Week 59

(Week 6 Rome)
"We went fishing..."

Doing some good casa a casa, (house to house).

Subject line this week comes from an African friend we met. He asked us who we were
and after explaining he asked us how many people we had fished. I
loved it because we really are fishers of men! Now the term "finding"
is "fishing"!

This week has been absolutely crazy! Monday night transfer calls, (we
are staying) and then Tuesday we got a call saying two more Sorelle
were moving into our apartment! What!?!? Haha we were so surprised but
we love it now! So in this ward there are now four Sorelle, two
Anziani, and a senior couple.

Best part of the week, Sorella Erickson and I prayed over a map of our
area to try doing some apartment to apartment and we had soooo much
success!!!! We found an awesome family that we will be seeing
Wednesday and were able to teach some other people the restoration!
Seriously have never seen success like this while doing this! Super
huge thanks to my dear companion who just had crazy faith during the
whole "fishing" experience!

Funny/miracle: Sunday evening we were going to pass by a less active
and poor poor Sorella Erickson's feet were all blistered and we were
asking all sorts of people if they had any bandaids. The less active
wasn't home and as we were heading down a hill a man stopped us and
was like, I have seen you missionaries everyday for these last four
days! Haha he is from Bologna up north and was here is Rome. He ended
up calling an Anziano Hoggan or something from the Milan mission
thinking we knew each other! Haha super crazy! Anywho, on the way back
to the metro station a man we had previously asked for a bandaid came
out with a rag we tore into pieces to wrap her foot. I washed off her
foot and wrapped it all up and then we were able to teach this man
Sergio the Restoration! Turns out he had meet missionaries before and
even already had a Book of Mormon! Miracles come from injured feet!

Another highlight was when we had an awesome leadership conference
this week and after we ate hamburgers! The best though was to just see
how much faith our President and Sorella Pickerd have for us
missionaries. I'm so grateful to serve with such amazing other leaders
and all the other missionaries in our mission.


Matthew 4:19-20

Have a great week!
Sorella Nelson!!!

Pranzo at the church with member friends.

The two new Sorelle in Rome!  Four sisters now!

Sorella Erickson gave her first talk today!!  So proud!

Sunday pranzo!

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Anziani love to take selfies on our ipads...

P-Day adventures...

When Jesus was baptized with drops of water....

Week 58

(Week 5 Rome)

Just a great week :)

This transfer is coming to a close and Sorella Erickson and I were
looking at our list of potentials and investigators and we couldn't
believe how many names have been added in these five weeks. Only two
people are really progressing, but it amazed us just how many people
there are that the Lord has blessed us with. In this short time we
have been super busy with members, going to parks, talking on buses,
and doing everything we could to just have someone to teach. Well, we
have been teaching and testifying and it's never been so great!
Spreading a message of truth with everyone is the most rewarding job.

Cool experience that happened this week... There is a super great
couple that lives by the Anziani and us. We've given them a Book of
Mormon and a restoration phamplet and have tried meeting with them but
they've just always been too busy. Well... I got a phone call Saturday
night from the brother of the husband of this couple saying he has
read the phamplet and has started the Book of Mormon and wants to be
baptized! What!?!? Probably the most amazing phone call I have ever
received in my life! He will be meeting with other missionaries in
Rome this week! Hopefully the couple that lives by us will come
around! This couple would be amazing missionaries! They already are
and they aren't even members!

Scambio! "Exchange" with the Rome 5 Sorelle! These sisters are none
other than my old dear companion Sorella Taylor and her greenie
Sorella Frogley. We had such a great scambio in our Rome 1 area and in
the morning we decided to send our greenies alone to a member
appointment and we would go do some finding. We went to a park and we
ended up finding a man who we teach there often so we read a little
bit in the Book of Mormon with him. Afterwards we saw two young girls
who had just finished exercising, sitting on a blanket so we decided
to go teach them. They are incredible! Biggest finding miracle from
the week! They are sisters, one is 16 and the other is 20. They don't
believe in the Catholic Church, but they go anyways because they want
to be close to God. They are superstars when it comes to responding to
our questions and we are so so so excited to meet with them again! I
was very grateful for the faith of Sorella Taylor and what a great
example she is for me! It was really great teaching with her after all
this time as our language is better and we feel like we now know what
we are doing. I'm super grateful for wonderful Sorelle in our zone!

Scambio "exchange" gelato with past comp Sorella Taylor.

Sorella Taylor's greenie Sorella Frogley.

Our cute greenies together!

One moment I never thought would happen: we had a dinner appointment
with two sister in the ward to they met us right outside of the
Vatican City to go to a restaurant. It ended up being a Japanese
restaurant. I had to laugh that two American missionaries were right
next to the Vatican in Italy eating in a Japanese restaurant with two
Peruvian women. Love the mission :)

The Lord is so good. He loves us and knows us. We are very lucky to
have Him watching our backs and helping us in every moment. Hope
everyone always remembers to pray! He is always waiting for us! This
week I've had some things thrown on me at the last minute like
translating church meetings, teaching second hour, and random tasks
for members and literally the prayer and our dearest Padre Celeste is
the only reason why I was able to do these things. Tender tender
mercies!

Psalms 55:17
Sorella Nelson

Fruit cups on the run!

Dinner with some sisters from the ward.  The restaurant we went to gave us free rings afterwards.

Deep cleaning the freezer. 

An elevator selfie for one month together!