I will answer your questions....
1. Do they do daylight savings time in Italy?
Yes but we did it a week before you all did. It was the best sleep ever! And I think I don't have to do the spring ahead here in Italy which I'm grateful for because then I would lose an hour of sleep. But the fall back was incredible!
2. How was Halloween? How is it celebrated there?
It was good. For us, Halloween day we were supposed to go to a school with a member in our ward and help her do a Halloween activity for her class but then we weren't able to get permission to go inside the school because she had to put the names in early, so instead we just finished area book stuff. With all the new privacy laws all the data had to be destroyed so we only had a certain number of days to go visit all of the old addresses and call the people so we got to finish up that. And this is a cute thing....we were in a suburb of Cagliari and so we went to these addresses and then my companion was like, "oh, the familia A lives close so why don't we just stop by and drop them a note." And I was like, ok. So we started writing a note and the Mom (who is less active) pulls up in the car while we were doing that and she invited us in. They gave us some juice and cookies and we got to talk to them. It was cute.
How is Halloween celebrated here -- it is but it's not. They do trick or treating, kind of, but they do it in stores and it's not a big thing. A lot of people don't celebrate it a all. It's interesting because apparently in some smaller side cities of Cagliari in the past they would do trick or treating before it was Halloween because this week was festa....I think it was Day of All the Saints and then Day of the Dead on November 1, so on the day before Day of the Dead, I think, they would go around and knock on doors and trick or treat, basically, so that was interesting to here. They did Day of the Dead this week so everyone was in the cemetery.
3. What was the most beautiful thing you saw this week?
The most beautiful thing I saw this week was the hike we went on today. It's called Devil's Saddle and it's SO pretty.
4. What did you do for P-Day today?
Hiked Devil's Saddle.
5. What was the best thing you ate this week?
Funny story -- we had two meal appointments and they were both really good. At the first one, I finally got my first Sardo food this week. The meal appointment was with a less active and she invited us to her parents' house and then she had to leave so when we got to the house she was already gone so we just ate with her parents. But pasta here, the sauce is a little bit of sausage cooked with the tomato sauce and that's it, with a little bit of basil, so it's super simple. They have special types of noodles and a special type of bread, so I got to try all of that. And then we went to an appointment with this lady we had found in our phone and she gave us these things that were like a little raisin paste dessert. It was good. But the best thing I ate was today for P-Day. We did all you can eat sushi. Whew -- I'm feeling it!
6. Tell me about a tender mercy or miracle you experienced this week.
One day we were on the bus and my companion wasn't feeling that great because her back was hurting and I think our plans that day had gotten cancelled or something. Anyways, we took the bus and she sat down because her back was hurting and I sat down across from her and got to talk to this super cutie girl who is from Morocco but is here for studying. She said she was very interested. I think in Palermo for so long I felt like I had to really push people to exchange numbers so now whenever someone says they have interested it's like, oh -- miracle!
7. What attribute of Christ has been standing out to you the most lately?
I want to study faith this week because I think you can always work on it and I think when you do work on it everything else also increases so I will study that.
8. Tell me about the people you’re teaching. What can we pray for specifically for them?
We're teaching this cutie who is the girlfriend of a member (member missionary work -- ;-) ). She is super awesome and she always comes back and is like, "Yeah, I was reading these things and I love this and I have a question about that" and she actually wants to know. In our first appointment with her we talked about foreordination and she really wants to understand. It's so awesome! We did a fast with her because she knows the gospel is good and she feels the Spirit but she doesn't have a clear witness that Joseph Smith is a prophet and that the Book of Mormon is true so we got to do a fast for her this week, so you can always pray for that. She's the main person we're teaching. There are others....we do one through video calls but she's having to leave that house so we hope she comes closer to Cagliari so that she can start coming to church. And there's another one named V who is really, really struggling. Her boyfriend cheated on her and she can't get over it. Pray for her.
9. How was church today?
It was good. We had our first missionary correlation with the elder's quorum president.
10. Do you know how much I love you? Do you know how proud I am of you? Do you know how inspiring you are to me?
Yes, yes, I love you!
11. What counsel has your mission president had for you lately?
He said I need to relax and calm down... I wrote out my belief window (shout out Hyrum Smith talk!) this morning during personal study and I'm trying to work on my belief window.
I love you all lots! I'm super grateful for you -- thank you for all you do!
Ciao, ciao, ciao!
Halloween
I got a McFlurry....it had been a rough day.
People gave us lasagne, candies, and chocolate all on the same day. And I'm supposed to not gain weight???
Lasagne
With Sorella A
It rained a lot this week
Views from our hike
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