Transfers

Hello Family!

It's been a pretty crazy week. Last Thursday we went to Firenze for Zone Conference combined with the Firenze Zone. It was a very long day on trains, but the conference was very good, if a little different without Presidente and Sorella Dibb. They were in the states for a few weeks for health reasons, but they came back last Saturday, and just in time for transfers this week.

Presidente Dibb called us Monday afternoon to inform us that Sorella Bucco is transfered to San Remo! That was pretty exciting because it's really close to San Remo where I served a year ago. My new comp is Sister Clawson who is coming from Como to serve her last transfer here in Rimini.

We've spent the past few days visiting members and investigators for Sorella Bucco to say goodbye. Today we had a lunch appointment with a member family. In good Italian style, they feed us a huge plate of tortellini followed by a second corse with a thick round of chicken and potatoes followed by a big bowl of fruit and gelato. It was proprio buonissimo, but I was feeling full after the first half of the tortellini dish. We were dying as we left. We waddled out to our bikes and then we oh so slowly peddled to our second lunch appointment with a lady from our english class. We arrived and explained that we weren't feeling all that hungry, because it's so hot and humid that we don't really feel like eating alot of food. Which she took to mean that we weren't eating at all, so she gave us the biggest piece of lasagna I have ever eaten in my life followed by another piece of chicken, more potatoes and desert. I literally was falling into a giant food coma as I stuffed more of it in my face. 

Afterwords we biked up to the church and just laid on the ground groaning for a while before we started emailing.

This next week we're planning a missionary activity for the ward- a Gara di Cucina aka. a Food Contest. Us missionaries will be the judges. I'm not sure my stomach can take it any more. The cool thing is that we're going to start the activity with a rendition of Lehi's dream. So on Sunday we spent a good while at the church testing out our maze of an iron rod (made of yarn) that will eventually lead to the tree of life (the food contest). It was awesome and I can't wait for that activity. 

Yesterday we had the most amazing lesson with C!!!! She came to church on Sunday and didn't exactly love it, so we wanted a really powerful spiritual lesson. We talked about the temple. She lost her husband a few years ago to cancer. It was amazing to sit on the couch with her, show her pictures of the temple, and feel that special spirit. She has the strongest desire to go to the temple, and her testimony is slowly growing. She's still not completely sure if the Book of Mormon is true, but she's come a long ways. It's so cool watching the road everyone takes on their journey back to Heavenly Father. We all have our different experiences we face, but hopefully they teach us to rely always more on the Lord.

One of the things that Anziano Lee talked about in Firenze was consecration. It's so cool to think that we all have the choice to consecrate our lives to God or not, but only through that process can we succeed in life.

I love you all!!! Have a wonderfull week!

Sorella Pace

Last week we had a zone conference in Firenze. The Rimini Zone with Anziano and Sorella Lee on the left. They were our substitute mission president and wife while President Dibb was in the US for a surgery.

Members of my MTC group

The pizza we made the other day