Hey, everyone!
So, yet another awesome week! Last Wednesday, after email, we went to Lago
(Lake) Como for about an hour, It was already dark out, but it was so beautiful!
Then that night, I had a Scambio with Sorella Warnke, from Germany. We were in
Lampugnano for that one, so I was in charge and it was kinda terrfiying.
Thankfully, we didn't get lost, probably because I spent every other second
praying for help. But,anywho, the next day, still on scambio, on the way to one
member's house, our bus and a car side scraped each other and the bus stopped on
the side of the road and the two drivers were in an argument until another bus
came along and we abandoned ship (or bus ,)). So, that was pretty intense. And
then, at the end of that lesson, the sister always tells us to choose some fruit
to take home, so Sorella Warnke, picked up one fruit and then a minute later
said that she had something stuck in her hand, so she handed the fruit to me to
hold, and the Sister we were visiting comes up and tells us it's a cactus fruit
and I realize that we both now have a million little teeny pricks stuck in our
hand. So, that wasn't fun. All I could think of was when Mason tried to pick up
a cactus when he was younger. So, we spent the rest of the day finding little
pricks in our hands. Oh, well. Then later that day, we were sprinting to catch a
bus and we missed it, but it turned out to be a blessing, because there was a
lady at the bus stop who'd met the anziani but hadn't had time to talk to them
and wanted some more info about our English course, so that was really
cool.
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In Como, they project Christmas images onto the buildings at
night, like moving falling snow flakes or trees! It was so beautiful!
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Then Friday, we met with one investigator family (a woman, her son, and her
compagno (a person you live with without being married)) and we set baptism dates
with them! We're so excited! We hope that we'll be able to help them out. We set
the Bap date for kinda far out becasue we'll have to help them get married and
we still have a lot to teach, but we have a lot of faith it will work out!
Saturday, we practiced a song we were going to sing in Sacrament meeting
the next day. The anziani and Sorella Carter told me I have a black voice :)
Also, we got transfer calls. I'm staying in Lampugnano, and my next companion
is, drum roll... Sorella Carter! Seriously. There's another Sorella Carter in
the mission and she's my new collega. And she's also dying. She's only going to
be with me for one transfer and then she's done and she's going home. They call
it killing a person when you're their comp when they go home. So I'll be killing
two Sorella Carters. Kinda funny when you think about it. So, yeah, I'll have to
introduce her to the area and try and know everything, so I'm a little nervous,
but it'll all be ok.
Sunday, we saw that one family again, the half African, half Italian one,
and they are so cool! I hope we'll be able to see them again soon! I have
pictures of them somewhere, I'll have to send them if I haven't yet.
Monday, we had a zone training, which was fun and exciting. I saw some of
the people from my MTC zone and we got to hear the dying testimonies of
missionaries going home (wow, we're so morbid, with all of the death and dying
terminology).
Tuesday, we had FHE with the ward and it was super fun. We played
missionary tag, and since missionaries can't really have physical contact with
people of the other sex, girls would hold onto the elder's ties. I think they
were almost strangled a few times, but they're okay! ;) Then some of the Young
Women sang to Anziano O'Riordan and Sorella Carter since they're going home. It
was really sweet. Oh, and I almost forgot, we got a call yesterday from the zone
leaders, and I guess my new collega can't come to Milano for a few days, so I'm
going to be in a threesome with another coppia from another area until next Monday! Woohoo! I'll get to experience being a threesome for a few days. One of
the Sorelle I'll be with is super new, just got here.
Ok, answers to questions. We're trying to use Facebook as a tool through
the members, getting them to post stuff, but we can't use it unless we ever get
ipads(which I want so bad!) Christmas is awesome for the mission, because
everyone is traditionally Catholic, so they love it and love the nativity. It's
good for starting conversations and hopefully for reaching out to less actives.
We're trying to commit them to come to church for Christmas. Oh, and I keep on
seeing nativites and thinking of Mom, but I'm restraining myself at least until
my second Christmas! Yeah, we watch He's the Gift (Egli รจ il dono) in Italian,
and also in English, becasue we have some Filipino families and often they speak
English better then Italian becasue they all learn it in their schools in the
Philippines.
Well, I think that's it for now! I love you guys so much and I'm getting so
excited to celebrate the birth of our Savior this Christmas! Lots of
Love!
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| Sorella Carter showing a typical Italian Christmas ad...it's all about the pasta! |
Love, Sorella Snow
Kim and Sorella Carter with some member families:
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