Hey, everyone!
So, first off, Happy Birthday Mom! It sounds like it was an awesome day! I
love you!
Wow, that was a crazy story about Andrew! I'm glad everything is okay! It's
amazing, seeing the power of prayer in our lives, I'm fortunate enough to get to
see it very often here!
Wow, this has been a seriously insane week! The Sorelle from Muggio ended
up staying the night last P-day to finish out our scambio since it had been
interrupted by P-day and we ended up having an awesome time! First of all, Italy
has no rules or laws about fireworks. Literally, none. Anyone can buy them in
the store. So we saw people in our apartment complex shooting fireworks out of
their living room window on New Years Eve. Also, for almost a week before and a
week after New Year's, people have been shooting off fireworks every night
still to celebrate, so that's been crazy. So, Sorella Carter and I had bought
some sparklers and what we thought were little poppers to celebrate, but the
sparklers didn't work and the poppers were actually firecrackers. The Muggio
Sorelle lit some of them and it was pretty fun. It was a great night!
The next day we went to a little lunch party at a member's house, and it
was pretty fun! They're Filipino and had invited some other Filipino and South
American friends, so there were four different languages being spoken, English,
Tagalog, Spanish, and Italian.
Friday, Sorella Carter had consiglio for the STL's and Zone Leaders, so I
had another scambio with Sorella Hawks! It's pretty funny, we thought we would
never see each other again after the MTC, but at least for now, we see each
other all the time. We also had another Sorella with us who had been hit with a
car the day before (she's fine!) and needed to rest her leg, because it was a
little hurt. So, it was a pretty chill day and we just did Area Book and studies
and waited for the land lord to come and fix our washing machine (which means I
had to talk to him in Italian about our washing machine. Believe me it was an
experience!) Anywho, it was cool to see Sorella Hawks again! That night we went
to a member's house and she ended up feeding us. It was really good food, but
was enough for 3 people to be full. And we had to eat it all. We were
hurting.
Saturday night, we saw an American sister who lives in our ward and her
mom, they're super awesome and it was fun to talk in English :). She has a cuper
cute baby and we were jealous that we weren't allowed to hold her. At the end, I
had to give a prayer in English and it was really hard. I almost morphed into
Italian 10 different times. We're encouraged to give all of our prayers in
Italian, even our personal ones, so I only ever pray in English now with members
or investigators who speak it better than Italian.
Sunday, a member brought a friend to church with her, and Sorella Carter
was able to sit next to her and make an appointment to see her this week, so
we're super excited and hope it'll work out! Also, on Sunday, we had to fill up
the baptismal font for the Busto missionaries because they had a baptism for an
excommunicated member who was being rebaptized. So, I saw Sorella Hawks
again!
Monday, We had Zone Training so we got to see our entire zone (so Sorella
Hawks once again :)). It was good to see everyone. That night we saw a less
active family and they were just so amazing! I'd never met them before, but I
could see how great they were. Their home just felt like the home of an LDS
family and their little kids knew how to pray, so we hope we'll be able to help
them become fully active in the church.
Tuesday, we saw Lydia and Romeo again! They are just such amazing people!
Lydia had SpiderMan 3 on when we came in and she wasn't understanding the plot
so she asked if we'd ever seen it so I explained what it was about to her. She
made the best little comments when I explained something she didn't like, she
would just shout BUT I JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY. She's really funny.
It was just an amazing week! I love the people here and I'm excited to
start a new year! I'm so happy to be serving my Lord.
I love you all and I hope you have an amazing week!
Love, Sorella Snow
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