Week Four!

Ciao tutti!

Today I can only write this email because we are in Catania for P-Day because we are doing exchanges with the sisters there and there is no time today to write:( The drive here was two hours, it was lovely with the sicilian landscape, but it took up time. I also have to drive back to Mistretta, another two hours, with Sorella Giordano, the sister I am doing the exchange with. I am so excited, she is from Cunio, near Torino, and speaks only Italian and is a convert, so I am looking forward to talking to her:)

In answer to your questions: We have a mission car in Mistretta, since it is tiny our area consists of also the surrounding towns, so we drive to them every once in a while, so we drove to Palermo. I love district meetings! They always making me wanting to do better and give me good ideas on how to. Also, it is fun to be with other missionaries and hear their stories, the good and the bad, it makes me feel better about how we are doing;) One elder last week told a story about how an evangelical missionary came up and started arguing with them and how she threw a mini bible at them, he kept it as a keeps sake, they also said as she went away a bum asked her for money and she quoted from peter or something about how, gold I have not, nor silver, but what I have I give to you, and then started to hand him a mini bible, he just looked at her weird and walked away. I thought it was funny.

Dado, In Mistretta the population is mostly catholic, but the surrounding cities have a lot more evangelicals and Testimoni di Geova. The food is about the same, they have different desserts, like for carnivale this week they had these fried scone things and chiachere and conolli. They eat a lot more healthily here than in USA. They have a big lunch of veggies and pasta and fruit and then a really light dinner, usually we eat just crackers and cheese and some orzo for dinner. I do not have to get any documents for driving, my USA patente works. I drove the other week and it was kind of scary, because it is a semi automatic, which I have never driven before and in Italy no one follows the rules! My companion laughed at me when I stopped at a stop sign, she said no one does that!

I have not received your package yet Rosie:( I know it will come to the right address though, because I got Olga's letter, thanks Polga pie you are soooo sweet I like your stationary;) and now we know our post lady since we have had so many problems. Purtroppo I have not received the first letters you sent to me anocora, but I have faith they will come:)

This week has been interesting. Our investigator Giuseppe came to church and we had another lesson with him on Sunday night. His wife and daughters are super not interested, the whole time his daughter was making fun of my Italian and going in and out of the room, she is a sweet heart, not to worry I have not hard feelings:) It was funny the wife last night was sewing and the word for sewing is cucire o qualcosa di genere and I pointed to it and said Cucina, which means kitchen, o well at least I am trying:) Giuseppe said that he would TOTALLY get baptized once he finds it is true and prays and talks to his family. He is awesome!

We did un sacco di finding this week since our appointments kept getting canceled. It was divertente to hear the different excuses, There must be some bug in Mistretta because everyone has a mal di testa;)  another one is I am busy, oh I feel sick, oh I am just about to leave, oh I have to cook lunch(at 10 in the morning), my favorite was, I need to take my pills or else I will start seeing delusions:) But we prayed for a miracle and we totally found some. A lady named Nella let us in and she told us how she loves how our eyes are clear and we look so happy and she wants to hear more about our message:)

I am also learning how to listen to the spirit more and be guided by it in the lessons. The other night the story you told me Mamma, about saria in the desert, came to my mind during a lesson, I felt like I needed to relate this story to help a Mom who feels bad about things that have happened. It was awesome because she said that it was exactly what she needed to hear!

So lately I have been learning a lot about prayer. I read in 3 Nephi 16, 17, and 18 about how Christ prays with the nephites and how he kneels and cries and is so sincere. I have been working on that, making my prayers more sincere and specific and it is incredible what a different it makes. We are so lucky to have the knowledge of the nature of god, that he really is our Heavenly Father and wants to hear from us. Most of the people here just say a memorized pray, they have not tapped into the potential of divinity pray holds.

Oh I love you all so much! I love your emails!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Keep them coming! They are a huge high light of my week and they buoy me up for the week to come!

Sama pie should write me an email:) Does he know my email address?

Sorry I have not written any hand written letters, there never seems to be time, but I promise to make some next P-day:)

I love you all and I am so happy all is well! Give the babies kisses for me:)

Have a good week!

Love you!

Sorella Comollo