Bitter/Sweet

Hello Family! It was so good to talk to you last week! I hope you are all enjoying the rest of your Christmas Break! This week has been soo good and so sad... but i will start with the sweet! We had a baptism yesterday for our invistigator, B. Bing. He is awesome! He is 25 and he just has such a strong testimony of the Church. This last week we had what was one of the most spiritual lessons i have had thus far! He taught us, not us teaching him! We were teaching about Baptism and the covenant we make and he just explained it so perfectly and ah i don't even know how to explain it, but the spirit was so strong and i am so excited that he got baptized! Yay! So that was the sweet part of this week! We were able to bring another person unto Christ and fulfill our purpose as missionaries! Now for the Bitter.... This morning was spent at the airport and saying goodbyes to my companion from last transfer... the one who was really sick... Well she has not gotten better and her case went up to the church doctors, and therefore, despite all our Presidents efforts to keep her here, she was told she has to go home, so she was on a plane today. It was the saddest thing! I have never met anyone who has a desire as big as her's to be a missionary! She is a convert to the church herself and just wants to share the gospel and she was sooooo devastated that she had to go home, as was every other person here! She is such a fantastic missionary and it was so sad that she had to go, and so fast! It was seriously the blink of an eye! We just had a Zone Conference last Wed. and things seemed fine, we thought she would at least stay til the end of the transfer, but then she got a call that she had to leave! So this week was so happy and so sad and all of these things that happened just make me appreciate being a missionary so much more! This is by far the most amazing calling in the world! We have the chance to see people's lives completely change for the better and to help the know their Savior! It is so great! I feel so blessed to have this opportunity! Go do some missionary work this week! Love, S. Itri