One of the highlights from this week was definitely the youth activity, which is always the highlight of the week haha. We ended up playing volleyball again, which was pretty fun. I love these youth so much!
Another super funny moment happened on Saturday. We had set an appointment with a less active member for 4:30 pm, but in the message we wrote 16.30 because in Italy they use military time a lot. Well Maria, the poor woman, read our message and thought that it said 6.30! So she was super surprised when we showed up to her house at 16.30 and she had curlers in her hair and was wanting to make us dinner (rip to the Dominican food that we missed out on)! So she's super cool, just like never comes to church and her 15-year-old son not really either. So we're doing this thought explaining the Book of Mormon challenge that we're doing to them, and we asked them at the end if they would do it. And Maria was like "yeah sure I'm down!" But Richard was like "Honestly, probably not." And we were like why not? But he wouldn't give us a straight answer. So his mom was trying to get an answer out of him, then he starts speaking to her in Spanish about how he doesn't wanna say and he'll tell her after we leave and all this stuff because he thinks we can't understand him. So I pulled a trick and started speaking to them in Spanish and Richard's face was literally priceless hahahahaha it was sooo funny. Well idk if he is gonna do the challenge but they came to church on Sunday! Yay!
Then on Sunday, I had the BEST BIRTHDAY EVER (being 20 is weird)! First, because of my dope companion (shout out to you Sorella Button) who made me pancakes with sparklers in them for breakfast at 6.30 and then had set up a surprise appointment for us with the Rodriguez family, and they all sang to me and Sorella Rodriguez made me a cake out of TIRAMISU!!! It was amazing and I was so happy. Then we saw the Brazilians to teach them Italian as always, and they had a surprise cake too! And they sang the birthday song to me in Portuguese! It was so00 cute. I love them so much!!!
We also had some weird member/less-active appointments this week that involved dead turtles, parasites, and brain vibrations. I wish I could go into detail but that would take far too much time so if you really wanna know, you can ask me.
English classes and serata familiare were lit this week as usual because we got some new English class students and people actually came to our FHE, so that was nice. Sorella Button and I have some good goals for this transfer, and we're gonna make this second one together great! We have so much energy together, which is great, but our poor Anziani hahahha. We're excited to put in some work and find some people to teach! Lodi is a really great place to serve.
Thank you to all of you who wished me happy birthday in some way, shape, or form! Y'all are the best! Vi voglio bene!
Sorella Henderson
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| 20 years old on September 23rd |
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| Tiramisu Birthday cake with the Rodriguez Family |
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