Family!!!! Vi voglio bene, sapete!!!!?
I am in love with the big city!!!! It is so wonderful, taking the bus, walking on the wide streets with giant buildings all around and most of all I love talking to people about the gospel and there are so many people to talk to here, it is wonderful.
I have already gotten made fun of in dialetto (dialect, is that how you spell it?) and there is poop every where and there are tons and tons of apartment buildings (perfect for doing house, right) and I get to ride a bus with a bunch of sweaty stinky italians and I couldn't be more happy! I have not seen the sea yet, but I can smell the air and it is gloriously fresh and fishy!
We still have a car here, but we only use it a tad (I have served in the only two places where the sorelle have a car, lucky me!). The car is a totally manual, so I have to for sure learn how do use the clutch. Pray for me! We practiced in a parking lot the other day and I am realizing that my foot and my brain are not in correspondence, so I need a lot of practice!
So I cannot give you my address yet...:( Sorry... We are moving apartments in a week or so, so I will give you the new address when I get it.
The ride coming to Bari was terrible! I took an over night, 10 hour bus ride across sicily and the foot of the boot, I didn't sleep at all. It was cool though because we took a ferry at midnight from Sicily to Italy and there was a light house! I thought of you mamma!
Sorella Clark is an amazing missionary! She was with me in the MTC, not my companion, but in my class, so we are the same age in the mission, both in our 6th transfer. I am already learning so much from her. She has taught me new ways to find, like using an invite to do a serata familiare and new appraoches to start talking to people on the street. She is so sweet to everyone and is always smiling. Also, I have a great testimony of referrals now. She asks everyone for referrals and it is paying off. We had a lesson with an investigator, Bright, from Ghana, and he brought two friends with him to come and hear our message. Miracle referrals! Speaking of Bright. He called us yesterday and told us that he prayed about the Book of Mormon and that night he had a dream, telling him that it was from God and that he needs to continue to read it. He was so excited about his dream that he called us first thing to tell us about it. How lovely! He has a baptismal date for the 29th of September!
Sorella Clark is an amazing missionary! She was with me in the MTC, not my companion, but in my class, so we are the same age in the mission, both in our 6th transfer. I am already learning so much from her. She has taught me new ways to find, like using an invite to do a serata familiare and new appraoches to start talking to people on the street. She is so sweet to everyone and is always smiling. Also, I have a great testimony of referrals now. She asks everyone for referrals and it is paying off. We had a lesson with an investigator, Bright, from Ghana, and he brought two friends with him to come and hear our message. Miracle referrals! Speaking of Bright. He called us yesterday and told us that he prayed about the Book of Mormon and that night he had a dream, telling him that it was from God and that he needs to continue to read it. He was so excited about his dream that he called us first thing to tell us about it. How lovely! He has a baptismal date for the 29th of September!
My ward is great! It was small this Sunday, since everyone is still on Vacation. The Bishop came in and said oh thank goodness, new missionaries, you are giving a talk today since all the planned people called and said they couldn't come. So I had like two seconds to prepare a talk in a different language. It went well, well I took up ten minutes, so that was good. I think it was just because I was trying to tell a story and it took me forever to tell it since my italian is still lacking, (cio e' it sucks:)). Then after church some members made us lunch!
The food in Bari is so good, they have these things called Panzarotti, yeah it is like fried pizza and it is to die for! No worries though, I am not getting too fat!;)
We had a very interesting experience last night. We were doing strada by the castelo in centro. A young man sitting on a bench looked up and saw us and started to wave to us to come over. Turns out that he is a member from Romania and he was thinking, just at that moment, how he would like to see missionaries to help him find the church here, since he is brand new to Bari and low and behold we were there. Seriously, things happen for a reason! The Lord answers our prayers!
I miss Mistretta so so much. However, I am realizing transfers are imperitive for growth, this big city experience already is stretching me and helping me to learn and grow so much, even if it is difficult to transition, I know I am supposed to be here and I am glad that other wonderful sorelle get the chance to learn and grow from Mistretta.
Thanks again for all you do for me!
We had a very interesting experience last night. We were doing strada by the castelo in centro. A young man sitting on a bench looked up and saw us and started to wave to us to come over. Turns out that he is a member from Romania and he was thinking, just at that moment, how he would like to see missionaries to help him find the church here, since he is brand new to Bari and low and behold we were there. Seriously, things happen for a reason! The Lord answers our prayers!
I miss Mistretta so so much. However, I am realizing transfers are imperitive for growth, this big city experience already is stretching me and helping me to learn and grow so much, even if it is difficult to transition, I know I am supposed to be here and I am glad that other wonderful sorelle get the chance to learn and grow from Mistretta.
Thanks again for all you do for me!
I love you all too much!!!!
Con amore e baci e abbracci!!!
Sorella Comollo
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