Email from June 5, 2013

Alison went to a conference where the mission President told the missionaries to not give a lot of detail on their letters home.

Ali's E-mail

We had a conference with him last Thursday and he told us that. So I am not going to give you much detail. Sorry. But the reason is, now people can get on the internet and read the information or do translations or something and they do not what that information on the internet. 

We had a interesting week. We are teaching the sister of the girl who got baptized and it seems to be going well. We have a few other investigators and the work is good.  The other day there was a strike for the buses and we did not know and we were waiting and waiting for the bus to take us to one of our appointments, but it never came so we decided to walk it was only 25 minutes but it would have been 6 minutes on the bus. But someone that night told us that there was a strike and that was why the buses were not coming and it made perfect sense. 

Oh another funny story, we received a name and an address to do, a pass by of a lady and it was far out. We needed to go to centro and take a bus from centro. So we took the tram and then the bus so in total it took an hour or a little less to get there. And then we realized that the next bus to get home, we would need to take either the one that comes in 25 minutes or the one in 38 minutes. And those were the last ones of the day. So we find out the lady does not live there anymore and go to the bus stop and the bus does not pass. A SAB bus passed and we do not have tickets for that kind of bus. So we could not get on it. Then we sit and wait for the next bus that should pass in 13 or 14 minutes, but it did not. We realized we would have to walk from Sorisole which is about an hour and 45 minutes walk at least that is what it should be. And then we would have probably missed the tram to go home and we would have to walk home from Bergamo Centro. So we started our walk. Every so often when a bus stop would show up we would go and check if a different bus would pass, but there never was. So we continued our journey. We talked to random people along the way, there was this old lady and old man that were so sweet. And kept telling us how kind we were. Then about 45 minutes in a car honks at us. A member from the church steps out and waves for us to come over. His wife and him ask us why we were walking from there. And that we still had an hour left of walking and they gave us a ride home. It was an awesome miracle because we got home on time and did not have to walk for about 3 hours. But so we have had a crazy awesome week. 

I love you all and I hope all is well. I hope Conner is having fun and I know Parker is excited. 

Love, 

Ali