So I picked up my new companion thursday in Milano! She is
the coolest! I love her. Sorella Hibo and I get along great. She is such a gem.
She is so smart and so wise.
Friday night, we had a great talent show! I sang, and
Sorella Eghbert (who just finished her mission but also served here in sanremo)
came with her parents. They had come to pick her up. They came to visit the
cities she served in. They are from salt lake, but it turns out that they have
a beach house right next to ours at roads end!!! Unreal!! Smallest world
ever.
We also had a really great lesson with Alessandro and his
family. They don't read the scriptures together and they don't come to church.
There is always an excuse. So this week, we had a very honest and very intense
lesson with them about how you can justify your way into Heaven and how God
won't accept the excuses at the final moment. We taught a lot out of the
scriptures, in specific Alma chapter 5. It was a lesson that the spirit guided
completely, and it was awesome. We planned it out before, but the spirit gave
us that extra boost duri
ng the lesson and we know they understood at the
end.
Then on monday morning, i woke up feeling a little strange.
My stomach didn't feel so good. Well, I ended up having a brutal case of
influenza. I was in the bathroom more than twenty five times in the course of 6
hours. So yeah. I ended up losing 6 pounds that day. The poor mission
presidents wife wanted to send me to the hospital to get re-hydrated
but
instead, I couldn't leave the house so we called a doctor to come to us, and
then one of the nurses from our branch came and ended up giving me some magic
shot in my bum to make me stop throwing up. It was great! I'm still pretty dehydrated, but I'm doing a lot better. My companion is just a champ! She has
just taken great care of me. So yeah! We started out the transfer a little
rough, but we've been laughing the whole time. So that just means that it's
going to get so much better from here! We have some great things lined up for
the rest of the week! I look forward to getting back to work and continuing to
serve here in Sanremo. I love this work so much. It is amazing.
I also have such a testimony of the priesthood. I am so
grateful that God has given men just a little bit of His power to bless and
serve the lives of everyone here on earth. I love it!
Anyway. That's all for this week. Have a great one!!! Love
you all.
Love,
Sorella Tokarski
ps. when you're sick, the italians taught me that you have
to only eat stuff that's white. hence the rice and potato mixture. that stuff
works.
