A Sweet Day

Nothing feels better than when the bus pulls up to church in Brasov filled with members from Feldioara and Rotbav.  It means great things are happening.

We had a very special experience teaching this man.  He does not read.  He has worked with animals all his life and is a humble gentle man.  We were not sure how he would receive a testimony of the Book of Mormon not being able to read it.  After the first two lessons the Elders choose to show him the restoration video.  This was marvelous and he could really relate to Joseph growing up on a farm and all the animals.  Then he began getting excited and calling out Adevarat (True, it's true) and then, recognizing God and Jesus he mentioned their names and finally at the end he had tears running down his cheeks and saying Duhul Sfant (Holy Ghost) and pointing from his head to his feet.  He had received a spiritual conversion and it was amazing to witness it visually.  He changed from that time on and continued to prepare for baptism.

 Sweet !!

Super Sweet !!

The bonus at the end was Elder Heninger bringing his homemade banana bread.  

Very Sweet  !!

It was an amazing day and one I will always remember.  The Spirit teaches, testifies and does the converting.  Missionaries are just the tool.  

On the Road

Since all the missionaries write letters to the President each week and he shares some of experiences they have, it was a special surprise to read this experience from President Hill's letter from an Elder serving in our city with us.


The Power of a Senior Couple   “I think the coolest experience was with one of our new investigators. The past 6 months he has said that he will not take lessons with the missionaries, but we know that he has a great respect for the senior couple.  We called them and set up a meeting. The investigator has been coming to church with his member wife for a past couple of months, but his parents are Jehovah’s Witnesses, so he has been very hesitant to listen to us. My companion, the senior couple and I met with the man and I translated. He agreed to have more lessons and even committed to baptism when he finds out the truth of our message. It is really exciting. The Spirit was SO STRONG in that lesson and the senior couple gave great testimony. I felt like I was conducting music in the lesson. We followed the senior missionary as to when to ask him questions, when to invite his wife to bear testimony and when to have the senior couple speak. It was really a cool experience. I know that a year ago, even if I spoke the language as well as I do now, I wouldn't have been able to follow the Spirit like that. Not even close.”

We work with amazing missionaries !!

We had a YW activity in our branch where we stuffed these little soft toys for children at the children's hospital.  It was a fun activity and these bright colors are just what they like.

The pattern for these are on the humanitarian website, it is a great project.

I wanted to get a picture of this traffic sign.  If you can pronounce all these you are doing better than me.  Almost all our intersections are traffic circles which Elder Heninger is getting very good at.  They can be a challenge at times.  You may end up entirely going a different direction than you wanted.   

It's why we see a lot of these on the road....

and sometimes these...

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Good luck as you travel down the road of life.  Don't forget your map.  Our map is the scriptures and we don't go very many places without them.  It doesn't matter what mode of transportation your using, just don't forget your map!!