Gesù & Gelato: The Miracle of Mirella

Mirella, remember her from last week?

We met her on the street and she wanted us to teach her English even though she doesn't live in Siracusa and is only here Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. She is looking to move here though! Well, Saturday morning we met up with her at the church, and immediately upon entrance she wanted a tour of the building which was awesome! Turns out we didn't do much English teaching at all... in fact we let her talk and just listened. She needed someone to just listen. Funny because the people who seem so perfectly put together sometimes aren't! She's had a really hard life and just opened up to us about it all. She said to us,"you know, although I just met you on the street by chance, now I know that it was a sign". We ended our visit showing her the Because of Him video. Her response didn't consist of words, but tears. I was crying too, just trying to get my testimony out. It was a really special moment and I'm positive she felt the spirit! She brought us one of her Italian grammar books to take home, when she handed it to me I said "facciamo uno scambio" (let's exchange) and put The Book of Mormon in her hands. She couldn't believe it, she was so touched by that and asked us to write her a dedica inside. Then she said, holding the book, "THIS is a sign". WOW!!!!!! She then asked about what time our mass is, we gave her the rundown, and she told us she'd be there! Unfortunately she had something come up and couldn't make it but that she's excited to see us again next weekend ❤.

We had zone conference this week which was good! We had to do an hour of zone training so I'm happy to be done stressing about that. Haha.

We also had quite the adventure getting xrays done for Sorella Hope's back. Mammmmmmma mia!

Street contacting miracle of the week was Lucia, we got talking with her and she said she had met with missionaries in the past and still has "the sacred book"! Haha and when we asked if we could meet again she said "of course! It'd be a pleasure!"

We also met a cute mom named Chiara, we stopped and asked what makes her happy and she said her daughter! Then she asked us more about what we believe and we got to exchange numbers!!

At lunch with Happy

Happy called us one morning this week telling us she missed us!❤❤❤❤ Don't think I've ever had an investigator call and say that.....basically she's our BFF. And she asked when we could come over again so she could fix us lunch! Sorella Hope and I, not really wanting to eat another mountain of rice, offered to make lunch this time! We made some brownies and gathered up all the stuff to make some teriyaki chicken stir fry! We got to Happy's house and.....she's already cooking some other type of African rice hahahaha. And since we still had to make our plate, she said "we can eat this rice first and then your food!" HA. She got us. I'm not exaggerating one bit when I say there was a literal mountain of rice on each plate- I have photo evidence! It was too much and so spicy we were sweating and she left to go to the bathroom I may or may not have scooped half my rice into a plastic bag.....the world will never know..... Also she hated the teriyaki chicken hahahaha but tried to pretend like she liked it. Sorella Hope and I didn't have space in our stomachs to even try it.

She's doing great though and progressing tons! The whole family came to church again yesterday! We are hoping to get Marvelous in on the lessons more, it's just difficult because he works a lot. But we planned this week to have a lesson with them and the bishop! The ward just loves this family and it's been great to see the fellowshipping going on! We are so beyond blessed. Seeing the conversion process of others is a real testimony builder!

Okay I'll wrap up this novel with a cool insight from zone conference.
Doctrine & Covenants 88:81 "Behold, I sent you out to testify and warn the people, and it becometh every man who hath been warned to warn his neighbor."
The word "warn" is emphasized because we can replace this word with anything! Find, feed, love.
Just food for thought :)
Love you all!!!!!! Have the best week!
XOXO