, which shows his desire to come to church, even when it's hard. We're looking to start teaching the commandments and helping him prepare for his baptism on the 13th.
Rawhouser, Bowen, Ioana, Pres Hettinger

Jesus Christ is a life changer and a miracle arranger. I don't think any of these miracles would ever happen to us if Christ wasn't our Savior. It's a good feeling to know God truly loves us and wants us to succeed, so He gave us His only begotten son, Jesus Christ. What a great feeling and I am grateful for that. I hope you all have a great week and loves to you all!

Va iubesc,
Elder Bowen

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