Ciao,
Okay this week was wilder than most! I forgot to mention last week that all but one of our investigators has plummeted off the face of the earth, so this week we have been trying to rebuild! We actually were able to plant a lot of seeds this week, and talk to a lot of wonderful people. We saw a lot of potentials we hadn't seen in a while, like we just randomly ran into them! So that was awesome. One miracle was, this woman who is pretty vecchio but still comprehensible who does indexing all the time wants to see us again! She called the member who referred her to us and told her she wanted to see us again so we are stoked!!! We haven't been able to see her in a while because she threw her back out and then her husband was in the hospital so she has been pretty crazy busy, but now wants to see us again! Woot woot.
Another miracle, that gAve me a lot more faith in humanity, was when we were on the good old l'autobus and right when we get on... We see a man who is always wildly intoxicated, and yet still conscious enough to always ALWAYS recognize Sorella Holiday. Anyways, he started singing to her and saying some inappropriate things and so the bus driver just stopped the bus in between stops, and told him that if he was going to say those kinds of things he should get off. So then the guy was quiet for a minute and then he started yelling and going off at the bus driver. But then the bus driver stopped the bus again, and we sat there for a minute, and then like four police officers showed up and escorted him off the bus. And we just happened to be on the bus at that time. I think it just goes to show God cares about us. Like, a lot. And also, bus drivers are awesome! (Most of the time.)
Okay this week was wilder than most! I forgot to mention last week that all but one of our investigators has plummeted off the face of the earth, so this week we have been trying to rebuild! We actually were able to plant a lot of seeds this week, and talk to a lot of wonderful people. We saw a lot of potentials we hadn't seen in a while, like we just randomly ran into them! So that was awesome. One miracle was, this woman who is pretty vecchio but still comprehensible who does indexing all the time wants to see us again! She called the member who referred her to us and told her she wanted to see us again so we are stoked!!! We haven't been able to see her in a while because she threw her back out and then her husband was in the hospital so she has been pretty crazy busy, but now wants to see us again! Woot woot.
Another miracle, that gAve me a lot more faith in humanity, was when we were on the good old l'autobus and right when we get on... We see a man who is always wildly intoxicated, and yet still conscious enough to always ALWAYS recognize Sorella Holiday. Anyways, he started singing to her and saying some inappropriate things and so the bus driver just stopped the bus in between stops, and told him that if he was going to say those kinds of things he should get off. So then the guy was quiet for a minute and then he started yelling and going off at the bus driver. But then the bus driver stopped the bus again, and we sat there for a minute, and then like four police officers showed up and escorted him off the bus. And we just happened to be on the bus at that time. I think it just goes to show God cares about us. Like, a lot. And also, bus drivers are awesome! (Most of the time.)
One more thing that happened, was we went and sang to some elderly people yesterday with our ward choir. And gosh, old Italians are soooooo cute!!! I want one. One of them was like "ciao Bella" and pinched and kissed my cheeks, as per usual, but then she just started jabbering in Italian that I had no idea what it was supposed to mean, but it was cute. And we gave out book of Mormons to them, and one lady got one, looked at it, and was just like "oh yes, this is wonderful!" And then she was holding it in her arms really close to herself and it was so cute!! It just made me remember how precious this life is. How we are truly here to feel joy. And if we never felt tragedy, or pain, or had opposition, we could never know joy. Truly. We could never know what true happiness ever felt like. And it's because of Jesus Christ that we get to have this opportunity. Even when life feels lonely, or you feel like maybe your choices don't really matter, or you don't think you're good enough to change, keep going. Have hope. Things will turn around. He will never forsake you. Even if you have forsaken him. He gave everything he had so we could have everything he had. Come back to him. Ask him to help you, and he will. It's never too late. You don't have to carry all that pain and all those burdens, because he already has! So don't take his sacrifice for granted, let him heal you!
This is something especially I am trying to do. It's difficult at times to ask for help, or to even admit we need help. But I couldn't do even an hour of this, serving a mission, if I did not have the Lord's help. I cannot tell you how many times I have prayed for him to just take things from me that I felt like were crushing me, and he has, every single time. He has not let me down, and I know he never will. We have to remember we can't do this without him. Every day we have to thank him for helping us get through yesterday and then we have to ask him to help us with today, and eventually tomorrow. But we can make it. With the Lord, we always will.
Also, I have been in Italia for two months yesterday!!!! FOrZA ItALIA and we get a new mission president tomorrow!!! We get to meet him in Roma on Wednesday with Rome West and Napoli!!! It will be so legit. Anyways, keep being lovely people and have a great week!
"There is no magic to belief. But wanting to believe is the necessary first step! God is no respecter of persons. He is your Father. He wants to speak to you. However, it requires a little scientific curiosity--it requires an experiment upon the word of God--and the exercise of a “particle of faith.” It also takes a little humility. And it requires an open heart and an open mind. It requires seeking, in the full meaning of the word. And, perhaps hardest of all, it requires being patient and waiting upon the Lord. If we make no effort to believe, we are like the man who unplugs a spotlight and then blames the spotlight for not giving any light."- President Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Well, I hope all of you have a lovely week!!! Also, the humidity and heat here is INSANE. We are dying haha. Our fire alarm went off this morning when we were doing dishes! That is how hot it is. Hot enough for the heat our house and hot water to set the fire alarm off! Haha good times.
Vi voglio bene!!!
Sorella Jarnagin
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