Well, here I am...

So Galati is pretty fun! My new companion is awesome. His mom is Romanian and so he knew a little bit of Romanian before he came out so his language is pretty dang good for his mission age. He's in his third transfer, so he's just fresh out of training, so I'm his first real change of viewpoint in his mission. He's a great person and a good hard worker and he's doing very well. 

We're really wanting to get a really good English turnout this transfer, so we're working hard towards that. We got some great English posters and we're going to put them up all over, and we're going to do tons of English contacting this week. I really want to help this branch too. I'm really happy so far and am really excited for the rest of the transfer to see what we can do. 

The branch here is quite a bit smaller than Ploiesti, and the members have a few more problems of many sorts haha. The 4 of us elders combined are basically the branch president haha. But the branch has some great members with lots of potential. 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 everybody's doing well! Have such a great week!!!

Love,

Elder DeGraw