Hellosissimooooo, Monday
March 23, 2015
Come state?! This week was STELLAR. Come
sempre. Today for y'all I have a funny story, a miracle (there were
several this week but I’ll share the coolest one) and some info about mission
conference! Put on your seatbelts, it’s gonna be a good one.
Starting with the funny story. This story occurred right after the miracle. We
were riding home in a bus, and it was like 1:30ishhh. It was Sorella
Mazzarella’s six month mark. We were nearing home when we saw a sign for
Aushuan, this super duper huge store that we heard has Oreos. We made a
split second decision and decided to hop off the bus for two seconds to check
for some Oreos to celebrate Sorella M’s 6 months. We ran in the Aushuan and only saw a bunch of
little restaurants, no grocery stores. Confused, we looked around and saw
an elevator. We assumed that the grocery
store was probably the level above. However,
the elevator wasn’t working. No problem,
we just decided to take the stairs. We opened the door to the staircase,
and as we went in, just as the door was closing, I noticed something
interesting...there wasn’t a handle on the back of the door. "No
problem," I thought, we'll just catch the handle on the door up the
stairs. But...there wasn’t one!
haha. The only door with a way out was one on the third floor that
looked like it was alarmed. So, we were stuck in this staircase.
Being a claustrophobic person...that wasn’t the funniest thing
ever....haha. We started banging on the door and saying, "ci
scusi" but no one heard us. So, we did the only thing left to do....we
prayed. After the prayer, I decided it
was about time to just try the door that looked like it might be alarmed. I pushed that thing open like it was no big
deal. BOOM.suuuuperrr loud alarms started
going off. We opened the door into this parking lot on the roof and a million
people were looking at us like we were literally nuts. I looked at
Sorella Mazarella and she turned completely white. We were just standing there,
wondering what the heck to do, with this super loud alarm shrilling in our ears.
We expected the Italian SWAT team to
come out at any moment and tackle us to the ground, skirts and all.
However, luckily Italy is the chillest country in the world. This nice lady who had just finished parking
her car told us it was no big deal. We went back inside the building and
told this guy who worked there we set off the alarm and he looked at us with
this expression like, "and you’re telling me this because...?" He didn’t
care at all. So it ended up working out pretty well haha. I was shaking
for like 2 hours though. Also don’t worry, we got the Oreos. I forgot how yummy
those things are!
Mission
conference: SUPER GOOD! Our schedule for mission
conference went like this...
Thursday night: take the boat
Friday morning: get off the boat, drive to conference (45
min), get there just in time to sit down
Friday: conference
Friday after the conference: drove quickly to the ferry, hopped back on the
boat, slept.
Saturday morning: finally made it back to Calgliari.
It was crazy! So much traveling.
The boat was really cool. Not exactly like the Disney cruise. There were definitely no cool folded towel
animals but it was fun comunque. We brought dinner and ate on the
boat. Then we played this game as a zone. (Our whole zone of 16
missionaries was on the boat with us.) It was coooollll. I slept
pretty well.
The conference was great. Really, really
great. Elder Teixeira is a really awesome person. His wife is stellar as well. Together they
taught us mostly just to talk to everyone!!!!! It was kind of like
listening to a really good pump up song before a race. I’m SO READY to
race for the rest of my mission. Also Presidente Dinicaci was at the
conference. He testified about how much the gospel has blessed his
family. I love these people! I
want them to have the knowledge I have! I love being able to talk to
them, get to know them, and help them know that God loves them. This is
the best opportunity ever!
The
miracle.
This week we went out to try and see a less active in this small little city by
Cagliari. We had never met this lady before but vescovo told us to go see
her....we tried to call her but she never answered. Finally we just decided to take a morning and
go. It was actually the place I got my foot taken care of, and we knew a
member who lived there too who was having a birthday that week so we took her a
chocolate bar before we saw the less active. The member ended up telling
us all about the less active, including that her husband in the past had been
very against the church, and that he wasn’t very nice. We decided to go
anyway. We walked to her house and pressed the citofono. I looked
over to my left and there was a man entering the building, for some reason, I
just felt like I should talk to him. So I asked him if he could let us in
the building because we had something we wanted to bring his neighboor,
Marinella Lampis. He said yes and let us in. As we were riding up
the elevator he turned to us and said "so, you guys are mormons,
right?" we were like "yeah, how do you know?" Then he said, "because my wife is
Marinella Lampis." Ahh. We
were scared, but he ended up being reeeeeaaally nice! Super dry sense of
humor but nice the same. He not only let us in but told us we could stay
and visit, and that we could come back. It was super cool!!!!!!! It
was amazing that we happened to be entering the building at the exact same time
as he was, and that we got to get to know him. The Lord guides His work!
All in all this week was great. I’m excited to keep working and to be better
every day. I love these people, I love this city, and I love being a
missionary. Keep rocking everyone. Heavenly Father loves us!!
VI VOGLIO UN SACCO DI BENE
Sorella Brunson
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