I finally made it!

I finally made it!!! Felt like this would never get here! I guess the wait makes it that much better! Italy really is all it is cracked up to be! And the people are amazing, and I am blessed here in L'Aquila to have such a great branch with great members! The work has been incredible so far, when I arrived we had one new investigator, so my second day we went and taught him. His name is Roberto, he is awesome, had another lesson with him today and I extended the baptismal invite! It was awesome, and he is open to the idea. Pretty crazy story, so it was my 3rd overall day in Italy when we taught him for the first time, and we were waiting for the bus afterwards and a lady approached Anziano Fiala and I so I was thinking that was awesome someone was coming out of thier way to talk to us. She was very emotional and kinda freaking out, I didnt understand anything she said, and she walked away for a second, so I asked Anziano Fiala what she was talking about, and he said she said someone in her family was possessed and wanted to know if we could do an excorsism, so we called our mission president and he said to tell her that we were not trained to for that haha so that was super exciting!! And I gave her a Book of Mormon, my first one given out! The day we traveled was a fun day because it finally felt like I was a missionary, and it is so fun to just be able to talk to people and share our amazing message with them! Didnt get alot of sleep though so I have been alittle sleepy this week. But this week has been so cool! Even though I cant comunicate super well yet, I can do ok and my companion helps out alot! we were waiting for a bus the other day and I started talking to a lady and we ended up giving her a Book of Mormon and leaving,we got a call the next day saying we had a referral from mormon.org, and appearently that never happens! so we got the phone number for the person, and about 30 min. later, that number calls us! Turns out a different lady at the bus stop had overheard us talking to that lady and had gotten our number from her. This was Saturaday morning and bc of the time difference our first confrence session wasnt until later, so we invited her to that, and she came! and she loved it!!! so she came back Sunday also! and loved it! but.... she was here for school and she was moving back on Sunday night...luckily where she is going has missionaries, but she was the golden investigator and was awesome to have that experience! There are lots of mountains here so they do get snow here, which I was not prepared for, but should be awesome. We have quite a few young people in our branch and they are just awesome! First day experience here was awesome, felt like my head was about to explode from all the sweet things around me! I dont even know where to start to tell ya'll about how amazing it is here! also, nobody told us we were going to be getting to use bmw's for our mission! pretty sweet! bus, metro, and walking! alittle mission humor for you :) haha as you now probly know, my pday is wednesday and I think we are 8 hours ahead of ya'll in idaho and utah, and 7 in north dakota. i wish you could bring your family on your mission so ya'll could experience how awesome it is here! love ya'll and hope ya'll have a great week! Love, Anziano Bird