RIMINI!

Dear Family,

I've now been in Rimini for almost a week. I arrived Thursday evening, and then woke up very early to catch a train to Milano for mission council. That's a long train ride, especially when you do it three times in two days. The fun thing was that I was able to ride a Freccia (a fast train) for the first time. It did take a couple of days to get over the exhaustion though.

Conference is absolutely amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wow. I LOVED the Women's Conference. Everything was so powerful- the talks, the video, the music. I just about cried when they had all the little primary girls stand up and sing.

I'm loving Rimini. The branch is very strong, very missionary minded, very wonderful. Dad, I can completely understand that the first missionaries had such miracles, because they found the most powerful people.

Yesterday we went out with a recently returned missionary from Rome. We visited a less-active, and then she took us to meet another inactive she mentioned that this inactive has a roommate who she'd met once and could be interested in the gospel. We had a nice lesson with the inactive and left. As we were walking home, we stoped a girl on the street and started talking to her. After a mintue she mentioned that she knew someone who had just served a mission in Rome. After a second we realized that we were talking to the roommate! We had a lesson with her, and then she came to english class that night. It's amazing how the Lord puts us in the path of people who are preparing to hear the gospel.

Tomorrow I'm going to Modena for my first scambio as a sister trainging leader. Basically a sister training leader is like a zone or district leader for the sorelle. We do scambi with them and make sure they're doing well. We're over five sets of sorelle, so we'll be busy with exchanges the whole transfer.

My companion Sorella Bucco is amazing. She's a convert of several years, with a very powerful testimony. I'm so excited for this transfer with her.

Love you all! (Vi voglio bene!)

Sorella Pace