#Hallelujah

Cari Tutti!

Happy Spring!! It's getting so nice and warm here! I hope it's warming

up where you are and that the sun is shining everyday! I just love

missionary work in the spring! People are just so much happier and

more open to the message :)

This week was quite the week! Last Thursday was the missionary

conference with Anziano Christofferson! And that was amazing! The

spirit was so strong and I learned a lot! A quote that he said that I

loved was "You don't need to give more time, you just need to involve

more people."

"On the train ride home from the Elder Christofferson Conference which
was held in Milan"

Last week we had some pretty great lessons with the Romanian family!

So there are now about 4 houses we go to and each place has a lot of

people. Each time is such a different experience and we never really

know who's going to be there. But I love it!! At one house, that has

the most people usually, they let us come in and then just tell us to

go in the kitchen. There is this one girl, Larissa, who is 5 and she

loves it when we come! She's sooo cute! We will sing songs with her

and her cousin and then it's her mom (Cristina) who is the most

interested there. We had a great lesson with her reading the Book of

Mormon in the corner of the kitchen. She shared some great faith

experiences that she's had in her life. These people have practically

NOTHING yet they have so much faith in God! And they  trust Him so

much. She shared how her prayers have been answered when she didn't

have any money but went out and prayed that she'd be able to get 5

euro, not at someone's cost though. And a man randomly gave her 5

euro. Then another time she needed to find work and really prayed and

didn't find anything until she came home and a cousin said there was

an opening at a place he knew. One lesson we had with her, we were

reading in 1 Nephi and we talked about how it's important to

recognize how we feel as we read it. Something I learned from Elder

Bednar was to have the investigators describe how they feel and help

THEM recognize the spirit. The words they gave were so good. Tamara,

Cristina's mom said "good". Cristina said "Filled" and another woman

another time said "like God's inside me". It's so neat to be apart of

people's first experience with the spirit. Cristina really wants to

know if the Book of Mormon is true and if she should get baptized and

was asking us great questions about how to recognize God's answer! She

committed to church... And didn't end up coming... But hopefully next

week!

One time we went over and there was another family there that we had

never met. A mother with five kids just lost their house. We showed

the Easter message, and she was so touched. She started crying. We were

able to see her again at Corina's house and taught her the restoration

and she loved it! She also has so much faith and shared how when her

oldest daughter was a baby she got stuck in a burning house and she

thought she had lost her. She went to the hospital to get her clothes

thinking she had died, but then something told her that she was still

alive. And she knows that God saved her.

Getting to know these people have been incredible. I absolutely LOVE

it! When I prayed to find a family, I had NO idea God would send a

HUGE, extended family to teach. It's pretty fun because they all know

that we go to all their cousins houses and then they'll ask about the

other members since they don't see each other as often as we see them

Haha. And we've gotten to try some pretty great Romanian food :)

This Sunday is Easter! Buona Pasqua! In Italy they have a tradition of

giving these big chocolate eggs. A ton of store/bakery windows are

 full of chocolate eggs and it's so cute! Also with Pasqua we've

been able to share the Hallelujah video! I love how it says several

times, "with Christ, I have found new life." In district meeting our

district leader shared with us a great quote from Ezra Taft Benson

about change that I just loved:

"The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside

in. The world would take people out of the slums. Christ takes the

slums out of people, and then they take themselves out of the slums.

The world would mold men by changing their environment. Christ changes

men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human

behavior, but Christ can change human nature."

It's so true. Christ truly CHANGES people. I have loved seeing that in

other people, and also myself. The Gospel brings so much joy, hope,

and LOVE.

Have a great week and always remember the One who rose again the third day.

Vi voglio bene,

Sorella Dixon

"Seeing Sorella Pulli at the Elder Christofferson conference"

"Seeing Sorella Goethals at the Elder Christofferson conference"

Scambio

"They always bring treats to English class"

"The treat usually consists of fruit and nuts"

"This is what happens when the elders get ahold of your iPad!"