Friday Fireside

Last Friday, we had our third fireside, this month, at our house.  We love the students in our English class.  We love to spend time with them, and they love to be with us.  We showed the restoration video  and bore testimony of the Book of Mormon.  We had 9 non members there.  There were  6 new friends there.  4 were our age or older.  One retired couple, who have been meeting with the sister missionaries, came.  A few days later, they called the elders to come give a priesthood blessing to the man's brother-in-law.  The whole family was there, including the couple who the sisters are teaching.  The elders explained about priesthood keys and then about the blessing.  After the blessing, the man who received it, along with his wife, were both in tears and were so grateful for the spirit they felt.  

Here is our little group who came to the fireside.  Opportunities are opening up.

Our missionaries are all working so hard.  Elder Duffin is a really good cook.  His mom must be too, because he is using all her recipes.  He brings us samples to our District meetings most every week.  He is extremely organized and obedient. He is always looking for ways to improve and help. He is a good District Leader. His Italian has improved so much this past transfer.  Oh. and speaking of transfers....all our missionaries get to stay another six weeks!  Yea!!!  Elder Line is quiet and steady.  He always asks questions to find out about the people he is with, and that makes them feel important, and I see people opening up to him easily and feeling very comfortable around him.  He is a good missionary too.  His dad is an institute director at the U and his dad was Elder Duffins institute director before he came on his mission.  Elder Duffin said that Brother Line was his very favorite teacher.  

Several of our missionaries have parents who both served missions.  Sister Mitzvotai is one of 8 children.  Her sister is also serving a mission.  She is tall and graceful and so very kind.  She has been out for a year and she is a training sister.  She and her companion have such strong testimonies.  They get into more doors than anyone I ever saw, because of the sweet spirit they bring....and it also helps that they both are beautiful.  Sister Mitzvotai is a piano major at the Y and both she and sister Webster can play the piano whenever we need it at church.  Sister Webster is our newest missionary....only in Italy six weeks, but you would never know it.  She pitches right in and helps teach beautifully.  I am so proud of her.  She is fearless and she goes and does wherever and whatever she is prompted to do.

How could we be luckier?  I guess that I am the very luckiest, because I have the best companion of all.  His hair is turning whiter than greyer, with all the worry he does for the members of our little branch.  But there is not anything he wouldn't do to help whenever asked or prompted to do.  I admire his endurance and his compassion.  I love his smile and laugh.  He is becoming more sensitive to me and 

I feel closer to him than ever before.  I love him so very much.