awesome zone leaders planned a zone pday for today that's going to
last all day. All the missionaries in Sardegna are coming in this
morning for the activity and then staying and working here tonight
because we have zone conference tomorrow. We're super excited but yeah
just so you know, sorry that this will be short and if I can't respond
to very many of you. I still love you!!
Here's a quick rundown of my week:
MONDAY
I was in the questura again on Monday..this has been the third (and
hopefully last) day I had to spend there 😅 Then that night we taught
Rosella, I think I told you about her last week. The woman who asked
if we could babysit her kids. We we t over to her house and taught her
10 year old daughter and her. It went really well. She also has a son
who is 11, he wasn't there this time but we're hoping to teach all
three of them together next time. We planned to have another lesson
with her on Friday but she got sick, the good news though is that she
kept our invite and started reading the Book of Mormon! We invited her
to continue to read and pray with her children and feel really hopeful
with her.
TUESDAY
I had to go to an Italian culture class and watch videos of people
telling me about the structure of the Italian government, all the
laws, and how to become a permanent citizen for 5 HOURS. So now I am
very informed and honestly probably know more about this county than
the citizens 😂. I'm supposed to go back for another 5 hours tomorrow
but we have zone conference so we told them that we wouldn't be able
to come. It's funny because if we weren't Americans they probably
would've said that we had to go, but everyone loves Americans here so
they're like "okay that's fine. We might call you in a month to come
finish it up but yeah you're good." Haha they literally got so excited
when they saw my passport they're like "look it's American!! Che
Bella! (What beautiful..doesn't really make sense in English)" I think
they also appreciated the fact that we spoke Italian.. No one else in
the class could.
As for the rest of the week, we received a lot of bidones (that's what
we call it when someone cancels on us or doesn't show up to our
appointments--it means that they gave a a trash can haha idk) and so
didn't get to meet with hardly anyone. But we saw the most amazing
miracle on Saturday!
SATURDAY:
We had another double baptism on Saturday- both companionships of
Anziani had an investigator who was baptized. We had the impression to
call one of the investigators who dropped us last week (Sebastiana) to
invite her to the baptism. She hadn't been answering our calls for two
weeks so it was a miracle that she even picked up. She ended up
coming! When she saw the first man baptized she turned around and was
in tears. She could not stop herself from crying. She is very very
Catholic and explained to us that she felt happy and excited when her
sons were baptized as babies, but this was a completely different kind
of feeling. We told he that this was the spirit testifying to her. She
also told us that it was more special because these two men were
making this choice for themselves. She also mentioned that this ward
is like a family. She said that if she were to stop attending her
church, no one would notice but here everyone knows and cares for each
other. She knows that this is a good thing, she knows it's true, now
she just has to act. We think that the reason she won't meet with us
is because her son (who lives with her) is very skeptical about us and
doesn't want his mom meeting with us. We're kind of stuck trying to
figure out what we can do, but we pray that she will decide for
herself that this is what she wants, and not let anyone get in the way
of that.
That night we got to do an activity with the youth. It was so much fun
and so good to get to know the youth in the ward, we work with the
adults so I hadn't talked to any of them before. We played American
games like fruit basket and signs. They loved it. We ended by sharing
a spiritual message about courage. They all participated and shared
their testimonies. These youth are strong and understand what's most
important in this life. I hope that this message helped them and will
stick with them. Then we went outside and played soccer and ate hot
dogs. But they made them up really different. They were inside a
toasted croissant and had sweet onions and this stuff that was kind of
like potato salad and I don't even know what else was in it but it was
so good. They really know how to do food right here.
FUNNY STORY:
My companion and I were on a bus and this crazy lady got on, like
really she was proprio pazza. She was yelling at the guys who check to
see if we have bus passes and apparently she was saying some pretty
harsh stuff **blessings for not speaking this language- I couldn't
understand any of it😂** Then she comes up to us and is like "ciao
sisters" (everyone here loves trying to use English on us even if they
only know like 2 words 😂) Then she gets really close to my companion
and says "you have beautiful teeth, are they yours?" My companions
like.. "Uhh yes?" Then she said "are you American? They're American
teeth, that's why they're beautiful." Then she went down and sat next
to a guy and told him that he could be a model 😂😂
We were matching on Sunday (not on purpose) so we had to get a picture
Youth activity
We found our new favorite gelateria
This is from today. Sardegna zone for the win.
