Call to CONFIRM

Haha oh man we had a packed week!!


On Wednesday, we didn't have really any set appointments so I put my violin on my back and we went to go see this referral a member gave us. It was kind of questionable referral (meaning that we didn't think it would really be anything), but we went anything and it turned in to be our new investigator Magdona!!! She is from Hungary and her daughter is a member of the church in Budapest. She said she never was baptized because she works to much but we are going to see if we can work with her. We went to this appartamento and she is a substitute badante which is a person who takes care of old people and she let us
in. We started talking and got to know her for a little and she was too busy to have a lesson because she had to bathe Umberto and put him to bed, but I played my violin and sorella Wood sang where can I turn for peace and it was a really great experience!!

The communication issue thing happened TWICE this week. We an appointment with this member lady, Paola (she's older and I had never met with her before), but the problem was that we had five people that wanted to meet with us on friday at 5:30pm. I called her to see if we could maybe move the appointment a little and she said no haha and asked if the senior couple was coming with us. I told her I would call them and then call her back, so I called them and I didn't think it was appropriate to call her that night because it was late and we
needed to go to bed. So I forgot the next day and then Friday she called and was very frustrated with me!!! Sorella Wood answered the phone and got yelled at by this old Italian lady and she had no idea what she was saying so she passed the phone to me haha and Paola was like "I am an old single lady and you knew that you were supposed to call me and I can't plan for six people to come and not know if they are coming!" I felt terrible and apologized and asking if there was anything we could being. Long story short she probably told us 50
times at dinner that she could have made a lasagna or it would have been much better if she could have had more time to prepare, but Sorella Gochnour didn't call her. The spragues thought it was hysterical and it was just one of those "learn to laugh at yourself" moments. Or a missionary failure moment haha. It turned out to be a great lesson and she was very kind to still allow us to come and feed us.

Then we had an appointment with a potential investigator named Judy. I had called her multiple times to confirm the appointment and she never answered. I asked the elders if we should still go anyway (because she lives like and hour and a half away) and they called her husband who said she was at home. Well we're sitting there on the train waiting for it to leave the station and this lady comes up to us and goes "hey sisters? How are you sisters?" She is a less active lady named Louisa and she just happened to pick the same train car that we were on. I had never seen her in person, but talked with her on the phone and had many appointments with her that she cancelled so it was really great that we got to know her! Back to Judy, I call her as we are pulling out of the station and she says, "I'm not at home sisters. I told you you needed to call and confirm to make sure that I was at home." I TRIED CALLING YOU JUDY!!! Haha I can laugh at it now, but in the moment I wanted to pull all of my hair out. It ended up being a great experience. We were able to get to know Louisa and she felt bad for us so she took us to her non member friends house to get to know her. (That's a whole different story) Heavenly Father turned that into a miracle of a night!!

Then we had an interesting lesson with those two Peruvian guys. I don't really remember if I explained their story to you, but we finally met with them this week and taught the restoration. They had a ton of great questions and we were able to just talk about some of the things we believe. It's hard to explain everything, but I think they were kind of a little skeptical. Out of the three people taught the mother said she already knows everything she needs to know, the other one said he should read and pray, but he probably won't, and the last
one said he would read and see how he feels about it. One of them at the very end said, "ok, last question. Do you really believe in everything you just said? 100%?" It kind of made me laugh a little. I was able to just bear powerful and simple testimony to him. "Sì. So che queste cose sono vere. Senza dubbio. Cento percento."

If I didn't know that these things were true I would not be here walking around all day in the heat away from my family speaking a foreign language in a foreign land to people who, the majority of which, don't want to listen to me.

I KNOW THIS CHURCH IS TRUE. It is not a church established by man. It is a restored church. And it is the Church of Jesus Christ. My goal is to help these people to come unto Him.

And I love doing it. I wouldn't trade it for anything.

Sinceramente,

Sorella G❤🇮🇹

Ps transfers are tonight. I'm not expecting anything crazy to happen
just because I'm smack dab in the middle of training, so most likely I
will be here for another six week, but who knows. I'll fill you in
next week!!