okay so last p-day we got to go to see the colosseum which is pretty much my dream.
it was amazing! i couldn't believe it when we walked out of the subway and it was just RIGHT there! crazy. i was freaking out. it was awesome. and we got to go inside and.. yup. so good.
okay i have the funniest, most tramatizing story of my life.
so i'm pretty sure i told you about Delby. well Delby is just the funniest peruvian woman that you have ever met. she speaks half spanish half italian so i can't understand i word she says...
well the other night we went over to her house for dinner. and previous to going over there my companions had told her i was vegetarian. so we get there and she starts dishing up food and told me she had gotten a vegetarian lasagna just for me, which was SO nice of her cause she really didn't have to do that.
so she got me a big slice of vegetarian lasagna and i thanked her and i took the first bite and i KNEW there was meat in it, but she looked at me and asked if i liked it and i said "si! รจ buonissimo!" because i didn't want her to feel bad or offend her! so i kept eating it and praying for heavenly father to help me not be sick because i honestly felt like i was going to puke but i also knew heavenly father was helping me through that meal. i didn't eat the whole thing but i ate over half and... well i was sick the next couple days but the point is that i ate it! BE PROUD OF ME! haha.... okay best part--
so Delby (after i had eaten most of the lasagna) took the first bite of hers and (apparently, cause i can't understand her..) started freaking out because she found out there was meat in it and was asking the people around her if i knew there was meat in it and everyone thought i didn't know (because i am the nicest person and kept quietly eating!!!) and they told her they didnt think i knew and she was like "don't tell her! don't tell her!" in her spanish/italian voice and yeah........ it was just so funny......
so yeah. that was the story of the first time i ate meat in like 12 years...
on a more positive note, delby AND giorgia told us that they know the book of mormon is true! and now its just a matter of explaining what that means.. (the church is true, joseph smith was a prophet, etc.) so that's what we're gonna be working on next..
we set a baptismal date for a girl named Elisa. she is so stinkin cute. she is 10 and her mom is less active but has a very strong testimony of the church, which is so sad cause she knows its true but hasn't been to church since she got divorced.. but its good that she is still encouraging her kids to get baptized and come to church.
i dont think i have told you about Archangelo yet. he is the husband and father of a family of members but he is just very hard-hearted and isn't ready to accept the gospel yet, even though he's heard everything. i really hope that he comes around though because i can just see how much his wife and daughters want him to be baptized so they can be sealed as a family..
one of his daughters is 6 and was teaching me italian before a lesson one day and i was teaching her some english. she is so cute. her name is Sara.
another day we went to a beautiful town called Canale Monterano to have lunch with a member and her friend. we talked about the restoration and bore testimony of the book of mormon and gave her a copy. hopefully she accepts our commitment to read the introduction.
um........ this last weekend was stake conference so we all went into Rome and watched a broadcast (that was for a few European countries) where Elder Nelson and Pres. Eyring spoke about the importance of families and the roles within the families. it was really great and also awesome for our investagators who came to hear.
so 2 nights ago i had a dream that i was talking to heavenly father and jesus and i dont remember anything that was said but i do remember they were comforting me. when i woke up i didnt know why and was thinking about it while we were running by the beach.. when we got back to the apartment, sorella kelly (the mission presidents wife) called and told me that my grandpa dewey had passed away.
i cried while i was on the phone with her but then i just felt this peace just wash over me and i knew that my grandpa was with his wife now and i was just so grateful for heavenly father for the plan of happiness that we have, and the knowledge that i have to know that even though death is hard, its not the end.
one of my companions, sorella ivory, shared a book that i want all of you to read! its so good. its called "As a Man Thinketh"
here are some of my favorite lines from it:
"The outer world of circumstance shapes itself to the inner world of thought, and both pleasant and unpleasant external conditions are factors which make for the ultimate good of the individual. As the reaper of his own harvest, man learns both by suffering and bliss.
...Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself."
okay well i am off on another P-day adventure.
i hope you all have a good week and remember that heavenly father loves us SO MUCH. we can't even comprehend it.
vi voglio bene!
(shoutout) happy birthday emilee!
Sorella Sudweeks
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