City of "Miracles"

My Dearest Ones,

 

Did I mention last week that Petro is the city of miracles? No joooke. Everyday we experienced mini miracles and then Sunday was the icing on top!!! First of all, we had 3 investigators at church (Oh my gosh that sounds like so little but thats my record!). The mother of the gypsy family, with her youngest daughter, and a babushka with whom we met on the street and invited. It was a miracle that the babushka was even there because she had messed up the address and couldnt find our church, but then randonly asked a lady on the street who happened to somehow know where it was. She LOVED conference (oh yea, this sunday was conference sunday) and she had SO many questions and can't wait to meet with us this week so we can answer them (you can always count on the gospel to answer anyones questions... including your own. Thats a wonderful promise!). Galina, the mother of the gypsies, and her youngest daughter Luba came, and her other 2 daughters would have come if they werent sick (too bad). We're in an interesting situation with the gypsies because the mom wants to be baptised, but is dead scared of water and says she WILL NOT get baptised because of it (I dont that one... she will I just know it). Because of this, the 3 daughters dont seem to understand the importance of baptism, but we know things will start to change this week. Im certain of it. We got to go to Nadia's bday party (shes the middle daughter who turned 15... she's my favorite ;), and see how russian gypsies celebrate. In our family we usually pinch someone as many times as their new age, or we do a spanking tunnel (thats the best for sure). For Nadia, we each took turns pulling her ears 15 times, to help her to grow up and look her age :) how cool is that???

 

So some more miracles. Usually its a struggle to find new investigators... just to find anyone interested. This Sunday, we started the day, the last day of the week not having found any investigators that week... we ended yesaterday with 4! THATS WHAT I CALL A MIRACLE. The babushka, an 18 year old girl we met on the street (we had a great lesson with her yesterday and she is excited to start reading the Book of Mormon), and then a young couple. I want all of you to pay attention to how we met them, so you can do the same at home and be an answer to a missionary's prayers. We had a meeting with the Relief Society's president last night. We went over thinking we were just going to get to know her and her family more and share a spiritual thought. Instead, they invited their neighbors over ( a young couple named Yuri and Vera) and had us share a spiritual thought with them. This member family had already shared the book of mormon with them and this young couple is so excited to know more! WHAT??? It was a dream come true, best present a member has ever given us. So yea, think about that ... I know you all know someone who you can introduce to the missionaries. You gotta tuist us missionaries and God on this one,but I promise you, you will be blessed!

WELL, i love you all!

 

Love,

Sister Tenney