Oct 7, 2009 Magda's Baptism!!!

Man I love Wednesday because I get emails from YOU!!! Yay!!

I LOVE SERVING!!!!!

Conference was awesome! I got to see some of it and I loved what I did!!!

We had a few investigators come on Saturday but only us missionaries and Magda were there on Sunday.

I will tell you all about the Baptism is a second!!!

Scapato means escaped lol! Sorry I forgot I just threw that in there. Here is a fun note for an Italian lesson. If any word ends in "ato" "ito" or "uto" it is in the past or in other words it means that it ends with "ed" we escaped abbiamo Scap"ato"! See there you go, random Italian lesson #22 lol! :)

Tuni actually broke his wrist and had to get that taken care of so we haven’t seen him for awhile! But we have talked to him on the phone and hope to meet with him soon. His wrist is ok, and he feels great, he just has to take it easy for awhile.

My tootsies are doing fantastic!!! They feel SOOOOO Great!!!!

My tooth is about out now, I just don’t have much time or means to take care of it, but it doesn’t hurt or cause problems or anything like that! SO it’s all good!

I can’t believe that its a reality! [that we are moving to Okinawa] Its so crazy!!! >But SOOOOOOOOOO exciting!!!!!!! Man I cant believe it!!!!!!!!!

I’m so glad that the Lord has helped you so much with all of this!! I LOVE Him! and I love YOU!

Oh yeah the waves were so awesome!! You should have seen me jumping around and yelling, I was like Anziano!!! LOOK!! and then I would hop and laugh lol! It was very good for me!

That is the other really really exciting thing! I WILL GET TO SURF AGAIN!!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ha ha!!!

Translations are fun, but hard lol! [That lady we did the translations for] is studying sports medicine!

Thanks for the congrats on English course! It was fun! And my students rock!! I usually have about 6 students!

Puppy is so cute! Lol! I love him! When we come down the hill we yell to him and he comes galloping up in his awkward way and licks us and rolls over and looks at us with his big eyes! lol! He doesn’t ever speak though, but his eyes speak volumes! He really loves us!!

Man six months blew by so fast!!

While we were in Catania we got mail!!!
For my week, well it has been awesome!!

Conference, Zone Conference, A Baptism! "Can life get better than this? I submit that it can NOT!" lol!

Ok so first off, after we emailed last week, things were pretty normal. We just had a few more lessons with Magda to answer all the questions and make sure she understood!

Then on Monday we had our District leader Anz. Pelfry and his comp Anz. Alvarado (from Peru) came down to do district meeting and to do her baptismal interview! That went really great! District meeting was great as well!

OK so the crazy stuff started about Friday. We found out that not only was president coming to the baptism, but the Harris couple as well. Not only that but we found out that we would have about 40 people there. Also Anziano Benson who helped teach her was able to come back.

So we had to get everything ready for that. Not only that but we had to get out little font ready to go, and we had to make programs, and prepare a musical number, etc., anyway we were pretty stressed lol! but it turned out great!

SO on Saturday we woke up early to get things ready. We headed down to the church and on the way ran into this HUGE protest! We don’t know what it was for but it was huge!! Anyway we were trying to help president Sarcone get the satellite working for conference. It actually never worked.

We went and got the font filling up (we cleaned it on Friday) and then got the programs figured out, and printed. Then we practiced our musical number a lot! We arranged the baptism song (I like to look for rainbows) and I love to see the temple. Anz. Shaw played the piano and we both sang. It turned out really well. Pres. and S.lla Toronto liked it so much they asked us to perform it at zone conference.

So anyway, everyone showed up for conference and we ended up listening to it on Anz. Harris' laptop, in Italian, so I don’t really know much of what went on, mostly because I was taking care of stuff for the baptism that was going to be immediately after.

SO right after conference we started.

Magda was really really excited! SO we had the talks and everything etc. and took the pictures. Then we sang, and actually even though we sang in English (For Magda) everyone was crying because the Spirit was so strong! It was great! Then right after that was the baptism! That went really well as well!
While they were changing Anz. Adams (Anz. Benson’s comp) did a little talk, and I taught a lesson.
Right after that was the confirmation! I was really nervous to do it, but it went well!

It was a great night! One that Magda said she will remember for ever!! It was so spiritual! and uplifting!! After everything she got up and bore an incredible testimony! It was fantastic!!! Wonderful!! Best Saturday ever!!

Then on Sunday we watched the second half on the Saturday session, then the first half of the Sunday session live, (time difference) Next Sunday we will finish conference! It was really great what we heard! My favorite was Pres. Monson's talk on service! It was fantastic!!

Then on Monday we went down to Cosenza for Zone Conference! That was a blast! The cool part was that for a long time it was in Italian and I understood it! It was great!

Also Pres. hasn’t ever really heard me speak Italian, there just hasn’t been the situation where he can hear. So when we shared our success story, in Italian, I watched his facial expressions and he was surprised, lol it was fun for me to see that!

We learned a lot of great stuff!! I love ZC!! After we just got on the bus and came back to Crotone, no Zone pday this time! Which is alright with me.

Anyway life is great things went really well! I love being a missionary! Have a great week!!!!

Love,
Anziano Nielsen