March 3, 2014 - Raining Miracles

Cara Madre e tutti,

YAY for Jadarius and his brother who came to church!! And on behalf of every missionary everywhere: THANK YOU to everyone who greeted them and welcomed them and made them feel loved. You are all awesome!! Seriously, that is the best thing in the world. Just last night we missionaries threw an activity in church so we could bring investigators and less-actives. As I was sweeping up afterward, I looked over and saw two English Course students who we had invited standing in a circle with a couple of members and everyone was laughing and smiling and just enjoying the Spirit of Sunday and the beautiful church building and you could see the love in the faces of the members as they got to know these young people and made them feel welcome. It was so beautiful! Member missionary work is SO important, maybe more important than what we do. One of our biggest fears as missionaries is to baptize someone and have them fall away, for whatever reason. But if they feel loved when they come to church and feel needed, they are a lot less likely to fall away. And the members here in Sassari and there in The Colony are SO AWESOME!! WE LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So, in the last week and a half, we have invited 5 people to get baptized, and two have said yes!! Antonella and Lucia Solinas!!! So awesome!!! We will invite Angela, who we met this morning, tomorrow evening in our lesson. Yeah, it's Pday but Sorella Mastino called uo this morning at 9.30 and said she had a friend who wanted to meet us at 10.00 in church... So we ran up there and got there just in time to clean up a little more from last night and then we had a little church tour with Angela and Sorella Mastino and then we introduced her to the Book of Mormon and we talked for a while. The one thing that really had hit Angela was the picture of Jesus being baptized. She looked at it for a while and just kept saying, "Questo è stupendo." So cool! She wanted to take a picture of it to make a copy for her house! She is so awesome!!

Communque, Sassari is awesome. The work is just going great. We occasionally  

The hail on our balcony in Sassari

have freak hail storms in the middle of an abbastanza nice day, and it's quite colder than they told me it would be here, but Lucia accepted baptism!!! She is doing all she can to build her faith in Christ, and she amazes me!She has quite a difficult life but knows that Christ can help her overcome anything. Please keep her in your prayers, along with Antonella and Angela. They and Lucia Farina will hopefully all have baptismal dates at the end of this week. Pray that they will open their hearts and receive and recognize their answers, and COME TO CHURCH!

Yay for Trek!! Have fun everyone that is going next week!!

So my comp Sorella Knudsen is too great. We have WAY too much fun together, but we are both dedicated so it's good. We've set a lot of goals and we are working hard to reach them, and we are seeing miracles!!!! We actually lived together back in Pescara. We weren't comps, but roommates. However, my trainer is here on the island down in Caglieri, so it's so awesome to see her at zone conferences!

Sorella Cilla telling us these melon slices were good for our skin

Well, it's raining miracles and ice and water, and I am just soaking it all up! I LOVE SASSARI!!!!  I hope I get to stay here for quite some time!!

Love you all so much!!!

Sorella Patterson

PS Did I tell you that I live with a Sorella who studied gourmet cooking in college and does all our cooking, and that her greenie is obsessed with cleaning?  Living the high life here in 

Sassari. :)