Investigators

Dear Family, 

This past week has been amazing! We've been blessed with amazing investigators who are really making progress!

We've had an investigator from before we arrived in Savona that we've been working with the whole last transfer. He loves reading the scriptures and has a testimony and knows that he needs to get baptized, but he's been unwilling to accept a baptism date. He kept on telling us that he has ''things to fix'' but wouldn't tell us what. So this Monday we decided to teach again about baptism and really find out why he won't accept a date. We talked about the importance of baptism for a while and were asking a lot of questions, but I could tell that there was something specific he wasn't telling us and he was trying hard to avoid the subject. But finally the truth came out. We held our breaths, prayed that it wasn't something too bad, and then listened as he told us that he couldn' t be baptized because he listens to heavy metal music! You can not believe the relief I felt at that moment! It definitely wasn't the response I had expected. We told him that he could still be baptized even though he listens to heavy metal and the relief was visible on his face! 

We also have two other investigators who have baptism dates! We've been working with a man for the past week and a half and he's amazing. Sorella Hanson and Sorella Heupel found him when we had a blitz the other week and set up an appointment. We taught him the first lesson and invited him to church and he came and stayed for all three hours! That night we taught him the Plan and he loved it. He really thinks about what we're telling him and you can see when something makes sense. We invited him to be baptized with a date and he didn't accept it then, but he was willing to pray about it. So by our third meeting with him last night, he had read to 1 Ne. 8 and accepted baptism! He's praying, and they're prayers straight from his heart. 

We've been wanting to see the Missionary Broadcast for the past couple of weeks. Most of the wards and branches here have watched it during church, but since we don't have a branch president we haven't. We're talking to people to try to organize to watch it one Sunday, and no one had even heard about it. So our zone leader told us to just take some time and watch it ourselves, which I was content to do so that we could watch in English and I could understand everything. So last week after a lesson fell through we headed over to the church to watch it. But... the speakers on the computer are really old and don't work. So we're still trying to figure out how to see it. Last Monday we had district meeting in San Remo and we always have about an hour after district meeting ends before we can catch a train back to Savona (it's about a two hour train ride) so we were able to watch the first 45 minutes at their church building and it was soo good!!! We had heard a little about what it was about, but there were lots of things that we just hadn't heard. It's crazy to think how much missionary work is developing around the world!

I feel so blessed to be apart of this work. My understanding and love of the gospel increases everyday, and I am blessed to be able to share that knowledge with everyone I meet!

I love you all, have a wonderful week!

Sorella Pace

Karen's zone with Presidente and Sorella Dibb