Thank you for tuning in to this week's episode of The Adventures of the Sorella Thorup in Rome!
It was quite the week, filled with parties, chocolate, confetti, and priests!
This week was a week of finding. That entails talking to as many strangers as possible and trying to get them to listen to you. This is hard in English, and has proven to be even harder in a language one barely speaks. However, it was really fun and we were able to see a lot of really cool things. We did temple finding hard core for the first half of the week to hand out the rest of our temple invite cards. And so we met up with the Anziani, picked a metro stop and said "Prego" to everyone who came out, and tried to hand them a card. It was funny, because if the first person took a card, everyone behind them did too. But if the first person from the metro said no, all the people behind would say no. Then we would hop onto the metro, and walk up and down trying to just hand them out to the people sitting. I handed out the most cards of anyone in Ostia I think it's because I know how to look sweet. I just smile allll the time, even when no one is around, and then I feel happier, and people are more trusting to take a card. Because, I'm a girl standing out in the cold, who is really happily handing out little cards to random strangers. Whatever I have HAS to be good. And then I end up having gospel conversations because more people will stop and ask me what it is.
In normal street contacting, people rarely want to actually listen to what I have to say. But we did that until we handed out all of our temple cards, and switched to normal finding the rest of the week. We did video finding, which is exploring Ostia, and inviting those we pass to watch a short video about the Savior. We have had some success in that. But I think the best finding thing we did was last night. Right now is Carnival in Italy, So yesterday we did an English Course jesso and there were people EVERYWHERE. How a jesso works, you have one person drawing on a sheet on the ground, and the other missionaries go and talk to everyone nearby. That's kinda scary, because that meant I had to go talk to people by myself. But it was wonderful. I invited so many people to come learn English with us, and so many of the conversations turned into gospel related. I taught the Restoration multiple times, and there were some pretty interested people. I even gave out my first Book of Mormon by myself. It was to this nice older gentleman, we had a good gospel conversation. He took the book and said he would come to English Course for sure. So I hope to see him this Tuesday! But it was a lot of fun, and the rejection doesn't really bother me anymore, so all I really remember is the people who listened lol.
One interesting experience I had this week was when we were on the metro to meet up with the Anziani. I sat in a different spot than Sorella Brown (still within sight and sound-don't worry) so I could try and have a conversation with someone. Well long story short, a family walks in, the parents and younger daughter sit in the bench across from me, and the son (who is maybe is a couple years older than me) ends up squishing right trying to talk to me in very broken English, flirting very hard-core. Turns out he's a priest from Poland. Super awkward experience, but I invited him to the temple. We made oreo balls for Valentine's and taught English Group how to make valentine's day cards and it was adorable to watch a bunch of grown men try to make them. A photo is attached haha.
Anyways, I love you all and hope you have an amazing week!!!
Sorella Thorup
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