"Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own Sunshine"

It is actually week 14! What a wonderful surprise. And tomorrow will be my 100th day so that is pretty darn exciting! This week has been full of rain, lots and lots of rain. But whatever, it only makes the weather very humid and the people very exhausted. Here I have noticed that

when it rains it mysteriously and personally affects the people. They all seem to be in a gloom and have all of the sudden come down with an illness. On Thursday we visited our investigator E, she made us a very yummy healthy lunch. Unfortunately we haven't had an opportunity to see her again. But I am very hopeful that we will. Sometimes it just takes time I think. 

Lately any kind of appointments have been lacking, so we are trying to discover ways to find people to teach, to visit members to try and get referrals, and do pass bys. One day we walked for about an hour to try and see a less active family, and they weren't there. Oh the joys haha. But it looks like they still live in that apartment - so we will just try again. This Saturday we had a mostra for our English class. This time the Elders picked the city, so we went to Legnano. Anytime that we had been to Legnano we just though it was a suburb type area. Well to our complete surprise Legnano actually has a central. We literally had no idea. It was very nice and sunny Saturday morning so there were lots and lots of people. We had an FHE scheduled Saturday night with a group of church members. One of them is our new convert C. Her and her sister wanted to surprise the other two women who were there with a Mother's Day theme. So we helped them out and made cards and shared a message with them. It was a good day. 

This Sunday was Mother's Day!! We got to Skype home to our families, so crazy!! It was wonderful, I loved talking to them. It was fun to see them in person, and it helped give me the little uplift to keep on working hard. Ot definitely doesn't feel like I have been gone for over 3 months. Today, Monday, and Tuesday have just been drenched in rain. For P-day today we decided it was best not to travel. I needed to get a journal though and we had to do spesa (this is a shopping trip!). It was quite tricky walking hoe with heavy bags of groceries while holding an umbrella. But we did it! We made lunch, relaxed a little, we made an apartment tour for our families, and all is good in the world. 

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I have really recently learned that work takes faith and hope. I have noticed that if we start the day with a negative attitude, well that day is going to be the literal worst - we will have that mindset all day! But instead we try to look at all of the good things and count the small blessings in life. in fact I think this is a trick I need to apply to all of my life not just the mission. Oh how I love being a missionary! We have a busy next few days planned, i can't wait to see what is in store for them. 

Sorella Teague 

"Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own Sunshine" Anthony J. D'Angelo