Hello wonderful people of my life!
I love you! So this week was fun, I hit my 6 Month Mark!! Weird. When I woke
up Tuesday morning (before the alarm, as usual) I just laid in bed
and thought of how weird it is that I've been a missionary for 6 months now.
SIX MONTHS!!! That's a whole half of a year!!! Six months ago I was just
entering the MTC, having no idea what I was doing, how to speak the language,
or really how to be a missionary. And now look at me! It's really not that much
different! Hopefully the next 6 months we'll see more improvement... But to be
honest I really have seen miraculous changes, for example, I can hold a decent
conversation in Italian now! Thank goodness, that'd be super awkward if I
couldn't... But these 6 months have really been the most amazing, life-changing
months of my life. I'm so excited for this next year. I can't believe I only
have a year left! It's going by too fast! There's so much to do!!! GAH! Yeah,
all this and more was going through my head at 6 in the morning as I stared at
the ceiling. Anywho, enough about that. I'm becoming a
nonna,
it's fine.
So we had zone training this week
in Pordenone and there's an English military ward and I felt like I was almost
in America in that building! THEY HAVE A DRINKING FOUNTAIN!! Beautiful flowing
waters of life. Anyway. It was awesome! Our zone leaders are super awesome and
we had a blast and learned a TON! After that, when we got home, we went to
Piazza Unità
and basically just found like bosses, cornering people right and left. It was
like a game. We would stand there and find someone that we wanted to talk to
and start walking towards them without making it too obvious. So we would kind
of saddle up to them, walking faster, then slowing down until we met up with
them perfectly and would just stop them and talk to them! It was awesome! We
didn't get to pray with them because they were all in a "fretta"
(lies, everyone has time to pray.) but we taught them great things and had
great conversations with them! It was so fun!
Sunday was awesome! A bunch of
less actives came which was sooo
cool! After church, one member had a party and invited a bunch of YSA's (gans)
and asked us to give a spiritual thought thing after lunch. So we ate a
marvelous lunch (the anziani made
chilli!!)
and then everyone that we wanted there for the thought left... But we still
taught like the most active gans
there, but it went well! We had two activities to introduce what we wanted to
talk about. The anziani did
this crazy balancing act thing and then did it with the birthday boy who is
very tall would be intimidating if he wasn't so nice. So that was cool. Then we
did this thing where the anziani made
digusting
cookies to show that we need all the ingredients in cookies to make it good
(relating the ingredients to us) and they didn't tell us HOW gross they would
be... they just told us they weren't good. Oh man. They were disgusting. Che
schiffo.
Luckily we cleansed our mouths with good ones afterwards. Then we talked about
how we're all where we are for a reason and we have a part to play. We have
talents that God gave us and he put us where we are to affect others and we're
in their lives for a reason. It was really cool! It's cool to think how God
sent us where we are for a reason and the people that are in our lives are
truly in our lives for a purpose. Are we fulfilling that purpose? It really
made me think, especially looking back and realizing there was so much I could
have and should have done. Now I know!
We also met the most wonderful
woman in the world from South Korea on the street. She has this fabulous purple
hat and we had seen her before but never had the opportunity to talk to her.
She ended up passing us then turning around and we talked for over an hour!!
She's recently Catholic, but almost everything she said was basically what we
teach and definitely not what the Catholic church teaches... When we asked if
we could pray with her she got so excited and said "OHHHHH YES
PLEASE!!!" Oh my gosh it was so precious. I just love her so much!!!!!!!!!
We had three people come to English
class last night!! And one woman, when she found out that it was my
birthday next Tuesday, was like, "Oh! I will definitely be there!
Just for you!" It was so cute!!!
Also, we're getting iPad minis!
Woo! That's why Anziano
Bednar is coming. Woot woot!
But yeah, it was a great week!
We're doing a lot of finding still, but we're still getting lots of referrals
which is awesome! I love Trieste!! It's like spring here!
I love you all soooo
much! You're the BEST!!!!! Vi voglio
un MONDO di bene!!!
Love,
Sorella
Hawks :)
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