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| Companion in Sorrento |
Last week for P-day we went to Sorrento! Which is this
beautiful city on the sea. We met this old man there who is famous for making
these handmade music boxes. He loves the missionaries and he offers us a really
good price. So I got the most special little music box ever!
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| Sorrento |
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| Music box |
Okay…you ready…this week was FULL of MIRACOLI! Last week we
hardly taught any lessons at all (well we had zone conference and scambios),
but this week was FULL of lessons! We taught over 16 lessons (this is an
accomplishment here). All of our investigators were able to see us this week
and we had so many great lessons with them, but mostly I want to tell you about the
miracles we’ve seen Saturday and Sunday!
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| me and a buffalo |
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| a beautiful catholic church |
But the biggest miracle of all is that we taught SEVENS LESS
ACTIVES!! I have never ever taught that many in a week and all of these were
really awesome people. I’m going to tell you about Saturday where we visited
FOUR less actives in one day. The first one lives about an hour away (walking
there’s no buses that go there…also…it’s getting SO hot here!). The daughter is
active, but her mom…is stubborn you could say. But the mom loves indexing so
now we’re going to start an indexing program and she wants to teach it! In the
afternoon we were able to find this less active named Marishenka who is only
about 21 years old and is the sweetest thing ever. She hasn’t accepted
missionaries for almost 2 years, but we
called her up and straight away she said yes and invited us over. We were also
able to bring a member to that lesson and they became really great friends. Then
we got on an hour bus to go to Salerno to find this other less active Elivera.
She’s really nice, but just kind of old and doesn’t want to travel all the way
to church, but she is interested in doing indexing!! One less active is going
to activate the other. Then we did an hour of finding in Salerno!
Then we tried
to find this lady named Enza. I thought she lived close to Salerno, but turns
out she lives 30 minutes away and we didn’t have a lot of time, but we decided
to pray and try to go find her anyway. It took so long to find her house, but
we finally did and it was well worth it! Her name is Enza who I just already
love to death, she is so sweet. She doesn’t come to church because she has to
take care of her sick mom and some other problem. She still has a testimony of
the gospel and would like to change so she can prepare to go to the temple. She
seems like she could be a really solid member so I’m excited to work with her! Because
it took so long to find her house, we were scared we would be home late, but
the minute we got to the bus stop… it came! Then we met the coolest lady on the
bus named Giovanna! We gave her a BOM and we hope to meet with her this week! A
day full of miracles!
THEN it was Sunday. Honestly, we didn’t think any
investigators were going to come to church, then while we’re in relief society…in
walks Irene who randomly decided to come! We were so happy! THEN in walks Rosa,
this less active we’re been working with and has been refusing to come to
church. THEN in walks another less active, Giovanna, who came with her little
granddaughter, Melica (she used to be an investigator). It was such a miracle
to have all these people come to church. During relief society a funny thing
happened. So there’s this family that just moved in from Brazil and they can
speak enough Italian to communicate, but not a lot yet. Well this family was
teaching part of the lesson, but with a translator. Also, this random German
lady showed us who could speak a little English. So the lesson was given in Portuguese
which was translated into Italian which I translated into English for this
German lady. Four languages in this one class.
During Gospel Principles, I heard a lot of noises going on
upstairs, but I just kind of ignored it. Then when we went upstairs for
sacrament meeting…the whole room was already FULL! With people I have never
seen before! I looked at the Elders and they told me we have tourist from
Norway, Germany, and Utah. Normally we have about 30 members who come to church
(I’m working in a very small branch remember), but yesterday we had over 80
people in church!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was CRAZY! There was not enough room for
everyone. All the members were freaking out and taking pictures of all the
people!! Ahaha so funny! Sacrament was in both English and Italian. One of the families
is actually from Highland! It was fun talking to them, and they promised to
give you a call when they get home. It was so fun having that many people in
church though! Reminded me of the church in Utah hahaha! After the relief society
president asked if we could take a picture of everyone and everyone was like…why?
And she was like “I have never seen this many people in church before!” It was
funny having these families from Utah see how excited the members were here.
Haha but hey it was a big deal for us Battipagli-ers.
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| Tourist |
Also, another funny culture thing. This guy named Brian came
and visited the branch this week. He used to be the branch president from
Salerno before that branch was closed down and he came back to visit people and
try to bring them to church. So this guy’s parents are from England and
Argentina, but he was born and raised in South Africa, he has the strong
English accent you’ve ever heard, and he knows about ten languages fluently. He
is so cool. Anyway it was just funny to listen to this guy from Africa speak in
half English half Italian with a thick British accent in church!
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| Brian |
One of the Elders here, Elder Rasband (his cousin is
actually David Creighton!), had to get his military license renewed so he got
to go to the navy base…and he brought us back Reeses, double stuff oreos, a
muffin mix, KFC and TACO BELL! Who knew I would miss this stuff so much?!?
Bacio!
Sorella Knudsen
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