Five months ago yesterday I entered the MTC and began my mission. It's hard to believe it's already been that long and that half of that time was spent here in Savona. I feel so blessed for the experiences that I've had and the things I've learned.
This past week we started teaching a man from Africa so the lessons were in English. hahaha. I can talk to Sorella Hanson in english without much problem, but to teach the restoration was hard! I kept on finding myself slip and use italian phrases. We both spoke slowly and with pauses as we tried to think of the words in english. It probably hasn't helped that we've been speaking almost completely italian with Sorella Bringas. But I am so grateful for that. I'm finally starting to feel semi comfortable talking to people on the street in italian.
It's the end of August which in Italy is Ferie and Everyone's gone on vacation. Luckily most of the branch left after church on Sunday so it wasn't like when we were in Pistoia a couple years ago. Finding members to come to lessons however has been difficult. We have literally called every single active member and several inactive to come to specific lessons with us without much success. Everyone is gone, working, or there's a family that's moving out of the city to a small town over half an hour away. Because of the distance they'll only come to Savona on Sundays for chruch. They've been a huge help to us the past two months and we're sad to see them go.
Yesterday our amazing investigator came back from vacation! We've been teaching him for about a month and I've never taught anyone like him. Since we're still without a branch president, we like to hunt for ''our new branch president'' when ever we're finding. About a month ago Sorella Hanson found this man during a scambio and we think we've found him. He has such a desire to change his life and eats up the gospel. It really is a joy to teach him. Anyway, he left on vacation for ten days leaving us a little worried since this is a critical time for him as he's trying to live the word of wisdom and prepare for baptism. But on Monday he texted us to let us know he was back in town and we could meet whenever we wanted! So last night we had a lesson and it went pretty well. Now we're just praying he'll be able to live the word of wisdom in time to be baptized in a couple of weeks.
I love you all! Have a marvelous week!
Sorella Pace
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