Cagliari

Week 74

Buongiorno a tutti!

With each passing week the time goes faster and faster, the
experiences and stories become more sweet...and it gets harder andharder to write it all down!

This week, like them all, was filled with tender mercies and little miracles.
Every day it gets hotter and hotter and the number of people out gets
smaller and smaller. We can spend a lot of time going from place to
place and not see anyone to talk to...so our prayers lately have been
really focused on asking for guidance on where to be and what to do so
that we can help more people. We definitely saw answers to that prayer
this week!
Monday night after Pday we headed out to do some Finding and the
thought came to mind to pass by a sisters house who hasn't been coming
to church for a while. We'd been in contact when I first got to
Cagliari, but setting up an appointment had never worked out. I wanted
to push the thought aside, thinking "no...she won't be home and we'd
have to go out of our way..." but I voiced the thought to sorella
Fielding and she's like "No, let's give it a try, its not a bad idea!"
We went and suonato al citofono. We waited. No answer. Rang it again.
At this point I say something like "Well...guess that wasn't what that
promoting meant...." And then we hear it pick up and that beloved line
of "Chi è???" She was home...! She let us is, I finally got to meet
her, and we had a wonderful spiritual thought.
Sunday afternoon we had tried a few parks and weren't having much
luck. While I waited for sorella Fielding outside a bathroom in one
park...a mom we had met on the bus a few days before came in! We had
talked with her for a little bit about her family but didn't have a
chance to invite her to do anything before she got off. We really
wanted to be able to see her again and there she was!! We talked a
little bit and invited her and the kids to a church activity next
week.
And then Sunday evening we taught Eva again. I heard a quote this week
that says "The lesson will never go as you prepared, but it will
always go as well as you prepared." That is SO true haha! We didn't
use half the things we felt like we needed to use, BUT the lesson was
so good. She opened up to us even more and we felt the spirit bear
testimony as we shared things we had learned and studied all week.
Questions came to our minds that helped guide the discussion. It was
just really good.

Im forever grateful for the spirit and its help in this work.
Sometimes, when I really think about it, I'm like "why would Heavenly
Father send 18, 19, 20 year old kids to a foreign country speaking a
foreign language by them selves to share the most important and
amazing message the world has ever seen?!"
And then I remember that we really have very little to do with it.
This is His work and he's at the helm of it all. It's His spirit that
guides us in all we do. It's simply our job to be obedient, work hard,
and be in tune with that spirit and act on it.

Everyday I realize more and more how wonderful a mission is and how
sweet these weeks and days are. They really are "days never to be
forgotten." The good times make me smile and laugh and the hard
moments make us stronger and more capable. A simple email really can't
even begin to describe it. :)

I love you all! Thank you for the love, prayers, and support. Hope
it's a great week. :)

Vi voglio bene,
Sorella Carver

Some Italian bellezza for y'all. ;)

Our Fourth of July DDM Pranzo party. It was wayyy good.

Sometimes our walks home are the most beautiful thing ever... I
love sunsets! And Sunday's was just senza parole.