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| A store called the First Vision. |
Because I think I literally left the house without my
nametag at least 3 times this week. At least. And if you know me, you know I'm
not really a forgetful person.. so I have no idea what's going on! Saturday
night I told myself I'd put an extra one in my bag for next time I forget.
Well, I forgot to put an extra in my bag and then forgot my nametag and
realized like halfway through church yesterday hahaha whoops....... this week
will be better 🤞
Well it hasn't even been a week since my last email so there
isn't too much to update y'all on...
We tried meeting with Lucia on Wednesday, she rescheduled
for Saturday then cancelled on us and didn't come to church yesterday 😭
We tried meeting with Carmen on Tuesday, she rescheduled for
Thursday then we showed up at her door, called her, she was at work.
Oh and our Nigerian family, Marvelous and Happy? They
cancelled on us last Tuesday evening, rescheduled for Saturday (this one
actually happened!) Here in The Great Italy Rome mission, we have a name for
these occurrences: "bidone". We got hit with the bidone multiple
times this week (meaning the person we were supposed to meet with bailed last
minute), ma sempre avanti! It led us to lots of great finding time and a less
active visit.
It also led us to meet people we wouldn't have met
otherwise, like Dina! We were doing English course finding and stopped a lady
asking her if she spoke English. She responded "I'm from America" in
perfect English! Wow we were shocked. She's from Oklahoma! And she's here
teaching English hahaha but we had a really long conversation with her and
exchanged phone numbers to meet up another time and show her the "Grazie A
Lui" video ❤
In other news, I ate the best arancino of my life this week,
from Marchese's. (Just including that so I'll remember that panificio for when
I come back) forgot to take a picture of it, so I guess that means we'll have
to go again.
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| Cannoli with Rosie |
One of the really fun things about this ward is all of the
youth. We have been having a blast getting to know them and spend time with
them and just be their friends. We even went to seminary on Saturday morning
(They have school on Saturdays here) at 7am! One of the girls, Rosie, is 18 and
preparing to go on a mission so she came out to work with us for a couple hours
on Saturday! We went to Marvelous and Happy's house, Marvelous was eating
dinner and didn't want to join in for the lesson but we taught the restoration
to Happy and I think Sorella Hope loved getting to teach in English! I would
like to say the same for myself but yikes I'm at the point where the
restoration sounds weird in English! Hahaha. Anyways on the walk over there I
quickly memorized the first vision in English....I did so by mentally
translating it from Italian hahaha mamma Mia. The lesson went really really
well and the spirit was so strong. Happy can read and so we read Moroni's
promise together and her first question was "how much does this book
cost?" We love answering that one❤ Having Rosie there was great
too, she is originally from Africa but has lived in Italy most of her life and
is trying to learn English! She bore a really powerful testimony too. We asked
them if they'd be in church to which they responded "Yes, we will
come". They came. This work is too good y'all.
Real quick I want to share something from a talk I read this
week by President Monson: "Prayer is the passport to spiritual power".
I know that we have a Heavenly Father who loves us and cares about us because
we are His children! I know that through prayer we can communicate with Him and
I know that He listens. He hears our prayers and He answers them, maybe not
always in the timing we want but in His perfect way❤
Love y'all! Buona settimana a tutti!
PS I hit my year mark last Saturday..
PS if you want to send me a package while I'm in Siracusa,
here's the address to send it to!
Sorella Carley Neuberger
GLS Shop di Siracusa
Viale Polibio, 13
Siracusa, SR 96100
Italia
Letters:
Sorella Carley Neuberger
Le Sorelle Missionarie
Via Polibio, 17
Siracusa, SR 96100
Italia
Le Sorelle Missionarie
Via Polibio, 17
Siracusa, SR 96100
Italia
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| Pizza night with the Caggegi's |
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| Sorella Hope surprised me for my 1 year |
