Sorella Nelson: Week 64

(Week 11 Rome)

Keep the Commandments....
This week has been a huge up and down week with our main investigator
Gaetano, he is such a rockstar and LOVES meeting with us and learning
all sorts of new things! We've had wonderful members help teach all
the commandments and he is so excited to be baptized, but he would
refuse to tell his wife about it because she would be super against
it. Well on Wednesday we get a call from him telling us to hurry over to his house to meet his wife!!! What!?!? One day she didn't want to
know anything about us and then the next she had made a dolce and was
super excited to see us! We got to meet her, the granddaughter, and
son of Gaetano and they are soooo wonderful! She is super super
Catholic but we taught the Restoration and it went pretty well! So
Gaetano finally told his wife about his baptism and she isn't super
happy now so we are fasting and praying that she can have a change of
heart. I was super super happy when he still came to church this
Sunday!

Bocca Della Verita! Legand has it if you put your hand inside the "mouth" while lying it will be bitten off..

The Book of Mormon tells the truth!!

This week has just been super full of cool park lessons and meeting
new potentials... We kinda are low on investigators at the moment...

Zinaida, dear Zinaida... We were sooo pumped to see her with our
member Claudia after a lesson with Gaetano and the Salerno couple on
Friday. Well we walk out of the first lesson with Gaetano and Claudia
just gives us a panicked look... Zinaida was COMPLETLEY drunk sitting
on the bench in the church lobby... We hurried and got the Salerno
couple and Gaetano out and then faced this crazy crazy situation!
Zinaida just kept telling us she loved us and all this and thankfully
we had invited Claudia to come with us because we put her in the car
and tried to get her home. I was in the back with her just asking her
random questions to keep her awake, holding a trashcan bag, and
calling random people on her phone to find out where she lived while
Sorella Erickson was up front just cracking up about the situation.
Eventually one of Zinaida's friends came and got her from us. CRAZIEST
MOMENT EVER!

We've been in contact with her in these last couple days and sadly she
was facing a big difficulty in her family and that's why she went to
drink...
After this experience I'm just so grateful for the prophets and the
commandments. What a blessing to know that if we follow the
commandments of God given to us by his prophets we are going to be
safe and happy. My testimony of obedience has grown so much in the
mission. With mission rules and above all else, the commandments I've
seen serious blessings come to those that are obedient. Can't wait to
hear from our dear prophet Thomas S. Monson this weekend!!! I testify
he is called of God!!!

James 1:3
Sorella Nelson