Buana Pasqua tutti! E, Buana Pasquetta!
Yeah, still not positive what pasquetta is, but all of Italy is shut down today. So today is deep cleaning day! We are going to have a Pasquetta Pranzo with our district, so it'll be fun!
It was not a good Easter. It was probably the worst one I have had! Nothing about it was Easter! Like even the lessons and talks in church were not about Easter! Then, at the end of relief society, a woman stood up and started going off for like 5 minutes about how she had been accused, and how if someone has a problem with her, they should tell it to her face. It was weirdly vague...yet specific. Any spirit was chased immediately away. Then, we had a pranzo appointment, but it was normal Italian food, nothing special. Then, normal missionary life, except we couldn't go see anyone because they were all celebrating Pasqua! So we did paperwork stuff. It was a good day! But a horrible Easter. I didn't even get any chocolate. BTW, I get packages at zone conference, and that was last Tuesday... So I didn't get the package you sent, and won't until next zone conference, which will be like middle of May...
The rest of the week was a lot of member stuff. We basically introduced the member missionary plan. We didn't see all of them, but we have appointments for this week.
Would you like to know why we couldn't see all the people we wanted?!? Because of the tempesta. This storm out of no where hit Sicily on Wednesday. It was SO windy, pouring rain, it was like a tropical storm/hurricane. It was crazy. We braved it in the morning. But when we got home, we realized that the wind had broken one of our windows. We have storm windows, so there are 2, and only the outer one was broken. But. We call the mission office to find out what to do. And after lunch, we got a call from our zone leaders in Catania that said we are to stay in our house until the storm passed. It didn't go away until the next afternoon! It was crazy! We were home bound that night, but we went out the next morning. It was crazy, and so surreal. There are these palm trees in front of the church, and the way the wind was wiping them, it looked like Florida in a hurricane. So crazy!
That was basically our week. We did see some cool things happen though! Both are English course dependent. The first happened on Friday, and it was on the way up from a member appointment. We talked to this guy that was like selling these clay vases and heads out of his van on the side of the road. This is actually pretty normal. So many street vendors, and they just set up shop on the road. That's how you get cheap oranges! Anyway, we talked to him, and he was really interested! We told him about English course, and he kept saying "No! Non ci credo!" Like at least 7 times, I'm not kidding. He said he will come, and he is a great potential for the Anziani, if he is not married, but I think he is... So he's great for us! Then, yesterday, walking up the from trying to do some video finding, in other words, showing the Easter video to people in the park, and having no success, we see this lady walking her dog on the other side of the road near our house. This dog was so cute, this wiener dog would not move, very Charlie like. So, we crossed the street to go say hi. We gave the woman, who was like in her 20's an English course card, but the dog was just not moving. He was like laying down, eating grass and sticks, just having a ball. So, we shared the Easter video. She liked it a lot! She lives right next to the church, so she said she will come to English course, and we'll talk to her then. It was our Easter miracle!
Man, you've all had such a crazy week! I'm glad everything is well! I hope you all have a great week, and remember what the savior has done for each for you. Not just on Easter, but every day. He lives. He loves us all personally. He suffered for us personally, so He can love us personally. Egli vive, e in Gesù Cristo, possiamo trovare una nuova vita. Possiamo vivere di nuovo, per sempre, per eternità in felicità. Io so che Lui vive. So che Lui ci ama. Vi voglio tanto bene!
Sorella Hills
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