He is the man that says, "He".

So to explain this story...We met this girl from England and we started talking to her and this guy walked passed, heard us talking English and started yelling “He, HE, HE” at us. Then we saw him on the street going to church and he started yelling “He HE HE” at us. Then we were doing casa in casa (house to house) one day and he randomly came out of this apartment and started yelling “He he He” at us. We've seen him at the most random places and we're just like...”who is this guy?!?!” Finally we got to talk to him and he explained how “he” means “ciao” in American. And we're like...really? And he's like yeah and he spells H I for us in Italians. Italians say their “i” as an “e”. So all this time he's been trying to say hi to us. Hahaha so funny. So he is the man that says “he”! (instead of the “knights that say ne” ahah get it?). 

 

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Sassari

 

Lately I've been thinking about how we could do missionary work better. We've done a lot in this city and quoting my wise old trainer...”if you always do what you always did. You'll always get what you always got. So try something new.” I've been praying and thinking about how we could make a greater difference here in Sassari when it kind of just came to me...INACTIVES. We have a TON of inactives here and I think it's time for some of them to return. We took our huge list and went around to some members trying to get as much information as we could about these people. We spent a couple hours with this one member who told us everything he knew about the inactives and now we have probably the best ward list in all of Italy. He told us how the requirements to be baptized were different and people could get baptized just like that and all of these people fell away right after their baptisms and never came back. But he gave us a good list of people who are going through a hard time right now or something and that he believes we could help come back to church. So that is our game plan right now—inactives! We've already gone to a lot of houses...and no one was ever home...but we're going to go back! Hopefully we'll have some success! Plus most of these people are part member families.

I do have one great success story of this week: Tina and Valentina! So Tina is our less active and valentina her daughter and our investigator. Since Valentina is 11, we really need to get her mom back in the church before the daughter will come. And Tina is a bit difficult sometimes. She never really let us come over, but slowly slowly we have gotten into this house and showed her that we care. We've gone over and cleaned their house and we spent our New Years taking her out to get hot chocolate. Another thing about Tina is that she doesn't have a testimony or really even knows anything about the church anymore so we are trying to teach her all the lessons again. Our plan this week was for her to come to church and we'll watch the Restoration and then make brownies. Then she called us telling us she was too lazy to come, but we could come to her house. We were a little disappointed...but then it turned out AWESOME. Valentina was there (we never get to see her) and she talked with us the whole time! We made brownies and watched the Restoration. We asked Valentina about what she thought about the movie and she said she believes it's true. I asked how does she know and she said because she felt it!! So sometimes it takes a lot of work, love, and service to help people accept the gospel!

Also, this week I have just loved being a missioary (as always), but really I am so grateful to be here. Sorella Felice and I have been talking about how much our missions are preparing us for after the missions. In my mission I have learned to LOVE the gospel. I eat up the words of the prophets and scriptures like I have never done before. And I'm grateful to be on the mission so I could learn to love it, because I don't know if I would otherwise. Also I'm learning how to be a great cook, how to clean (I know how to get rid of mold), to be a great teacher, to be a great visiting teacher, to be patient, to live with someone, to follow the spirit, etc. Missions are awesome. The end.

Oh, also we made friends with some children of a gypsy and bought them to English course and everybody freaked out...because no one likes gypsies here (i'm not a huge fan, but these kids are innocent). But that was funny.