5 Months!

Ciao tutti! Well I hit my 5 month mark this week! Time is flying! This week has been super crazy and filled with bipolar weather, like always. To me right now it seems like Italian weather is even crazier than Utah weather... One day it's like 16 degrees Celsius and the next it's snowing. I don't really know what to think of it, but Italy is even more beautiful lightly frosted in snow.

As far as investigators go, this week we were only able to see Virginia and Arianna, our 2 university students here studying film. Virginia did a foreign exchange in Utah and was friends with someone in my MTC group, and that's how this all started. It has been very interesting meeting with them because it's a little awkward with them starting teaching because we are all the same age, but I think that they are pretty interested and have started reading the Book of Mormon. We will see what happens!

Ayisat, our investigator with a baptismal date for the 31st, failed to come to church again and so we have to push her date back. But we can't even see her because she got kicked out of her house. Last time I talked to her on the phone she said, "I'm running for my life," then hung up. But I saw her on a bus in Bologna yesterday and she was alive and still living here. So hopefully she finds a house and a job soon so that we can start meeting with her again and she can come to church. And Basirat and BJ we haven't seen in a while because they both got jobs now (which is good) and work on Sunday... I'm always happy when a refugee finds a job, but super sad when it conflicts with church! Something I never thought about when I got my call to Italy is how much I'd be working with refugees, and I love being able to. Even though it's insanely stressful.

Lately with the people we have been working with, we have been focusing a lot on the Book of Mormon. As a mission we've been doing this as well. It's been really cool to see how even reading a random verse somewhere, a person can find an answer to a question or something that helped them right then. My testimony of the Book of Mormon grows so much every day out here in the mission field. I know it's true and that everyone else can know that it's true as well if they read it and pray about it. There isn't a question he won't answer as long as we put in the effort and have the faith.

Vi vogliamo bene! Thanks for your emails and updates. Have a great week and don't forget to read the Book of Mormon. (: Ciao!

Sorella Henderson

1 Some of the best things in the world... Italian breakfast (coffee-free of course)

2 The snowy view from our kitchen balcony

3 Italian pigeons are the worst!!!!