6/26/12

Caro Tutti!

well.. its real hot here. we just ran around rome looking for an internet point for the last hour and we FOUND one! so here goes--

this week was pretty fun. our peruvian investagator, Delby is moving soon so we had a lesson with her outside (so she can connect with nature) by this lake, in the trees and man... to get there we passed a city called Anguilara which we need to visit when we come back to italy, by the way. its gorgeous. anyway.. the lesson was just the funniest thing ever... i hope you all get to meet delby one day cause she is just so funny. i still cant understand her but she tries to speak english with me which is a joke haha but shes great. her daughter is a recent convert so i really hope shell come around soon... 

this week in the rome stake, the youth had an 'olympic' activity and they had all the missionaries helping out so we went into rome (we got to wear SHORTS!!!) and got to help out with all the track races. at the end they had a race for the elders and then a race for the sisters. dont worry fam. i represented you well and won :) Fortza Ladispoli! our ward is bomb. 

we also got to help out with a wedding... in a sense.... that was in the church this week. but it wasnt really a wedding, more just a reception type of thing. the point is that her family is less active and non of his family are members so we got to just serve and help out and talk to people about the gospel and families (we handed out proclamations to the family) and it was just a really good experience and hopefully well get some referrals from that. 

um... a lot of appointments fell through this week (i guess its hot and people like the beach or something....) so we ended up having a lot of 'finding' days. so........ here are some of my finding experiences. 

we were doing casa e casa (house finding) and here they have huge apartment building so there is a thing called a citofono and you buzz peoples houses and try to basically have them let you in. so we were trying to invite people to learn about 'family home evening' or 'serata famigliare' and the first person we talked to buzzed us in. crazy. so we go up to his floor and knock on his door and this guy opens the door, with only his swim suit on, with shaving cream on his upper lip and pretends like he doesnt know who we are and said he didnt buzz us up but we know its him cause it was his exact voice and.... it was just funny. his was just a little insane haha but we just laughed about it all the way down the stairs... 

alright...... second story.

we are walking down the street, talking to people, and i see a woman holding the arms of her little girl who looks like she just fell to the ground and i was going to go help her get up but i realized the girl was actually pooping in a bag, on the street, and her mom was holding her up. so thats anothing thing we dont see in provo. haha nice italia......

and finally.... kept going down the street and we stopped a woman and asked her if she had ever heard of the book of mormon. she looked at sorella bumas tag, looked at us and said 'i'm catholic! anyway... see you in heaven..' and walked off. haha so funny..... 

well... its hot here. and the door in our bedroom (to outside) was broken and wouldnt open so we had the assistants come over and try to fix it. while they were working with it, we went into the other room to study and we just hear shattering glass and we run in there to see our poor elders just looking horrified and bleeding from random places! oh my gosh... it was the saddest, funniest thing i have ever seen. we cleaned them up and cleaned up the glass haha...... anyway..... our door opens now! so...... thats good haha.......

Andreina

allora.. last thing. i am sending a picture of my favorite old lady, Andreina. she is an artist and whenever we go over she shows us what she has been painting. i just love her to death. she is the sweetest woman and knows so much about the scriptures and she LOVES the book of mormon because she knows that the plan of salvation is real and that there is life after this! the sad part is that she probably wont be baptized in this life because she is so old but she wants sorella buma to do her baptism in the temple when she passes on. its very interesting to think that even though she probably wont get baptized in this life, we are preparing her to recieve the gospel in the next life. anyway.. i love her. this picture is also great cause i said 'uno, due, tre.' and on three she would put her head down. haha we did this a couple times.. anyway.. here is Andreina. 

well....... sounds like italy is doing well in the Eurocup. i wouldnt know cause i cant watch it but i can sure HEAR it. from every single house here..... haha we have to plan lessons around their games cause we know no one will see us during those times.... oh well... fortza italia!

shoutout- emilee: josh ledlow, says hi from italy.

that's all from me! VI VOGLIO BENE!

Sorella Sudweeks