Monday, September 07, 2015
Emergency Rooms and Sweaty Brows
It's been another fantastic week in the land
of Italy. You guys all really need to
visit here. I mean I'm not bias or anything but I'm pretty sure this country is
my favorite!
Let's just start this email off with a funny
story to illustrate how crazy awesome this country is:
We were walking to go visit a less active and
it was the first time we had been up to her house. I say up because it's up this gigantic hill. Like kind of a mountain. So we are walking, the sun beating down on us,
and we finally reach the top of this mountain to this little village place
where she lives. We weren’t exactly sure where her street was so we needed to
ask someone for directions. We asked
this old man. He gave us directions,
then paused, looked at my companion and said, "Wow, you are really sweaty!"
and then he took his hand and wiped the sweat off her brow. Yes. It really happened. Any American bubble you might have when you
come into this mission will be popped. Don't be surprised if I'm just all over you
guys when I get home.
Thank goodness we don't have to worry about
wiping away our own sweat, because we really worked hard this week. We had one
of the best weeks we have had since we both arrived in Messina. The best part of the week is that Abigail has
a baptism date! Yes!!!!! It's for October
3rd. We have been having the coolest
lessons with her lately. She knows a lot
about the church, and she really knows it's true. She has been working with the sisters for a
long time. Her story is so much like
Joseph smiths. Just listen to her life. Her mom is Buddhist, dad is catholic, uncle is
Jehovah witness, her sister doesn't believe in religion, and her grandma is lds
(Mormon). And not only this but all of
these people try to get her to believe what they believe. Gives me a headache just thinking about it. We
went in to teach her and our message for her was 1) The gospel of Jesus Christ
is simple and 2) YOU choose what you
think is right through talking to Heavenly Father. We promised her that if she reads the Book of
Mormon, prays, and comes to church for this month, she will be ready to be
baptized October third. And she accepted! Whoop hooooo :) They need to make an emoji that is more
excited looking. Just take this emoji,
multiply it by ten, and that's how excited I am. It's so cool the
opportunities I have had to work with teenage girls on my mission. I didn't expect it! Seriously, in every city I've been blessed to
work with a ton of teenage girls. It's
so fun and it makes me miss my sisters a little less.
We did a scambio this week with the sorelle
from Siracusa . I was with sorella Thorpe who is one of the funniest human
beings I have ever met. We were walking
to an appointment when BOOM she fell to the ground. I was like, "Ahhh you're bleeding a
little" and she was like, "nah it's all good" and wanted to keep
going. It really wasn't that bad but I
wanted at least to get a band aid on it so she wouldn't get blood all over
herself. We started walking around
asking places for band aids. Nothing. Finally we were asking in a bar and this
guy was like, "the hospital is right next door, just ask them." That seemed
weird to us but I guess a hospital is bound to have a bandaid. We went to the
front office to ask for a bandaid and they said, "You have to ask at the
emergency room." I'm like good
lands. So we walked to the emergency
room and said, "Can we have a bandaid?" They see the tiny scratch on sorella Thorpes
knee and are like, "here, bring her over here." They have her go to a
room and get all cleaned up and but some weird yellow stuff on her knee. We were cracking up because all we needed was
a bandaid and we ended up in the emergency room getting a medical procedure
done! Welcome to free health care. I was trying to imagine walking into KGH
hospital and getting put in a hospital room for a scratch on my knee. So funny. And in the end they didn’ t even give us a
bandaid! So after like 5 minutes of
leaving the emergency room her knee started bleeding again. We just said "pazienza " and kept
walking.
Also this week we got a sweet referral from
the anziani. They had this random woman
call them and say, "You need to teach my friend." We went to the appointment too because they
were both woman. The woman's name is Raffaela
and she's super awesome. We explained
the Book of Mormon and she was like, "whoahhh this is sweet!" and we
were like "yup. We know!" So that should be grand.
Other than that all the other people we are
working with are doing great. I love them! This city is so cool and crazy and I love it. I'm so lucky I got to serve here. I'm convinced I've served the coolest mission
ever. I guess maybe everyone feels that
way.
Oh so GREAT NEWS. My greenie has made it on
the fridge. Let me explain. The other
week sorella embley forgot to write president. So as an apology I sent the
mission office a picture of president waddoups and sorella embley cracking up
together that was taken at the last zone conference. I wrote "look, sorella embley doesn't
hate president waddoups, they are great friends." (I'll send you the
picture). Anyway, apparently everyone in
the mission office thought it was hilarious because they printed it out and put
it on the fridge in the mission home. So
yeah. My greenie has made it on the
fridge in the mission home #lifegoals.
I'm really happy right now. I think it has
something to do with living the gospel of Jesus Christ every day. Me and
sorella embley this week were talking about how simple the gospel is. Ohhhhhh
man it's so easy!!! If you want to be better, if you have problems, if you
don't know what to do, you don't have to invent some grand plan to solve the
problem or help your family. We have
been given all the tools we need to be successful. Scripture study, prayer, going to church,
family home evening. If we just do the
simple things the Savior and prophets have asked us to do IT ALL WORKS OUT.
Every time. We don't need to fear.
So don't fear! Just do simple things. Like my
favorite scripture says, "Wherefore, be not weary in well-doing, for ye
are laying the foundation of a great work. And out of small things proceedeth
that which is great."
Do the small things with your eyes on the
Savior.
Love you all!
Vi voglio bene assai
Sorella Brunson
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