know that you're like the queen of Cagliari right? Because you've been
here the longest, and you're a girl." I willingly accepted my title
and plan for it to stay this way for a while (speriamo.)
This week was a blur. The first half we were in a trio running around
trying to say goodbye to everyone for Sorella Clark and Sorella
Biccherri. It was crazy and we were super busy, all the while we were
trying to get them packed, clean the apartment and the area books, and
prepare for Sorella Tingey's arrival.
One of my new investigators (from the other Sorelle) Raffaella
accepted a baptismal date for June 25th! I also got to meet Claudia
(another new investigator from the other Sorelle.) She is amazing!
She's 19 years old, doesn't really believe in God, but is so curious
and wants to know everything. She is such a deep thinker and really
has a desire to know everything.
Sorella Tingey got here Thursday and because she's the STL for our
zone I got to go with her to the mission-wide leadership meeting
Friday. It was awesome, and so is Sorella Tingey! She and Sorella
Clark are like complete opposites. I think God wants me to learn
different things from each of them and I'm super excited. Sorella
Tingey is more like me, she's mellow and quieter which helps me a ton
because it means I have to talk more haha Sorella Clark often did all
of the talking and didn't leave much space for me to fit a sentence
in. With her I learned what to say and how to say it, with Sorella
Tingey I am able to put those things I've learned into action!
We're continuing to teach Mara. She's a bit stubborn and won't accept
the invite to be baptized ma piano piano. She'll come around.
Yesterday we went to see a new convert who is like 95 years old. Her
name is Rina. She is the cutest little lady ever. The other Sorelle
had been going through the Christlike attributes with her so yesterday
we taught her about patience. It was really funny because she's just
this cute little old lady who just sits there and smiles and she's
probably the most patient person I've ever met, and we were teacher
her about patience! We asked "why is it important to have patience?"
And a few other questions and she just kept saying "we have to have
patience to live" and then chuckle. She showed us a bunch of super old
pictures of her family from like the 30's it was so cool. I just love
her so much.
Sorella Tingey and I are learning tons together. I probably don't know
this city as well as I should because there's so many different buses
and routes that we take for different things and most of these places
I've never even gone before. Sorella Clark had been here so long she
literally knew everything about this city. She never had to look at a
map or look anything up so I didn't learn how to do that haha but I'm
getting good at figuring things out and have definitely been guided by
the spirit. We also realized the past few days that both of our
previous companions had the talent of cooking and we would just help
them.. But now, neither of us really know what we're doing haha.
Either we burn our food, it has no flavor, or it has WAY too much
flavor..it's a work in progress. But don't you worry, after this
transfer we'll both be master chefs, just you wait.
Along with that is my funny story for the week: Having 3 Sorelle leave
we were left with a bunch of random food in the kitchen. Like I can't
even tell you how many grains we were left with, it could last a
lifetime and don't even get me started on the rice cakes, sisters eat
them here like they're chicken nuggets..but anyway, we didn't really
have tons of things to eat for like dinner super fast. So Sorella
Tingey found some popcorn kernels and decided to make popcorn. Neither
of us really knew how to do that so she just put a bunch of oil and
kernels in the pan and closed the lid. I don't know if the burner was
up too high or there was too much oil or not enough, but within a few
minutes it started smoking. She opened up the pan and the entire
apparent was filled with smoke and we couldn't breath 😂 needless to
say we need a little help hahaha. We left all the windows open but our
apartment still smelt like smoke 2 days later. Aiuto.
That's all I have for now! Oh I just thought of something else.
Sorella Tingey was in Rome before and apparently they never had
problems with men like we do here hahah so when we were stopped by two
Africans who wanted to "uscire" (go out) she was a little shocked.
haha I assured her that she'll get used to it. You start to learn how
to pick up on things like we made a bunch of calls to potentials and
for some reason most were men, a lot agreed to meet with us but
because they asked our age and if we were American, those are 2 red
flags that you learn to look for and then you just pass them to the
Anziani.. They've always got our back.
That's all, I love you, keep the faith, and pray that Sorella Tingey
and I will learn how to function (or at least cook) soon. 😂
Ciao ciao. Un abbraccio.
Letter to president:
This week was long, but so good. We've been really busy with double
the work which I recognize as a blessing. I am so excited for this
transfer with Sorella Tingey. She and Sorella Clark are very
different, but both amazing missionaries so I am excited to learn
different things from each of them. I don't have a ton to report on
this week, we've been seeing tons of people and trying to learn this
new work together. I feel like I've grown so much just in these past
few days because I haven't had my trainer to rely on. Sorella Tingey
always has my back but I've been learning how to lead more with her
because I've been here longer, it's helping me so much!! Sorella
Tingey is so awesome. We're going to learn so much together..
Especially how to cook.. We may have burned almost everything we
cook.. But like i said, we're learning together haha. I do feel a
little bit like the blind leading the blind because I don't know this
city as well as I should, but we've been making it around alright and
haven't gotten lost yet, so that's a bonus!
We have an investigator, Mara, who has met with a lot of missionaries
in the past, loves meeting with us, is willing to keep commitments,
but will not accept a baptismal date. We tried to help her understand
by relating it to training for a marathon and she told us that she
wouldn't plan the date of her wedding until she know for sure that she
wanted to marry this person haha so basically her excuse is that she
doesn't know for sure. She tells us that she believes everything we
say but it's a huge life changing thing and she just doesn't feel
ready for it.
Well, we've been organizing the work, cleaning up our area book, and
preparing our house for the arrival of President Pickered. I know that
this transfer was inspired. Cagliari's work (and home) really needed
to be cleaned out and now we are having the opportunity to do that!
We're excited to see miracles as we organize this work.
This is Claudia. She's wonderful.
Bye Sorella Clark!
Hi Sorella Tingey!
our sad popcorn.
Rina ☺️
