Ciao tutti!

This week has been pretty good. We were waiting at the station for Mike, our african investigator who has the Twi Book of Mormon and before he got off the bus a member just pops us and says that he has time to teach the lesson with us:) Mike is so sweet and really wants to change his life. He keeps telling us that he knows the Book of Mormon is of God because when he reads it he understands that he needs to make changes in his life to be better.

Giovanni called us and he came to church. He told us that he is feeling really bad lately and he knows that he is not good at keeping committments. We explained how once one makes the choice to get baptized they will face much adversity, for it is the best thing for their lives and Satan does not want that. We have been praying a lot about how we can help Giovanni make and keep this committment of baptism and we both feel that we should set another date with him, but this time not give it so much in advance. Plan the baptism even the next day if we need to. I think that people think that in order to be baptized one must be perfect, they must understand it is part of the process of becoming like Christ, not the event to make us exactly like him.

This week we have been preparing for the Festa di Halloween. The members gave us the idea of having this "American Party" so they can have a reason to invite their friends of other faiths and they can get to know us. I think it is a great idea, but I have been feeling that a lot of precious proslyting time has been lost to prepare for it. I have learned that good planning and organization from the beginning is impertive as not to waste time. Thank goodness for the mission in teaching us youngsters how to plan, for it really is inspired. We can be so much more effective if planning is done before and then the spirit will want to strive with us even more because we will have order.

We had a finding miracle! So usually we take the car to church because it is so far away. Well, he invited a ton of people(pretty much a tribe of africans) to church and told them all that we would need to meet them at the bus station to show them how to get there and what bus to take. So we parked the car at the church early, walked the 30 minutes to the bus station, just to take the bus back to the church:) On the way to the bus station we met a man named Gabriele. He was super nice and told us that one day he would like to come to our church. When we arrived at the bus station not a one investigator or contact that we invited and said they would come was there! BAH! We called them all and they made some excuses of why they couldn't come, lame sauce excuses (just a reminder to all of you"sacrifice brings forth the blessings of heaven"). I was a little sad that we walked all that way just to meet no one. Well, we got on the bus to go back to the church and guess who was on the bus, Gabriele! We got to talk to him some more and now we have his phone number and an appointment tomorrow to meet with him! We needed to take that little jaunt to the station so we could meet Gabriele. Sometimes it seems like nothing is working out as we planned and we get discouraged, but it is just another plan taking form. We have to sempre look for the little miracles each day, even in the disasters.

I love you all!

Love, 

Sorella Comollo