Jay Family Missionaries

Hey,

Thanks for letting me know that you didn't get some of my emails, hopefully it's fixed now, for those who didn't get them.

This week was good.  Both of our people that got baptized last week were confirmed this Sunday, and we have set a baptismal date for the grandpa, Mihai.

This week were were able to teach a lot of lessons.  We ran out of copies of the Book of Mormon on Sunday and we had only one left (one that we had found in the apartment that some sister missionary had decorated and written in to be given to someone named Mariana, but the book had never made it to her) and we needed two more lessons.  We were knocking in a bloc and there weren't very many people answering the doors.  It was a huge bloc that had about a hundred doors inside.  We had gotten to about the 70th door, I think, without finding anyone that we could talk to at that time (we did get a few people's numbers).  We were talking about how there weren't very many people opening the doors, but we don't need lots of people to open lots of doors, we just need a few to open them and let us in.  Just as we were talking about that we walked down the stairs to the next floor and knocked on the door.  A woman answered the door and she let us in to talk to her.  It was going pretty good when her husband came in, and caused a little interruption and started voicing his opinions and questions.  We thought he would ruin it, but he didn't, he stopped and listened to what we had to say.  After a little while their son came and sat down with us too.  We asked how old he was, 15, and we told the family about Joseph Smith's experience.  It was very powerful.  It has been our goal to teach families, and what we thought would be one lady turned out to be her family.  Each of them committed to read the Book of Mormon, even the husband.  At first he was saying that he didn't have enough time to read it, so I turned to his wife who had said that she definitely had time and told her maybe she should read it out loud so that her husband could hear.  Everyone laughed really hard and the husband took the book and flipped through it.  There were a few passages marked for the person that it was intended to be given to, and he stopped and read one of them about faith.  Then he said "I'll read it."  It was cool how that worked out.  Usually I don't mark anything in the books that I give away, but it seemed to be perfect for him, so thanks to that previous sister for marking up the book for them.
They really liked us, and the husband said that usually he doesn't like to talk to people like us or to priests or just about religion in general, but that he really liked talking to us.  We were able to schedule a time when they would all be home so we could come and teach their family again.

We got one lesson short of our goal for the week, but most of our other goals were exceeded.
Things have kind of been falling into our hands recently.  The girl that got baptized came to church and that's where we met her.  The other girl who walked into the church looking for us during English class, Ema, has a baptismal date now.
And there was another time when we were on the metrou and some guy tapped on my arm and asked us if we were from the Mormon church and asked if he could meet with us sometime.
Another time we were walking down the street back from lunch after district meeting with all of the missionaries in our district and there was a big group of people having a party outside a bloc (they were all moving back in after having been kicked out because it had some problems that needed fixing) and they started yelling "Mormons, mormons!" so we all went over and talked to them.  The people that Sora Holman and I talked to were a part-member family, of a less-active member that I had met on the street last transfer.  The elders found some cool people in that group too.  They knew about us from the member that lived there, he is apparently a really good member-missionary because a lot of them knew at least a little about our church, like the Word of Wisdom.
So it's cool how people have been finding us recently, especially since we spend so much time looking.  I guess it's the way that God shows us that it's his work.
When you put forth the effort and the faith, things work out.  Every week we get closer to the goal of 200 baptisms.

It's cool getting those pictures from you guys.  I think I can save some of them onto my camera and print them off to show to people.
I attached a picture of the primary here and one of my district.  Two of those elders finish their two years today, so they will be headed home tomorrow.

Thanks guys.
Love,
Sora Jay