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| We made cheesecake for English course |
Well this week was
awesome! I can't believe it's PDAY again! The mission is going by too
fast. :(
Okay so we have
Rosaria who is awesome!!! We get to see her everyday and she is
making such great progress! Everytime we go over there she tells us
all about what she has read and it is so cute. Also...she gave us
THREE referrals this week! She's been talking about us and how great
we are to all of her friends and she told one day how two of her
friends want BOMs...so we have two appointments set up this week to
see them! Then yesterday while we were teaching...her friend stopped
by and Rosaria invited her in to meet us. This friend is named Elena
and has actually been baptized three times...she was born orthodox,
then became catholic to get married to an Italian, and then became
Evangelist haha. She was way interested and asked all these
questions. The best part was that Rosaria responded to all of them!
Rosaria loves the story of Joseph Smith and has seen the movie three
times...and she told her friend his story better than I have ever
heard any missionary tell it, she even quoted exact lines! The spirit
was so strong as we bore testimony! We have another appointment with
them tonight :).
This place is
known for their mozzerella di buffala (buffalo cheese!) they eat it
here so often. This member brought us a bowl of 35 balls that us four
missionaries were expected to eat! I could only eat five though. So much
cheese. so good.
So we're working
with this family named Melella who are two parents and four crazy
young boys. They are new converts, but becoming inactive because the
dad never actually stopped smoking. The Anziani are teaching the dad
and Sorella Webster and I have been trying to strengthen the mom and
the boys. The parents don't actually seem to care too much, but I
feel like these four boys have so much potential and could become
great missionaries one day so I really want to help them out with
learning the gospel and having good examples. Our idea is to help
them have a FHE every week and to help the mom teach her boys about
the gospel. Last week we made cheesecake together and it was CRAZY!
Four boys with fingers, spit, and blood flying all over the place
(I'm not kidding about the blood part). But we brought some pictures
of Christ and the BOM and one of the sons, Emanuele, was so
interested in the BOM stories and wanted to hear all about it. It was
so a cool moment teaching him about the BOM. Also, this week Emanuele
got the Aaronic Priesthood to pass the sacrament....but he didn't
come to church in church clothes (this is a normal thing in Italy,
most people don't have money to buy suits), but they found a shirt
and tie for him...but no pants. He happened to be wearing gray sweats
with the name of a soccer team written in pink on his bum. It was so
awesome because he's passing the sacrament and trying to be a good
member...but I just couldn't stop laughing at how inappropriate his
pants were!
This is us with a less active and her grandchildren. We also helped them do their hair hahah!
This ward has kind
of proved to be a little difficult to work with...it is really hard
to get members to come to lessons and they seem really annoyed when
you ask, which is a bummer because Rosaria needs to meet all these
members! Then we have this one member...Maria. Bless her heart. I
really love that woman to death. She is so sweet and funny and us
missionaries just love her. But she has had quite the past...she has
tried to kill her husband (luckily it didn't work), has had gambling
problems, and almost every other problem before joining the church.
Everyone in this town knows her and does not like her and does not
believe that she has changed. She just causes problems with everyone
and everything that it makes it so hard to get investigators to come
to church. This week she went over to a new convert's house with beer
to see if he would drink it. Haha she's the worst, but I love that
crazy lady.
This week the Elders
were teaching a girl named Anita. She is so awesome! I can't explain
how special she is and how much I already love her. But at the end of
their lesson....she had a seizure attack. I got to go up and hold her
during some of it and it was a really cool experience. The more that
she meets with the missionaries, the more attacks she has. I don't
understand why it is like that, but I'm sure God has a reason for it.
Also, each week we
do service for two handicap kids and help them do their exercises. I
was paired up with this lady named Antonella and she is kind of scary
and really hard to talk to. But I knew that I wanted to make a good
impression so I tried so hard to talk to her and kept praying for
help. It was still awkward and I felt like I failed. After, Sorella
Webster told me how surprised she was that Antonella was talking to
me that much because she never talked to the sister before me at all.
So actually I guess someone I got on her good side and she loves me
now. We've seen her on the street and she introduces me to all her
friends and on Friday she was telling the family what a great helper
I am and how I have “the eye” for taking care of this girl and
how much we get along. So I learned when we put in our best
effort...God takes our efforts and magnifies them by a hundred.
Besides Rosaria,
we're kind of losing a lot of our investigators right now. Our goal
was to get a lot of new investigators this, and that didn't really
happened, but we got a ton of potentials!! We have the three
referrals from Rosaria. We really want to find some families to teach
so I quickly looked through the areabook for all the families that
seemed interested to me. I made four phone calls...and three people
said they would like to meet with us again in the next couple of
weeks! We did some great park finding and we got some numbers of
families and we have an appointment with one of them Tuesday.
Actually that's a great story! We met this mom with three kids in the
park and she seemed so interested, but there was this old lady who
was very catholic so the mom wouldn't give us her number which was
such a big bummer. A couple days later we happened to see her walking
with some heavy grocery bags (and she is very pregnant!) so we helped
her out and she told us to come back another day! Such a miracle that
we got to see her again. Miracles!
UN GRANDE BACIO DA
ME! VI VOGLIO BENE.
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