BENVENUTO A MILANO!

BENVENUTO A MILANO!

     Thursday I moved to Milano to be with Sorella Castro! It has been a marathon since I got here meeting people, having a new companion and trying to get comfortable with buses and metros all over again!! Just when you feel like you finally know the people, you leave that city and start a new one.  We are over the ward here in Cimiano with Anziani Farnsworth, Penfold, Brown, and Johnson. It's weird to have so many elders with us in one area, but there is a lot of work to do so it's understandable! I absolutely love my companion Sorella Castro. She was born in Columbia and moved to Italy when she was young. She is fluent in both Spanish and Italian which is SO helpful because there are huge amounts of South Americans in this area and those 4 years of Spanish did me no good. But I am pumped because 1. I always wanted to experience serving in south america:) and 2. it's a break from pasta. They make Spanish food just like my dad does so who is complaining, not me. I also have gone though most of my life believing I am Latina so being with Castro is fulfilling that desire. I'm trying to learn Spanish. I can understand a lot of it thanks to Italian, but can't speak it for the life. We'll see!

     We have an exciting area and already Sorella Castro and I have seen major miracles. There's a couple people we are trying to get ready for baptism if they act on the feelings of the spirit and accept the invitation. One being Giuseppe who is AMAZING but believes he needs to be perfect in order to be baptized. We are really trying to teach him the atonement and how it covers every nook and cranny of our lives even the parts where we are weak. There is also Fernando and Angela, they are a miracle couple who just walked into church one day. They want to be baptized but are not married. They want to get married, but there is some drama in the family that they are trying to work through so we will be praying and fasting with them this upcoming week and doing all we can for their situation. There are a couple of part member families and a lot of less actives that I am still trying to get to know. 

     I'm not kidding when I say this has probably been the craziest week of my mission so far. We have, for whatever reason, seen it all this week; crying, laughing, yelling, and the most random service, lessons in places I can't  even begin to explain haha.  Every night we have been going home saying "Did that really just happen?". I'm so tired!! haha but it wont get any calmer because tonight starts the fist of many scambi (splits) that I will be doing now that I am serving as Sister training leader. So that should be fun. lolz because I still don't know this city, but oh well. We are the STLs over Milano Est and Genova Zones. Usually all sorelle come here to our city for scambio and we host both of them...but since we have Genova and we are both dying to see that city we are doing scambio in Genova next week :) I will eat Genovese pesto and focaccia and die happy. 

     I hope everyone has a happy Thanksgiving and truly appreciates their loved ones and friends and our amazing country. I will most likely be eating beans somewhere or missing the bus, soaking wet because I, like always, predicted it wouldnt rain and didnt bring my umbrella:) Or that was just the theme of this week at least. 

Vi voglio bene!!!

Sorella Williams

Sorella Castro & Sorella Williams