Happy birthday to... Me

Heather Hastings	7:57 AM (12 hours ago)

We were going to go party as usual with the Sorelle at Torino today, and we got there they start singing happy birthday! Then we ordered Pizzas and ate at home. We were going to go sight seeing but, we took too much time at home so we just took a stroll on the end.

So, my new companion is Sorella Gregg. She is only one transfer behind me! Then Sorella Pavich is in Torino now (we were companions before) so that's cool. We have a good group right now. Fun times. Mail comes tomorrow! Because we are having zone training meeting tomorrow. T'will be fun. We are going to make a cake.

Saying goodbye to Sorella Distante was tough. She's Italian. We had a good long goodbye hug just before she boarded the train. Like sisters. Man it could have been in a movie the whole scene because we had to hurry to run to the train and got there in perfect timing. I cried. I'm coming back to Italy to visit her, and we'll visit our contacts together. You can all hold me to it. So just going from a wonderful companion to a new companion, well, it's what God wants so it's what I want, too.

Well, I am constantly a week behind in my journal. It's hard to stay caught up. I just need like a good solid two hours and we'll get there.

Question: which is bigger: Los Angles and New York or Milano and Roma? In size and population??

Our work is slow again. Our investigator Michela is progressing well. She came to conference and liked it. We are planning on giving her a baptismal date Thursday night. So conference was great, no? Uchtdorf's talk from the women's session and the first two talks from Saturday afternoon were all answers to my prayers. We will try to watch the fourth session sometime during lunch this week. I got a lot of insights. We watched only one session in English and the rest in Italian. It's nice I can understand now for the most part.

A miracle we shared this week was being able to get inside and teach new investigators. In the past we had knocked on their door, and the couple was never available in that moment. Finally we said "We'll come back tomorrow" and we did, and they let us in, and we taught them and they accepted for us to come back! Doing casa proselyting I personally have not seen much success, but I have said my whole mission that it would happen, and its happening. Antonio and his wife. They used be catholic. They've studied different religions. He has given up on praying because he doesn't think he got an answer. He builds things by hand out of wood, like boats for display, or houses and towns. Like those little twig type of wood, I can't think of what it's called. It's really cool.

Tuesday was when we had our adventure. Then we went to visit The Tribastone family, our ward mission leader. We technically can't have dinner with members because we don't have a dinner hour, but she was sneaky and prepared it before hand, so after our lesson she says dinner's ready, can you stay? We tried to get out of it but, it didn't work. It was nice company though. We had a good chat about the temple and how we can renew the promises we make there, what these promises mean.

I don't have a ton to say. It's all in my head and in my journal. We are doing a lot, we're always all over the place.

Keep doing what you're doing if you're awesome. I love you all miei cari! Ci vediamo presto.