Ciao tutti!!!!
Well,
I'm not going to lie, it's been a hard week. On Friday, we lost
suddenly one of the missionaries in our apartment, who went home for
some personal reasons. I really respect him. That wasn't an easy
decision, but it had to be done. I'm very proud of him. Since then,
we've been in a trio, which is.....weird....to say the least. It's so
awkward sometimes. We have yet to find out a good finding technique,
because most people are intimidated by two people stopping them,
figuriamoci three now! So, we've been trying to split up on opposite
sides of the street, switching off between being in two or in one. That
is super weird. Stopping someone by yourself. And then its harder to
balance out lessons. I feel bad for Anziano Lingardo now, because I want
him to be talking a lot more, but now that we have another older
missionary (been out for a year), he kinda gets left behind. This is definitely messing up my training plan. I've been praying a lot to figure
out what to do, so I know the Lord will help me out. We're still
waiting to here from President to let us know what is happening, if we
are just staying in a trio or getting a new comp or what. Who knows.
Basically, it's been an eventful last transfer.
To answer
your questions dad, we teach around 10 lessons a week here. We do not
have any progressing investigators here. It's been kinda frustrating
because we have some legit people, but we can never see them and the
people we do see aren't super committed. We are not getting discouraged
though. Anz Lingardo speaks the language well, but he has a hard time
understanding what people say, but I'm trying to help him all that I
can. I am finding success in making friends with the members. We have
few that we see regularly, but we do our best to meet and make friends
with the less actives.
Well, not everything this week was
bad, in fact, we were able to listen to Elder Bednar on Monday in
Milano. It was incredible! I learned so much. I can't even start to
explain it all, but please ask me when I get home, because I want to
share it all with you. That was a huge boost for our moral. And it was
beyond amazing to see all of my old mission friends, even though I did
not know more than 75% of the people there. I'm old. haha.
We also had some cool miracles this week. As
I just told you, when we that missionary went home, it was something
hard to swallow. We were all shocked and just kinda left in the dust as
he left and we found ourselves in a trio. This first day was very
difficult. All of our appointments cancelled and we were just all out of
it from the initial shock of him leaving so suddenly. We did however,
have a huge miracle that came out of this. A few week prior, we received
a referral from another coppia in Bergamo. We contacted this man and he
was very busy, so we continued to call him and try to set something up.
Eventually, we were able to set up an appointment for last Friday. We
called him to confirm and he moved our lesson back to
9:00. However, a few hours later, he texted us and invited us to come over for dinner instead at
7:15,
so we could meet his family. We gladly accepted and went to his house.
Upon our arrival, we met a few of his children, and then they just kept
coming. Turns out he and his wife have 7 children, all but one, above
the age of 8. We could not believe our eyes. It was incredible. We
instantly hit it off with the family and we taught them the restoration
and answered their many questions. Upon leaving, we left them with a
Book of Mormon and they gladly accepted it. We were not able to set up a
return appointment, but we hope to be able to fix one soon in these
next few days. It was such a great miracle for us, just went we needed
it. Our spirits were low, and the Lord lifted us higher.
Then,
earlier that week, we got a referral from one of our members. We went
out to this city to meet her and we literally wandered around this small
town for an hour lost. Finally, I found a pizzeria and asked them if we
could use their map to find this street. hahaha. Smart, right? Well, we
found it. Turns out we were super near to it before hand and we just
didn't know it. But this lady who we taught in a park near her house is
amazing. Her faith was incredible. We had a great lesson and unfortunately, because she lives outside of our area, we had to pass her,
but I've learned that doesn't matter because we are all on the same
team. So now the sorelle got a totally golden referral.
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