Monday, September 28, 2015
Ciao a tutti!
So HEY.
I’m sure you’re all wondering where in the
bigggggg land of Italia I’m heading to.
WELL I’M STAYING HERE! WHOOO HOOOOO. I’m
so excited. I’m happy that I’m literally ALWAYS wrong about if I am
getting transferred or not. I seriously never know. hahahahahaha. I
thought I might be going but I didn’t feel super settled about that because I
just feel like there is more stuff I need to do in this city. I’m really,
really happy to stay. And I’m doing three transfers with Sorella Embley which
is the longest I have ever been with a companion. And I’m so happy!
We are excited to see what this next transfer brings. Sorry it’s not more
exciting news for you guys.....you’ll have to wait six more weeks! Or maybe I’ll just finish my mission here
which would be fine by me.
This week was fun! great! fantastic! You
know, like usual. Monday was Sorella Embley’s birthday and it
was a little dysfunctional but fun. We wanted to go bowling but the
bowling alley was closed until later on....so we tried to go to the cemetery (I
know, that’s like the weirdest thing to do on your birthday but it’s the second
largest one in Europe so it’s cool) but it was closed...so we ended up grabbing
granitas, going to the beach, and then finally bowling. You guys, I don’t know WHAT happened but I am
the worst ever at bowling. You’ll see my score and be like WHAT? I
even frequented bowling club in high school....I don’t know what happened.
We had some other dysfunctional moments this
week. One of them was when we tried to make brownies to give to some
people but they didn’t cook right. Our
oven is teerrribbleeeeee. It was the weirdest thing ever the way it
cooked the brownies. They were burnt on
top and on the edges, and like liquid in between. It looked like a
bubbling cauldron of....well....anyway it was gross. It was a three day process
to clean out the pan.
Another dysfunctional thing that happened was
Sorella Embley and I both had some pretty righteous falls this week. I
was walking along and I saw a guy wearing a Canada t-shirt so I was paying
attention to him trying to see if maybe he spoke English and not paying
attention at all to where I was walking. All of the sudden my foot was
slipping and BOOM. I ended up face first on the pavement on the busiest street
in Messina. Everyone around was like, "AH are you ok?!?!?!" and
I was like "”It’s all good it’s all good!!!!" Luckily I wasn’t
hurt at all and we got a good five minute laugh out of it. ALSO Sorella
Embley fell this week! We were walking
down the stairs with Abagail and BOOM Sorella Embley just fell to the
ground. She ended up twisting her ankle which was kind of a bummer but
other than that we got another good laugh about it.
The entire week wasn’t dysfunctional. We also did some good missionary work, don’t
worry. The sad thing was that Giulia left for Korea!!! We are super happy
for her to get to hang out there (and I got to send a package with her for Courtney)
but it’s such a bummer to see her go right now, because she was doing so
good. We are excited to pick things back up when she gets home. She
took a Korean Book of Mormon with her to show to her friend that she will be
staying with over there! YAY!
I had yet another "preaching to the
crowd" experience this week. Love
that. We were walking by this place that sells full on camouflage outfits
and airsoft stuff and the guy outside stopped us and asked us why we were
here. He told us to come inside and BOOM there were like 15 people in
there. So we were like "alright" and we told them all about
missionary work. It was kinda cool actually!
We had pranzo this week with the Oliva
family. They are the CUTEST. She
is 66 and he is 91...he has a daughter older than his wife!!! (She is his
second wife.) They are madly in
love. They are the funniest little couple I’ve ever seen, very sweet
though with strong testimonies of the gospel. Fortunato (the 91 year old
man) wants to do EVERYTHING like cooking and cleaning and stuff and before we
left he gave us a ton of random food and shampoo. I hope I can endure to
the end like he has!!!!!!!!!!
Last night we had a really cool mostra where
we put a sheet on the ground and wrote "free English course on it"
and talked about English course because we need more students. It went
really well and we had some good gospel conversations. It’s fun to be
able to speak quickly in Italian. Sometimes I just talk until they
interrupt me haha. I explained the
entire book of Mormon to someone that way!! and he actually listened!! The
only weird part of this whole thing was I was talking to this guy and he was
like "so...besides this English course and talking about your religion do
you guys do anything....else?" I was like "uhhhh what do you
mean?" He was like "well I’m searching for a girlfriend and I was
just wondering if you would be interested." haha I straight up shook my
head and was like "no. not at all. But if you want to know more
about our church here’s a website." So if any of you single ladies are interested
I’ve got someone for you!
Other than that we just worked hard and saw
lots of miracles this week. Here are two of them! (there were many
more)
1) We had a fantastic lesson with
Abagail. We have been a little worried about her and trying to figure out
what we can do to help her continue to progress. She knows the church is
true so we have been working on giving her the courage to be baptized, even
though the world might tell her that it’s better to do other things than be
religious. We went into the lesson and had planned to talk about the
story of Moses holding up the Serpent and the people being healed. But as we were there we just felt like we
should talk about Lehi’s vision (a story in the Book of Mormon). It was
so powerful as we testified that it was worth it to hold on to the iron rod,
and make it to the tree, even if others might laugh or talk bad about
you. She told us some stories of things that have been happening to her
at school and it was just exactly what she needed to hear. At the end I
felt prompted to challenge her to pray about when she should be baptized and
talk to God about it. She accepted. I’m so thankful that we don’t
have to use only our brains to be missionaries. Without the Spirit guiding me I would be
tooootallly lost!!!!!!!!! I will never get sick of the feeling of being
in a lesson when you KNOW that someone is coming closer to Christ. It
just feels so good.
2) This week we went to go see Signorina (the
old woman we are friends with that fell). She had a really tough day
before and wasn’t doing so hot. We got there and felt prompted to stay a
little longer than normal (normally we just pop in for about 10 min). We stayed and we got Signorina talking and
laughing!!!!!! It was so great to see her laugh again. I’m thankful
God helped us to brighten her day.
It was a great week and I’m so excited to
spend six more weeks here with Sorella Embley and the ward and all the people
we are working with. You guys REALLY EXCITING things are waiting for us this
transfer.
I love you all. Thanks for your support and
prayers. Vi voglio bene assai assai assai!!!!!!
Sorella Brunson
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