Here's the latest from Elder Phelps!
"Things are still going pretty good for me here. I'm in my fourth week of my 2nd transfer and it is flying by! Crazy. Time flies when you're having fun I guess. But not much is new this week. We didn't get to meet with any of our investigators this week, they were busy/sick/whatever else, but we met with both of them today, in the middle of P-day, so we had to work them in. It's fine though. We need to be flexible because we are here to help other people.
So I got my first haircut here. It was 20 lei that included a wash and everything. We went to a pretty nice salon place. There were a bunch of men there getting pedicures, a little bit weird to me. But yeah, it was like a 6 dollar haircut with a wash, can't beat that price in the US.... haha.
Remember that guy I told you about that called us the anti-Christ? We had another run in with him the other day. He stopped us on our way to teach English class and asked if we had a Book of Mormon, and of course we did. I handed it to him and he began flipping through the pages and kept asking if it was the Bible. We said no, and that we use it to teach about Jesus with the Bible. He then told us to show him where it says "for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son." we said it doesn't say that because there is no book of John in the Book of Mormon and it's not the Bible. He said it isn't valid then. We tried to explain but he was getting snappy. Finally he wrote in the front cover of the Book of Mormon we gave him, "This Bible is not valid, please leave romania." Then crossed out a random page in Alma, handed the book back to me and just turned around and walked away. Super annoying, because now we can't give that Book of Mormon away or the pamphlets in it because he wrote all over them. Oh well. Funny story of the week I guess.
The other Elders have an investigator with a baptismal date, hopefully it doesn't fall through. So that's pretty cool.
I finished reading The Inevitable Apostasy and the Promised Restoration by Tad R. Callister. What an insanely good book. I would definitely suggest reading that one. So much to learn. It gives every reason, logical, spiritual, that our church is true and all the things we do in our church are right. I'm still amazed and I wrote like 30 pages of notes on it in my journal. Super cool read.
As far as missionary work goes, it was a pretty slow week. We gave out some pamphlets and a Book of Mormon while we had our street display set up in the park on Tuesday, and like I said, we didn't have any lessons. We've been trying to contacts some former investigators, but haven't had any luck yet.
The weather here has been really annoying too. One day it's like the North Pole, and the next day 70 degrees. Similar to Utah. But it hasn't snowed here yet. Apparently it does, it just hasn't yet. It rained cats and dogs a couple days last week, and we got drenched. We didn't bring umbrellas because it didn't seem like it was gonna rain, but it poured. We wrang water out of our suit jackets when we got home. yeah it was that wet. And, since the government controls our thermostat, our apartment is always burning hot. I have had to sleep with no covers the last few days.
Oh and check out this video. It's a news coverage program about the church in Romania. Cool program. Understand what you can. Some of it is in English. or if it doesn't work, google search "secretele mormonilor" it means secrets of the mormons....... lame title, but it's way cool that the church got this much press coverage here."
http://www.realitatea.net/reporterii-realitatii_1045469_video.html#view
The video is really awesome, watch it if you can---it's about 18 minutes long.
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