6/2/2008

!!!!!OH MY GOODNESS GRACIOUS! MAGDA IS GETTING BAPTIZED!!!!!!!!!!!! This last week has been INSANE, in a fabulous way! Magda is so cute, we were super worried about her but when we finally got another lesson with Magda she was doing well, her life was still insane and super stressful so we were worried she wouldn't be willing to try to quit smoking again, but she had already started the quiting process before we talked about it again and now has officially been smoke free for 11 days! So, we met with her last Thursday and she brought this weird little Bible thing and said that her penticostal friend gave it to her to read and she went off about how it didn't make sense and how she loved the Book of Mormon because she feels like God talks to her through it (HELLO!) and so Sora Larsen was like, "So, what does that mean for your life?" and Magda said that she wanted to be BAPTIZED! AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! Last Sunday 3 new members were confirmed in Sacrement Meeting and she said that she felt so strongly that if she wants to be happy she would need the Holy Ghost. So, we set a date for June 29! Oh, my goodness she is so fabulous. So, Saturday we had a Book of Mormon activity where we gave 4 different groups a BoM with a highlighted story that they needed to act out and we invited Magda to come and she brough Alex her little boy and we were watching a group act out the Tree of Life vision and she was like "oh! I know this story, its Lehi's dream that Nephi prayed to know too, thats one of my favorites! About eating the fruit and wanting your family to eat too." We were a little surprised that she knew it so well, but figured its at the beginning of the book so whatever, but then a group acted out Ammon cutting of the arms and what not, and she knew that story well too! She is so crazy amazing!Oh, and we are now teaching 2 new investigating families. We found one family park contacting and whenever we go over there to tach them Fane, the father has someone new that he's gotten interested in the church! And older man, and his cousin and her family! And they all have kids and are such fun people, I hope these go really well, Mihaela his cousin is so cool, she keeps calling us and telling us stuff she likes about our reading assignments we give her, we just can't seem to move fast enough for her. But she didn't come to church yesterday, so I'm a bit worried. Oh well, I'll just have to pray some more.Its been such a fun week! I hope things keep moving along. This is the last week of the transfer so next Wednesday I'll have a new companion probably, its kinda sad, I'm pretty sure all of my district but me and Elder Patterson are getting transferred. Oh well, it'll be good.Anyway, tell everyone hi for me.Love lots,Nicole