O Altă Sâptămână în Viaţa Misionarului - Another week in the life of a missionary

Hello again everybody!

So another awesome week has just passed, and another awesome week is just beginning! Today the zone is going to Lipova, a town about 3 hours from Deva (by train) with an ancient castle ruin that we're going to go see and hike in/around. After that we'll probably find a field near the castle and play a zone game of ultimate frisbee or American football.

This week has been great! We've had more miracle finds this week, such as a family made up of a husband, who works as a mechanical engineer, and his wife, who works in the government and is super high up in the ranks (we're guessing the president of the health department or something like that but we're not totally sure because she was kind of vague). They were in town for just one evening they said and hadn't been in town for a while before that because both of their jobs take them all over the country, and they are hardly ever home, let alone home at the same time. They were super on top of everything and were asking all the right questions for us to answer and relate the importance of the restoration of the church and the restoration of priesthood authority. It was a great thing to be able to answer all their questions and leave them with a Book of Mormon along with several pamphlets. They said we could try to catch them at home whenever we wanted and that they'd call us as soon as they had questions. We also found one man in a block this week who apparently has watched the missionaries and wondered what they do for about 10 years now but who has never been contacted. He was really curious and we answered some of his questions and got his phone number and a return visit for this week.

One of the other elders' investigators told us this week that she no longer wants to be baptized on the 27th because... her mom wants to be baptized too and they'd like to make it a family occasion, meaning that they'll wait probably another 2 or 3 weeks.

We had yet another super long lesson with Mirela, the lady with whom we spoke for forever last week in that park, and this time we talked about the Gospel. She's super smart and knew most of the stuff we were talking about already. We set up to meet with her for family home evening tonight with a member family, the Fotea family, which has a daughter the same age as hers. When we called Mirela last night she said she has a lot of questions about modern prophets and that she's been reading a lot about it. Pretty much she's turning into a golden investigator, reading up about what she wants to know and coming to us with all of her concerns (for example on Thursday she asked us what we believe about angels because she read some stuff about them on the internet and didn't get what our church believed).

The work is amazing here! I'm doing great too, I love Deva and I love the people here. They're really relaxed and a lot of them are willing to talk to us. We drew a giant Plan of Salvation with chalk in the park (sorry, I didn't have my camera so I didn't take a picture), and apparently everyone was talking about us in the park. A lady came out (the Plan of Salvation drawing was right next to the entrance) and said "I don't know what you're doing out here, but everyone in there is talking about you!" We asked her if they were saying good things and she said yes, so hopefully we get some good reputation from that. :)

Anyway, I gotta get going so I hope all of you have a great week this week!

Ciao!
-Elder Abbott