Monday, October 28, 2013

Popcorn popping on the apricot tree

These first few pictures are of my P-day in Ortona!







Valentina and her dog
 Ciao madre! Love the Halloween stuff and the family looks like they're doing good!
Okay great week! First we had a huge talent show in my ward and it was the best!!!!!!!!!!!! I love this ward so much. We had over 25 different talents and it took forever, but SO MANY people came! And guess what....I was in it! Yeah who knew I had a talent? Haha well actually first Sorella Mckenna played Popcorn popping on the apricot tree on the piano...then she came and sat down with all of us sister missionaries (there's Patterson, Worshum, Mckenna and I right now), and then we brought out all these water bottles and we played the song by blowing over the water bottles! It was so awesome and the ward LOVED it. Patterson acted like she couldn't play and by the end she pretended to be so frustrated that she crumbled up her bottle for her last note. I can't send you the video (too big) and I can't describe all of it...but just know it was really great. Also we made brownies for the cook off they did--and we totally won. Somehow my brownies tops all Italian food! We had a lot of investigators come and it made such a huge difference for them. For example, my lovely Dintino family! The son came, played the accordion (is that how you spell it?), rocked it, and won the whole talent show! The son is 14 years old right now and if he gets baptized now he could be prepared to go on a mission when he's 18 or 19 so we've been trying to focus more on him. He made a lot of friends at the talent show and he seemed so happy to win so I think that made a huge difference for him and the church! 
Okay now onto the dad of the Dintino family. So he's getting baptized in a week and a half (speriamo) and he is really committed to that date. On Saturday I asked if he was going to come to church tomorrow and he said that he had to tune a piano by tomorrow afternoon so he didn't think he would have time. I told him how he needs to come to church three Sundays before he can get baptized so if he can't come tomorrow we'll have to move his date. So I didn't expect him to come to church...but he came! He told me he stayed up ALL night tuning that piano so that he could come to church and be baptized on the 7th! WHAT?!?! Che bravo. But there's another little problem...he smokes. Yesterday he promised to quit and if he doesn't smoke again then he can get baptized. We're praying really hard that he will have the strength to do it. But he is really committed to being baptized so I have full faith in him. 
That's all for this week. Vi voglio bene! 

Bracio! 
Sorella Knudsen

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