It seems like last P-Day was only a couple of days ago! This week was a busy, but good, one. To be honest, last Wednesday was pretty rough for me, so I'm sorry if the email seemed down. But this week was full of lessons and brownies and good times.
We've been seeing tons of people and trying to help people understand why they should want eternal life. ;) Some lessons are harder than others. And some people understand better than others. The girl I talked about a few weeks ago that we had set a baptismal date with decided she doesn't want to get baptized until next August because it's near her birthday and it's also the month when she was baptized into the Catholic church years ago. ...Yeah. That's a hard one. We tried to explain that God really doesn't care when she was baptized into the Catholic church, but...there's only so much you can do. So we're working on that. But there's also a thirteen year old girl who is incredible and SO ready to be baptized. Her baptismal date is in about three weeks, so we're excited for that. And we set another one this week with another lady. Yay for baptisms! The trick is getting from the baptismal date to the actual baptism, but we have faith that it will happen!
Something strange happened this week. I know that The Book of Mormon is true and that the people really existed and that the events actually happened, but one morning this week during personal study I just had so much sympathy for Moroni. The end of The Book of Mormon is kind of sad. He's just all alone and if he goes to the Lamanites he'll be killed because he believes in Christ. And all of his people are gone and he has no friends. He's just all alone. I seriously got strangely emotional about it. And we don't know what happened to him! We know what happened to everyone else because it's recorded in the book, but he hides the plates...and then what? Man, I have so much respect for him. I love The Book of Mormon so much. Every time I read it, I feel so much peace and comfort. I regret all those days in the past when I didn't read it. If you're not reading it every day, DO IT. :) I promise that you will gain more strength and happiness in every facet of your life if you do.
Funny story that happened last night: Every Tuesday night we have English classes at the church and this week it was our turn to teach the advanced English class. This basically means that for an hour we just converse in English with these people. So we had four people there (only one of whom was a member) and we decided we would play this game - two truths and a lie. So we did and it was fun, but at the end we needed to connect it to some sort of gospel principle and share a scripture or something. (Because, hi, we're missionaries. That's what we do.) I thought we were just going to talk about how we shouldn't lie or something, but Sorella Palumbo pulls out her scriptures and starts reading about secret combinations and about how someday all of these awful secrets will be told. I wasn't quite sure what to do and then all of a sudden she says, "Like, you know, someday we'll know who killed who..." In the moment it was just very awkward and I think they were a little afraid so I said, "The moral of the story is, we shouldn't lie UNLESS it's Tuesday night at English class and we're playing two truths and a lie." And then the tension eased. But on the way home, Sorella Palumbo brought up how weird it was that she had said that and how it made sense in her mind, but to them it probably sounded so weird. We were cracking up about it. Good ol' Sorella Palumbo. Never a dull moment.
Anyway, the language is coming along. Very slowly. But I have faith that it will get better. And I'm doing my best to act on that faith. I love this city and this country. But most of all, I love this gospel! I feel so lucky to have it in my life every day! And I'm so thankful for all of you! Happy Halloween tomorrow! (I can't believe it's Halloween! They don't really celebrate it here. They're not really big celebrators here...) And Happy Birthday to Caleb this week!! AMORE!
Sorella Gunnerson
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