Laura is Amazing

Alright..... well...... i guess i'll start at last week this day. we went and saw the vatican museum which was amazing! we saw the sistine chapel and all this beautiful art. it was remarkable! 

Vatican Square

so we decided to go back home from rome a little early cause we had an appointment and we ended up getting on the wrong trani that was a 'fast' train and wouldnt stop in our city and a voice came on and announced it and we were like, oh no..... so we ran to the door of the train and couldnt get it open (the best was a german family behind us who made the same mistake and was yelling at us to open the door) but it wouldnt open so the family went to the next door, got it open and jumped out but when the last person in their family jumped out the train started to GO and i was just full of adrenalin and was ready to jump off a MOVING TRAIN and i turned and looked at sorella ivory for i dont know what, i guess approval to jump haha and just said 'SORELL?!' like..... if i jump are you coming? and she just looked at me and then we both kind of realized what we were about to do and started laughing. no we did not jump off a moving train. we would have died. haha and sorella ivory would have had to call president. imagine that.. 'um... president? yeah, sorella sudweeks broke her leg cause we jumped off a moving train....sorryyyyyy.....'  anyway... that was just the funniest experience. anyway.. we missed our appointment but our lives are.... still...... with us................

Catching the golden snitch

a brilliant idea we had this week was to move our couch (that was basically used as a shelf inside) out to our deck area and it has been the best thing we've ever done. holler.

two of our investagators have told us that they dont want to see us anymore, including andreina.... which is really sad and just kind of breaks your heart when that happens..... but on the other hand, the lady we found doing house agreed to start reading with us from the book of mormon every week so thats really great, and very rare to have found her by just showing up to her door and not through a referral or anything. i know that shes really been prepared to hear our message, even if it might still be hard with her, she said that her door is always open to learn more about christ and i hope she realizes that what we have can really bless and help her life. 

we also went and visited Pat, a less active, this week. she hasnt been to church for a few years but we are going to try to see her once a week and hopefully she'll start coming back to church. she works in the mornings though which is the problem...... it seems to always be the problem here hah... shes from nigeria so she speaks english which was the BEST thing. we did a lesson in english with her and...... yes. i liked it. hah.

Laura and the evil emperor

but italian is coming. i am able to speak a lot faster than when i just got here and i understand a lot more. its still a little crazy to me that i am able to understand this language haha... but i also know that heavenly father is really helping me when its important. a lot of times i wont understand almost any of one conversation and almost all of another conversation but i know its cause on the one hand, it was really important that i understand their needs and concerns. its all very interesting and i know how actively God is guiding this work.

well...... not much else to report. i love you and im thinking about you........ 

keep it real, everybody.

Sorella Sudweeks

Long hair!

She calls this my super sister missionary dress. ;) She found it in the death closet. best find ever.