Monday,
October 05, 2015
Buon
October!!!!!!!!! Man how in the world did October get here? I love October in Italy. It's one of my
favorite months. It's the perfect temperature. People are happy, and no one is stressed about
Christmas yet. It’s great. Who am I kidding, every month is great in
Italy but definitely October is stellar. This week was fun. We started off the week by putting up a TON
of English course posters all over the city, at all the cool
"hangout spots." Since converting
the granita lady hasn't worked out quite yet, our next plan is to
convert all the bar owners of the coolest bars in the city. We made some cool friends and have some
new awesome potentials. Whoo hoooo.
The day after putting up all those
posters for English course, BOOM we had a ton of students! That was sweet. The bigger the English course, the
better. I love getting to know the
students and loving them. Sometimes
it feels like they are my children Haha. I've gotten pretty good at teaching
English actually. So the offer is
always standing....if any of you need help I'm here.
Tuesday morning at 7:00 we
got a call from the anziani asking if we could go visit a lady in the
ward. They failed to mention we would be weeding her garden! I'm always super down for weeding, don't get me
wrong. But weeding in a skirt is one of
the weirdest things ever. We worked
hard and weeded for like 2 and 1/2 hours. It was actually pretty fun. Then we had
the most delicious pranzo evvveeeeerrrrr. I'm super craving it right now. Ahhh man it was this pasta that they make with
one of the weeds that grows in the garden. But it's a delicious weed! It's called....man I can't remember. But it was so yummy!
This
week I checked off an item from the Sorella Brunson mission bucket list:
helping someone carry their groceries! I
think in my mission I have probably asked at least 300 people if I could
help them with their groceries. But they always say no because Italians have a
hard time letting people help them. I was thinking about it this week and I
was like, "I'm just really in the mood to help someone with their groceries."
We were walking back from an appointment
and BOOM I spied an old lady struggling with heavy groceries. Perfect. We pounced. We asked her if we could help and she
said YES! We ended up like walking
a mile with her at an incredibly slow pace because she had gone shopping
super far away from her house so she could get a deal (reminded me of my
mom). It was pretty funny. She was the cutest and would stop and
salute like everyone around her. We
actually ended up talking to some of her younger friends and getting
their numbers so we could teach them. It was fantastic. Now all that's left on the bucket list
is kicking a pigeon...
We got a member referral this week! We went to visit Signorina (the old lady we visit every week). One of her relatives is a member of the church and was visiting her with her non-member friend. She was sooooo nice and the member invited her to listen to our message. Daniella (the friend of the member) is a woman with a ton of faith and she loves her family. We are so excited to teach her!
It's a
bummer today because our good friend Dihlani is leaving. She's the one we went to Taormina with
a while back on pday. She has black
curly hair? Anyway, we had to say
goodbye to her which was a bummer. She has found a nice house in Verona and a job
so we are really happy for her. And
she will be able to go to church! She
wasn't able to here because she had a really bad job. We were able to help her get ready to leave
and she was so thankful. It felt great
to be there to help her, especially because she doesn't have any family
members or anything in this area.
Alright.
Brace yourself for some sad news. Remember how there is a delicious
gelato place right in front of our house? Well IT’S CLOSING!!!!!!!!!! Noooooooo. It's such a bummer because we were good
friends with all the workers and stuff (not because we got gelato a lot
or anything....😜) and we felt prompted to
stop by and say hi to one of the workers Saturday night
before we went home. And she was like,
"Sorelle I'm so glad you stopped by because I needed to tell you we
are closing the gelato shop." So
sad. We snapped a picture with her
though. There is another perigolosi in
Messina it's just further away. So
sad.
Also
this week we had the sweetest experience with a lady we met named Pauleen.
So back up. We have been teaching this guy who works at a
gas shop. His wife is Chinese and
one of her friends came to visit from China. He had told us about her but we hadn't had the
opportunity to meet her. One night we were walking home and I felt like
I should talk to a person walking by. So I did and she was like, "Sorry, I don't
speak Italian" in English. We were
like, oh that's ok, we speak English. We started talking to her and found out that
she was the friend of the guy we had been teaching!!! So we made an appointment to see her
again. We got to see her and help her
buy a coat and then we sat down and talked. We asked her about her religious beliefs and
she said she believed in God and believed that God sent us to her even
though she grew up in a Buddhist background. She said her aunt is Christian! We got her email address and gave her a Book
of Mormon! It was the coolest
thing ever to teach someone about the Book of Mormon from China! Plus she works in international trade so she's
a very successful business woman. She was so cute and I'm so thankful Heavenly
Father let our paths cross! If someone
would have told me two years ago that I would teach someone from China
about the Book of Mormon in Italy I would have been like...uh....what....
Ok so
general conference was SO GOOD. I won't be "that missionary" who
writes up all my conference notes in my email home, but I encourage you
all to watch conference if you didn't get the chance! It's so awesome. How awesome to hear the new three apostles
speak as well. Their testimonies
were so strong. I loved how much
everyone talked about using Heavenly Father and the atonement of Jesus
Christ to get through trials. I
wish everyone here could understand that! So many people are sad and they just
don't know how to find happiness. I'm so
thankful that I have the happiness that comes from the gospel of Jesus Christ
in my life, no matter what might happen. We talked to a lady this week sitting
on a bench who had so much despair. She
wasn't listening to us and seemed so content to just sit in her own
misery! Do not sit in your own
misery!!!!! Overcome it through faith in
Jesus Christ, hope and love.
I love you all so much! This gospel is so so so so true!
Have a fantastic week!
Love,
Sorella Brunson
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