Janyela had just been baptized a few days before. Sora Jensen and I were having a discussion with a girl, Natalia, that we teach private English lessons to (I am usually very against that but we think she has potential) and we had come to the spiritual thought at the end. I was excited because last week had been a really powerful Plan of Salvation lesson. Anyways, We are talking with her about spiritual things and then suddenly Janyela came in and sat down and said, "Imi pare rau ca am interziat dar am avut o discutie aceasta dimineata." In other words "I'm sorry I am late, I had a discussion this morning." Yes. Thats right. Janyela basically has her own investigators (she even got bunged at the church the other day) and she proceeds to tell this amazing experience from that morning about how she was teaching a girl in Russian (which she has a hard time speaking but that was not going to stop her) and when she was telling the first vision even though there was a dark over cast, a bright ray of sunshine filled the room. "It was God confirming that what i was saying was true" was Janyela's reply. WHO IS THIS GIRL!!?? Last P-day too when we went to old Orhei Janyela wanted pamphlets so we could talk with people that we met about the gospel. She is a better missionary than I am!!! then Janyela was confirmed yesterday morning in sacrament meeting and WOW! She sat in on a discussion with us about tithing and blew me away with her knowledge and testimony and then she spoke at a baptism that was held in our chapel but for the Orhei branch and you would think she has been a member forever! The branch has stepped up and really fellowshipped her which is great (though i kind of missed having her with us more :P). Wow, this is unreal.
ANOTHER BAPTISMAL DATE!!! Oh man, so Mariana. She is one of my favorite people I have worked with on my mission. She is just...cool. She loves swimming and reading and anyways...not super important. So, Mariana came in to the church one day a couple of weeks ago and asked about English classes. (I found out yesterday that she had just randomly been walking by and remembered signs about English and decided to come in) I told her when they are and she started coming to English, yippee. After her first English class I asked how she liked it and how she liked the spiritual thought and she just said she liked it and thought it was interesting but I did not push to get a lesson with her (I can not remember why...I am sure I had a good reason...). Anyways, later the week leading up to Janyela's baptism we of course announced in all English classes about church and the baptism and then on Sunday, Mariana was there!!! WHAT? Who does that? She loved it and thought it was interesting and she asked me "what does some one need to do to get baptized?" Still not convinced that she was yet another GOLDEN I grabbed my planner and set up with her to meet with Sora Taylor and I (on exchanges) Tuesday before English. We had the first discussion and it went really good. I loved her as a person and thought the spirit was there. Then the next day we met with her again. We talked about the plan of salvation and then reemphasized how to receive answers to prayers and she agreed with everything. In fact, she said she already got an answer. After the first discussion she said she went home like she normally would and started to turn her music on but then she felt she should turn it off. She plopped on to her bed and started reading the Book of Mormon and just felt so at peace and calm. Well...she knows its true so Sora Jensen responded, "We are having a baptism (Alina) on the 19th, would you like to continue to meet with us and prepare to be baptized as well on that day?" She thought about it and said, "ok." She stayed that night to do an activity with the youth in the branch and has met with us everyday and came again, of course, on Sunday. There was that baptism from the Orhei branch. She was so touched again by it! She told me "every time there is a baptism and I just feel so good and I can not even imagine what it will be like next week when that is me!" Who are these people?? She is amazing. She loves church, she loves the gospel, she loves God, she loves Joseph Smith and she is getting baptized on Sunday.
Monday, October 20, 2008
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