quote of the week: “our hitchhiking attempts have been 100% unsuccessful, which is probably a blessing.” -sorella mineer while hitchhiking, because we missed bus #81983930 of the week
this is what our “opening a city” has consisted of so far...
⁃ not having a phone and not being able to contact anyone and not knowing the area
⁃ missing a bus and walking half way of the 57 min walk to the station
⁃ not having heat or hot water in our apartment
⁃ eating homemade pizzette and lots and lots of pasta
⁃ leaving our apartment keys and having to run around like a crazy person getting them from the special needs place where we were doing service
⁃ missing 97/98 buses we had this week and having to walk and “l’auto stop” a.k.a. hitchhike (btw it doesn’t work in italy)
⁃ getting scared by our german shepard neighbor every. day.
⁃ meeting and becoming friends with lots of people at the bus stop and on the bus because we’re asking for directions
so, as was mentioned last week, i am opening up treviso sorelle with sorella mineer (who was trained by sorella spader, another girl in my group. love you, spades.) and she is freaking awesome. i love her so much and we’ve had such a blast up here in treviso.
⁃ the dialect here is like the italian version of what puerto rican’s do to spanish i.e. they cut off the ends of all the words
⁃ and their accent sounds like a scottish person speaking italian . it’s actually very entertaining and so easy to tell if someone is a native
⁃ the initials for treviso are TV
⁃ the branch here is super tiny and super awesome and we’ve met almost all of them in our first week
⁃ we are giving talks this sunday and singing in the choir and we’re in charge of bringing dolci to a ward activity this saturday woo woo
friday, we went to gerini’s house and oh my gosh. i love him so much. he’s 93 and mostly deaf and has been making the same meal for the missionaries for over 30 years because his wife always did it. and he’s just carrying on the tradition. he’s so cute.
on saturday, the relief society had an activity at the branch president’s house and she planned a surprise for everyone. so we hid in the garage for 20 minutes waiting for everyone to show up. finally when everyone was in the living room, she called us out of the garage and everyone was so shocked and excited that they had their “own sister missionaries”. it was way cute.
then sunday, we sister missionary’d and we threw a mini party for anziani simkim’s because it was his birthday. we made a cake and had candles and put up a banner and everyone came in and we sang to him. then that night, we all went to fabio’s house and his fiancé had made pancake stacks with nutella for anziano simkins, so we lit a candle and sang again. we made homemade pizzette and it felt like home. i love that family so much already.
monday morning, we went and did service at a special needs place and that was way awesome and hilarious and i look forward to going there every week.
we also went to a couple other members houses and saw some rivers and some walls and bought some foods and enjoyed life and the mission. also, i gave my dying testimony in district meeting and that was weird. i’m not even dying. i don’t know what anyone is talking about.
the end.
much love,
m&m
a.k.a.
meager and mineer
i am sending a million pics cause i haven’t sent any for awhile
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