Week 29  American Easter

So this week started out with a blast. All the sisters went to მცხეტა together. მცხეტა is a small town out of Tbilisi. Super cute and super cool. We went to this old falling apart church that over looks the town and then went down to this green field area. We even went to the church that supposedly has a piece of the apostle Andrew's foot. There are two places in the world that state that have the bones of an apostle, in Italy in the Vatican and this church in Georgia. I have been to both! This week wasn't the most exciting after that besides the weekend. A lot of rain and a lot of finding. We did meet with our investigator M and Y a few times. They are so awesome and I love visiting them. We actually are going shopping with them today for Pday, and as M says we are having a family outing. Saturday was awesome and so crazy. So we had a branch activity for Easter and then right afterwards a baptism. M came to both! Also some people that speak her language were there so she was able to talk to them and not just the people that speak English. Which is great! For that activity we had to boil 30 eggs and let me tell you the amount of boiled eggs at the activity was insane. Once that was over we had a baptism for my favorite kid in the entire world. I will call him Sh. He is fifteen and he is like the Georgian version of Joseph smith. He is so adorable and he goes to church by himself. His family is taking lessons, but Sh was more ready. So he got baptized and M was there to see it. I was sitting next to her after he got baptized just watching the video of Christ being baptized and she started to cry. She said that she wished everyone could be baptized and she couldn't explain in words how she feels about it. She is so ready! Later when I was talking to her she started to cry cause she was so sad that her people couldn't have the true religion, because of her government. I know that she has a testimony and it is so strong. She just needs a few more lessons and she will be ready. I just want her to have the gift of the holy ghost because it is something that would bless her life 10 fold. Saturday was American Easter so we had a small program for church. The missionaries sang in sacrament. M came! Afterwards the missionaries all went to one of the american family houses for an Easter dinner. All the american embassy families were there. Everything tasted so american and it was sooooo good! Afterwards I called the fam on my phone cause I couldn't get to a computer, so the day was pretty awesome. This week we have nothing too special planned, but this weekend is Georgian Easter so I am excited to see what that is like. 

Spiritual thought: I thought I would focus my spiritual thought on Christ since it is so fitting. He is risen! Because of him we have a hope for the future and someone to lean on. We focus a lot on Christ when we talk to M, just because sometimes it is hard to see a bright future for her (in a temporal sense). But it is so great to talk to her about Christ and how he is our hope in life. He is our light, that can never be dimmed. I am glad I have that knowledge and now have the opportunity to share it.

Well that was the week, til next week!