Fud is Gud

Ciao guys :)

This week kind of reassured me that God has a sense of humor and that

He's completely aware of us. We've been working hard all week (and all

transfer) to be able to continue to grow this work here in Catania and

we've seen some cool miracles but haven't had many (if any)

progressing investigators. Saturday night during my personal prayers I

kind of expressed to Heavenly Father my frustration and how we have

been working so hard and doing hours and hours of finding everyday and

how I didn't know what else we could do here. One of our investigators

randomly moved to up north of Rome this week without telling and our

other ones are all too busy with exams/vacations/life in general to

meet with us or to keep their commitments.

Well Sunday morning after fast and testimony meeting, we see a lady

we've never seen before and go up and talk to her. Her name is Lucia

and she said she's driven past our church many times and has always

wondered who we are and what we believe so she decided to come.

HALLELUJAH THE CHURCH IS TRUE PEOPLE. We had an incredible lesson

right there on the spot with her about the restoration and she is so

so sweet and interested.

I love how God waits until we're about to give up then that's when He

throws us a bone (or an investigator). I've definitely learned on my

mission that this is the Lord's work and that He doesn't actually need

us to do it but that WE need it. We take so much more out of our

missions than we actually put in. I'm thankful for those little

experiences that we have that show us just how aware the Lord really

is of us. I'm just some random sister missionary in some small city in

Sicily but the Lord hears my prayers and I promise He hears yours too

:) I don't know if Lucia will get baptized right away but it

definitely gave us the spark of hope we needed!!

This week was fun! We were able to do a scambio in Messina with the

sorelle there. I was with Sorella Gleave from Salt Lake! Fun fact for

you: we actually lived in the same building fall semester at BYU

before I left but we never actually met until the mission! The world

is so small! We did a lot of finding and had fun exploring Messina

while we talked to people.

Haha we found a suuuper yummy restaurant today called "Fud" so that's

where the subject line comes from. It's honestly one of the best

burger places I've ever been to. Go Italy!!

Our entire district had colds this week but we finally feel

better...well good enough to hike Mt. Etna today for P-day. That's

right 😏 2nd volcano I've hiked on the mission. Italy is so

breathtakingly beautiful. I feel so blessed to be here doing the

Lord's work! "Avanti andiamo con fede nel Signore!" I love you guys.

Have a fun first week of summer! Go boating and get snow cones for me.

I'm eating my fair share of granita and gelato :)

Con amore,

Sorella Hess

Via Genova 27

Catania 95127

Italia

Le foto:

With members in Messina :)
View from the Messina Sorelle's apartment

Took this on the train! It's called Taormina and apparently Trump was here last week with a bunch of other leaders in the world.

McDonalds wifi today as a district

The side of Etna today! This is all lava from when it erupted in 1989.

More pics to come! I forgot my card reader :)