25 July 2007

Sounds like everyone had a great time celebrating the 24th! It's cool to be able to remember what those pioneers did for us! I've been reading this week in the book "our heritage" and it's a great little book recounting the history of the church. So many wonderful stories of faith and enduring to the end!

This week we had the chance to meet with this Russian woman again. We taught her an actual 1st lesson about the restoration etc. We have another appointment set up with her this week and we'll see where this goes. We are hoping that we can get her to come to church this sunday. That would be the best! She's such an awesome lady. She is so motherly and tells us to be safe on our bikes! hehe.

On sunday nights we usually go down on the walkway by the sea and do "gesso" or chalk where we draw the plan of salvation....i think I already explained that one time. Anyways...we wanted to teach lots of lessons so I decided that I was going to stop everyone and just talk to them all...the ones with peircings, the wierd men, everyone! Its easy to have mindsets and only talk to a few select people but I figured there's really nothing to lose! It was fun and ended up teaching about 5 lessons, which is pretty good for one night! I taught a really cool kid that was on some sort of naval field trip. He understood everything so well. Too bad he was just visiting! We also had an afternoon of just doing finding work. We went and did a bunch of knocking doors. We had about 2 and a half hours and we didn't even teach one lesson! It's crazy how the days differ with people listening one day and no one listening the next!

We had our first interview with the new mission president this week, President Acerson. He really is quite an amazing guy. He's got that "fresh missionary" spirit with so much faith and just that total desire to share the gospel. It's going to be really fun to get to know him more and to serve under him.

Things are going great as usual! This is the last week before transfers again. Of course I'll definitley be staying here in Livorno but who knows if I'll get a new companion or not. I'll let you know next week. Hope everyone is doing well and is enjoying the summer. Thanks for your wonderful examples and prayers.

Love you all,

Sorella Boynton