bianchi!

Happy Pday one and all!

So weird that it's going to be Mother's Day; wasn't it just Thanksgiving?

Things here are wonderful. Samuel is getting baptized next Thursday! He's so ready and having his interview with the District Leader on Saturday and no one in the ward will believe us. I guess he's studied a bit with the missionaries in the past and had a baptismal date and obviously it didn't work out, so the peeps in the ward just kind of smile and say "Oh, that's nice" and think it's quaint we think he'd going to follow through, but HE IS! He has a testimony of everything, even freaking decima which we taught yesterday, he's toats ready. He even told us how he hadn't read the Book of Mormon for a few days and then bore testimony on how much better his life is when he reads. This kid is golden.

And have I told you about Silvia? Our other Baptism date that we met last week? Super rad, from Moldavia, 28 and beautiful and wanting to change her life. We saw her a bunch last week and it's really cool to watch the Spirit work with her. The first time we talked about the Book of Mormon she was kind of confused and a little preoccupied and just wasn't really getting it. Then Monday night we were reading together in 2 Nephi 2 and she was explaining all the verses we were reading, totally getting it. And she had been really stressed and distracted when we started our litle lesson, but as we read and talked she got more and more peaceful and stronger, like she was ready to go fight against all the things in the world trying to keep her from being really happy.

Yesterday we had a bunch of cancelled appoitments, i.e.,God had better plans for us. We then needed to go find some people to teach. We found Jose, from Bolivia, sitting on a bench at the park. It was about noon and I was feeling super weird because we hadn't taught any lessons yet, and I just wanted to teach somebody. Jose was, as all people are, a little startled when we started just talking to him, but then he told us about how his Dad reads the Bible for peace and strength when he had free time, and we taught about the Book of Mormon and Joseph Smith and he was really interested and there was a cool spirit there. And at the end we asked if we could pray with him and he said, "Yeah, sure."

We explained how we pray with out our words so that we can really have and strengthen a relationship with God, and then I prayed for all of us and for his Dad in Bolivia, just short and sweet. And we finished and he paused and quietly said mi e' piaciuto. We're meeting him tomorrow to give him a copy of the Book of Mormon and teach the whole restoration.

Also we've finally been able to see our Brazilian Jessica again, whom I love and is so ridiculous. I don't know why she just loves me and last night she had us come over and she ordered take out Chinese and we read Alma 32 together and I testified like crazy that the Book of Mormon can change her life because she can know that she is a daughter of God and that Christ is her savior. She's got some kind of funny ideas, like that Christ wasn't perfect, which would make the atonement impossible. But she had read the chapter we had left her, here's hoping she'll keep reading. If people will read the Book of Mormon, their lives will change, punto.

Two members gave us old Bianchi bikes this week that are super awesome, and we're getting them fixed up today and I can't even wait. Especially since it hasn't even been rainy this week.

Favorite language sbaglio this week was when I said mal in gonna instead of mal di golla (Evil in my dress, not sore throat). Oops, luckily I was talking to Jessica and she thought it was hilarious.

Been reading some really cool chapters in Romans this week. Paul is the man. Love you all! Can't wait to see your cute little faces Sunday. Also, if you haven't sent my running shoes, a request, that you send more of the vitamins I got from Whole Foods. Rainbow light women's one food-based vitamins, and maybe the calcium ones too.

Anyway. Love to you all. Praying for you all the time and I know that the best thing I could be doing to help all of you is to be here serving, so, you're welcome.

xoxoxo
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