This week has been filled to the brim with rejection! Bah!This week has been hard, I do not think I have ever gotten rejected so much in my whole mission! Almost every one of our appointments fell through and when we did finding the usually nice siciliani seemed a little colder of spirit. We perservered though!
One of the reasons we had more rejections than usual is because we went to Palermo Sunday night to do mostra, which is were missionaries go to a piazza in downtown and set up a booth of sorts and talk to people. It was my first, "big city" experience with missionary work. On of the anziani told me, "I just do not know how people can be mean to you and not listen to you, you are so happy and bubbly." I just do not know why either! jk. I was thinking about how people react to missionaries, I think it is because we are the imbodiment of change and people do not like change, per niente!
So something amazing happened with an investigator named Lina. She was telling us how she want more faith. We had another lesson planned for her, but we both felt we had to read in Alma 32 and developing more faith. Well, she loved the analogy of a seed and I had this idea to expand on it. This expansion of the allagory was totally from the spirit, for I would have never thought of it by myself and in that moment. I told her just as a seed needs good soil and water and the sun to grow so does this seed of faith. We talked about prayer being like the water and then how the scriptures, especially the Book of Mormon being the good soil to plant your faith in. Well, by the end of the lesson she took the book of mormon! THIS WAS A MIRACLE! We have been teaching her for about a month or so and she never would take the things we left, she says I like to talk and to discuss, but I do not want to read or I do not want you to leave me something that I know I will throw away. Well, she took the Book of Mormon, finally! We also talked about work and how to get anything out of life we have to work hard and make some sacrifices. She agreed that she could make a 2 minutes sacrifice to read and pray. Hurray:)
We had an Area Book Miracle happen. Since Sorella Sobeck had a cold we stayed in one morning. I did area book whlile she slept. Well, I called this man named Pietro who was a former investigator a year ago. Well, he said he would meet with us! He is so awesome, he loves how all of the missionaries he has met have had such a faith and such a light in them and he wants to have that too. He said that he would read The Book of Mormon after he got home from his night club party that evening, it is a start!
We also found out yesterday why Giuseppe is postponing a baptismal date, because he knows the church is true and wants nothing more than to become a member (he told us he wanted to give a talk in sacrament meeting one day! and he wants to go to the Stake conference! and he reads the ensign like there is no tomorrow. He reminds me of that book if you give a mouse a cookie. If you give a Giuseppe an ensign he will ask you for another to go with it:)). He said that if he gets baptized his family will not talk to him anymore, his wife, his daughters, his parents, his relatives. At first I did not understand, but apparently for the religion of his relatives, which is Jehovah's Witness, they are not allowed to talk to people, even members of their own family, who have changed religions. I have no idea what to do, we told him to keep praying for his family's heart to soften and to keep continuing to read and come to church, but I just do not know what else to do.
The church should be coming to Mistretta officially at the end of June. Right now it is half an hour away in Santo Stefano, where there are no members, it is a weird that it is so far. I am so excited, I really think that with the church in Mistretta a lot more people will be able to come and see exactly what we do and believe, instead of just ignore us because they do not know. I am excited that English Course will be starting up again, that is such a big help and so many people in Mistretta have been asking about it.
I love Mistretta so so much, I really feel like things are looking up for the ward here, full of its history and drama, the Lord is seriously blessing the faithful saints high on this mountain top.
Transfer calls are this Saturday! Bah! I do not want to leave, I love it here too too much, maybe that means that I need to be tested. Mistretta has my whole heart!
I love you all so much and I hope you have a great week!
Love you!
Love,
Sorella Comollo
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