Week 22

What a week! We were super busy all week which truly is the best. We started off the week with a truly amazing lesson! We brought our recent convert to her first lesson to teach with us and goodness she just rocked it! So neat to be able to hear her bear such awesome testimony after only being a member for 2 1/2 months! We had other amazing tender mercies during our two lessons with Marco. With two more of our wonderful members and the power of the spirit he was able to set a date for baptism and he completely quit smoking without us even explaining the word of wisdom to him. This man is so great and it was so touching to hear him after testimony meeting yesterday say that he feels really comfortable here and just how much he loves it all! On top of that, yesterday for church two less active members that we had contacted and said they weren't interested at this time made it to church and the happiness in one of the Sister's eyes it was truly so wonderful! Another wonderful thing that happened this week was stumbling upon what seemed to be an international vortex, we had gone to visit a former investigator who was originally from the Congo and after knocked more of that apartment we contacted this adorable persian family from Iran and though only the granddaughter could really talk to us they were so sweet, welcomed us in and tried their very hardest to help us understand. After them we came in contact with another dad and grown son who were from ethiopia, they couldn't use much english but we were able to set up a lesson and were blessed to be able to find a book of mormon in "amaric?" some crazy language that he wrote out in the characters of the language. Anyways the next day we go to deliver it to them and goodness to see the old man's face when he realized it was in his language, it was so amazing! Another refferal we recieved from the spanish speaking elders in our area was for this 18 year old kid that had prayed for direction and the next day the elders showed up, we had an amazing lesson with him this week and he is just so ready and has no doubt that what we and the elders shared with him is true! So much faith! I love just how much God works in our lives to make sure simple things like that happen and that we are blessed line upon line! There is a beautiful article in this month's ensign about the bread of life and all of the many blessings we truly have, I highly encourage you read it! The work out here is going amazing! I am truly loving it! I hope all is well where ya'll are whatever you may be doing and know that I send my love!

 

Sister Camarella