Cari Miei,
So glad to hear it was an eventful happy week! I love hearing about how
you're all doing!
So questions really quick! Haha, I got a few cards! Aunt Emily sent one, I
got one from Lauren, one from the Ward Relief Society, it was awesome! Mail is
so fun! Sorry, I didn't send any pics last week! It was a pretty crazy one and I
had to do apartment orders! We teach M in a combo of Spanish and Italian.
I throw in any Spanish words I know and am learning most of the gospel words in Spanish for the lessons, the gift of tounges is real! I try and write in my
journal every day, and if I miss a day, I go back and do it the next one, Never
fear! I love looking back at the earlier entries and seeing how much I've
already grown. Sorella Nedelkov and I get along pretty well! She's really nice
and willing to work really hard, so we're always super busy. Things are going
really well in the ward! Our entire district is in the ward,so there are four
anziani with us. We meet with the ward mission leader every week but I've never
met with the ward council. We want to get them to start inviting us though! The
members are awesome, and we get referrals, but unfortunately, most of them don't
work out super (except M ;))I love what Elder Satati said! The ward
council can be such an asset in missionary work. From a missionary perspective, the
ward council is essential in friendshipping and in helping us get members to
lessons, becasue you really can't do it without them, at least it's really
hard.
Also, I love the theme for the youth this year! Chapter 4 of D&C is
kinda the unofficial mission scripture. We all memorize it in Italian. That
verse is Perciò, O voi che vi imbarcate nel servizio di Dio, guardate di
servirlo con tutto il cuore, facoltà, mente e forze per poter stare senza
biasimo dinanzi a Dio all'ultimo giorno. It's a beautiful scripture!
Also, I loved what Dad said about giving service to less active members to
start fellowshipping them again, becasue, we've been seeing how much that helps!
Usually, they just need a little love!
Anywho, Our week! Last Wednesday, I took Sorella Nedelkov around some of
the high points of Milano! We went to the Duomo, the Tiger (an amazing store with
every little cool random thing you'd ever need), to get panzzerotti and gelato
and we tried to find the bone chapel but I couldn't remember where it was. Oops.
Then we saw a member family that night!
Thrusday, we attempted some pass bys but had to wander through construction
and down random streets and hop some train tracks until we realized it wasn't
going to work out. But we had English class that night and had a few other less
actives lessons, so it was a good day!
Friday, We had another appointment with M, so we taught her the word
of wisdom, but apparently, her member friend had already taught her most of it
and had bought her orzo, the weird coffee substitute all of the members drink here,
and she was already living it. So that was a nice surprise. She also said she
wanted to fast for this fast Sunday and even wanted to pay fast offering (which
she did, the bishop was a little confused). Basically, she's just doig amazing and progressing very fast! We asked her to pray about a baptisimal date that
feels right for her, so we'll ask her next Friday what answer she recieved.
Friday night, we had a scambio with our Sister Training Leader, Sorella Woods,
she came here to Milano with me. It was cool, she's a really awesome Sorella.
She's going home at the end of this transfer. (apparently it's impossible for me
to not be with dying Sorelle :))
Saturday, we had lunch with a less active family and then went to a baptism
that the Busto anziani were holding (that's Anziano Hubbard from the MTC) It was
beautiful!
Sunday, we had a presentation in our ward about missionary work. We (us and
the anziani) were in charge of it, but we didn't know that until Friday night.
But it turned out really good and we hope it will help motivate the ward to help
us out with friendshipping and referrals!
Monday ended up being a super crazy day! We had to renew our metro and bus
passes, but we needed to pay in cash for it. So we were running around the city
trying to find an atm that would work, but none of them would accept our cards.
We finally got it though, but as soon as we got on our bus and it started
moving, an older lady fell and seriously hurt herself in the back, so we were
all shouting Ferma! Ferma! at the bus driver until he finally stopped and we
could help out this lady. She ended up having to go to the hospital but she
didn't have a cell phone, or any family members. She had a neighbor that she
said could help her. So, Sorella Nedelkov and I embarked on an adventure to
track down this lady, without a map becasue we'd forgotten it. We had a ton of
people help us out on the way. We finally got to the address to find out that
part of it was wrong, but so many small miracles were there helping us, so we
found this neighbor and were able to relay the message and help out this lady
who'd been hurt. It was just amazing to see how God put us in her path because
we could help her. We were super happy to give some service.!
Anywho, yesterday we had FHE and a few other appointments! It's been a
crazy and long week!
Well, that's it for the week! I love you all so much and I'm so happy to be
serving here! Have a great week!
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| Sorella Nedelkov had a birthday this week |
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| Our fridge is bursting with food half the time! |
Love, Sorella Snow
PS. The title of the email is because I noticed this week that whenever
we're doing pass bys of less active members that the ward hasn't seen in a long
time and nobody knows who they are, I always sing that song on the way there.
I'm such a dork!
Here are some random picture Kim sent this week from January:
Here are some random picture Kim sent this week from January:
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