18/3/2015

Heather Hastings	Mar 18 (6 days ago)

Buon giorno a tuttiiiii!

I don't think I have much to say today, as it was a slower week. In weekly planning we lost like half of our investigators... so that's a bummer. This week, on Friday, Chiara is getting baptized! The 20th. I think I mentioned that before... well, she is not getting baptized in our city, and because it as about a 6 hour train we don't get to see it. But she will receive the confirmation in our ward on the 29th, so we will get to be a part of that.

Yesterday was a slow day, but we actually did a lot. We have a list of less-active members the ward wants us to find so we decided to do that. We head out to Parma, and on the train I got to talk to this girl: Betsy from Ghana. She has lived here with her family three years, is 23 and yesterday was her last day of work becuase she is pregnant. We got her info and are going to go visit her. She was nice. Then, we got on a bus to head out to Sorbolo (the bus was packed!) After a few stops these two old guys get on, turns out we met then two weeks ago. Mama mia. Old people. With us. On a bus full a high schoolers heading home... yeah, it was a causino in italiano. You know how italianis baci (kiss) each other on the cheek as a greeting? we seem to be getting that a lot lately from men... we need to work on our dodging skills I guess. We journeyed all the way out there and we visited with Anna, then did another pass by. We said hi to man on the street and he stopped us, saying thanks for saying hi. He is Muslim from Singal but volunteers to clean up the streets, and is kind of lonely. I love when we make peoples days :)

So Thursday... we had zone training in Bergamo. Basically, we woke up at 5:30. Took the 6:42train. Had training. Took the train home. Our connecting train was late, we ate lunch. We got to Milano and our next train had already left. We hung out at the station for three hours, we had to cancel english class, and we got home about 8pm. Adventures I'll tell ya.

But guess what?

You ready?

The moment we've all been waiting for...

the big news...

When Elder Bednar comes on April 27th to our mission, all of the missionaries will meet together in Milano for a six hour confernce, and he is bringing our mission IPAD Mini's!!!

We are all only kind of really super duper excited!!! But that is all they told us, we don't know anymore. So we prepare and we to sit at the feet of an apostle. Oh yeah :)

I Love you all! Have a fantasticly awesome week and know that I am well!

 :)

Sorella Hastings =)

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