La Sorella in Italia: Miracoli!

Last week was pretty fun, if a little crazy. We left for Reggio Emilia Wednesday night for a double scambio the next day. It was an amazing scambio, chuck full of miracles. We found and talked to so many amazing miracles from all over the world.

Then on Friday we headed up to mission consiglio in Milano. It was fun to see everyone, especially Presidente and Sorella Dibb again, safely returned from America. It also happened to be the 4th of July so we had hotdogs, baked beans, potatoe salad, and Oreos for lunch.

On our way up to Reggio we sat down by a lady on the train and tried to start talking to her. She wasn't very responsive and didn't want to talk. After a while we somehow started up a good conversation. She told us that she had been to South Dakota before to visit the Souix, and loved it there. We started explaining about the church and mentioned that we were Mormons. She suddenly got very excited and told us that she had been to a sacrament meeting years ago in Napolì with a friend. I handed her a Book of Mormon pass-a-long card with the church address in Rimini. On the back it talks about how the Book of Mormon was written in the ancient americas and she suddenly got very excited about how it was the ancestors of the Souix. When she left, she said that it was funny how life circles around and that she met the Mormons again.

Monday morning Sorella Clawson smashed her foot pretty hard between her bike peddle and the curb, so yesterday we visited the ER to get it checked out. Italian hospitals are pretty slow, so we had to wait for several hours. We sat down next to a man and after a few minutes he leaned over and asked me if the church in Rimini was still in the same place. I asked him how he knew the church and he said that he had visited it around twenty years ago. As the conversation continued he brought up lots of things such as who's your favorite prophet (his was Brigham Young), is there a temple in Italia yet, who's the branch president- to which I replied that we were now a ward, and he understood what that meant. hmm. So I asked his name and he's an inactive who's house we had passed by over a month ago! After a little his wife came out, and we were able to talk to both of them for a while. I think we'll be passing by their house again very soon. It was neat that even in the ospedale, God gives us opportunities to do missionary work and share the gospel.

I love you all!

Sorella Pace