Hey guys!
Thank you for the emails and I'm so glad that everyone is doing well!
This has been a great week and I'm happy that things can start to
go back to normal! We are finally settled into the new house and we had
spent a lot of time preparing the old house for the senior couple that
will move in there in a few weeks. Deejay is out of the hospital and
doing much better after his surgery. We had spent a lot of time with him
but we found that his roommate might have a lot of interest in the
church!
I absolutely loved General Conference and I was really touched by a
lot of the talks, especially the talk by President Uchtdorf during
Priesthood session. I felt like he wrote that talk for me and I don't
really ever remember feeling the Spirit that strongly during a session
of General Conference. I cannot wait to print that talk off and study it
more.
It also seemed a lot to me that the brethren spoke quite a bit on
having a Christ centered home. I have been seeing the effects of how
important it is while out on my mission because I can really see a
difference between a family that tries to live the teachings of Christ
and another that does not.
One particular family in the positive category I met on April 6th.
Bishop called us and said that there was an American family from Utah
that was here on vacation and wanted to baptize their son here in Rome
specifically on April 6th. I thought it was a bit odd at first but that
baptismal service was one of the sweetest and most beautiful moments in
my mission! This amazing family of six showed up in the morning as we
filled up the baptismal font and we had a great time talking with them.
In this service for their eight year old son there was only us, them,
our bishop, and Janus, one of our recent converts. It's hard to describe
the beautiful Spirit that was there but the parts that hit me the most
was first, when an 11 year old boy that reminded me of Greg read his
talk and bore his testimony to his younger brother, and second, when the
father baptized his son and with tears hugged him in the water. I was
so grateful to be a part of that little baptism and I was touched by the
gratitude of that family. They brought us each little gifts.
We were really excited this week for a new contact that we found
who was really interested in the church. He came to conference and we
did a few lessons with him but unfortunately in the end we found out
that he is a little crazy. I absolutely do not understand how he thinks.
I describe it like this: he loves logic but goes beyond logic to make
up his own logic. That is the only way I can describe his thinking! He
scared some members during institute so we might not see him anymore. He
is taking a little bit of knowledge from each church to make up his
own!
Other investigators are doing well but it's been hard to meet with
some of them lately. We have really dedicated ourselves to finding work
and we are hoping that we see some new fruits from our labors.
Another huge miracle this week for me was to see Janus give his
first spiritual thought at a family home evening that we organized. He
was just baptized in January but he has been working so hard to
strengthen his testimony and prepare himself someday for a mission. He
is 17 so as soon as he hits a year in the church he wishes to depart. He
is such a stud!
That's the sum up of the week! Things are going really well and I'm
loving the new heat that's coming in! Everyone says that Rome is
gorgeous during spring so I'm excited to see the flowers when they
bloom. 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.
Vi voglio bene! Splendida settimana e ci sentiamo presto!
Un abbraccio,
Anziano Clay Lacey
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