Monday, October 19, 2015
Ciao ciao ciao ciao.
Come state?
We saw a ton of miracles this week. I
think it’s because I got pooped on by a pigeon at the beginning of the week. It brings good luck to get pooped on by a
pigeon according to Italians.
Zone conference was fantastic. We talked a lot about teaching with the Spirit
and really thinking about how to help the people that we teach. I loved it! I love love love that no matter how long you
have been in the mission, you can still learn how to do things better. It’s
great. It’s like...life. I don’t think I will know everything when I’m
90 years old either. We just keep learning.
As soon as we got back from zone conference I
had to go renew my permesso, which is the document that lets me stay in the
country without getting booted out. It was only good for a year so I have
to get another one....even though I go home in like 3 months. Patience. The actual appointment isn’t
until next week. I’m dreading waiting in
that place for another five hours.
This week we got to see Abigail which was
great because we hadn’t seen her in a while. She asked us to help her
with Geometry. DUHN DUHN DUHN. Remember my geometry days? Cioe staying
after class and having Mr.Klos help me with math until like 5:00 every
day. Ah man I had to work so hard in that class. Anyway I tried to help her but they do their
formulas weird here and it’s in a different language and stuff so I didn’t
really get anywhere. We got to teach her two lessons though and the
spirit was really strong so that was a plus.
Also this week an investigator called us who
we hadn’t seen in ages!!!!!! She was like, "Sorelle, come over for
pranzo." Her and her two daughters were all home because school was
canceled that day (here they cancel school when it rains hard....I mean, it did
rain super hard that day but I can’t imagine canceling school for rain. That’d be sweet.) Anyway, that was super fun
and we had a yummy pranzo and taught them a good lesson. WE figured out
some of their problems with the church and are gonna keep working on helping
them. They are Spanish and cool.
We taught a family this week that has a 10
year old daughter who’s a member of the church. They have other children
also (10, 8, 2 year old, and newborn). CRAZY. It reminded me of fun
times in the Brunson family, when everything was just NUTS and we all were
crazy children. I remember babysitting during those crazy times. I
would give anything to go back to those times for a day. It was so fun. So yeah we taught them
all the plan of salvation and it was cool. It was really awesome to teach
a family that lesson.
A funny story. One day this week it was
raining but then it stopped so we were like, "oh nice." Then all of the sudden out of NOWHERE it
starts POURING again. Around the corner comes this really, really large
man on a really, really small scooter getting DRENCHED by the rain and
screaming, "managia managia" which means "dang it dang it dang
it!" haha It was one of the funnier things I’ve ever seen.
Also this week the tram stopped working
because a tree fell on the tracks. We
were waiting at the stop when we heard the news that the tram wasn’t running
and a lady by us freaked out. She looked at us and assertively said,
"Alright, you two come with me. We
are going to go take a taxi together, and you’re gonna help me pay for
it." We started following her, but
the whole time we were like "um no, we don’t want to do this." But Italians are so assertive sometimes! Thank goodness Sorella Embley was there and
finally she was like, "Lady, we don’t want a taxi!" If I would have been alone I would have just
taken the taxi haha. It was so funny that we just ended up following her,
even though we had no desire to take a taxi.
We had some really good lessons with some
less active members this week! It’s been cool to have great relationships
with the members here. I’ve never worked so much with members, and never
received so many referrals! It’s so fun. We were sitting, talking
to a woman in our ward and she brought up tithing and how difficult it was for
her to pay because it was already hard enough for her to make ends meet.
Sorella Embley bore her testimony about tithing and the spirit was SO STRONG
and at the end she said, "Sorelle, you’re right, God has commanded me to
do this, and He will help me." So
cool. Plus another less active came to
all three hours of church which she hasn’t done since we got here. It was sweet.
The biggest miracle of the week was Lousia.
She is a member that just moved here from Rome with her boyfriend. She has been inactive for 5 years, but decided
it’s time to come back to church. She called us and said, "Sorelle, come
help me get back to church." YES.
She is so cute. She is from the Philippines which is cool because that is
where Abigail is from and one of our other members!!! WE ARE SO
STOKED. I love people from the Philippines. If I go on a second
mission I’m totally down to go there. We are excited to work with Louisa
and she also wants us to teach the gospel to her boyfriend and his family, who
they live with. YOU GUYS IT’S AWESOME.
It was a good solid week of working. I
am so happy!!!!! The church is so true!!!!!! This week we are headed to
Syracusa to do a scambio. Should be a ton of fun.
Have a great week.
Vi voglio bene
Sorella Brunson
No comments:
Post a Comment