Sorella Ashlyn Henderson: TRANSFERS (also 4 months done!)

Ciao tutti!!! Well I've been in the mission officially 4 months now, and I'm done with my training!! Which is nuts!! Well I'm sure you're all just DYING to hear my transfer news, so here you are...drum roll please... BY THE GRACE OF GOD I'M STAYING IN BOLOGNA!!! Unfortunately, my trainer and bff Sorella Mitchell is going away to go be STL in Genova, the youngest STL under President Allen, I'm pretty sure. And she's gonna kill it! So excited for her, but I will miss her a lot. My new companion is Sorella Frandsen, who I was in the MTC with! So we are gonna be bottle breaking each other! Which is awesome because I love Sorella Frandsen and I'm so excited to see her! She's a great missionary and we're gonna do good work together.

Last PDay we went to Parma with the Anziani, which was really cool. I've included some pictures below. This week we got 2 new investigators! So we now have 8 progressing investigators, 2 with baptismal dates. And 2 that are super close as well. It's crazy to think that at the beginning of this transfer we literally had 0 investigators. The Lord has blessed us with so much. But we are gonna keep going! Unfortunately Ayisat, one of the women we have on date, has been kicked out of her home with her husband and child and doesn't have a place to live or a good job, so we are praying hard for them to find a place so we can get back to teaching her. We also did service at the Caritas on Monday, which is where all the homeless people can go eat and shower and rest. And it was so fun! We got 2 numbers and found a lady that was baptized in Nigeria and hasn't been to church here yet! It was awesome. And I only got proposed marriage by one Nigerian man this week, so it was a good week! Haha!

So for my short spiritual thought I just wanted to share this scripture in D&C 24:7-8. "For thou shalt devote all thy service in Zion; and in this thou shalt have strength. Be patient in afflictions, for thou shalt have many; but endure them, for, lo, I am with thee, even unto the end of thy days." I like this scripture because it just teaches that the smartest way to live is to consecrate our heart and our mind to the Lord. If we don't do this, we can't receive blessings and we will always be struggling with God. But when we consecrate our lives to His service, we can be at peace.

Vi voglio un sacco di bene!! You're all amazing! Until next week!! Ciao!

Pic 1: the sorelle of the Bologna apartment ): Sorella Cazier is going home tomorrow!

Pic 2: family photo with my mission mom and dad!!

Pic 3: transfer photos! My district is so old

Pic 4: it's been raining in Bologna all week!