Wednesday
last week we started a scripture study class for our English speaking
investigators, we only had one come to that and he technically isn't
even an investigator yet lol
Thursday
we had an appointment with Carmelo but he cancelled, his friend Gero
who is a member said he cancelled cause he felt ashamed because he
didn't follow through with the commitment that we had left him with
which is good i guess but we need to start meeting with him more. Not
much else happened on Thursday
except we had Italian class where we taught our Africans Italian, and
then English class where we taught Italians English lol weird right??
Friday
we went out to Valenza which is a town north of Alessandria where one
of our Africans Vincent lives. We had a member drive us Petro (who
actually has his mission call right now he will serve in the London
mission idk which one though), we get to the train station where Vincent
told us to meet him. We pick him up and he starts to give us directions
to where we thought was a park, but it turns out he wanted to have us
come into his camp (refugee camp for the refugees) and normally we
aren't allowed to go in them, but he insisted so we did we got to meet
two of his friends Paul and Sameul who are both interested in our
message! We didn't bring any extra English book of Mormons so we said
we'd bring some next time we come to see Vincent (which should be
sometime this week). We taught the first half of the plan of Salvation
went really well kind of weird teaching in English after studying 6
weeks to teach this all in Italian lol! We then leave Valenza to go to
one of our member appointments, this woman insists on all missionaries
calling here Nonna (Italian for Grandma) she is the sweetest lady and
makes really good food! She cooks with a lot of wine... It tastes good
:D but I don't know how much of the alcohol actual cooks out so we don't
really ask questions about what she cooks with lol, we left her house
to go and wait at the church for an appointment that ended up falling
through, then we went to the Moralis home for some dinner! This cute
couple is a Philippinen couple and they are just awesome the wife speaks
really good English but I was trying to speak Italian as much as
possible! The only problem is since we had lunch at Nonna's we were
still stuffed and so we didn't eat a lot and we felt bad... They cooked
really good food it tasted amazing! Just couldn't eat a lot...
Saturday,
we went out to Asti which is one of the 3 città (cities) we can
proslyte in. We went and visited a less active who really isn't less
active just can't get to church cause of soldi (money). He is super cool
kind of strange has a conspiracy theory about the Masons (the founding
fathers in america) and the JWs (Jehovas Witness) but that's for a
different time lol, We had a good lesson on Ammon from the Book of
Mormon! After that we walked around Asti for a little cause our next
appointment wasn't for 30mins nothing interesting happened in that time.
We then went to visit with Renzo and his wife Gabrielle who is a
member. Renzo is what they call an eternal investigator, meaning he
always meets with the missionaries but won't get baptized. He knows the
church is true but won't give up smoking and coffee. He's been
"investigating" the church for 39 years now. We're hoping we can try and
get him before the 40 mark but in the end it's up to him. He really
loves his family so that's what we focused on in our lesson today
families and temple marriage it went really well! He's also been have a
lot of knee pains so a few weeks ago Anziano Younce offered to give a
priesthood blessing to Gabrielle over the phone and today he said that
we could give him one! We made sure to tell him after that the blessing
will come to pass through his faithfulness so that he can see the power
of the priesthood! First blessing in Italian!! Now the title of the
email is there for a reason Gabrielle made us hot chocolate (hence caldo
cioccolato) it was literally like melted dark chocolate super thick,
tasted like heaven but it was soooooo strong but super good! They
literally put the cocco mix in and then the smallest amount of milk so
it gets super rich and thick!
Sunday
we had a good turnout for church again with 5 of our Africans and
Carmelo our Italian! So 6 total, we have to translate the gospel
principles class for our Africans and sometimes it turns out to be quite
crazy they ask really strange but good questions! We then had a GANS
activity which is basically YSA over here. Got some good pasta!
Monday
we had 2 lessons planned one with one of our newer investigators but he
hasn't shown up to our appointments yet so we can't consider him one
yet XD We scheduled for 4 we called him around 4:15 and he said he could around 7 so we prepared for our next lesson which was at 5:30,
this one was with Nelly and Wilson. These two are like glue I have
never seen them apart from each other. We taught the second half of the
restoration of the Church and watch the Restoration video with them,
sadly Nelly got up during the video to use the bathroom and then they
both got phone calls during it as well at some point but I think it was
still really good for both of them! We then taught them how to pray,
starting with "Dear Heavenly Father" then saying things we are grateful
for and asking for His help and answers to questions we have, and then
closing "in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen." Wilson repeated this to use
and then offered the prayer, in the exact same way that he has always
done before I got so frustrated. We thanked him for his prayer and then I
continued to make a promise with them, that if they read the scriptures
and prayed in the way that we had just showed them that Heavenly Father
will bless them with the compacity to learn the Italian language
quickly. I didn't even know what I was saying until I said it though....
We then shook hands and they were on their way! That night we made
brownies for the Halloween English class we had on Tuesday.
Tuesday we had district meeting at 10:30
in the morning we finished around 1ish cause we had a lot to discuss,
then came home for lunch did some 12 weeks training and by the time that
was over it was time to go to the church for the service project
thingy, this Saturday
there is an event that the church is donating 2000 hygiene kits to 5
different organizations and so basically we were organizing the stuff to
be put into those kits. By the time we finished that it was time for
English class we had all of 3 people show up XD but we did some scary
mad libs things they were cool then we ate brownies and this other
dessert that was pretty good that the Sorelle made!
Today,
we haven't really done anything today yet we're going to see this thing
called "Cittadella di Alessandria" basically it's a fort of some sort I
don't really know lol, I'm going to take pictures and add them to this
email should be cool! Later today we have our scripture study class with
our Africans and then I don't know what else we have planned so we will
see how this goes!
I love you all and hope the
world is treating you great! If you have any questions about anything
shoot me a email, or send me a Facebook message and I can answer it most
likely if it's church related!
This week for the
spiritual thought I want to just express that I know Heavenly Father
loves each and everyone of us! He is the Father of our spirits and wants
to hear from each and everyone of you! I promise that if you make the
effort to communicate to Him he will respond to you! If you have any
questions on how to do this please email or message me on Facebook I'd
love to help you out!! Once again I love you all!!
Love,
Anziano Harrison
Don't run faster than your guardian angels can fly!
Cioccolata Calda (Hot Chocolate Italian-Style)
"Hot
chocolate Italian-style is one of the most amazing treats in the world!
You have to try this pudding-like chocolate decadence! Add some cinnamon, and whipped cream for a fun variation, or create your
own!"
Ingredients
- 3 tablespoons cocoa powder
- 1 1/2 tablespoons white sugar
- 1 1/2 cups milk
- 2 tablespoons milk
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch
Directions
- Mix the cocoa powder and sugar together in a small saucepan. Stir the 1 1/2 cups milk into the saucepan until the sugar has dissolved. Place over low heat; slowly bring the mixture to a low simmer.
- Whisk 2 tablespoons of milk together with the cornstarch in a small cup; slowly whisk the cornstarch slurry into the cocoa mixture. Continue cooking, whisking continually, until the hot chocolate reaches a pudding-like thickness, 2 to 3 minutes.
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