Miracle Time! I dont even know where to begin.
Fiona!
She is a cousin of a recent convert that we have been meeting with for
bout two months. She totally wants to get baptized but we had to set her
date for the 1 feb
because she wanted to get married first. She was married Tribally in
Nigeria but wants a legal marriage in Italy. Well Sunday night we meet
with her and all timid like, she says, "I am really tired of waiting to
be baptized, can I just get baptized and just not see my man until we
are married?" ummmmm, did you just ask to be baptized earlier?! Welcome
to the fold my sister, salvation is just around the corner! After
cleaning her situation with President Dibb and her moving in with her
cousin, she will be baptized Saturday! She is so cute and cannnnnnot
wait to take the sacrament.
Mima! Remember about a month ago when we did
tracting with no results? One day we talked to 73 people and the very
last person, the 73 - was Domenica (Mima). She lost her son 11 years ago
when he was 23 and he has destroyed her happiness. We met with her
before Christmas and it did not go very well, and I got emotional
because I felt so much pain for her and didnt feel like I was adequately
expressing my thoughts and addressing her needs. Well last week, we
took a member Chiara with us and visited her again. COMPLETE switch.
She's reading, defintely experimenting on the word and proving her
Heavenly Father. My personal Miracle, she said that in the moment she
watched me break and share her pain, she felt something and she said in
that moment she knew I would change her life. She has since felt that
Jonny personally sent me to her and we have become very good pals. She
came to church and after words stated, "Wow, I have found more truth and
things I like in 3 hours than I have in 56 years of looking." We met
with her again yesterday and she has accepted a date for baptism. I am
on the Savior's and Jonny's personal errand. My girl Mima needs to find
the joy and happiness this gospel gives people.
Alessandro! He was an area book find and actually
met missionaries 15 years ago. The first night we met him, he asked
where he could buy a quad...what?! So he loves the BoM, PGP, D&C and
church history. hahahaha it's hilarious to talk to him about it because
he knows way more than I do about Church history. And he is also meant
to be Dad's best friend. He read's biographies about Jefferson, Adams,
Washington and then all the church heros, Woodruff, BYoung, all of them!
Well we had another lesson with him on Sunday and let's just say, I
called repentence. I said, "One day you will stand before your Maker and
He will ask you what you have done with the knowledge you have of the
restored gospel. What are you going to do?" Only in Italian it's more
blunt. :) But I turned the time over to the Spirit and he was being
worked on very hard. He thanked me, admitted Fear is keeping him back
but he wants to try now. I have HIGH hopes for him, because he is a
special man who already loves the gospel.
Well that about sums up my week. We had a fantastic
week, 6 investigators in church and wonderful lessons. I honestly love
this work with all my heart even though it's hard, it's painful and
often discouraging. I am becoming my own convert and can feel myself
strengthening each day.
However, don't eat chocolate wrapped in a pretty burgundy color foil.
It's liqueur.
That was a funnier day that usual.
Sorella Alley
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| Raiza, one of my best pals in Lodi! She is incredibly smart and loves to
learn. I curled her hair one day while we were at her house for lunch and she loved it!!" |
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| "If I had 1£ for every time I told my companion to stop before they crashed, I'd be 10 £ richer." |
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