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| Sorella Rost and I eating worm cheese. |
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| I'm learning how to cook! Be excited. Best lasagna ever. |
-So there's only three
things you will hear about this island before you come here...1.
There are more sheep than people. 2. they have their own language.
And 3. they eat cheese with worms in it. Well guess what I did this
week...I ATE THE WORM CHEESE. To make it they first take some
cheese—then puts a ton of worms in it. The worms eat the
cheese—then poop it out—and there you go—worm cheese. It gives
it a really spicy, special flavor that these sardenians really love.
Yesterday we had a meal appointment and they gave us this cheese so I
had to try it. It was nasty. It tasted like cheese mixed with stomach
acid.
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| We went over to Sandra's--and she pulled out SQUID to cook. |
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| Squid |
-We had a great lesson
with Sandra this week! Her heart is changing slow, but definitely changing.
She told us how she knows this church is true and how she feels
better each week and she knows she needs to come to church. We taught her
the restoration a while ago, but she didn't really listen to us then,
so we taught her again this week. Her son, a recent convert, has been
memorizing the first vision and we asked her if he could say it. It
was the most special lesson! We taught the restoration, she really
listened, and then her own son told her the first vision. The spirit
was so strong! We also taught the word of wisdom this week...she
doesn't have a huge desire to quit smoking yet because she still
doesn't want to be baptized, but now we're focusing on strengthening
her testimony and hopefully that will help! Also, on Sunday, she
asked us if she could pay tithing even though she's not baptized.
She's already the best member ever...just needs to stop smoking!
-Have I told you how boss
my companion is? In English course on Tuesday she told all our
English course students that the pope doesn't have the authority.
-Angela is doing awesome!
She loves coming to church and wants to learn and learn and learn!
She's great, even though her lessons have been a bit hard this week.
Angela is very lonely and has been hurt a lot in her life; she has a
lot of questions and worries that she needs to get over to find
peace. We've been taking this member with us who is really the nicest
lady in the world with the greatest testimony...but our lesson was
about two hours long...and we only got to talk for about ten minutes
of it. This member just went off explaining the plan of salvation
without us and explained all these things to try and help Angela. She
even talked about how in the garden of Eden there was no seeds so
nothing could grow...uh...pretty sure that's not doctrine! She
wouldn't let us talk until the end and we just bore our testimonies
about God's plan for us. Then after she told us how we need to not
just think of Angela as a baptism, but to take more time to help
her;ow she needs to explain everything because we don't speak Italian
too well; and all this stuff. We honestly felt horrible after—and
we didn't do anything! Then on Sunday we were talking with Angela and
she asked if we could keep coming over, but not bring that member
because she feels the spirit when we talk, but not when this member
talks. This made us so happy! Because Angela recognizes the spirit
and it strengthens my testimony that we are called to do this
work—even if we have a lot of weakness the spirit is the one that
teaches and we are set apart to have this spirit.
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| Teaching Alessia about the BOM! |
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| Gelato with Alessia! |
-New investigator! There's
this really sweet girl named Alessia that has been coming to English
course a long time and she comes to all our activities and loves all
of it. We gave her a BOM and explained all the stories—she went
home that night and read 11 chapters! We're really excited about her!
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| Andrea |
-Okay I need to tell you
the update on Andrea! He's the coolest ever. Last week his family was
all cool with him joining the church, but then this week...he got in
a huge fight with his dad and brother and they kicked him out on the
street. He slept on the streets for two days and then the third day
he called the other sisters to tell them what happened because they
are teaching his mom. We were so upset that he was on the streets
with nothing (and it has been really cold during the nights and he
got sick!) so us sister we got all these sheets from our closet and
we made him soup and gave him all these things. He was so touched
when he saw us—he couldn't even speak, he just kept crying and
crying. He took the stuff, found a place to sleep, and just started
praying and reading...when he got a call! His boss heard he was on
the streets so he called him up and told him to come live with him
and his family and they will take care of him and let him keep coming
to our church! Also, his boss was so amazed at everything we gave him
and couldn't believe that there were people that nice. I don't know
who this family is, but they seem so awesome! It was such a miracle!
This week Andrea lost his girlfriend and his family, but it was
awesome seeing how happy he was anyway. Also, yesterday we had lunch
with a bunch of friends and there was this one girl who was asking
questions to Andrea about why he would want to get baptized and
change religions. He told us how he became super religious when he
was younger and loved going to church since then, but that there is a
huge difference between his religion and our church. He said how his
religion preaches and doesn't do anything, but how we preach and act.
Yes we have crazy standards, but it's great because it means we
really believe in these things. He feels a huge difference once he
started coming to church here and he knows that it is true. He's the
coolest kid ever. There's a lot of people that need the church...but
this church NEEDS Andrea. With his testimony he's going to bring
hundreds of people to church.
Well that's all. I LOVE
this city! This people here are so crazy and so funny and just makes
me so happy every day...even when times are hard. Not a day has
passed in my mission so far that I don't stop to think how crazy and
awesome it is to be in Italy. Yes some days are hard, but I would
never trade anything for it. Also, this week I get to go to ROME for
a conference and we're taking a night boat over! Should be fun, but
I'm scared to miss so much time!
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