Salvatore, Nuns, Colosseum

Helllloooooooo (Seinfeld)

so many good things this week!

1. quote from smed "if i was God i would probly kill all my children

out of frustration" "oh wait, he DID do that before."

2. New missionaries- Sorella Openshaw from Orem and Anziano Wright

from Massachusetts who says "freak" is a bad word there. oops. ha.

he's an awkward child.

3. I TALKED TO NUNS ON THE BUS!

I gave one a restoration pamphlet and she read it then and there. I

was so excited! I've been wanting to for weeks and weeks to ask them

if we should call them "suora" or "sorella" and why there are so many

different colors of nun clothes (p.s. she said either name, and that

it depended on the "community" you come from)

4. Prince asked us this week about fasting, and if he could pay

someone to fast for him. No Prince. We decided to postpone his

baptismal date indefinitely because of questions like that.

5. SALVATORE'S BAPTISM. was the greatest thing ever!

I'm gonna add a voice recording i did the night of that i did with

smed's recorder, it's kind of obnoxious, but i thought it would be

fun. but for those who dont get it:

We sang I feel my Savior's love. Me and Sobe did alto part. lovely.

Anziano Fenn baptized him. Several of our investigators came: Michele,

Galvino, Dario. Galvino kept asking questions about their clothes and

the water because for some reason the idea of getting wet was strange

to him. He thought the clothes were made of rubber so you wouldnt get

wet. No Galvino, you have to go under, just like Jesus.

When Anz. Fenn started the prayer he choked up half a second, it was

so sweet. And then when Salvatore came up he paused for a second with

his eyes closed as if the heavens were opening to him in his mind, and

then turned and smiled so big and hugged Fenn. I lost it. Me and Smed

were crying so hard and we hugged for a long time, all the while

Galvino saying "Christian, why are you crying? You're crying!" "SHUT

UP OLD MAN!" ok, i didnt say that, but he was interrupting the moment.

7. Got yelled at for the first time by a lady because we were ringing

the citofonos on peoples houses and asking them if they wanted to hear

a message about Jesus or eternal families or peace and joy.... She

"spoke for her whole building" that nobody wanted us there. "We're not

of your religion!" "That's exactly why we're here to teach." Oh cranky

pants old ladies.

8. Pday today- we're emailing a little later cuz we hit up Centro Roma

today. Colosseum, Piazza Venezia, and saw a huge church where a saints

ARM is. love that.

The Colosseum.

THOUGHT:

We taught plan of salvation twice yesterday, to Galvino and then to

Michele and Dario. They were all very accepting. And it was extra

sweet cuz Galvino brought a pic of his deceased wife Angela and we

said "Galvino! You're gonna see her again!"

But in all this teaching some truths stood out really strong to me:

God loves us so dang much, and he doesn't want to condemn to fire and

brimstone, and He won't, that's why there's 3 kingdoms. He gives us so

many chances to turn to Him and accept Christ.

I read today in DandC 101: "for in this world your joy is not full,

but in me your joy is full." as I was doing a study about how we

receive the most joy and peace and love from Christ.

Loves and snuggles,

Sorella Cajin Rain