There's a change in the winds
Alrighty, well my time in Firenze was short lived. I'll be heading to Pistoia (a 20 minute train ride away-so I can still come to Firenze for P-day) tomorrow and I'll be serving with Sorella Stephenson (or Stevenson-not sure) She's only been here one transfer and her trainer went home today because she finished her mission. Needless to say I'm a bit overwhelmed at the prospect of being the one who someone is looking to for help, but I hope the Lord knows what He's doing. The only things I know at this point about my new companion are that she only eats salads and will not speak in English unless she's speaking to an american who only knows english. I'm in for some dramatic changes. I honestly feel like for the past transfer I've been on vacation. There are so many tourists here and we found out that all the museums here were free for the past week and so we've gone with a few members and I've seen SO SO SO much art in the past few days. I've seen the David and a lot of Bottecelli's paintings, and a few by Raphael. Lots and lots of famous works. It's cool, but I can only take it in small doses.
As far as the work goes, we were able to watch "The Restoration" video with a really really nice lady from Camaroon. She has two kids and is super nice. She is a baptist and right now I think that she kind of sees us as traveling preachers who talk to people who maybe didn't make it to church that week. Better than nothing, but I doubt that any other preachers that come to her house will teach her about the the restoration and the book of mormon. She really seems to like what she hears and says she will come to church soon. I'm sad that I won't be able to be there when she comes.
Funny story. Okay, so there are some pigeons nesting on our balcony and joking around we dared one of the Elders to eat a pigeon egg if they laid one. He didn't think we would bring it so he said he would. Uh... the pigeons definately laid an egg and we hard-boiled it and he ate it. It was pretty funny.
I've taken a bazillion pictures lately so I'm going to go ahead and close this so I can put some of those on there. Keep the prayers coming. I'm pretty overwhelmed with my upcoming responsibilities and I think prayers are my only hope :)
I hope everyone has a great week! I love you all!
One of my districts favorite activities- eating Gelato.
Anziano Mondragon with his Pigeon egg.... yummy!
This is just a replica of the David that's in a Piazza. You can't take pictures of the real one.
Me at Ponte Vecchio. The stores are full of really nice jewelry. There would be a lot of really angry people if there were ever any structural problems. Its pretty cool though.
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