Verona, Lizzola, e Bolivia?
Ciao tutti!
This week was an interesting week. We did a lot of things that were out-of-the-ordinary.
We have stopped our English class until January, because there was barely anyone coming and not much coming out of it. We plan to do a bunch of finding for it in the next couple of months, improve our curriculum (which we have to make ourselves), and start it up again with hopefuly more success. For that reason, we help people with their English as a service when they ask us. This week we got to help a member with her English because she is going on a trip at the beginning of December. It was super fun helping her one-on-one with English and teaching it in Italian. Also Italians can't really say their "th"'s so it was super fun trying to get her to say "Thursday" and laughing together
🤣We did scambio in Verona last Thursday, and it was fun! I got to be companions with Slla. Kopischke-- she's from Frankfurt, Germany-- and we had a couple really good appointments together and also got to feed some homeless people breakfast for a service project. I'm attaching a pic of us getting our scambio gelato!
On Saturday four of us went up to Lizzola, which is in the northern part of our area, to go visit an African refugee camp. There are about 50 Africans at this camp and many of them have interest in the gospel (the only problem is getting them to church or bringing church to them because their bus doesn't go on Sundays). We had to take the tram to the top of the line, take one bus for half an hour north, and then another bus north for an hour and a half. So in all, the trip up to Lizzola took about 2.5 hours one way. We got up there and I saw the most beautiful views I have probably ever seen in my entire life. I will attach some pictures.
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So we got all the way up to Lizzola and the one man we made the
appointment with told us that he didn't know we were coming, so no one
was ready to be taught (we tried calling him days before and the whole
way up there but he didn't respond until we got to Lizzola). Haha. So we
left him with like 10 copies of the Book of Mormon and a stack of
pamphlets, told him to give them out to his friends, have them read them
all, and that we would be back in two weeks. My high school Spanish has been serving me well lately. There are a tonnn of Bolivians in Bergamo. I have met a lot of people here, members and not, who want to talk about the gospel and can speak Italian well, but speak and understand Spanish better. I just love these people so much that I want them to be able to hear the message of the gospel in their native tongue, because it is so powerful that way. I am called to speak Italian, and it is going very well, but I think I am going to start studying Spanish again (even though it feels so wrong in my mouth now haha
:)).
We also have a golden Ukrainian potential who knows very little Italian
and only a bit more of English, so maybe I will try and milk the gift
of tongues for all it's worth and learn a little bit of that, too...
somehow haha..."As we travel along that strait and narrow path, the Spirit continually challenges us to be better and to climb higher. The Holy Ghost makes an ideal traveling companion. If we are humble and teachable, He will take us by the hand and lead us home." This quote is from the talk "What Lack I Yet?" from October 2015. I really like this talk. God will always help us become better, and the Spirit will always help us know in what ways we can improve and grow. As we climb higher and higher, we can eventually reach our goal of becoming like God Himself.
Thank you everyone for your support! I am attaching a picture of me and Slla. Kopischke with our gelato, a picture of the mountains in Lizzola (view out the bus window on our way up), a picture I took last pday of a pretty hill up on Città Alta, and a picture of a cool confession booth inside a duomo in Bergamo! Super cool!
Buona settimana a tutti!
Sorella Johnson
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