A Baptismal Date!!

This week Lizbeth set a baptismal date! She will be getting baptized April 26th 2014! That is the day before my birthday, and I think that regardless of if I'm here, or if I have been transferred by that point that might just be the very best birthday present in the whole world. We also received a fantastic referral from Lizbeth. Her name is Joir and she has two little girls and she is very religious. She told us that religion is like when you are sick, you need to go to a lot of doctor's and get a lot of opinions before you can decide what works. I think that sounds exactly like she is searching for something, and I'm really excited to see how this gospel can bless her life.

We also really received a wonderful referral from the mission president. She is a tour guide for the vatican museums, which is super cool. she wants to meet with us in the first week of April because she has a big project that she is working on but we may try to stop by and drop the Book of Mormon off with her before then just to make initial contact.

So Sorella Worsham took a really nasty fall this week going down our hill and is in a lot of pain. She has been trying to truck through it but I finally sat down with her last night and asked to her actually let me know how she is feeling and I think she is in a lot more pain than anyone realizes, and it's been really hard on her. So we have been kind of inhibited by what we can do. However, while she was resting I called every inactive sister on the ward list (we have been working on talking with the members and compiling information on every member on the ward list, and we had finally gathered information on every known member in the ward, so we called every name on the list that no one knew anything about.) Almost every number we called was inactive, but we talked to four sisters who were interested in meeting with us. Two of them hadn't been contacted in 20 years, and one of them said she really wants to help us with missionary work (which she brought up,and it was very confusing to me because usually less actives don't volunteer to help with missionary work within the first 30 seconds of conversation). So on Sunday we had a brief meeting with Sorella Salerno,the relief Society President, where she agreed to get these 4 sisters visiting teachers.

Also we have started having a lot of beautiful experiences with the romanian immigrants who live near our home. We know several of them by name now and they are always excited to see us. Yesterday when we got on the bus this woman Victoria scooted over and invited me to come sit with her. She was so sweet, and we talked about faith for about 15 minutes. she told me that she prays every day, and that she prays that God will remember her sister (who we also know and is wonderful) because she has forgotten her faith. she doesn't attend church (I imagine because she isn't welcomed) but she loves the word of God, and I promised her one in Romanian. We would like to start meeting with her, but we are going to wait till after this Wednesday when we can talk to an elder in our zone who is also working with these immigrants to see how he introduced the idea to the ward. If you all wouldn't mind including these people in your prayers I would really appreciate it, specifically Victoria, Alesseo, and Camren. These three specificaly are prepared to hear the gospel, and I think that if Christ were here he would be sitting with them teaching in their camps.

Loveyou all I hope you have a wonderful St Patrick's day.

Sorella Madyline Spencer