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

Blurry Week

Dear Family,

This week has kind of been a blur. We have been constantly going and going, kind of like the energizer bunny. I am actually having a little bit of a hard time remembering what happened this week. The main thing I remember is that it was really cold, and really rainy.

Yesterday, church was crazy. We had one of our investigators come, and she said she really likes the environment of church. She and I keep talking about the Spirit, which is why she feels good when she comes. She also stayed for a really long time after church, and we had mini lessons with her and different members. It was awesome. She is a little caught up on the fact that we don't use our first names.

We are teaching two cousins right now. One is ten, and the other is thirteen, and they both have member moms. We decided that they both have different needs,  so now we teach them separately. It is a pretty funny compromise. Either we stay for a really long time at their house, teaching one, while the other gets tutored in school, or we teach them at the same time, in different parts of the room. It is pretty funny, and we have to get creative, but we are already seeing more progress in both of them.

Today, Sorella Samuels and I have secret plans to make a pinata. The word "pinata" somehow came up in our english course, even though it's not english. Ever since, we have been gathering supplies to make one. I will let you know how that goes. :)

Anyway, I hope everything is awesome!

Love,

Sorella Worsham

Home Sweet Rome

Dear Family,

This week, Sorella Samuels and I have been working hard, and we feel it. I remember someone saying this, but I don't remember who, "It feels good to be exhausted in the work of the Lord."

...True.

This week we had zone conference, which was awesome, and we started an English course for kids and their parents. We are really hoping this will take off. We had a father and son attend our first class, and we invited them to take the missionary lessons as well, and they agreed! WOO! We have been doing a lot of english course publicity, and we have met a lot of great people along the way. We decided our strategy is to go to schools and libraries, and ask if we can put our posters up there. The first school we went to, we walked into the doors, and one of our members was there!! It was awesome. She basically talked to one of her co-workers and said, "These are my people, let them put their publicity up." It was awesome!! An awesome miracle there.

On Saturday, we had the infamous pranzo lunch appointment with the same member who was at the school. She is infamous in the mission for all the food mishaps. I have never been forced to eat so much food in my life. She really is great...just sometimes her food ends up in our purses...or pockets...or anywhere else. It's all about survival really.

Earlier this week, we did a spiritual thought with the bishop's family about family, and he really liked it. Yesterday at church, the bishop came up to me and told me he did the commitment we left with them. Woohoo! His wife is going to give birth to a baby girl pretty soon, and we are all really excited. We made him promise that he would text us when she is born. We are trying really hard to serve them, and make sure that their life is easier.

Anyway, our investigators are doing great right now. We have a lot of great plans for a lot of them, and we are really hoping for baptism dates set this week. Pray for us!

Anyway, Hope everything is awesome!

Love,

Sorella Worsham

13 Gennaio 2014

Dear Family,

This week was pretty awesome. It has been cool to see how well me and my companion work together. People have been wanting appointments with us! It is cool, because we have a week full of appointments, and then not having space to see everyone, so they just schedule with us for the next week. So now we already have plans for next week. Sigh, it feels good having a lot of work to do, especially after the holidays.

As far as investigators, four of our investigators came to church. :) We have a woman named Marisa, who we taught the Plan of Salvation, and she loves it. She wrote it down so that if anyone ever asked her a question about it, she can pull it out and explain. I love seeing when people learn about the gospel, and then want to share it. It is awesome. We are going to invite her to be baptized this week, hopefully for one of the first weeks of February. PRAY FOR US AND HER please! I feel like she has a lot of potential, and that she is going to rock being a member.

This week, there was the ward talent show. Us missionaries did a skit about a "Dear John" that one of the members wanted us to do. It was pretty fun.

Yesterday we ate dinner with one of the American families in the ward. It was so funny, because that morning, the sisters and I were talking about Mexican food. I literally said, "Do you remember taquitos?" Hahaha. Guess what we ate at dinner yesterday? American Mexican food! It was the best. It's funny, because if you ask any missionary in Italy what food they miss the most...almost 100% will say Mexican food. It was the first time I have had cheddar cheese in almost ten months. It was beautiful. :D

Also, it was pretty interesting this week. My scar on my leg where I got the injury (with the wood) in 7th grade started to hurt. I got a priesthood blessing though, and then ever since, it has been great. I think one of the biggest things I have gained a testimony about on the mission has been the priesthood.

We also visited the bishop and his family this week. It was awesome, and we really became friends with them.

Life is good, the work is good, the Lord is good. :)

Love,

Sorella Worsham

New Years Insanity

Dear family,

It's now 2014!

New Years was crazy. Literally. It sounded like a war zone outside. It's funny, because my companion always sleeps with earplugs, but the rest of us were kept up because it sounded like World War II. It was actually hilarious, because at one point we felt the fireworks outside shake our house. Then, after that, at about 1:30am, rave music started, and lasted for about ten minutes. Then, it was all quiet. One of the Sorelle that lives with us said, "Guys....do you think they're done?" And right after that, we heard one little poof of a firework. It's funny what is funny when you are really tired.

New Years Day is dubbed "Deep Cleaning Day" in the mission, where everyone in the mission stays home and cleans the apartment. I did an awesome job with the bathroom, if I do say so myself. :)

On Thursday we had an appointment to meet one of our investigators at Piazza del Popolo (The piazza that has cool Egyptian stuff everywhere). He actually didn't end up coming, but it was a cool place to meet an investigator. We ended up doing English Course Publicity instead.

On Friday, we had a dinner appointment with a member family. When we got there, one of their friends was there, named Paola. The family didn't know that she was coming, and she didn't know that we were coming. We ate a little bit of food, and then started talking about the Plan of Salvation. Then during dinner, Paola told us that earlier that day, she had felt that she needed to be at that house that night. Apparently her brother is an investigator, and now she is interested! It's cool how we had felt to make the appointment with this member family, and then she felt she needed to be there. The Lord works in mysterious ways... :D

This weeked they did a big youth conference. It included a dance, and my companion and I forgot about it, so we made an appointment in the church for the same time. I got to see a bunch of my friends from Pescara, and it was so so great. This youth activity included a long sacrament meeting and testimony meeting. The Bishop asked me to stay and translate for the English Speakers. Then, a few of the youth who spoke English, asked if I could translate their testimonies into Italian. It was a really cool experience.

Apparently today is ANOTHER italian holiday, so buses are being lame again. Rawr! It's okay...life goes on.

Till next time!

Love you all!

Sorella Worsham