For the first time in my mission, I
was able to give someone we were teaching on the street a Book of Mormon right
then and there. It was so fun!! I just want to do it all the time....We stopped
this younger woman and asked what made her happy and she said the Bible! Umm,
cool! She was super nice and it turns out she's pregnant (we just teach all the
pregnant ladies in Trieste.) She said she's read the JW's bible and didn't like
it, so she threw it away. She said she was interested to read the Book of Mormon.
She didn't seem super interested to learn about the church in the sense that
she wanted to change, but she wanted to learn more just to learn. But hey,
that's a step! Hopefully she reads the Book of Mormon and recognizes the Spirit
she feels when she reads it and gains more desire! She was so cute!
Soooo
confession, I forgot my old planner from last transfer, so I can't really
remember what we did from Wednesday night toSunday....
I know we had a little FHE Wednesday night which was really fun. The woman
who's house we did it at is super sassy and adorable. She's like 75 and soooo
blunt and hilarious and sarcastic. I love her to bits and pieces. And we got to
go to another FHE Monday night at her house, so I was happy :)
Oh my gosh, I just remembered! THIS
WEEK WAS CRAZY!!! I can't believe I forgot.... Okay, so we got this referral
from a senior couple that had stayed at a hotel in Trieste and the owner of the
hotel had a Book of Mormon and everything so they gave us their info. They
didn't actually live in the city of Trieste so we had to take the tram all the
way up to the tippy top of a tall mountain (it was cold. We were not dressed
for the cold) and then we got a little lost, but we finally found our way to
this itty bitty "town" called Banne,
which isn't really a town because it's literally only one street... I don't
know why they call it a town. But whatever. And It took us a longgg
time to get there and we were really cold. But we finally got there§! and we
met the guy and we asked if he was interested! And he said!! No. So we just
turned around and left, super bummed. But we got to take the bus that goes to Slovania
home, so that was pretty neat. So that was Saturday night.
Then Sunday after lunch we get this random mystery text of a referral
so we jumped on that because we love referrals. We're all about that referral
life. And we're all about that contacting within 24 hours business. Heck,
we step it up and contact it within 24 minutes. It took a lot longer than
that, but we tried. Anyway, so we had to take the bus that we took home that
went through Slovania
again, Bus 39, so we got to see Slovania...again.
That was super cool. Then it took us about 2.5 hours to find the dang house.
The numbers in this town we went to made NO sense. They went from 400, to 100,
to 200 to 16. It was so. confusing. Luckily we dressed warmer this time. We
FINALLY found it (we had to go to a bar and ask the bar tender. He had this
fancy little map with all the house numbers on it. The must have lost people
come in and ask for directions a lot.) Anywho,
and we rang their "doorbell" about 7 times, a guy came out of the
house (they had a really big yard, so the house was fairly far from where we
actually were), went to his garage, stared at us from the door, then went
inside. And never spoke to us or anything. Super weird. So we just figured he
was uncomfortable with strangers coming over in the dark around dinner time, so
we decided to go back the next day! Fourth trip through Slovania
in three days! YEAH! And no one was home. Super bummer because this referral
sounded SUPER legit!!! Hopefully she'll call us, we left a cute little note on
a cute little pass along card. Because we're cute little Sister missionaries
and that's how we do.
Also! Sunday morning we
missed the bus to go to church because some strange man was talking to us, so
we just hopped on the next one that came that we knew we could take to get home
FROM the church, so we figured it should take us TO the church. Not so. We went
up up
up
up
up
up
up
up
up
up
very far away from the church. and THEN came down. So we were late. But only by
about 10 minutes, which wasn't nearly as bad as we expected!! So we had a lot
of adventures this week! But after Monday we decided to slow down on
our adventures to little podunk rich towns by Slovania
and just do some finding in our own little beautiful city of Trieste :)
But man, while we were out by Slovania
on our way to the bus, I looked up and the big dipper was HUGE!!! We could see
SOOOO many stars and they were soooooo
close!! I felt like I could just reach up and grab them! It was INCREDIBLE!!
I've never felt that close to the sky before, we were sooo
high up in the mountains. It was the most amazing, beautiful thing I've ever
beheld with my own eyes. It's amazing the immensity of God's creations. As I
looked into the sky and looked harder and harder I could see more and more
stars farther away, it was incredible!! Gosh dangit
it was incredible. I really can't put it into words. But it was so beautiful
and you just feel so close to God when you're so far up and surrounded by His
creations, on earth and far beyond. It was nice to get away from the city and
be in nature again. I loved it :) Just remember to look around you at all that
God has given you! He loves you! And you can see it in everything around you!
Sometimes you just have to stop and take a moment to look ;)
I love you all sooo
much. You're the best!!! Vi voglio
un saco
di bene!!!
Love, Sorella
Hawks :)
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