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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