Hi everyone!
Another busy week in mission land. Unfortunately right now most of our time is spent trying to find people instead of teaching people, since most of our investigators have either decided to stop answering the phone or to be mad at us. But we’re working hard and doing our best.
Luisa is doing well! We had a great lesson with her and she’s coming to church this week. She is such a great woman and is so sincere. The Susans are still doing great, even if they do hate each other a little bit.
We’ve been doing a lot of service this week! The church building here is getting remodelled completely, so we spent a lot of time at the church packing literally everything so that the workers can tear everything apart. The next few months we’re having church at a hotel right on the ocean. We’re excited! Then today we spent all day helping a family in the branch (the same ones that own the bakery that we helped clean a few weeks ago) at their house. They are installing a bunch of pipes and we helped with that. Or rather, the elders helped while we tried to be helpful, but no one would let us do anything! I usually LOVE being a sister missionary, but sometimes when it comes to service the men don’t even let us help. Finally we talked Brother Vicedomini into letting us do the gardening and cleaning the house. We had a lot of fun.
Monday we visited with a beautiful family in the branch. The mom is a member and they have a beautiful little girl who just turned 8 named Mara. She’s SO cute! Every time she sees us she pushes past everyone else to run and give us a hug. Anyways, she’s scared to get baptized so her mom asked if we could come teach her a few of the discussions. We had a great lesson with them and we had a blast playing dress-up with her for a little bit.
Yesterday we were at the park talking to people and there were peacocks all over! They are so beautiful. They were just walking around in huge packs in the middle of all the people. You just never know what you’re going to find here in Italy.
I recently read a quote by Susan W. Tanner about miracles. She said:
"I delight in the examples of those in the scriptures who walk by faith on their earthly journey. Each time I walk with Abraham and Isaac on the road to Mount Moriah, I weep, knowing that Abraham does not know that there will be an angel and a ram in the thicket at the end of that journey. We are each in the middle of our earthly path, and we don't know the rest of our own stories. But we, as Abraham, are blessed with miracles."
Life is hard. We each have our own trials. At times it seems like there’s no way to keep going. But miracles happen. We don’t know when or how, but they do. God is in control. And even when he doesn’t take our trials away from us, He gives us the strength to carry on. That in itself is a beautiful miracle.
I love my mission. I love this Gospel. I love my Savior, Jesus Christ. He is my Redeemer and my Friend.
Vi voglio tanto bene!
Sorella Hawkey
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