The Moment of Truth: Pinata Style

Dear Family,

The long awaited pinata has finally officially been broken! We did a P day this morning as a district and decorated shirts, and surprised the district with the pinata. Basically, it was awesome.

Last week for P-day, Sorella Winston, Samuels, Asher, and I went to La Bocca della Verità (Mouth of Truth). The story is, if you stick your hand in the mouth and tell a lie, it will chomp on your hand, but if you tell the truth, then you are fine. Sorella Asher stuck her hand in it and said, "The Book of Mormon is true!" and she was fine. There you go, folks. La Bocca della Verità says the Book of Mormon is true. :)

This week was pretty great. It definitely had it's ups and downs, because I was sick. We were still able to have a great week. We had five investigators in church again this week, so it was pretty crazy, but it was awesome.  

This Saturday, we had a huge Family Home Evening with Sorella Bretti, a woman in our ward who has been helping us with missionary work lately. She has been coming with us to the Peruvian Family (Lizbeth and Michael), and so she invited them, along with a bunch of people from South America to come to this family home evening. It was pretty awesome. It was a very "Mormon" family home evening, with it all planned out. The son conducted, Sorella Bretti gave the lesson, another one of the sons was in charge of the game, and then of course, there was food.

My team won the game, and the losing team had a "punishment."  She made a "cake" which was actually just flour that had been molded into the shape of a cake with a little ball on top. They each had to take a slice off, one by one, trying not to make the ball fall. Whoever made the ball fall had to eat part of it. Hahaha. Good thing my team won! :)

Good news, Michael said he wants to get baptized! He just wants time, which of course is what he needs. They have come to church now three weeks in a row, which is awesome. The ward really loves them. This week is Francesca's (the daughter) birthday, and we have another family home evening planned with them for this Sunday, so that combined with our normal appointments, we will be seeing them a lot this week. We are really excited for them.

Anyway, I hope this week is great for all of you. I love you all!

Love,

Sorella Worsham

Finally Sunshine!

Dear Family,

IT FINALLY STOPPED RAINING!!!!! :D

This week was pretty up and down. It ended on a good note though, so it was a pretty great week overall.

Sorella Samuels and I had five investigators in church this week! It was awesome.

We see our Peruvian family, Lizbeth and Michael and their two little kids, Sebastian and Francesca twice a week now, and they told us that they want us to come over whenever we can. This is great news to hear from investigators. They came to church again this week, and three different families have offered to have them over for a family home evening. This family has been sucked up into this ward so fast. It is a really cool thing to see. We are hoping to have a baptismal date for them this week, so please pray for them!

We picked oranges this week! One of our investigators is in a part member family, and they needed help with their oranges. I've realized orange trees are a lot cooler than the apple trees that I grew up with. I wish Utah had orange trees! Anyway, we did a good service, and then they gave us a lot of the oranges. Doesn't get much better than fresh oranges off the tree.

Yesterday, we had a family home evening with a family in our ward from the Philippines. It was all about unity, and then we ate food. You guys...they know how to do food right. AH! It was so good. Although...in the near future they want us to try a food called bulat (I think that is what it is called). Anyway...it's a fertilized duck egg... So we will see what happens with that.

Anyway, I hope this week is great for everyone. Please pray for me and my investigators. Thank you.

Love you all!

Love,

Sorella Worsham

Speaking Spanish

Dear family,

Pinata has still not been destroyed. We were going to destroy it today, but one of our elders is getting strangely transferred today (official transfer calls are in a week)...so it will have to wait again.

Instead of destroying a pinata today, Sorella Samuels and I decided to go to the Sistine chapel, and check out some of the stuff at the Vatican. It is still rainy, so it should be good.

The ward I am in is very interesting. About half of our ward is from South America, then there are a lot of people from the Philippines, then there are some Americans (because of the embassy), and then the Italians. Some days it feels like I am serving in South America, and the next it feels like the Philippines, and so on and so forth. Anyway, the point is that there are a lot of Spanish Speakers in the ward, and I have been learning some Spanish. :)

Then, this past week we found and started teaching a family from Peru. They haven't been here for very long, so sometimes its hard for them to understand italian. We were teaching, and then I started teaching them in Spanish. My companion was a little bit lost, but it was really cool. Yesterday, I started working on memorizing the first vision in Spanish, and I have about half of it down. It is really fun.

Also, the family from Peru came to church yesterday! It was the best, and everyone was so excited for them to be here. There kids didn't want to leave primary. We are all pretty sure they are going to get baptized. Pray for them!  

This week we did a "Mini MTC" activity. We did some training with the members on how we can all work together. My part was teaching about Preach My Gospel, and how it is usual for everybody. The main point is that there is supposed to be Preach My Gospel in every home, and it really is helpful for everyday problems and questions. It was a good activity.

My birthday was pretty dang fun. My district did a little birthday party at district meeting, and they all told me why they loved me, haha. Then we ate pizza. One of the investigators that we gave to the Elders is a street performer. We saw him, and he started playing happy birthday, and then he sang me a song.

Anyway, this week was great. There were a lot of miracles this week. One of our investigators, said yes to baptism. We just have to figure out the date. Thanks for all the prayers and thoughts in our behalf! I love you all!

Thanks everybody! I love you all!

Love,

Sorella Worsham

Lots of Rain! Turning 20!

Dear Family,

The pinata is almost done. We are going to be putting the final touches on it today. It will be an alien robot thing. We'll see, I guess. It is a surprise, and none of the other missionaries know that we have been making this, so we code named it "Bubblegum". Next P day will be the big reveal. >:)

It has been raining a lot here. Everyone keeps telling us that we are getting an abnormal amount of rain. I always tell them that I think it's following me. I have a pretty interesting track record with rain here in Italy.

It's true. Tomorrow I turn 20. AH! Weirdness!

This week was pretty dang cool. We were able to get four new investigators! It was really rainy, and some of our appointments fell through, so we decided to do door to door. There were some open gates, and open apartment doors, so we were able to go right in. Sorella Samuels said, "Are we allowed to do this?" and I just sort of stopped and said, "You know...it's the only way we really can do this." We walked in, and got some lessons and investigators. It was great!

We tried to go to a university on Wednesday, but we took the bus going the wrong way. We ended up at a golf course and a kennel club. Sorella Samuels and I figured we were already there, and that we would try and do work around there, so we started putting English Course publicity in the mailboxes in the area. I also started putting Book of Mormon pass along cards in as well. Yesterday, we got a text from someone who said they want a Book of Mormon! WOO! See, sometimes it pays to get lost. :)

We actually went to the university the next day because we thought it would be a great place to do English Course Publicity. It wasn't until we were there that we realized it was a Catholic University...

Anyway, this week was a very awesome week. Make this one a good one!

You are all awesome!! LOVE YOU!

Love,

Sorella Worsham