Fwd: What a week!!!

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From: Benjamin Jolley <benjamin.jolley@myldsmail.net>
Date: Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 11:28 AM
Subject: What a week!!!
 Wow. What a week. Literally crazy. This week, we had 8 investigators in church, and we now have five investigators with a baptismal date. whoa.

 

Wednesday, as we did shopping, our Croatian friend Sasha invited us over for lunch. He fed us a 4 course meal. pizza, pasta, fruit and salad. It was delicious. He also commited to come to church next week.

 

Thursday, we taught Kobe the plan of salvation, and he was ok with it. I'm not sure he understood really well, but he understood repentance. That's the most important. That evening, we taught Ludovico, our JW friend, who couldn't deal with the idea of the Book of Mormon. It was an interesting lesson. He's 19 years old. weird.

 

Friday, we got all bidoni, but we went and taught a man named michael. Also, the sisters called and wanted to talk. Apparently they had prayed, and decided that all of their single male investigators (all of their investigators more or less) should be referred to us. So we suddenly have 5 new people to teach. whoa! This was super good, because I was getting a little... well... discouraged for a bit. the results of the following days brightened my spirits a lot.

 

Saturday, we planned, taught Paul, one of the sisters' old investigators, who is pretty cool "I believe that Joseph Smith is a prophet." He should be baptized the 17th of September. Then we went to Kofi's house, one of our less actives that showed up in church last week. We made him some delicious banana bread. Then we went and taught Bright, a man the firenze capi had referred to us. He commited to read the Book of Mormon, pray, come to church (next week), repent of his sins, and be baptized the 17th of September.

 

Sunday, we went to church, where we had 8 investigators, and like 5 of our less actives we've been working with come. It was super gratifying to see our work start to pay off. I taught Gospel Principles about Sacrifice, and our investigators really liked it. The people in church were Kobe, Pacome, Sasha, Fratello Bonini, Katya, Opare, and the daughters of fratello Appiah. sweet! That afternoon, we went with our high priest group leader to teach Abraham and Agatha, some of our cool investigators, who have commited to coming to church the 4th of september. They refuse to come any sooner. But they are the kind of people that get baptized. We told them, and Fratello Asare told them too. (Asare=high priest group leader). Then we randomly knocked on Samuel's door, another of our less actives who the sisters found. His records are in Ghana still. So we commited him to come to church, and got his info so we can get his records moved here.

 

Monday, we went and taught Pacome, who is a stud. He studied to be a catholic priest, and wants to be baptized. He will be baptized the 10th of September. That afternoon, we taught Kobe an intense lesson with Fratello Borelli. We taught the law of chastity, the word of wisdom and the law of tithing in the same lesson. He's a stud. We set up a baptismal interview for him. Then we came back, and we taught Salome and Giovanna a short brief on what happened in church, since they missed it.

 

Tuesday, we had a scambio with the capi. I and anziano Anderson went to District meeting, which I loved. We talked about the Atonement. I felt the spirit super strong as I bore testimony to our district. In the afternoon, we taught Pacome, gave him a baptismal calendar. He's so solid. Then we taught Paul, who will be baptized the 17th of september. We taught about repentance to them both. In the meantime, Anziano Armenise and Ellsworth went to interview Kobe for baptism, he passed! then they taught Sasha, our croatian friend, and set a baptismal date with him for the 17th of september. That evening, we went to teach Bright, who we taught about scripture study, since he hadn't read the Book of Mormon since we'd seen him. We also gave him a baptismal calendar.

 

Today we went to Verona. It was sweet. Our train was late though, so I'm writing a little later.

 

Since Dad asked, here's a list of investigators we are teaching.

 

Kwabena (Kobe) 17 years old, from Ghana baptismal date 3 september

Pacome 30, Ivory Coast, BD 10 September

Bright, +-25, Ghana, BD 17 September

Sasha, 25, Croatia, BD 17 September

Paul, 35, Ghana, BD 17 September

Abraham and Agatha, +-35, Nigeria

Salome and Giovanna, +-55, Cuba and Italy

Katya, 17, Moldavia, BD 11 November

 

 

Less actives we're teaching

 

Mensah, 30, Ghana

Nuredini, 45, Albania

Kusi, 35, Ghana

Dan, 35, Ghana

Samuel, 30, Ghana

Emmanuel, 30, Nigeria

George, 30, Nigeria

Pianegonda, 40, Italy

Anna and Salvatore, 25, Italy

Nicola, 28, Italy

 

As you may guess, we are BUSY. This is simply actual investigators. We have about 5 more legit referrals from the sisters that we'll start teaching soon. For example Tony from last night. He stopped them and said "I am looking for truth. Can you teach me?" Since he's a single man, we'll be teaching him. Crazy right?

 

Anyway, we're super busy, so bye!

Love

Anziano Jolley

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