So I have been feeling like my emails lately have been weak sauce, so I have decided to add some beef:) Are you ready for it?:)
First off, eveyone needs to read this talk this week, it is called The atonement all for all by Bruce C Hafen. It is incredible and life changing! We truly are so blessed in to have the knowledge of the Savior that we do. The people that we teach here are christian but they do not understand how Christ can help them to feel the burden of sin lifted or feel comfort when we think all is lost.
Last wednesday I slept all day, after we got home from the internet point I felt so sick. I have this sinus infection you see, it is so grose-o! I was taking antibiotics for it, but they did not really help so I went to one of the members doctor. He said that it was persistant and I need to take five different kinds of medications in various ways to get rid of it. So I have to Take two kinds of aerosal things, I have to wear a mask for 10 minutes and breath in this stuff, I sound and look like darth vadar with it on. My companion just laughs at me the whole time:) Then I have to drink this thick stuff take a pill and last but not least I have to pour these vaseline drops in my nose 3 times a day. It is like shoving a cough drop up my nose and down my throut, yummy. No worries though, I am grateful, because it is finally going away! Hurray!
I wanted to tell you to how grateful I am for the knowledge and I have of prayer. All of the people we teach say that they pray and we ask them about it. They say that they do the cross before they go to bed and sometimes say the Padre Nosrto o Ave Maria. They just say a memorized prayer... I am so grateful for the knowledge that I have a father in Heaven that loves me, knows me by name and listens to me. I can pray to him, talk to him, all of the sentiments of my heart and he will answer. This is so wonderful. We are working hard to help people understand this concept and how much of a difference it makes in the life.
My companion's birthday was a week ago. We went to a Marcellaria and were buying some cheese. We were talking about her birthday and Franco, the man who sales the cheese, said that for her birthday we wanted to give her his heart, so he gave us a free chunk of cow heart, sweet no? We had a stew with it, it was pretty good and hearty, he he he, punny:)
So I learned some thing wonderful from proverbs the other day about knowledge, that it is more precious than gold or silver. This is great! For the knowledge we obtain in this life is the only thing that we will keep. So keep searching for more knowledge and if you do you will never be bored and always be rich!
On Fridays we have a weekly planning session in the mornings. This is were we go through the week and plan when will we have lessons for investigators, what will we teach them and so on. When we got to the part in preach my gospel where it says plan for your recent converts and less actives. Sorella Johnson and I started to chuckle, because our recent converts are our less actives:) Lots of work to be done, but we are making progress. This less active of ours was ready to come to church on sunday, yay! But she missed the carpool down, no! Next week for sure!
We have an hour of language study a day. During language study I was working on vocabulary. Sorella Johnson sneezed so I looked up the word for sneeze, it is starnutto. Well, in church our primary girl sneezed and we both said oh that is a starnudo, oops;)
We have an investigator named Cataldo. He is this little old man with a voice that cracks like an adolecent, he is so cute! When we walk in the door he is already getting his book of Mormon out and his poems. He loves to give us poems that he has written, about his mom, about his wife, about his life. He likes so read them to us too! He is so cute!
I gave a talk on sunday about the blessing that come with temple attendance, quite the topic for a first talk in a different language, lets just say I used a lot of quotes:)
We had a miracle happen this week!!!!! So during lunch one day we got a call from Angela, a less active/recent convert, she was trembling on the phone and frantically explaining that she ran out of her medication for some problem she has, she asked us for help, if we could go and get it. We had a lesson planned with an investigator at 3 and said that we would help, but it would have to be quick. It wasn't. We had to go down to Reitano, a town about 15 minutes away to her mom's house, get the money to buy the medicine, but while there the mom wanted to chit chat for a bit, so we finally got away, but had to go back to her house to get the perscription and than go to the farmacia for her, but we took the wrong street to the farmacia so we had to walk all the way back and it took for ever and then go back to her house to give her the meds and then she talked to us for a little, by the time we got to our appointment it was 4:30. Nicoletta our investigator was fine with us being late, even thought we were kind of frustrated with the whole situation. Well about five minutes after we got there Nicoletta's mom comes in and we got to have the first lesson about Joseph Smith with her too and she loved it and she wants us to come back! The mom said that it is best if we come around 4:30 because that is when she can come over! AMAZING! If we did not go through all of that shananagan with Angela we would have never met the mom of Nicoletta at 4:30 because our appointment was originally at 3 and now she is a new investigator! This is truly a testimony that we have to be grateful for even the things in life that seem frustrating, because you never know what will come of it.
Last part to me boss email. We were with a member, Antonio the other night and we had a former investigator pass us in a hurry. After she saluted us Antonio whispers to us, she is going to go and do the worst form of Idolatry. Sorella Johnson and I Froze and looked at each other, shocked. For both of us thought that Antonio said Adultary. I just want to say that idolatry is not adultary.
I love you all so much! Thanks for your emails and support!
Have a lovely week and I shall talk to you next week!
Love,
Sorella Comollo
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