Week of Miracles!

Sister Bosco and I in front of the Oakland Temple

Just like the subject of this email said, we've been seeing SO many miracles here in Alameda! We added a lot of new investigators this week! And some of them are super solid! We also got some Golden referrals from the Sister Training Leaders when they were on exchanges with us here in Alameda!

Saturday was probably the funniest experience I've had on my mission so far. We were knocking doors on 5th Street and there was a Korean lady sitting on her porch eating KFC Chicken. Sister Bosco got excited and said "Hey! I'm from Kentucky!" The lady waved at us and told us to come over and eat with her and her friend Lane. So we went through the gate and ate cold spicy KFC chicken and homemade kimchi with them on her porch. Then her friend Lane (who is our new investigator!) knew a super small town in Kentucky that Sister Bosco was very familiar with.

He asked us if we had a copy of the Book of Mormon because he had gone to Temple Square in Salt Lake City and gotten a copy which he read a lot of. But he ended up giving his copy to a member friend who had lost his. But after he did that, he realized it was a silly mistake because he really liked reading it! So we gave him a copy and asked him if he would come to church on Sunday. He was super excited to come to church (he rode the bus all the way from Oakland to Alameda). AND get this - he was baptized Roman Catholic as a baby but absolutely doesn't agree with the religion. He said he really likes the Mormons and the only thing holding him back is that he likes to drink a beer every now and then. He literally said "can I be a Mormon in the closet". And then he came to church the next day and loved it! He really connected with our ward members!

We also set a baptism date with Aiden for July 16th!!! Also, one of the referrals the Sister Training Leaders gave us from exchanges was for a guy named Mohamed. He said he wants to become a Mormon and has been looking for the church for 10 years! So we're super excited to contact him!

Sunday night we ate dinner at a less active member’s house. She had an acquaintance she met in Jamaica who came to visit named Veniesha who was very interested in learning about the church and she made us Jamaican food! Then we went to visit a former investigator named Brandon. The missionaries met him back in 2013. When we contacted him, he was SO prepared! We sat down on his porch and read the Introduction to the Book of Mormon with him and he apologized for not coming to church and told us he wants to start coming again! So we set up an appointment to meet him again. We were also going to have a lesson with our miracle investigator David from a week or so ago but he called and said his fiancé just had her baby and she was being released from the hospital so we had to reschedule :)

Love you all!!!