Hey guys!!!
I'm glad that everyone is
doing so well and that you've had a great week! Thank you for the
detailed and encouraging emails! I love you all so much!
I am very excited for this week! I will have the
opportunity to baptize Federica on Friday and it will be an amazing
experience! We have been helping the sisters organize for the baptism
and all the members are very surprised and excited to see someone so
young who wants so bad to be baptised! I think the baptism will be
something very positive for the ward and hopefully help them spark a
stronger interest in missionary work.
Speaking of that, we just got a new ward mission
leader named Fabio, who actually served here in the Catania mission and
was still around when the missions were combined and was the first
assistant to President Kelly. He just got married and then moved here to
Siracusa to work for the church. He has a very good reputation as a
missionary and we just did our first correlation meeting with him
yesterday and we are all very excited to collaborate together and really
make some changes here in Siracusa. We have made plans to fortify
members and their families in order to get them excited about sharing
the gospel with their friends. It's a positive thing also because he is
so new therefore old stereotypes and mindsets can be out of the question
and we can start from scratch...
...Like we have practically been doing with our work
here! We have been doing a lot of finding and we have a lot of
promising potential investigators. There is a guy named Marco from
English course that has been showing a lot of interest in the church so
hopefully we can begin teaching him. We are working hard and waiting to
see some miracles and success!
We had a neat experience when a member invited us to
go make a visit to a less active member who isn't well. We were with
him and his wife in a crowded hospital bedroom where we had a nice chat
and then we left them with a prayer. It was cool when the others in the
room participated in the prayer and said, "amen".
We ended up seeing a friend from English course who
was visiting his mother who had just had surgery the day before. We met
him and his family and also had a nice visit. As we were exiting a lady
who heard us say the prayer came to us and asked us to say a special
prayer for her father who was very ill. It was beautiful to see the kind
of trust she had in us and that we could help her and her family so
much just by a simple prayer.
Well I love you all so much! I love you Dad, I love
you Mom, I love you Morgan, I love you Brooke, I love you Heather, and I
love you Greg. Have a great week! I'll be sure to take a lot of
pictures this week especially of the baptism! Love you!
Anziano Clay Lacey
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