Well, here we are, almost two weeks in Genova down. So much has been happening! The highlight of the week actually probably happened while I was gone on a scambio in Savona. Sorella McCann was here with Sorella Hatch and they were planning to go see a potential investigator that we had been trying to see for ages. They were finally able to see her this past Friday. It turns out that since the time the the sisters gave her a book of mormon on the street a while back that she had already read the entire thing!! I have been able to meet her since then and she has such good questions and understands everything we say. She has been keeping all of the commitments, reading the things we assign, the next one we're committing her to is coming to church- she really wants to come!
On Sunday we were able to meet another lady from Brasil who lives way out in the mountains in a beautiful area by this huge bridge. We were able to take one of the young single adults with us who right now is thinking about serving a mission. She was so brava in the lesson! It had actually been a while that I'd had a lesson like that- cioè a mom, dad, little girl, in their home, teaching the restoration with a member. It felt so good to be in that situation again! It was a good thing we had the member with us because she is familiar with the are and we probably wouldn't have been able to find their house without her!
Thus far in Genova we've had a pretty equal mix of rain and sun. The bad thing about the rain here though is that it is super fat and comes down in torrents. Not the same as Verona! At least we're not on bikes! :p But we actually had kind of an adventure on Monday getting to an FHE with one of our less actives. The family's palazzo was up a HUGE flight of stairs going of this big hill (that's one thing about Genova- there's palazzi basically like staircases going up the hills there isn't really much flat ground to work with!). So anyway, it took us about 15 minutes to get up the staircase with our less active who was just huffing and puffing and saying "non ce lo faccio!" but we managed to get to the top finally. This particular lady is quite a character- I don't think there was one instance where her mouth wasn't running a mile a minute about topics that I could barely keep track of. Una donna propria italiana!
I'm just having a blast right now, especially with Sorella McCann! she is so funny. We especially like to talk in accents together- british, southern, filipino, african, indian, australian- Right now I'm working to perfect my filipino and she is trying to perfect her australian. Anyway, we just have so much fun together and I'm learning so much and loving every moment!
Abbiate un sacco di divertente questa settimana... vi voglio bene!
Love,
Sorella Lyman
Two pictures of Sorella Lyman with chocolate foccacia, which she bought just a block away from her apartment:
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