Hey everyone! Sorry about the whole email mix up from last week. I think I either just forgot to hit the send button, or it just didn't go through. I was surprised when I got a call from President Hill telling me to go email my family!
As for the weather, it is snowing pretty hard as week speek, and its been snowing since Saturday! Last week it snowed for a good several days straight, and then there was about 5 or 6 days of freezing temperatures, as low as -11-12 C during the day, and down in the -20s C at night!!! Don't worry about me though, that huge blue scarf Ally made me for Christmas has been keeping me nice and warm! Here in Pitesti there's probably a good 2 or 3 feet of snow. It makes doing missionary work pretty exciting, we've been instructed not to be outside for very long if temperatures get much lower than -10 C. Luckily we have investigators we've been meeting with! That's crazy that the Danube and the Black Sea are freezing over! I hadn't heard about that until just now. I had heard about how in parts of Romania people's houses have been completely covered in snow however. From what I heard, that's only happening in the northern part of the country, close to Moldova.
This week has been pretty good for us, but Sunday was pretty disappointing for the other Elders. They had two investigators who were supposed to come to church who never showed up. One of them, M--- was baptized Wednesday in Timișoara was supposed to get comfirmed, but lives about 50 minutes away from Pitești and missed his bus to come in. The other investigator was A---, who needed to come to church for her second time so that she could be baptized on Tuesday.
Oh yeah, just so you know, transfer results are..............everyone is staying except Elder Staheli who is going Craiova. Elder Bateman's new companion will be Elder Abbott, who is in Elder Cox and Ekins' MTC group. I'm really glad I'm going to be staying here. This will be my 4th transfer in Pitesti!! All in all I will have stayed here for six months by the end of next transfer.
So here's everything new for our investigators:
D--- is still completely on for his baptism this Saturday! In our last lesson he told me that I had been like a guiding angel for him and that he wants me to be the one who baptizes him. I was really humbled by that. D--- has been changing so much. He's a lot more open, and really happy and full of hope! It's so amazing to see how prepared he was to receive the gospel. He's already living every single one of the commadments. Basically lessons go like this: we tell him that Christ taught us so and so or such and such and that in the church we do this and this or we can't do that or that, and he ends up teaching us why its not good to drink alcohol or smoke, or to look at pornography, or why it's important to pay tithing. We only have a few more things to go over with him just to officially check it off on his teaching record and then he is 100% ready. He's even started sharing the gospel with his family! He gets rides to and from work from his older brother and so a couple times he's had them come by the church while we have a lesson with him. The last time he came he brought his two brothers, and we ended up teaching M---, one of the brothers, the gospel and giving him a Book of Mormon while D--- played ping pong with his other brother! They both said that they want to come to church this week as well!
D--- is doing really well also, we had a lesson with him on Thursday and he came to church yesterday. He's still reading from the Book of Mormon, but he hasn't prayed about it yet. Being a member of the military since he was in high school he didn't get very much of a religious education and has never really prayed before. We've been helping and encouraging him to start praying and helping him understand why it's so important to pray every day so that we can develop a personal relationship with God. He hasn't commited to a baptismal date yet, but he knows that he wants to be baptized. I think the main thing holding him back is his family. He really wants his wife to be involved, so we told him to have her come to our next lesson with him. He said he would talk to her about it, and thinks that she would probably be interested in coming.
C--- is still struggling with family problems. He told us that he had talked to his mom about getting baptised and she told him that he was baptized when he was a baby, and doesn't need to be baptised again. He asked me before English on Saturday if it matters whether you were already baptised once or not and I told him the next time we meet up we'll talk about it. He still can't come to church because his mom won't let him. We're just praying that he will be able to find a way to come. We still has a baptismal date for March 3, and we're still working towards making that date a reality, but he's got a long way to go.
We're still meeting with V--- once a week. We testified that we know that the Book of Mormon is true by the power and witness of the Holy Ghost, and the only way he will get his answers is by listening to what God's trying to tell him, not what all the latest scientific and psycological theories say. He had read the Plan of Salvation brochure and in there it references to the Restoration, and he asked us what it meant by restoration, so we gave him a Restoration of the Gospel brochure and told him that we would talk about it next time.
Those are all our current investigators. We're working really hard on trying to find new investigators so that we're always sharing the gospel with someone new, and bringning new people into the church. Something that I'm seeing more and more about missionary work is that it's not necessarily all about how HARD you work, but it's also about how SMART you work, and how COMMITED you are. God always places people in your path, and most of the time it's through people that you already know and work with.
Hope you all are staying cozy and warm over there in good ol' Cali. I look forward to hearing back.
I love you all!
Elder Myers
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