Snow in Bologna!!

Well this week was kind of a crazy one because of transfers! As you already know, I am staying in Bologna for a third transfer, and I am with one of the Sisters in my MTC District who came over here 30 minutes by train from Reggio-Emilia. Sorella Frandsen is awesome! She's super diligent and Christ-like. And seriously a beast. I have so much to learn from her. It'll be an awesome transfer. My other new roommate, our new STL, is cool too! Meno male.

Not much happened in the way of investigators this week. We still have Basirat and Ayisat on date, but they tend to be a little flakey so we haven't been able to see either of them for 2 weeks, so we're gonna have to push their baptismal dates. Hopefullly we see them soon... We will see what happens with them. We got 2 other new investigators this week! Gini and Arianna! Gini is a girl who did a foreign exchange in Utah with Sorella Petersen, a Sorella in my MTC district and now in my zone! It has been cool talking to her about her experiences with the Church in Utah. 

The snow has been crazy in Italy! We haven't gotten snowstorms like in Southern Italy, but it has been snowing a ton! Just not really sticking, except for last night and last Friday night it kinda stuck for a couple hours. But mostly rain. So it's been freezing!!! -10 degrees Celsius! So that has kind of made missionary work a little miserable but it's fine. We haven't been outside too much, but it looks like this next week we will probably be outside freezing so hopefully by next week I'm not an icicle. Also on Sunday we had Stake Conference in Mestre, which is by Venice. We didn't get to go to Venezia, unfortunately. Maybe one day.

My spiritual thought this week is from Ether 12 in the Book of Mormon. Verse 32 says, "And I also remember that thou hast said that thou hast prepared a house for man, yea, even among the mansions of thy Father, in which man might have a more excellent hope; wherefore man must hope, or he cannot receive an inheritance in the place which thou hast prepared." 

I think having hope can be hard sometimes. Also maybe keeping our focus where it needs to be, which is the end result of returning to live with our Heavenly Father in the mansion that He has prepared for us. But we have to do it! Because life is better that way. I really like the simplicity of this verse. The Book of Mormon is so cool you guys!

That's it for this week (: Vi voglio bene! Ciao until next time!

Sorella Henderson

Pic 1: Sorella Cazier's funeral photo from last week

Pic 2: Sorella Frandsen and I with our Romanian potential, Carmen

Pic 3: Sorella Cazier's last gelato ): I take a picture of every gelato btw haha

Pic 4: bowling for p day last week! Sorry it's a terrible photo haha