Hello!
This has been a pretty intense week.We started of the week with something
amazing. Elder Chatterton and I were walking down the street just
wrapping up a day of contacting when a man came up behind us and starting
speaking some broken English with us. He told us that he had seen our
partners in Poland! We got talking with him for a bit and he was totally
down to set up and meet up with us! We have been able to meet up with him
about three times this week. It is pretty nice to have an investigator to
be able to focus on now. It is
always difficult when you are just
starting from scratch. Which I have noticed has kinda been my mission so
far. I have been in newly opened up areas my entire mission except for
Bucharest. When a place is newly opened it can be kinda rough. We
have almost called every single person in our area book already to just kinda
give you an idea. So being able to find someone this week has been a huge
miracle! We had a lesson with him unlike any I have had in my mission so
far. We were planning on talking about the plan of salvation, but towards
the end the subject got switched to the Book of Mormon. We gave him a
copy right there and he flipped to a random page. He ended up in Omni 1:25. After reading it, he kinda just looked at us in amazement. He
went on to explain that what that verse had just said was the exact thing that
he was just telling us! This alone gave him the curiosity and motivation to
want to continue to read the Book of Mormon. The entire rest of the
lesson, he just kept saying " I just feel so good right now, like all my
problems are just gone". It was a lesson truly guided by the
spirit... I mean he ended up in Omni of all places!
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| The Zone |
So that was basically the beginning
of the week. We then had zone training this week
and it was great! There is something awesome that happens when the whole
zone gets together. It was kinda weird cause I realized that there were
only three missionaries older then me at the meeting!?( older = having done
more transfers then me ) as for actual age... I think I am still one of the
youngest. Elder Chatterton is
Okay then to continue on the week we
had district meeting. As the meeting was kinda wrapping up, someone
brought up something about fasting. It kinda gave me the idea for us to
do a district fast for church attendance here, whether that be for members,
less actives, or non members, we were hoping that it would help all 3
areas. So right there we decided we would all join together in a fast for
the branch.
By the time Saturday rolls around,
life is pretty interesting. Elder Chatterton and I went to the usual Internet cafe to do our extra hour of internet. As soon as we got there
we began to be harassed by everyone in there. I ended up sitting next to the
person that was kinda the one leading everyone being so against us. They
were saying a lot of awful things about us and about America. So
naturally I start talking to this guy that I am next to. Everything he is
saying is super smart-Alic and making everyone in the internet cafe bust up and
laugh. We eventually started talking about what we were doing here in
Romania. This whole time you are reading this, you are probably wondering
why we didnt just get out of there. There was one person in there that
elder Chatterton and I decided was super cool and if we could make an
impression on him it would all be okay. When I told them that we
didn't drink, do drugs, have sex before marriage, and dont smoke, I seriously
felt like I was the "weird one" in the room, but that's okay, I'll be the weird one.
This brings us to Sunday. As we are sitting there I look at the time. It is five minutes before Church is
supposed to start and the only ones there are the six missionaries, two
members, and our investigator. It made all of our hearts sink a
little bit. Right before the hour our Branch president shows up along with
another member. We were all thinking we would just have to do a testimony
meeting or something! Luckily that didn't happen. By the end of
sacrament meeting we had a total of 9 people at church! Three of them
being investigators! So that was kinda cool to see some investigators at
church. We did 2 hours of church which is all I have done the whole time I have been
here. The Branch President is about to get married to the Relief society
president and then they will be moving to Canada! They are wonderful and strong members here, when they leave it will cut the branch in
half! So the stress has kinda hit of the great need this place has for something missionary wise. All we can do is our best and then
put our trust in God to hasten His work in His own time.
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| We appreciate "this guy" in our branch. He makes things fun and interesting |
So that is kinda the update for the
week! Sorry dont know if any of it makes sense or if any of the thoughts
are connected. Hopefully you can get something good out of it :)
Love you all so much! Have a great week!! I know I will, my
district is so great here! and me and my comp get along super great!
Love,
Elder James
"The District! We stumbled upon a castle"
Me and Chatterton encouraged everyone go on a hike last week and it turned into a huge adventure!
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