11/21

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!! tomorrow....... ma comunque...... have a good one :)

this week was the beginning of transfer #5 for me. which means that half way through this transfer, i am half-way through my mission (sisters do 11 transfers). so.... that's weird. 

things of this week... 

just got a hair cut... so thats cool.... ha...........

sorella rosato went back to catania. i miss her. she is really great. and REALLY helped me with italian. didnt think i could speak straight italian for a few days but she proved me wrong. i need to be her comp. then i'd really learn this language...

nuccio is softening his heart! which is the best... he says he is super athiest but.. i know he believes.. he just doesnt want to :) but he cried when we watched ''finding faith in christ''. if anyone can make someone soften there heart, its Jesus. haha.. nuccio is so great. he is just sad and mad at the catholic church/italian government and its making him mad at God, and for him, its just easier to believe that God doesnt exist. but.. i know there are parts of him that know he exists. and that he's listening.. man.. i love nuccio. he told us last time that he stopped smoking and on our way here, we saw him riding his scooter, cigarette in mouth. haha so funny... he asked if he could bring beer to our last lesson too..... ha...... we're working on it alright... 

we started meeting with a less active named lucia (everyone here is named lucia. because of saint lucia.. look up the story.. hah brutal.) who never showers and wears a puffy rainbow jacket every day. she's so funny.. she LOVES us. like.. after every phrase i said she would tell me the words im saying are holy. hah yeah... alright lucia.. calm down.. shes funny.. we love her! 

i found a treasure of siracusa!!! BOTTLED coke light. yes....... i havent had one of these since the coke factory in vegas.. 

anyway..

sabastiano is just breaking our hearts. he is just content with what he has even though he knows the book of mormon is true and he loves it but he just thinks he cant change, to the point that he doesnt even want to know if the church is true or not. he even told us he doesnt believe the catholic church is true.. but just likes being a part of it. we were so sad after one lesson that we went and got pizza and ate it by the sea. (we talked about our sphere's of influence during district meeting... haha...) so...... i guess we are getting a taste of what heavenly father feels about us... when we KNOW something is true, but dont do anything about it. its like we have the tree of life right in front of us but we dont want to reach out and taste the fruit. just look at it..... doesnt make sense........... but i mean... we all have our agency. so..... his choice in the end. and no one can make his choices but him. 

i think i've told you about annamaria. i dont know if i told you but like a month ago we made her a ''i've read. i've prayed'' calendar, where she has to make off the days she's read and prayed. (she's a bit slow) and she lost it so we said a prayer and the next time she found it and it was like a miracle for her because God answered her prayer. so last time we gave her a proc. to the family. and she lost that too. so i suggested again that we say a prayer. and RIGHT after the prayer she found it and she started crying because she really realized it wasnt just a coincidence and that heavenly father really was answering her prayers. it was the cutest thing! i love annamaria... she is just..... man...... you need to meet this woman..... she is HILARIOUS. she makes everything better.

so i taught BASIC english for the first time without sorella spicq's help (she started doing french course). and..... haha man...... im a disaster.... advanced english.. that's different. cause people already english. and you can teach english in english! but when you teach basic, you have to teach english, in italian. (make sense?) so...... its just........ haha difficult........ but its fine....... they think im cute and i gave away 2 books of mormon!! one to a girl thats probably a little older than me and one to a mom who comes to english course with her husband and two daughters! so... we wanna teach them! a family! that would be SWEET.

it FINALLY stopped raining............ so thats good....... 

im tired ALL the time. its the worst.......... 

dont know what else to write.....

vi voglio bene!

s.lla sudweeks

pics: 

-the black pearl and sorella rosato

-bottled coke. best day ever.

-feet.......?

-filled up one whole journal! starting number two!

-hair cut. and church.