Thanks for sharing the ward news! Wow non ci credo that friends from my grade are already coming home! So weird. Wow
what a week! Okay first--we taught famiglia Dintino finally!!! You all
probably don't remember them--but we first taught them my second week in
Italy. They are friends of our ward mission leader and we had some
really great lessons with them! Then our ward mission leader went to
America for two months and this family wanted to wait for them to return
so we haven't seen them for this whole time. But they've always been on
our investigator's list and we've been praying for them every day--well
those prayers worked!! The mission leader, named Fratello Guisti, is a
huge music guy (he's actually pretty famous and does a ton of stuff for
the church (side note: looks like the temple will not be finished while
I'm here, but Guisti will be the choir director and he said I can come
back and be in the choir!!!). Anyways Massimo Dintino (the dad) owns a
music shop and really looks up to Guisti and that's why he started
taking the lessons in the first place. Our bishop came over and talked
to him about how he should learn more about the church to get closer to
Christ, not fratello Guisti. Massimo understood that and how he's really
into the lessons and accepted to be baptized Nov 7!!!! Also the wife
has always been the one who seems really unsure, but now she seems a lot
more open and wants us to come over more. Also two of their kids were
way into our lesson. Man I am so excited for this family!!
This
week we've also been teaching this other family that I talked about
last week--Analia and her children. We've gone over a few times to teach
English and then the gospel. We watched the Restoration and the whole
time she kept saying how his question was her question; we explained so
many things about the church and she agreed and loved everything! After
we left, she looked all over LDS.org, watched almost all of general
conference with her kids, and even found some great polygamy stuff that I
had to explain the next day hahaha. AND she came to all three hours of
church!!!!! Ah I just love this family! Every lesson with them goes by
so fast! Okay the other day I was helping the little (9 years old) learn
English with using some of the techniques I learned from China (okay I
never would've thought I would be teaching English this much in my
life!) and I was drawing with her helping her learn some words, when she
drew a picture of me and wrote "my friend" over it. Her mom told us how
she won't stop talking about us. Ah best feeling ever!
Okay
another story: one night Slla Mckenna and I were looking for this
inactive named Katia Maccione and we were looking for the longest time
but I kept messing all the streets up (which is weird because usually
I'm good with this stuff) and finally we found her house but it was
getting late so we were unsure if we should try but we decided to
anyway. We couldn't find her room so we did casa in casa and ended up
talking to this really strange guy--when Katia and her daughter walked
by. They invited us in and we talked for a little bit. Katia wants us to
come back and she also said she would like us to come back and teach
her daughter the lessons. If we didn't get lost or talk to crazy men
(haha) then we would have been there too early and never would have met
her. So even if sometimes everything seems to go wrong--there's a
reason!! God knows all and this is his work and we just need to do our
best and follow him!
Wow
so this week has been crazy busy and filled with miracles--more people
came to church this week then this whole transfer combined, we also
found this other cute couple who wants to hear our message, and we
suddenly got all these referrals! It's crazy!! My whole mission I've
wanted to teach a whole family--and now we have four families! We
haven't been doing anything so I don't know why the Lord is blessing us,
but I am sure grateful! This ward is so great! Seriously the Bishop and
our ward mission leader are seriously overzealous in doing missionary
work--in the best way possible! Well the bishop was a mission president
two times so what can you expect? Yesterday the ward had a meeting on
how the members can do missionary work better. Seriously I can't believe
all the things and sacrifices everyone is making.
Okay so you're probably wondering about
transfers...well you can imagine how I felt after a week like this. We
got the call Saturday and all Friday night I couldn't sleep at all
because I was way sad that I might have to leave these people. Feeling
such great love for other people is the best part of this mission.
Anyway waiting for the call Saturday was the worst--especially since
everyone else got their call in the morning and we never got
ours...finally I was just sick of waiting so I called the assistants at
the end of the day and they told me...I'm staying in Pescara!!!!!!!!
With Sorella Mckenna again!!!! I was sooooooooooo happy! There has been
times that I wanted to leave, but I am so grateful to have another
transfer here! Sorella Mckenna is really great so I'm excited to have
the best transfer ever!
Till next week!
Love you all!!!
Love sorella Knudsen!!
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