Sickness Strikes Back

Dear Family,

This week was pretty dang good.

Today for Pday, we saw the Vatican Museum, which includes the Sistine Chapel. It was really cool. We kept getting harrassed by street vendors, and we decided it was because of our hair. At one point, I had lost my patience, and I said, "That's it! I'm dying my hair!!!" Hahaha. My hair is still it's natural color right now, but one day I might crack and dye it.

So, I have been feeling better, but whatever I had last week has been spreading. Sorella Samuels was sick this week, which made things hard at times, but the week ended up to be a good one.

On the Lizbeth and Michael front, things are going really well. In one of our lessons this week, she told us that she wants her son (who is 4) to go on a mission when he is older. :D We had a family home evening with them last night and a family in the ward (the Arrondi family), and it was great. We watched the Restoration, and the Spirit was really strong. The evening was actually mostly in Spanish, and it was really cool. It has been cool to see the gift of tongues really working. They talked in spanish, and we would respond in Italian. We talked, and eventually the topic changed to the temple, and how we can be together with our families forever. Sorella Arrondi talked about what a blessing it was, and how beautiful it is that everyone in the temple wears white. Then we talked about how people can be sealed after being baptized for a year, and how the Rome temple will be completed in a little over a year. Michael told us that a while ago, he was looking for a church in Rome. He was asking around, searching, and then a few days later, we were at his house. It is so funny how the Lord puts us places to find people who are ready. We found Lizbeth because we had taken the wrong bus. I am really excited for them. Keep praying for them! They are ready for baptism, they just need their testimonies strengthened a little bit.

This week we taught one of our English Course Students, Simon, the Restoration. He seemed to really like it. He accepted the baptism date of March 29, so pray for him as well.

This week was also Zone Conference, and Stephen B. Allen came. He kind of chastised our mission for being a low baptizing mission. At first it was kind of shocking, but it was a really big push to try even harder. People have their agency, but also I can always talk to more people, or do other things better. In our mission, we just got texting a few weeks ago, and they hinted that maybe after general conference we might be getting some other technology that other missions have, such as using the computer/facebook/maybe ipad for proselyting. We are still pretty old school in this mission, so it will be interesting to see what happens if we get technology.

LOVE YOU ALL!

HAVE A GREAT WEEK!

Love,

Sorella Worsham