07-10-13

FAMILYYYYYYYY YAYYYYYYYY

 

Thank you so much for putting money on my card!!!

 

Hahaha I am glad you get to see Ben Jenna and Kate next month too- just remember how often you see them cause when I get off that plane Kate probably won’t ever leave my sight. I already know this will be a problem for me. Lol EEEPPPPPP But hey by then I will have a nephew too so I split my smothering into 2. How fortunate for them hahaha. I love that Kate loves to shop!!!! She was given the right family CLEARLY. 

 

Tell Grandma I am praying for her!! That sounds awful- seriously how do they miss stuff like that? Pretty sure they go to school for 100 years FOR A REASON.... Grrrr that’s even annoying to me. 

 

The new President and his wife ARE AWESOME super fun and super happy. You will be happy to know that the first thing Sorella Dibb (president’s wife) did when she saw me and said- "Alright, I need to give you a hug for your mom.... and then again for me" Hahaha It was cute. ALSO they brought us peanut butter so that whole day was just FABULOUS. I had no idea how good peanut butter was and I was drooling over peanut butter and bread. Rice bread BTW is quite fabulous. Tastes basically like white bread but without the gluten and with even less nutritional value. ITS GREAT!!!!

But yeah we had individual interviews with them and ya. A little scary. I finish being trained in 2 weeks (transfers) and he says next wave of girls I need to train so buckle up. I pity the girl I have to train. PRAYYYYY the next wave is like 6 months out hahaha This mission is super spiking and every 6 weeks we get 50 more missionaries and almost half of those sisters. MADNESS.

 

Thank you for emailing OLIVIA!!!!!!!!! I miss her and I am glad her and her sister are out and having fun. It’s actually Cody's Birthday on the 14th and he is turning 21. OLD MAN. SO MANY BIRTHDAYS. Yeah I am dying to hear where Michelle is going!!! Why is it taking so long??? I am going to be coming back by the time she gets gone!! SHEESH. Poor girl- She is probably mad it’s taking forever hahaha AHHHHHH LEX IS HEADING OUT!!!! I love all the missionaries WHOOP WHOOP

 

Hey here’s a fun fact that hopefully you find amusing- I looked down at my ankle the other day and I had this huge bump.. well that not normal. So i wait a couple days and it turns purple. But I can’t quite figure out how its familiar but it feels like a ball under my skin. So then two days after that IT KILLS like it is throbbing- what the freak is wrong with my ankle AND THEN IT HITS ME I had this on my neck not too long ago. This is a freaking tumor on my ankle. So I just bust up laughing- there is NO WAY that I get ulcers, go gluten free and get a tumor all within the first 4 months of my mission right? STUPID. So I ask my companion and roommates what I should do- I can’t think of anything other than to wait it off.... bahaha So We are in a lesson and I think - hey I should ask this Italian person what to do about this! And she goes and gets a bottle of BLEACH hahaha And drenches my ankle in bleach.............. Lol -  Weirdest thing ever. BUTTTTT IT WENT AWAY. I have a testimony of bleach and I believe it is the cure to everything as of now. Obviously it must have just been a freaking huge lizard bite on my ankle- and yea- that’s a thing.... lizards... everywhere...

Also just to throw some more at ya- My bald spots are back -___- Aka can you google for me how to stop Alopecia? That would be great. :)

 

JUST FOR THE RECORD I am healthy- I am doing fine!!! But I can’t help but laugh at the fact my body attacks itself in the world’s most STUPID ways!!! That is all. 

 

So cool fact about my companion and I is that we have been given a gift to be able to recognize the people we talk with on the Bus and Metro- so FIVE TIMES this week we have "run into someone again" and this time they gave us their number. It is just a total blessing that we recognize them because we talk to more than 100 people a day ya know? But for some reason we just recognize everyone which is SO helpful. Hopefully we have a lot of new simpantizzanti coming in. WHOOP WHOOP! 

We have also been trying to go through the ward list looking for all meno-ativas and we met with two of them on Sunday and one of them and this one sweet lady in her 60s hasn’t been to church in 40 years and also hasn’t been contacted. How crazy is that? She very hesitantly let us into her apartment and her apartment was.... Destroyed. Everything needed repair and she doesn’t have the ability anymore to do it, so we will be getting to do some service for her which I am super excited for, YAY! On domenica we also met this meno- ativa family which for who knows why hadn’t been contacted for like 3 years and they let us in and they both have SERIOUS health problems and now we are having someone bring the sacrament to them as well. It’s crazy how so many people are right there on the ward list and still haven’t been contacted. Crazy. 

 

Funny story of the week: Last P- day we decided we just wanted to go explore. Cause we are in Italy and that’s just what we do. Lol So we are near Duomo with some other sisters and they wanna go see what known as "creepy bone church" and obviously that just sounds like a blast to us hahaha so we walk inside and WHAT DO YOU KNOW. It is a CREEPY CHURCH filled with CHILDRENS BONES. That’s all it is. You walk it and then there are walls of skulls IN A DESIGN with bones from legs and arms to finish the decoration. ....... So Then we look up and there are MORE skulls WITH TEETH and some teeth ARE MISSING what the freak is that? How did they even get those bones and why are so many bones in one church as art?! What are they even doing with those teeth that fall of cause they are so old??? ewewewewewewewe So gross. But I can now say I have toughed a human skull with my own hand.... I couldn’t help myself... I hope you are proud. Lol, Not only that but they had the actual heart of them on the wall.... just way gross and not uplifting gone ounce.

 

LOVE YOU GUYS!!!!  Love hearing from you all and I am glad I have your support :) I think about you all the time!!!!

Sorella Holloway