c'era una volta...

Well, luckily enough I was not arrested. Haha, thank goodness. All of my passport info is in the main computer here, so I think they just had to check that I knew my name and my birthday and where I was born or something and they left. Anziano Gurney, who had his permesso papers, his drivers' license, and his social security card had kind of a hard time however. Oh well, the police man left. Thursday it rained all day long and it was windy and we were sooo cold. We went to Ibla to try and find some inactives and do some advertising for the Testaments. And then the bus didn't come, so we did a whole lot of walking in the rain. We got to Sorella Puglisi's for lunch and our coats and hair were wet. When she left she told us we had to change into different coats when we got home. We were supposed to have a lesson with Barbara, our new investigator from last week, but she got a phone call from her ex boyfriend who may or may not have given her a black eye right before the first ...

This week I forgot to bring a passport or the photocopies of the thing for my permesso di soggiorno to internet. Oops. The police are here. And I have no documents. So hopefully they don't kick me out of the country in the next five minutes. The information from my passport is all in the computer here at least though, but I don't know why I forgot that especially since I need to check online if my permesso is ready yet. Mamma mia che paura. They're kind of arguing with the owners right now, hopefully it all goes okay in the end. I don't really need inhalers. I still think I prefer not breathing over a heart attack. Sooo, this week was pretty good, and pretty insanely busy. We had a Relief Society activity, and next year they're going to start doing one once a month. But we had two investigators there and our friend Heike from English course came. She's the one from Germany. Everyone really enjoyed being with a bunch of women. And we met Fratello Magrograssi'...

Hello Everybody! Well, I guess it's the week of colds, because I've got one. But I've been trying to not be too sick because my MTC district reunion is on Friday and I really want to go. I am still in Ragusa, woohoo! They didn't end up closing a city completely. They just have Mistretta and Palermo grouped together now, and the Sorella spend one week in one city and the next week in another. It's a lot of traveling, but at least Ragusa is still here, it was closed earlier this year already. We're hoping that means that we're getting new sisters at some point. We only have 12 right now, 8 on Sicilia and 4 on the mainland. But we're pretty excited to be here. And Sorella Robb is the coordinating sister this transfer and we're doing exchanges with the Sorelle in Palermo instead of the Siracusa ones. Fun. This week has been the week on changed plans. But it's worked out pretty well, I think. We gave Sorella Cascone a lesson about counting your blessi...

So one of my favorite people this week is Sorella Iacono. She had a son who died when he was fourteen and she met the missionaries right after. Her younger son who was only a baby when the other died is not active and his family doesn't go to any church, and neither is her husband. She would love to help more people and visit more people but her husband is pretty antisocial and doesn't want to be friends with people and thinks it's pretty ridiculous that she wants to help everyone. Plus she's in pain almost all the time because she has bad osteoporosis. But she is so cool. She's in her early 70s. She literally counts EVERYTHING as a blessing. She prayed the other day that her clothes would dry because it was really cloudy and she was worried they wouldn't, and they did and she prayed again and told us she has no idea why God blesses her so much, she just looks at every little thing and sees the blessings in all of it. I love visiting her because she's always...