Sorella Sobeck in Rome: Happy Turkey Day!!!

This week I was able to see many times that when we do something for
the Lord, He does something for us :) Me and my comp have been trying
to be more obedient with the little things, and also with some bigger
things that we're dealing with, and Heavenly Father really has blessed
our work. For us, that meant that we found a new family to teach :)
Sorella Winward and I talked to a guy on the metro last transfer -
Ronaldo from Peru - and finally we had a lesson with him at the church
last Friday. He was so nice, we gave him a BoM in Spanish. In Peru he
lived across the street from a Mormon church and had Mormon friends
who invited him to activities. He wanted us to come to his house to
meet his family, so we set an appointment for Monday. We went, and
Ronaldo wasn't there, but we taught the first lesson to his wife and 2
daughters. There is something special about them and I hope they are
prepared to accept the gospel now. I've never had 3 sets of dark brown
eyes so intently looking at me when I said the First Vision to them.
The oldest daughter, Fiorella who is 15, was my favorite. We read the
last 2 paragraphs of the Intro of the BoM together and we asked them
what they thought. Fiorella looked at me and said "That Joseph Smith
is a prophet." YES! It's TRUE!!! Man, if nothing else, that was a
beautiful lesson for us to teach...they want us to come back, to come
to church, etc. Legit. I'm so excited about this family!!!!!

We had another investigator come to a ward activity and bring her
whole family too! There are major problems in that family, and the
only one who participates in the lessons is Carmela. The husband,
Luciano, has had something against the church for years but I don't
know what. He'll always talk to us at their house, but leaves when we
teach. So when he came to the activity and looked happy to be there,
talking to people, it was so wonderful. We're doing a family home
evening with them all tonight...we specificlaly asked for the whole
fam to be there, so hopefully they'll comply.

We tried to get a couple baptismal dates this week, but sadly no one
agreed. But thats ok, with that we understand better about where our
investigators are. It's sad when you see people have a desire to know
if something is true, but they won't make the steps and efforts to
find those answers. The key is asking questions. Without specific
questions to God we cannot easily receive specific answers from God.

For Thanksgiving we went to Andrea's house and ate a good American
shepherd's pie :) :) :) Man it was so American and good haha. No
turkey, but thats ok. And on Sunday we ate lunch after church with an
American/Italian family. He is Italian but served a mission in
California and they have lived in Utah for 10 years, and just moved
back for his job. They are AWESOME, and they get American food from
the Napoli military base and share with us haha, so we ate Mexican
food with sour cream...yep, haven't eaten that in over a year. So
good.

The ward activity was really good with a GREAT turnout - lots of
members, non members, investigators, etc. And it was a rock concert
haha. The 2nd counselor in our bishopric is in a rock band and they
played for us all. Loved it.

It's been a good week. Today for Pday we're going to the Villa with
Sorella Kelly and all the sorelle in Roma to hang out for a few hours,
and its a very rainy and windy day here in Rome. Good day to not do
tourism.

Love you! Can't believe its already December in a couple days, and
just a few weeks til Christmas!!! Tis the season, the lights are
coming out. We're going to buy a tree from a Chinese store today, and
I'm pretty sure its going to be purple hahaha.

Love, Sorella Sobeck

Aunt Kathy - Thanksgiving was good, but I look forward to next year
with the fam :) Love you guys!
Aunt Donna - from what I've heard so far the temple should be done in
2014, but I don't know when. And I finish my mission in March...ahhh.
Mark - I support her and the slaps! Thats pretty cool you are trying
to get into BYU, its pretty much the best :) I don't know, just tell
me about what you're doing with yourself, it doesn't have to be big.