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| English Course Party |
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| English Course Party |
This week has been awesome!! Last Tuesday we had the best
English course party! The theme was country and everyone loved it! We taught
them all a line dance, sang country songs, ate lots of food, and had a photo
booth. Best themed party! Then at
English course on Thursday, I decided to share a thought about the BOM and we
wanted this Mormon message about this bishop in London and how he feels about
the BOM. After we watched it, we all bore testimonies and invited everyone to
take a BOM. 8 students took a BOM! It was awesome to see them all holding one
and reading it!
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| Cutest couple in Italy |
This week during planning, we were looking at all our
investigators. Right now we had about 12—which is a pretty good number.
However, we were thinking about them and we realized most of them we hardly get
to see and we feel like they have no real intent so we decided to drop over
half of them. But we feel like this will
help us focus on those who are really keeping commitments and find better
investigators. So right now we have Gerardo, who is still gone on vacation but
he drove all the way to Battipaglia so that we could have a lesson. This week
he has read over 10 chapters in the BOM and promised us that when he come back
(should be this week) he will come to church every Sunday!
Martina. She was first the investigator of the Elders but
now she is ours. She is almost done with first Nephi! She and two other girls from English course
went up to Rome this week with the Scherbels and they got to see three past
missionaries—Sorella Ghio, Anziano Duffin, and Anziano Ostler who all gave great
spiritual thoughts and testimonies that really helped these girls out. Then
Martina came to church Sunday!! I love
that girl!
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| Lesson with Martina...Do we teach the gospel or Harry potter? |
We had a great lesson with Giovanna this week about the tree
of life, she really liked all the symbolism. We reminded her of her baptismal
date for the 4th of October and she is still preparing…but she did
not come to church again this Sunday…we don’t know why yet…she didn’t answer
her phone.
Yesterday all of Italy had a fast for the workers at the
temple. I don’t know what’s going on, but there’s a great opposition to the
temple and the workers keep running into problems. Well mostly because they’re
used to making a perfect building…most building here fall apart after a few
years. Anyway pray for the temple! We need it so bad here in Italy!!
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Okay I have two major miracles today… On Wednesday we were
on the train home from Battipaglia when this old man sat by us. He said he saw
a huge group of missionaries like us last week and wanted to know who we were.
We briefly explained the restoration and the
BOM. While we are talking, I notice this couple on the seats next to us
shameless listening so we start involving them in the conversation and they
wanted to look at the BOM. Then this family behind us are like “what’s going
on? Who are you guys?” And before we know it…almost the whole cart is being
quiet and listening to us explain the BOM while we are trying to be as loud as
we could. This lady asked us for a BOM and if we could exchange numbers. We
gave everyone else pass along cards as our stop came up. It was awesome!
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| This says "I'm a believer, don't knock Jehovah Witnesses!" |
2nd miracle: We had a great scambio with the
sisters from Pozzouli this week! Sorella Baker and I were together for the
afternoon and we had this lesson lined up with a member and her friend. We get
to this member’s house…and no one is answering. We hear someone hushing the dog
so we know they are there, but they’re not letting us in (which is weird, they
always let us in!) so we decided to do more finding. We had an appointment at 6
so we headed towards the church. It was raining and there was no one out and we
had extra time and we were like well what do we want to do? Sorella Baker said
that she heard that if we do English course for casa in casa people are more
likely to let us in. Now a little back ground on how I feel about casa in casa
(knocking on doors), my first transfer…we did it all the time and we NEVER got
let in so then I decided there is a better way to do finding. Since Jehovah
Witnesses always knock on doors and everyone hates them, no one will open to
us. I’ve done casa in casa on my mission when we’ve had extra time…and again, I’ve
never been let in. So I’ve kind of lost all faith in it. Nevertheless, I said okay why not, lets do casa in casa. We
both look at this apartment complex and decide to try it. We push the very
first button, say we are doing English Course, and this girl says “Salite,
Salite!” (come up! Come up!) I stand there in shock…did I just get let in? We
go up and find this 23 year old girl who is doing school online and has to take
an English exam in two months, but really needs some help. She told us how she
was praying that morning for help and then here we are! An answer to her
prayer! Then her mom comes in and starts asking us who we are. Then she leaves
and comes back with three bibles: catholic, Jehovah witness, and Evangelists.
She tells us how she was born Catholic, but knows that church is corrupt and
wrong. She doesn’t like the Jehovah witnesses, and right now she’s studying
with the Evangelists. She looks at us and asks us what we have to offer. There was
the sweetest spirit in the room while we told her about the Restoration and the
BOM. She asked where she could get the BOM and I told her I wanted to give it
to church. The mom and daughter both willingly accepted to read the BOM and we
have an appointment Tuesday. Sorella Baker and I just walked out, looking at
each other completely amazed…We have two new investigators from casa in
casa!!!! I GOT AN INVESTIGATOR FROM CASA IN CASA! My mission is now complete! I
can come home (not really. I’m never coming home!)
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| The view from my apartment. |
Anyway I love being a missionary! I love these miracles that
God shows me everyday! I love being able to share the gospel and help people
out!
Sorella Knudsen
p.s. The Knudsen family has THREE missionaries out right now! Wahoo!
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