This week has a been a fantastic week. First, let us start the
reading off with a few laughs to make the belly jiggle in delight.
Story 1) the scarying rival continues with Sorella Burkman, and she
is currently ahead. The little sneak found some silly puddy and managed
to sculpt a veryyyy accurate lizard in a way that could put
Michaelangelo to shame. Well I peacefully kneel down to pray when I
glance up an notice a HUGE lizard right by my head! I let out a cute
squel and the Burkster starts roaring with laughter. But I am faster
than her and managed to crawl after her until she found safety in the
bathroom. She refused to come out for a solid 20 minutes. The game
continues, I shall prevail.
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| "Clearly enjoying the land of Pizza. Just discovered order in." |
Story 2) we have an investigator who speaks English
but apparently doesn't understand English very well (he is from Nigeria).
Well we taught the Law of Chastity and I had to dumb it down and be as
frank as possible with him so he would understand. I literally say, "God
asks that we do not have sex until after we are married" and a huge
pine cone falls out of the tear, coming centimeters away from knocking
me out. He was all laughter and thinks he is a sign from God trying to
shut me up. hahahahahaha nice try getting around that commitment bud.
Now onto the latest missionaryesk news. This week we
made huge progress! We have 3 new investigators and 1 new baptismal
date! Brown came to us a referral from the office and we travel by train
about 25 minutes to teach him. He is from Nigeria and knows the bible
SOOOO WELLLLLLL! He asks reallllly tough questions and teaching him is a
huge pleasure because he makes you think fast and outside the box.
Currently he is struggling to believe the BoM is the word of God and we
are planning lessons around testifying the BoM teaches hand in hand with
the Bible about Christ. He has a true desire to follow Christ and has
incredible faith. He would look great in baptismal white! We found Ivo
at a bus stop we were waiting at and he is from "yugoslavia". We
taught him for the first time on Friday and he came to church on Sunday!!!
WOO HOO!!! He is catholic but he said the restoration makes sense to
him so he is progressing wonderfully. Our newest victim is Destiny, a
man from Nigerian who studied with the sisters about 1 year and half
ago. We are taking it slow with him because he knows a lot but has mixed
a lot of up it up in his head. Pray for these wonderful men!
My favorite moments this last week included
1)
Louisa: We took her a message from our favorite scriptures and hymns.
We brought her a hymn book and she LIT UP! She sang right along with us
and then remembered a few of her old favorites that she sang. She had
tears in her eyes and I nearly lost it. The growth she has made is
incredible. When I first met her she was smoking 4 packs a day, never
smiled and wouldst read or pray. Now she has read through Mosiah, is
allllll smiles and laughs like a young girl all the time. I will be
destroyed when saying goodbye to her because as she has progressed I feel
like i have progressed as a missionary. She started off being
absolutely nothing to anyone and now she understands that God loves her,
Christ loves her and I love her. My favorite person from Rimini.
2) Louis: is an "eternal investigator" that has now
started making true progress. He is drawn to the priesthood as a man but
doesn't understand that it is different than what other religions offer.
We had a lesson with him about the priesthood and I shared the Alley
family priesthood history. Being able to show that we can trace our
family priesthood back to Christ truly amazed him. I love teaching about
the priesthood because it is form of communication with God that
everybody wants! boooooom
3) La Famiglia Bazan: We have visited the Bazan
family a few times and they are awesome members! They have two sons (17
and 14) that are incredibly loving and playful. Whenever we are with
them it reminds me of home and how goofy and wonderful our family is.
This family was not active until a year ago and we found it fitting to
share the story of the title of liberty. We each made our own titles of
liberty and shared them with the family. After we left, we sent a thank
you text and the next morning Alan (17 years) sent us a text back saying
that after our lesson he decided he wanted to serve a mission and is
going to start preparing and wants to help teach with us! It was a
tender mercy from the Lord to let us know we ARE making a difference.
Well that about sums up the week, pictures to follow later! I love you all!
I
challenge each of you to give out a pass along card this week. Really,
it is not that scary and it will make the work just a tinnnny bit
easier for some future missionary. DO IT!
sempre,
Sorella Alley
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| "Luigi gave us a tour of his boat. He basically combs the bottom of the sea and makes it nice and flat! It was pretty cool! "
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| "Sorella Burkman (obviously the black nun) and I in the future... " |
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| "classic italian bici" |
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