Cara friends and Family,
I wish I could tell you the minimal part of my week, but I
cannot. I know I only have a couple of these things left, so I will try to make
them good and/or include pictures. Probs just pictures.
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| Now that's a room with a view! |
So, my birthday went pretty well. No one here really
remembered, again, so it was low-key, but I did get a really good arancino,
which are just the best food down here. It is a cheese ball inside a ball of
rice with some meat sauce, deep-fried in a delicious batter. Yeah, we get one
like every other day. A Sicilian specialty. Today I even bought a magnet of an
arancino... for after the mission... for me. I love them. Anyways, that night
we had a missionary correlation meeting with the Elders and some members, but
they still didn't remember (the elders). So, Sorella Pinkston
"sercretly" told them and when we still hadn't heard anything when we
got home, I figured they really just didn't remember/care. Bummer, because they
are like the only family I have out here. Then, rather late (won't say how
late), our citofono (doorbell thing) rings and Sorella Pinkston got it. 30
seconds later the Anziani were at our door with a card, whisper-singing happy
birthday in Italian. They gave me the card then ran down the stairs and left.
It was a sweet matrimonial card... that originally said "today you get
married" but they crossed out today and wrote "in three weeks".
Hahaha. It had a sweet little bracelet they had gotten me too. So, they totally
forgot, but they redeemed themselves with the marriage card.
So, I heard that I have a place to live when I get to BYU.
Mom, you said that the washer and dryer are not selling points for me, but you
don't know what it is like to not have a washer for 18 months. I'll just say I
am VERY pleased. The place honestly sounds great, can't wait!
Okay, sweet experience. Saturday night, my comp was feeling
sick so we came home a little earlier. I sat down, not really knowing what to
do, and was just kinda flipping through the ward list (28 pages) when I had a
feeling to start calling people. I decided on calling all the less active
sisters, ALL of them. So, I started. I had done about 30 or so I think, most of
which were inactive numbers, or people that pretended it was the wrong number,
and some possibly real wrong numbers, when I looked at one and said out loud
"This one will be inactive!" I said that because it had the area code
of a house number, but too many numbers to be a house number, and everytime
that occured, it was inactive. My companion watched as I dialed it anyways and
we were both suprised when it started ringing. She started laughing, and I
almost did too, until some one actually answered!! I could not believe it. We
talked for a bit, she asking me if I was a new misisonary and whatnot, and then
after a bit, she said that she had been kinda thinking about coming to church
the following day, and that we would see each other there.... WHAT. Too
awesome. So then Sunday rolls around and I am waiting in the foyer forever for
her, but nothing. I knew I wouldn't recognize her, but she had told me that she
would introduce herself to me (I have a tag, I mean it's a little easier for
her). But nothing. I go into sacrament, and listen as our second counselor gets
released (who by the way walks around now as though a HUGE physical weight has
been lifted off his shoulders, poor guy. He even came up to the missionaries
that day, a new event, and invited them over for Christmas. I mean he is a
happy guy now). Anyway, then in gospel principles, the teacher tells us all to
scoot to the front and middle, because there weren't that many of us. I
motioned to the lady next to me to sit in the seat right next to me, smiling,
and she smiled back and said okay and came over. Then she said, " I'm
Annamaria"... The same lady!!!!!!! She had come!!!!!! So awesome!!!!!
Miracles in every situation, when you do the best with what you have. So
happy.
This week is Thanksgiving, which we will be doing with a
BUNCH of AMericans out near the naval base. There will be 3 turkeys, a fried
turkey, a ham,and tons of other things. I am SO
EXCITED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Okay, that is all for this week. Love you all. Have a great
week!!!
Sorella Patterson
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| Laban and his roommate got baptized in Rome on Saturday. This was in memory of Sorella Patterson. Picture from Alessandra. |
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