Horton Hears a Who...gone Wrong...

Ciao famiglia! In uno settimana saro in Italia! Che pazzo! Sono molto molto MOLTO emotionata! (In one week I will be in Italy! Crazy! I am so so SO excited!). Well things are getting serious! I have my travel plans and soon I will be out of this country again! SO EXCITED.

My friend Cass

My companion and I by the temple

Okay I have some funny stories. First off, in the lunchroom there are these huge containers full of cereal and the Elders in my District decided last week to eat an entire container. Us sisters thought "why not?" so we joined the challenge. As a District (10 people) we ate 53 bowls of Coco puffs! Gross huh? Hahah! Here's the count for each of the Elders: 10, 8, 7, 6, 3, and 2; and the sisters: 5, 5, 3, and I ate 4! We felt so awful after that, but it was a lot of fun! Also, turns out you're not a supposed to do the "tower challenge" as I guess it is called. We got in a bit of trouble (more like our President just thought we were dumb), but it was fun anyway. 

Classic flying picture in MTC

This week my companion got the flu (BTW so far *knock on wood* I haven't gotten sick--quite the accomplishment at the MTC (I would say I haven't gained weight, but maybe cereal challenge might've pushed me over)) so we had to be in our room for a couple of days. It's an odd thing to have your companion be sick, because you can't leave her so you just have to sit in the room allllll dayyy longgg and study. One of the days I got really bored of studying so I decided to take a break while my companion was in the shower. I "stole" some sheets and I made our room into one huge blanket fort! It was great and we spent the rest of the afternoon studying in it. 

My companion and I in our fort

The blanket fort I made

My roommates and I in blanket fort

Also I got a little bored and decided to play a joke on my companion. Remember that little device I have that plays "Hey can you hear me?" in a man's voice every four minutes? Well I turned it on, put it under the bed, and waited. She was talking the first time it went off, said "what was that?", then just ignored it. The second time it came in clear--"Hey can you hear me?" and my companion starts freaking out wondering what it was! Okay you have to be so proud of me, because I played along so well. I acted freaked out and we spent the next twenty minutes waiting, listening, screaming, and trying to find it. Finally we found it and I confessed that it was mine. Luckily, Perkins just laughed and thought it was a great joke. Oh but I got her good! Then we decided to play it on our other roommates. We tried it two nights and they NEVER heard it and we didn't want to stay up forever so I turned it off. For Pday today we decided to do it again when two of our roommates were in the room. They were so scared and we searched everywhere (vents, windows, closets, etc.) for it. They got ten other girls to come in to hear it and look for it. We seriously looked for it for an hour and the whole time Slla Perkins and I are trying hard not to laugh. They kept thinking there was a man hiding somewhere or an evil spirit in our room. My favorite was when one of the girls said "this is like Horton hears a Who--but from the DEVIL!" One girl started trying to look under the carpet and another was going to go tell the front desk...so Slla Perkins and I decided it was time to find it. We helped them find it and they realized it was us and were so mad. But now they think it's funny. Hahaha I wish I could do this story more justice, but just know that it was really funny in person.

Girls that took part in the "Hey can you hear me?" 

 Well on a different note...I really have been working hard this week too! We met with our "investigator", Luigi, again yesterday and he has finally tried to pray and he felt that there is a God (yay!). We were so happy for him and now he's doing so great! But since we are leaving next week, we had to tell him goodbye...and it was really sad! I know he's not real, but he kind of feels like it. Also, he was so upset that we were leaving that he took the mission president's number and said he would call him to make him let us stay. What a cute, old man. Also yesterday I got to teach my first Italian in Italy...over skype! One of the teachers set us up to call some of his friends and teach them a gospel message. We had this 18 year old black girl who was born in Italy, but her family is from Gana. Her name was Pearl and she was so much fun to teach! It just made me really excited to teach an Italian and I will be doing that in a week from now!

Well can't wait to talk to you guys in the airport on Tuesday! Vi voglio bene (literally translates to I want you well, but it means I love you!)!!!

Love Sorella Knudsen