So first off a scripture I read at the beginning of my mission that is coming to pass here in the little city of Bacau, Romania. D&C 33:9
9 Yea, open your mouths and spare not, and you shall be laden with sheaves upon your backs, for lo, I am with you.
Looking back on this transfer I am amazed!!! We have so many investigators that we are working with who I believed will be baptized. Including the Elders friends in this branch we have the potential of 10 baptisms. We are pretty busy here in this city.These people are solid and have all shared about the peace that they feel when they come into the church.
This week we visited one of our new investigators. Elena and her family. When we showed up at her house, it was filled with people!!! Some of her neighbors and family where over having a gathering. We did not get to teach her a lesson, but we got to meet everyone their at her house. She introduced us to everyone saying, "These are my sisters, they visit me every week and talk to me about God and Jesus Christ." Her family was pretty wary with us. Her husband walked in and asked her quietly, "What do you think you are doing?" So we just introduced ourselves and became the best of friends with everyone there. They absolutely came to love and understand what we were doing as missionaries. We only stayed for 10 minutes or so, but by the end everyone was telling us that they couldn't wait to see us again. While we were leaving I commented on what an amazing family that she had and she said she could wait to introduce us to every member of her large family. I am so excited to continue teaching her and to meet the whole family. It is really miraculous that we have been let into her home and that she listens and love the message we have to share. In total at that house there were 6 packed into that house with 5 kids which listened to what our purpose was as missionaries. It was a pretty cool experience.
We are also starting to teach a woman this week who Sora Soelberg has been working with. She has attended sacrament meeting several times and stayed for all of church. She told Sora Soelberg and us that she is searching for the truth. And has been really involved in the lessons at church. I am so grateful that Sora Soelberg is here in Bacau, she really relates better than any other missionary.
This week I taught Sunday school about the sacrament. And I wanted to share a really cool scripture from the Joseph Smith translation. So I asked what the JST was, the answers were very varied and very crazy. I found myself in a difficult spot because I knew what the JST of the bible was but I didn't know how to explain it in Romanian. I opened my Romanian triple combination and literally the page I opened to was in the Guide in the back and had the definition of the JST in perfect Romanian. Tender mercies. I am sure I could have found it but the miracle that I opened it right up first thing, so cool!! Sunday School here usually consists of just reading the chapter together from the gospel Principles manual. So I tried to incorporate some fun object lessons and discussions so there wasn't so much reading. It went so well!!! And people were laughing, which doesn't happen to often in the Sunday school weekly reading. But at the end one woman said, "We didn't read the whole chapter together so if you need to take a manual home and read it so that we are all caught up." It was hilarious!!
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