We had a miracle Sunday this week
and it was all because of Sciopero!!!
(Strike) Who would have thought that any good would have come from all of our
trains being canceled? Also, since we're going to be fed 2 times almost every
day the week of Christmas, we're eating green smoothies any time we're home
pretty much. It's spinache and
lots of fruit, so it's our saving grace. I'm super excited for this week
though! Italian food for dayyyyyssssss.
So fabulous.Anywho,
let's see what happened this week.... So our investigator who is preparing to
be baptized is so BRAVO!!!!! We taught the Word of Wisdom Friday and
Tithing, Fasting and Obedience Tuesday and he accepted all of them!
He said when we works and is earning money he will pay his tithing after he's
baptized. HE'S SO BRAVO! So yeah, things are going really great with him! The
only thing is he might have to work on the day we set for his baptism and that
means he would be gone two weeks, so we would miss two weeks of lessons and
have to push his date back, which makes both of us nervous, just because that's
never a really great thing. Anywho,
so we're praying a lot that he doesn't have to work....
Sunday: MIRACLE DAY!! We taught the
three daughters of a woman in our ward who all just joined her here after
being separated for a while. They're not members, but they're really open to
the messages we teach and they seem to like us! They don't speak Italian, but
they understand it pretty well. We just get pretty creative with how we teach,
it's really fun! Then we had an appointment in another city, but there was a
strike for the trains, so we were a little nervous on our way to the train
station. When we got there, ALL of the trains were canceled... And any time a
new one came up, boop, it would be canceled too. After a
while we went into a corner and said a prayer that we would be able to get a
train and get to the city to teach the family of our investigator with the bap
date. We went back to where we were standing before and there was this woman
who was standing by us before and had kept looking at us. When we came back,
she started talking to Sorella
Yost. It turned out she was trying to get on the same train that we were trying
to get on, so we were all hoping for the same thing. She invited us to sit with
her and then she said we should say a prayer. She said it! How cool! So Sorella
Yost said a prayer and we looked up at the board and the only train that hadn't
been cancelled got canceled. GAH! When we talked about it later, both Sorella
Yost and I started praying in our hearts for a miracle. After a while, we
looked back at the board and a train that had been canceled earlier was no
longer canceled and was instead marked as 15 minutes late!! Okay, yeah, that's
a huge miracle. It was AMAZING. And the woman said it was because of our
prayer! We talked a little about prayer and our relationship with God. We got
to sit with her on the train and her umbrella was broken and she was trying to
fix it. All of a sudden Sorella Yost
offered to give the woman her umbrella. At first the woman didn't want to take
it because she felt bad and asked how she would get it back because we live
pretty far from each other. Then, bam, we got her number and said that we'll be
in contact with each other so we can meet up and she can give it back. When we
were about to leave we said Merry Christmas and she said "No ,
no,
we'll see each other again before Christmas." She's so awesome!!! So yeah,
Sciopero
miracles. Then we went to our investigator's house and we were just going to
teach him and his sister, but his parents
decided to stay for the lesson and we taught the Plan of Salvation! It went soooooo
well! The dad asked a couple hard questions, but we covered them pretty well, I
think. And the mom seemed to be touched by the lesson ( I mean, what mother
wouldn't be touched by the knowledge that she could be with her kids and
husband for all of eternity. That's pretty amazing) So yeah, strikes are
annoying, but God works miracles through them!!
So yeah, the rest of the week we
mainly did Christmas finding. We made little pass-along cards with the website
to the "He is the Gift" video and we pass them out to people. It's
been going really well! People are more open to accepting it and most of them
are really nice to us!
Yesterday when we were
walking down the street, this little old man saw us and just had this huge
smile on his face when he saw us and started telling us how beautiful we are
and asked where we're from. Normally it's just creepy guys that say "bellisime"
as we walk by and stare at us which is gross and creepy but whatever. But he
was just like this cute little old grandpa and was saying it in a grandpa-like
complimenting way. It was kind of random but pretty funny.
Also, random funny stories that I
forgot to write in past letters. A few weeks ago we had a man on the train wish
"male children upon us" as we left the train after talking to
him.
Another time, we walked out of our
house and it was raining, so we were geared up in our rain stuff. We walked
past this old man and said hello to him and he stared at us for about 3 seconds
and started laughing... Didn't say anything, didn't do anything, just laughed
and kept walking... It wasn't like mean laughter, but he was definitely
laughing at us. Let's just say we were a little self-conscious
the
rest of the day haha. It was super random, but I guess
we do look kind of funny wearing big rain boots and skirts. Oh well! It's the
missionary life and I love it. Plus I'd rather look funny than have wet feet
and be uncomfortable all day...
Anywho,
that's about all for this week. It was a good week! I made it through my first
transfer in the field and I'm officially in my second! We have a fresh new
greenie in my district now, so it's really fun! There's three of us now in our
district, so it's pretty fun :) ( I totally just repeated myself. I'm sorry..)
Today we're going to the third
biggest market in Europe woo! I'm pretty excited. A little nervous, I hope we
don't get lost...
Anywho,
I'm so grateful to be out here serving the Lord. It's so cool seeing how much
God loves His children. He has given us so much to be able to make it through
this life and return to Him. Although he can't physically be with us, He has
given us a means of communicating with Him through prayer, the scriptures, a
modern day prophet, and sooo much more. He didn't put us on
this earth to be miserable and suffer. Yes, we have trials and we suffer at
times, but it's so we learn and grow and come closer to Him. He loves us so
much and wants us so much to come back to Him. And He's given us so much so
that we can, inculding His
own Beloved Son. I love teaching this to people and I'm so grateful for the
Christmas season when more people are open to hearing about it. I hope this
next week will be wonderful and everyone can enjoy the true Spirit of giving
and feel God's love.
I love you all!!! Thank you for
EVERYTHING! You're the BEST!!! Vi voglio
un MONDO di bene!!!!
Love, Sorella
Hawks :)
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