Another one in Sibiu!

Hi Everyone!

 

The transfer board is out, and I'll be with Elder C for another six weeks! Yay! I wasn't prepared to hear any other result. These six weeks went so fast that it would have felt like an emergency transfer. And we are both so focused. We won't have any interruption now.

 

Coming to Sibiu to replace Elder D as district leader, will be Elder C from my MTC group! It's going to be great! I can't wait to see him again. And Sora R will be getting Sora O as a new companion, and they will be sister training leaders! There are STL's in every zone now.

 

Our atheist investigator is doing well. While on exchange with Elder Ch, we had a great lesson with him, one of my top 5 favourites in my mission so far. Elder Ch's testimony was so sincere that the spirit entered the room like a wave, and our investigator is really studying hard. He had a spiritual experience when he prayed that puzzled him, and even though he still claims to be atheist, he can't get the experience out of his mind. He was out of town on the weekend and we haven't seen him since the lesson, but when we talked to him on the phone it sounded like he had been doing some serious pondering.

 

We also went to Cluj for a baptismal interview on Thursday! They finally had a baptism! The branch needed it so much. This new convert is a really cool guy. He didn't have a baptismal date until last week. He had a great experience at church, felt really welcome in the branch, then called the elders that afternoon saying that he wanted to be baptized. One week later, he did it!

 

Sibiu is struggling a little more. The branch president and his fiancee were out of town with family (Like all of Romania), and Elder C presided over and conducted sacrament meeting. In fact, us missionaries did everything this week. It was just us 6 missionaries and 6 old men: three of them members and three investigators. But it was good. An Englishman, who now lives in the mountains about an hour and a half away, came and really added a lot to the meeting. He can only come once a month due to the distance, but he is a fantastic, experienced member. He is learning Romanian really well too, and bore his testimony in Romanian.

 

It's been a little discouraging, since I feel like last month I worked the hardest I ever have and the results are meager, but I need faith. I feel I have been pushed to my limits, and though the Lord is supporting me enough to not go past my limits, He is just holding me there for now.

 

Thanks for reading!

 

Elder Lybbert