Hey I guess you are wondering what the subject heading is about. Well I will tell you. Next week we are having a zone confrence in Varna on friday, because of this our P-Day is temporarly being moved to thursday. This means that I will not be able to write you guys until the thursday of next week. Yea it is going to be terreble but hey it is only for one week and then everything is going back to normal. Anyway lets get started with this week.
Monday:
Well you already know about monday and the trip to Veliko Turnivo. Well after writting you guys we caught a train back and instead of two and half hour travel time like in the morning the train took us 5 hours to get back home. Well that was unexcpected but we were still able to get out and work for about two hours before bed.
Tuesday:
First thing we did after our morning studies was that we meet with the other elders to go over the former investagators in our area book to see if any of them were people that they were teaching. Well after looking through the area books (yes we have two one just filled with former investagators and the other is the normal everyday use one) we only found about 4 and then we split ways and went and had lunch. After lunch we cleaned our apartment because we didn't get a chance to on monday do to the train taking way to long. Also our apartment was turning into a disaster zone and we needed to get it done. After cleaning we went out surveying/tracting for a while. Something funny that happened is that we gave a book of mormon to a lady and then she tried to pay us ten lev for it. After talking with her for about 30 minutes on how we couldn't take it we finally were able to leave her. We then had a language study before our meeting with Tihomir. He is the member that was inactive for a long time and just mysterosly turned around. We are meeting with him once a week to reteach him everything. This week we retaught him the plan of salvation and the lesson went really well. We then had a meeting with Miroslav our investagator who is getting baptized. Elder Neueswander went with me to meet him at least once before the interview. We taught him about prayer again and the lesson went really well. After the meeting we got our companions back and went back home for bed.
Wednesday:
After our studies we had district meeting and then it was basicly surveying and member hunting the rest of the day with little success.
Thursday:
In the morning after our studies we went surveying and then had lunch and language study and then more surveying. Then we had the baptismal interview with Miroslav. The interview went great and he is all ready to get baptized this saturday. After the interview we had english class again. And to answer some questions at english class we give a spiritual thought at the end of the class and then we will invite them to church and to take the lessons. If there is somebody that we feel needs to be taught or shows interest in the spiritual thoughts we invite them personaly. Angelina from Pleven was a english student so it does work it just is slow and like everything else her the people aren't very reciptive to the gosple. After english we went back home for dinner and bed.
Friday:
Basicly contacting/surveying/tracting all day until four o' clock. At four we weekly planned and then had dinner. After dinner we met with Miroslav to plan for his baptisim and who he wants to do what, and he wants me to baptize him. I am happy and excited for that, but I also wish he would have picked a member so he could have that special bond with them. Anyway I am really excited for the baptisim and it should be amazing and awesome. After the meeting with him we went home to bed.
Saturday:
We had english right after our morning studies and ten we had lunch and surveyed all day. We did clean the church at 3:30 but other than that it was just surveying and surveying.
Sunday:
Church was good. I taught gospel prinicples and since Miroslav was the only investagator there and we hadn't taught him about priesthood. The class was a lot of fun but I always feel like I am buchering the language whenever I have to teach our talk for a long time. At the end of church we had lunch and then went and taught Irie a member that knows perfect english and used to work for carnivel cruise line. The lesson was really cool and at the end of it he asked us if we would help him fill out his mission papers. We instantly agreed and said anytime anywhere. It will be so cool to see him go on a mission. After the lesson Elder Dropla was getting a fever so we headed back home and where inside the rest of the day. His fever broke before we went to bed, but it did get high before then so it was a good idea to head in.
Monday:
Well the other elders are in Sofia for passport work again and so we aren't going to be traveling today. We are actually going to take it easy so that Elder Dropla can fully recover so he doesn't have a relaspe.
Everything is great here and I am having the best time on my mission with Elder Dropla and it feels amazing. I hope you all are doing great back home and are keeping the spirit with you.
Love,
Elder Austin James Ewell
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