Answers to questions! Yeah, our church block was changed as a result
of the recommendation from the twelve. The ward seems to be receiving
the new emphasis on sabbath day observance really well. At first, they
were a little worried about being on time when sacrament meeting was
first, but they've accepted that it should help out reverence. We've
been visiting less active and inactive members talking about the
sacrament and the new change, so yeah, it's been talked about a lot.
So this week was pretty slow. I can't remember if I've already
mentioned it, but they have this holiday here over the summer called
Ferragosto and it officially starts on August 15 but everyone takes
off work starting a month early and going on until the end of August
to celebrate it, EVERYONE is at the beach. So, August is usually
pretty slow here.
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| Our district |
Thursday, we passed by a lot of people, and did finding and made a ton
of calls.
Friday, we finally made it through the entire ward list. We have
officially tried to contact every single lady who lives in Livorno.
Usually, when we do the pass bys, we find out the people moved away or
they have no interest in seeing us, but today we found one really nice
lady who said we can come back another day, so we're really excited to
see if we can start working with her.
Saturday, we saw Sorella Car again. She's doing well. We've met her
husband a few times and he seems like a really nice guy. We did more
finding today.
Sunday, we had church. It was fast Sunday and it was really good. We
had a TON of people in church, one of the anziani counted about
70 and none of the were tourists! So we were really excited for about
that. Our sacrament meeting also changed to being the first hour
and it was really nice, I've never seen the Italians so on time in my
entire life! Just kidding (kinda). Also, yesterday night, when we were
planning for today, we had joked about maybe seeing this man again
that we've seen a few times and he's approached each time to ask about
our church. We were joking about how we might run into him again, and
we actually did! It was pretty cool! We taught him the first lesson.
We'll have to pass him to the anziani if he still has interest in
meeting again, but we were just really excited about it.
Monday, we had district meeting and then that afternoon we saw Azzura
and Giacomo. It had been awhile since we'd seen them and Sorella
Harris hadn't even really met them yet, so we were super pumped to
finally be able to get together, that night, we had the plumber come
again because now our faucet is spraying everywhere all over our
kitchen. He was just checking it out, he still needs to fix it. We've
started a list and we're taking pictures of all the things that go
wrong in our apartment. There's our broken faucet, the air
conditioning, our door handle that falls off all the time, our water
ran brown for a few hours one day, lots of stuff.
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| We had to boil water to wash our dishes after our hot water went out the second time. |
Tuesday, we saw Sorella Iz in the morning, Sorella Harris has been
having some foot problems and Sorella Iz knows about that stuff, so
she took a look at it for her. We also saw Sorella An while we
were there. The two of them are seriously awesome ladies, and are both
so sweet and caring. We saw Sorella Car that afternoon and then
Sorella Nac. Sorella Nac is super fun. We always have really
good talks with her. Then we had English class. There weren't a lot of
people today, so we combined our class with the anziani's. It was fun.
The people who come to English class are really fun and sweet. One of
the men in our class said he's going on vacation but that when he
comes back, he's gonna bring us some blackberry jam from the mountains
that's supposed to be really good.
Today, we went to Monte Nero in the morning. It was pretty cool. The
chapel at the top was really pretty and bright inside, usually
Catholic churches are so dark and gloomy. We also may have
accidentally walked into their mass.
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| Pinocchio was invented in this region, they love him here! |
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| View from Monte Nero |
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| Sorella Harris took this really pretty view from Monte Nero |
We couldn't do a lot today, we had interviews with president and we
had to go to Pisa for it.
Thanks for the support and love, you guys are the best and I love
hearing from you all. Have an amazing week!
Love, Sorella Snow
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