Heart Sora Long: Chipmunks and Family pics!

Happy Mothers Day mom I hope it was a good one. This week we were privlaged to start teaching an amazing investigator Irina. She is soo amazing! Sora Soelberg has befriended her and invited her to take the lessons. As we prayed to prepare for the lesson we felt we should talk about the Plan of Salvation with her. When we got into the lesson we taught her how we pray and right after the prayer she jumped into it and asked, "Where do people go right after they die?" We told her that when we had prayed to prepare for this lesson we had felt strongly to prepare to answer this question for her. She was really touched by that. We went right into it and talked in depth about the plan of Salvation. She was really interested in everything and understood it really well.

I have never had someone ask so many questions about the plan of salvation or about anything in a lesson before. She asked sooooo many questions!! And she shot them at rapid fire and thank the heavens my rusty gift of tongues switch was switched on. I understood every word she said and even better I was able to answer here questions with amazing clarity. I remember speaking and hearing the ridiculous grammar principle that I have been studying but can't seem to understand how to use yet, just pop out of my mouth with out a hesitation. It was cool cheese. She asked if the Celestial kingdom would be on the earth, if we would all by resurrected at the same time or at different times, She asked if someone in the spirit world who didn't get a chance to hear about the gospel could still be saved. Answer, yes. The spirit was so strong when we talked about the spirit world.

I shared with her my testimony that I have gained through researching my ancestry and she really liked that even though we did not go into full blown temple work. It was a really deep lesson because she was a person that has already been prepared to accept what we say as truth and dig deeper. It was really cool!! At the end we knelt down together and she said the sweetest prayer, she is just learning how to pray. I cannot wait to meet with her again. She is going to be baptized.

We also visited Georgeta a less active member here who is the cutest old lady. She asked me how much schooling I had and I answered and said I had been at college for 4 years before my mission. She understood that as I only attended 4th grade. So she then started to educate me about the theory of evolution and the histories behind each world war, the history of Romania, America, anything that she could talk about to try and catch me up to speed. (Literally while I was typing this she called me on the phone, weird!) It was hilarious when I explained that I had been in school for a total of 17 years, not 4:)

I have some fun pictures from my skype call with my family: