Week 73

(Week 20 Rome)
God is mindful of every situation...
This week has been a long and hard one! The hospital has been visited
by us many times, for us and others. People want to be baptized and
then two days later not. English Group makes me die of laughter.
Sometimes miracles happen in the last hour of the day. Our member
friend from Paraguay cooked us a turkey. I ate a super super good
cannolo.

Paid a visit to the hospital Sunday.  They made me wear this silly mask for five hours while waiting.  BUT, met the most wonderful couple and turns out you can still teach and testify with a mask on.

The hospital, I had some wacko virus and ended up in urgent care with
a face mask, but I really am fine :). The Anziani were awesome and
brought us food since we hadn't eaten in forever and we got to see
another less active who also was at the hospital. long story short...
Members are awesome and Heavenly Father blessed us and really does put
people in our paths. We met an INCREDIBLE couple in the waiting room
and we basically talked to them for 4+ hours about the Restoration,
temples, our families, their lives. It was the greatest!!! You can
still teach a lesson and testify with a face mask! Sadly, they don't
live in our area but they are so excited to read their BoM and meet
with the missionaries close to them! #findingintheemergencyroom

Palma, I talked a tiny bit about her in my last email. She is a friend
of Donnatella, another investigator. Palma was so excited to see us
again after our first lesson with her and she had even started reading
the BoM! We all just sat down to start our lesson and she immediately
asks us how she can be part of this church! My jaw literally dropped
and Sorella Cardullo was trying to figure out if she had understood
correctly and in the meantime Palma is talking about how much peace
she feels from our message and wants it in her life. We established a
baptism date right then and there and all three of us were sooo
excited!

Fast forward two days later... We are in the area of Palma's house so
we decide to drop by and see how her reading is going. Her son and his
girlfriend come to the door and are just as awkward as one can be when
we ask if Palma is home. They then tell us that Palma has no interest
anymore in these things and that she won't come to the door to see us.
They then ask us to not try to pass by or call her again. We just felt super
deflated as we walked out of the apartment building so we stopped, 
said a prayer and the feeling that came over us was of complete peace.
I know we had done our job and Heavenly Father was proud.

English Group: I think it makes me laugh so much because it's at the
end of the day when I am tired. Well, during our spiritual thought we
are talking about gratitude and we read the hymn "count your
blessings" with them. Three or four different people were reading the
verses to the song and they read the words super short and broken up
and we were all dying of laughter!!! Nothing made sense and having it
not sung was terrible! Haha we should have thought about that... we
all were in tears from laughing, but we redeemed ourselves with our
testimonies at the end.

The last hour of the day: I noticed this week just how many miracles
we see at the very end of our day. Whether it be the bus ride home, or
someone we meet on the street. During a scambio with Sorella Graff, a
one week old missionary and rockstar, we met three different people in
the last half hour of the day! I know in those moments that we are
tired and ready to call it quits for the day is when we need to open
those mouths and testify of Christ!

Have a fantastic week and find the random moments to talk of Christ!
Sorella Carrie Nelson
Tante belle cose
Alma 26:37

Segway in Rome!!!

Member Martin cooked us turkey with wine but I was 
thinking he got it to drink!!!  HAHA