Gypsies

Zoo

So last P-day we had the bright idea to go fishing. in the sea? no. because we're not allowed. so we picked the second best place. a river by our house. infected with disease and potentially radio-active? yes. we bought nets (fishing poles are too expensive and we found nets for like 2 euro.) and sorella ivory found nasty rain boots in our apartments death closet. and we were on our way. we walk over this bridge about every other day and there is a path that goes down next to it so we decided that it would be the best place to get down to the river. i start walking down the path, sorella ivory following behind, and we get almost to the bottom when we see like 5 or 6 gypsie men, bathing in the river under the bridge, so, naturally, we turn around and start sprinting in the other direction. (dont mess with gypsies. ever.) so our fishing outing was ruined... we still threw corn off the bridge (fish love corn). 

anyway.......

then we went to visit a less active, mariangela, and she was going to cut my hair. (she told me she knew how....) and....... lets just say i had a backward mullet / really intense a-line for a while. haha i just wore my hair up but it was really funny... and.... i got sick of it yesterday so i just chopped off the front myself. (now its even all around. chill. it looks fine...) i'm going to another less-active's house tomorrow for a new hair cut though (dont worry. she does it for a living) so she'll fix it. it was so funny though..... sorella ivory was QUITE amused..... 

a couple days ago we were going to visit an investagator but she wasnt home, but her daughter was outside waiting for one of her friends to come or something so we started talking with her while she waited. we were on the steps of her apt. building and a lady came out and shook out her rug out of the second floor window onto us. and i mean... whatever. we just stayed there and then she came out like 2 minutes later and started yelling at us saying 'why are you just sitting there! are you done CHATTING?!' and suzana (the girl we were with) said, 'no. its only 8pm. and i LIVE here.' and then the lady started threating us, saying she was going to call someone to get us in trouble or something (we literally werent doing anything.) and the lady storms back into her house. then suzana grabs our hands and leads us about 15 feet away. and says, just wait. and a second later the crazy woman pours this giant bowl of water out her window where we were standing and starts yelling at us to come back. haha on my gosh. it was the funniest thing. i couldnt believe it. i guess she does that all of the time...... so funny.

so we got a miracle investagator this week. her name is Carmella. she called us randomly at the beginning of the week and asked if she could meet with us. she said she had known the missionaries a long time ago and had seen some of them getting on the boat to go to sardania and it had reminded her of us. 

New haircut

we went and met with her yesterday and found out she had first met the missionaries in 1990. she had had all the lessons and a few different baptismal dates and she remembered almost everything! it was really crazy. she pulled out all these pictures of her with these missionaries from 20 years ago. it was amazing that she had kept them. and also she pulled out some tapes (she cant read) where the missionaries had recorded themselves reading the book of mormon so she could hear it. it was just so crazy! and also such a testimony to me that there are no wasted motions in this work. and even though people may not accept the first invitation to baptism or to church or whatever youre doing, they remember you and the example you set for them and they carry that with them for their whole lives. i'm so glad those missionaries in the past kept going with her and tried so hard and kept in touch with her post mission so she would want to keep learning more, even if it took her 20 years to pick up the phone and call the missionaries again. 

anyway. we went to the zoo (zoh) today. it was fun but.... less fun without halle hah. miss you baby girl.

shoutoutz:

  fam- THANKS FOR YOUR LETTERS AND THE PACKAGE!!! it seriously made my week, nah, my TRANSFER. i loved reading your letters and thanks mom for the peanut butter. best package ever. 

  rachel- i'm gonna get/send your bracelets today. thanks for the letters. send my love to the true zoniez ;)

VI VOGLIO BENE! 

sorella sudweeks

PS also- next week is a cleaning day or something for like, all italy. so my P-day will be TUESDAY instead of wednesday.