Ok, this week was NUTS.
Then we saw Mara; she has a bap date for March 7th. She is having a hard time letting go of the Catholic traditions, but I think especially because she has seen such a huge change in her son from when he got baptized, as well as the fact that we asked what she wanted to do once she finds out that the church is true, that she will be baptized and then help us teach her husband :) We love eternal families!!!!
And then we taught the Paris family too; Marco and Noemi. We taught the Plan of Salvation with the little picture cutouts for each part, and they understood so much! Their mom just started crying because when the missionaries taught her the Plan of Salvation (Piano di Salvezza), she left the lesson because she thought the missionaries were crazy. They just accepted it and were trying to wrap their minds around it. AND they came to all three hours of church on Sunday, AND they are getting baptized on the 7th of March as well!!!!! I am so happy with our work here, things are going so well. My companion and I love each other so much and we appreciate the working style we have created in our companionship especially since we did scambios (exchanges) this week. We saw some incredible miracles from the scambio. There was a moment when we were praying to find a mom with her child that we could stop and talk to, and as soon as we opened our eyes we saw them and got their phone number!! And we went to get scambio gelato (tradition ;) and we ran into an Italian-American couple from New York! She is American, he is Italian, and they gave us the name and address of their cousin's restaurant here in Ostia! I love the family-orientedness of these people :)
Also, I found out that we have ancestors from TORINO, ITALY on the Bickerstaff line. In the year 900 AD ;) I knew that if I looked hard enough I would find someone!!! :) It made me really happy haha
Mostly my companion and I are just seeing miracles and the work here is exploding, and we are really happy :) Today I am taking her to see the Vatican Museums/Sistine chapel and then we are going to go to the Spanish Steps :)
I love you all! Thank you for all the continued love and support :)
Vi voglio bene! Grazie di tutto che fate per me, le preghiere e l'amore che sento anche da qui. Siete bravissimi! (I love you! Thanks for everything you do for me, the prayers and the love I feel from here. You are great!)
Con tutto il mio amore, (With all my love,)
Sorella Decker
We started out the week in Cosenza. We had to go to pick up my companion's residency permit. Cosenza, for those who don't know, is in Calabria, which is the "foot" part of Italy. Rome, where I am now, is right in the middle. So we took a metro and a bus to get to another sister missionary apartment closer to the big train station on Sunday night, and we got caught in a rain-hail-snow-thunder storm, and ended up walking almost an hour past their house because they didn't come out to the street to meet us, which was super lame. We had to turn around and come back and we didn't get there until almost 10:30 and we are supposed to be home at 9 and in BED by 10:30. We were wandering around the ghetto of Rome for like an hour :) (sorry Mom!!!) Then we had to be up at 4:30 am (which for anyone who knows me, was the worst possible thing to ever happen to me) so that we could get to the big train station, Roma Termini, so that we could take a £14 train to the airport, which is only a 40 minute bus ride from our house in Ostia, but the buses didn't leave early enough to get us to the airport in time to catch our flight to Lamezia that left at 8:20. From Lamezia we had to take an hour long bus ride to Cosenza, and we were there by 1am. Have I ever mentioned how much I hate traveling? I like the destinations, but getting there SUCKS. We didn't even get to pick up the permit when they told us we would, we had to go back the next morning and get it. So it was a good thing our return flight wasn't until Tuesday night! And we got to do the whole trip in reverse. WOOO!! :P
The week flew by after that though. We taught Susana (the Peruvian woman we met) the Restoration at the home of one of our members, the Cevallos family. They were AWESOME. Last night we fixed a baptismal date with her for the 28th! I am super pumped for her.
Then we saw Mara; she has a bap date for March 7th. She is having a hard time letting go of the Catholic traditions, but I think especially because she has seen such a huge change in her son from when he got baptized, as well as the fact that we asked what she wanted to do once she finds out that the church is true, that she will be baptized and then help us teach her husband :) We love eternal families!!!!
And then we taught the Paris family too; Marco and Noemi. We taught the Plan of Salvation with the little picture cutouts for each part, and they understood so much! Their mom just started crying because when the missionaries taught her the Plan of Salvation (Piano di Salvezza), she left the lesson because she thought the missionaries were crazy. They just accepted it and were trying to wrap their minds around it. AND they came to all three hours of church on Sunday, AND they are getting baptized on the 7th of March as well!!!!! I am so happy with our work here, things are going so well. My companion and I love each other so much and we appreciate the working style we have created in our companionship especially since we did scambios (exchanges) this week. We saw some incredible miracles from the scambio. There was a moment when we were praying to find a mom with her child that we could stop and talk to, and as soon as we opened our eyes we saw them and got their phone number!! And we went to get scambio gelato (tradition ;) and we ran into an Italian-American couple from New York! She is American, he is Italian, and they gave us the name and address of their cousin's restaurant here in Ostia! I love the family-orientedness of these people :)
Also, I found out that we have ancestors from TORINO, ITALY on the Bickerstaff line. In the year 900 AD ;) I knew that if I looked hard enough I would find someone!!! :) It made me really happy haha
Mostly my companion and I are just seeing miracles and the work here is exploding, and we are really happy :) Today I am taking her to see the Vatican Museums/Sistine chapel and then we are going to go to the Spanish Steps :)
I love you all! Thank you for all the continued love and support :)
Vi voglio bene! Grazie di tutto che fate per me, le preghiere e l'amore che sento anche da qui. Siete bravissimi! (I love you! Thanks for everything you do for me, the prayers and the love I feel from here. You are great!)
Con tutto il mio amore, (With all my love,)
Sorella Decker
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