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This week was great. After the mission tour this week I just feel so pumped for the work and I have thought of so many ways to improve. Something that really impressed me was how optimistic the message was. It is easy to get stuck in the moment and to only see where we are now but I was reminded that the most wonderful thing about the Gospel is the fact that because of the Atonement of Jesus Christ everything is full of hope. No matter what happens, everything will be okay. I decided to focus on this as I do my work and it has made a difference just always thinking about the eternal perspective. 

We have continued to concentrate our efforts on our work with returning members and have been blessed with some great miracles! We had a lady come to church who hasn't come in 5 years. Her name is Carmen Ionica. We have visited her with some of the active members as well and it was amazing to see them welcome her back. They all celebrated her returning and we will be sure to continue to involve them from here on out. 

Another amazing blessing was a visit to Sora Matei that we had. President Doru is really on top of the needs of the members and gave us an assignment at the last branch council to reach out to her. It was an amazing experience and we really felt the spirit testify through us. We were really straight forward and asked her why she hadn't come to church lately. She opened up to us and we read the story of the lost sheep and the verses from John 10 about how the Savior gave His life for His sheep. We were all in tears and could feel God's love so much for this sweet sister. She said that she hadn't read the Book of Mormon in years but that she would try. We told her to come back and that Christ wanted her back. She felt the power of the message. Another amazing experience this week happened because we missed our stop on the tramvai. Because we went further we ended up being in an area that we had never been in before and we decided to knock a few houses while we were there. The first house we went to was a beautiful family with 11 little kids! At first while we were talking to the mother she was really closed off and told us that she already had a church and that she didn't want to know more but as we testified of the Restoration of the Gospel we saw her heart change and she invited us to come back. It was amazing to see how God guided our path to find this sweet family. We have been blessed with many other opportunities and have been able to contact a lot of our amazing people that we have found. Love you all

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Sora James

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This week was great! We have continued to work hard every day and haven't lost our fire or motivation. We have been praying more than ever and have been finding all day every day! It has been amazing! We go find returning members and find others along the way.  We have also been involving members and going out to find with them which has been really cool. That way we are able to strengthen the testimony of those who are here as well as searching for those who are lost. We had exchanges this week and we both had great experiences with finding returning members. Sora Broadbear and I went to find a member and it turns out that he and his wife were separated and that he had moved out and she didn't have any of his contact information. We left her with our number and told her to call us if she ever wanted to know more about what we believe or if she had info on her husband. Not even an hour later we got a call. It was the member that we were looking for! He told us that his wife had told him that we were at his house and he said that he wanted visits from the elders and that he wanted to come back to church! It was such a miracle. It was so amazing to be with Sora Broadbear again. She is such a great example and she teaches me so much every time we are together again. Lately I have been really focused on having more meaningful prayers and study and I have really felt the difference. I really look forward every night to reporting what I have done that day to Heavenly Father and I really feel Him listening and helping me to know what to do better. Prayer is so powerful. I love you all! have a great week

Sora James

Week 61... i think

This week has been filled with miracles. We have been guided to a lot of amazing people this week but still haven't been able to have a lot of lessons. We are really dedicating ourselves to the people we find and are following up with each one. We have to keep working harder and smarter but I'm not worried because I know that God sees our efforts and that He has a better plan for these people than we do. Something that I have been trying to improve on recently as I try and talk to every person that God puts in my path is to contact better on public transportation and as we wait at the stops. We have started talking to each person we can that is waiting at the same stop as us before the bus comes and then on the bus or metro or whatever it is, I have really tried putting an effort in to talking to everyone that I can and being direct about the purpose. I have realized that the conversation doesn't need to be casual and then slowly work up to a gospel discussion but that if I start a conversation directly and with love that others are open to talk about what we believe even if they aren't interested to come and learn more yet. I really believe that although it's good that they remember us smiling and being friendly it matters so much more that we give each person a chance to hear our testimony of the Restored Gospel of Jesus Christ. We have continued in our efforts to gather the lost sheep and have been delivering lots of baptismal records. This week we went on exchanges with members and delivered some of them. It was really cool to see their enthusiasm for the work and their testimonies in action. We had an amazing experience with one lady this week named Mariana. We traveled really far to find her and when we got there she happened to be home and she welcomed us with open arms. She said that she was wanting to talk to the missionaries and find her way back for a while now but never saw any around the city and didn't know how to find us she then started crying and said, "Now look, you just showed up at my front door. I know that you are sent by God. I know that He loves me." It was an amazing experience. We have been blessed to have some amazing experiences contacting on the streets and in blocks and everywhere we go. I have really seen how God leads us to the areas we need to be in just when we need to go there. I am so grateful to be here and I love this work. Have a great week!

oh btw sora smith is gone and im with my pal sora erickson din nou 

Sora James