Still kickin!

Hey all! 

So I'm getting in the groove of things in Galati. I'll say that this branch/city has quite a bit of "character" haha. But it's fun. There are some great people here. This past week we have done a lot of English contacting and visited some less actives and an investigator.

Okay I'll be pretty honest. This branch has a lot of problems. They are great people and have great intentions, but there are still lots of things that go wrong. 

The branch president is as active as he can be with his work schedule, which is less than amazing. But he tries his best. There used to be a missionary BP here for a very long time, and when the mission presidents changed, the old Mission president gave the decision to the District president whether or not to keep missionaries as the BP or to have this guy do it, and they put this guy in. Like I said he's a great guy, he's just really busy, so now all four of us missionaries do most of the branch president stuff. 

But we're doing our best to build up the branch here as much as we can. I really want to help this branch. I want to work as well as I can with the members here to help them understand and grow. 

We were discussing it the other day and came up with a sort of district mission statement for the transfer: 

"Our goal is to help investigators become members of the church, to help less-active members become active members, and to help active members become Proactive members."

We feel like it's a good mantra for the transfer. We especially want to help the active members become more firmly rooted in a solid understanding of the gospel. There is so much potential here, we just need to help excavate it. And that's what I hope to begin here.

Well, hope you all have a great week!!!

-Elder DeGraw
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