Ok this week was cray. But good. Here are some highlights.
We visited Jennifer and she is still in the hospital unfortunately, but is hopefully going to be out soon and promised to make me a batch of Nigerian rice when she is.
The Gori's are doing well and we have made a lot of progress with them. Sorella Gori sounds like she is ready to set aside things that have happened in the past and move forward with the future. She misses church so much, she misses feeling that spirit in her life, she just needs the courage to come back. We are helping her as best we can and she is almost there.
I was really praying hard for Eunice before we went to her house to teach a good lesson with her and have the opportunity to invite her to be baptized. It can be hard sometimes because she is usually so busy with the kids and cooking to really focus on our lessons. Well we walked into their house and needless to say I thought my prayer didn't work. She was running around with her kids and babysitting another, dinner was being made, Adriano was there in the middle of all of it, and it was the most chaotic its ever been. We sat down and only had 20 minutes before the bus home and I assumed we wouldn't really get anywhere in our lesson with her. But to my surprise she finished cooking and Adriano took all the kids and went into another room and she was able to sit with us!! I shared with her Alma 7:15 and she accepted our invitation to be baptized June 12! I was so excited for her and she was as well. Our mission president needs to interview her before she is baptized so hopefully he will be able to come all the way down to Siena before June 12. It was the highlight of my week for sure!! I love Eunice and her family so much.
We also had a scambio this week in Florence. I went with Sorella D'aleo, she's the best. It's so nice being with an Italian because they are able to speak to the people on a whole different level than the rest of us. We did finding work ALL day and met many people on the streets and buses. We also had dinner with Julia, who I met with Sorella Taylor two scambios ago. She is so sweet and made us Peruvian chicken and rice it was so good. She was emotional talking about all the hardships in her life right now. We shared a message of finding peace in our lives and prayed with her. The spirit was very strong.
After Julia's we were standing on a sidewalk huddled under my umbrella waiting for Sorella Rowe and Insalaco to pick us up. When out of NOWHERE I look to my left and almost had a heart attack because I see a guy (18 or 19 years old) maybe 4 inches from my face staring at me and says"Da mi un bacio!" which means give me a kiss and leaned in to kiss me!!! I didn't even know what the heck was going on!!! Luckily I leaned back and he missed my face by 1 millimeter and both me and D'aleo pushed him away and he went off back down the street! I couldn't believe it. After we both calmed down we couldn't stop laughing. Italian boys are something else I'm telling you.
On the train back to Siena we met a great guy and taught him a lot of the restoration. He took our information and I hope something can come from it. Then we went straight to English class. Jose came which is great because I've been wanting to talk to him a little bit more about the gospel. Jose has two grandson's who have been taking our English class and he always waits in the lobby and reads the book of Mormon in Spanish. I also know that he has two kids who are members of the church. So I taught him through google translate while Rowe taught the boys. It made him happy to hear me try my best to poorly pronounce all the Spanish I have immediately forgotten since learning Italian.
Two new girls came to my English class too, named Lorena and Julia. I taught them English and explained what I'm doing here as a missionary. They were so sweet and I taught them the restoration. They are coming back next week and I'm excited to see them again.
This week is Sorella Rowe's last week so I'm depressed. We get transfer calls Saturday and I will find out which Rowe wanna be is coming down to Siena to be with me, just kidding. But I really am nervous about it! You are truly never comfortable on a mission. The minute you get situated something changes! But I have been loving my time here and feel like I've learned so much in this short amount of time.
I hope you all have great weeks!!
vi voglio bene
Sorella Williams
Maria, Alex, and Turbo
The Firenze District
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