L'Aquila update

Another week gone already! It really is amazing how fast the weeks go, and I have a feeling they will go faster and faster. This week was a great week! We have been teaching English course since I have been here, but they only started it about 2 weeks before I got here. We have it every Monday and Thursday evening, it is awesome! It is one of my favorite things to do. Very entertaining also, their accents are soooo funny, makes me hope mine isnt bad haha. I taught the spiritual thought at the end of Mondays lesson and it was awesome, we have 3 people in the class that seem very interested in the church! So hopefully we will be able to teach them! It was kind of a bummer this week we had to drop one of our investigators cause she was not keeping any commitments and just wanted to be friends. She also made us pizza every time we went over so I will miss that also haha ;) So now we only have one investigator and he has cancelled our appointments like 4 times now so we will see. So, we have been doing finding pretty much everyday, allday! It is something that I have grown to love very quickly, cause if you dont, you will be miserable. But street is definatly my favorite, you get to walk around Italy! It is definatly harder, you get alot of people just wag thier finger in your face and keep on walking, or the ones that completely ignore you, or literally run the other way! haha at people dont want to make eye contact with you most of the time, that is why switching it up and doing house is nice, because you at least have them trapped for a second! That is if we are lucky enough for them to answer the door. But read an awesome scripture in D&C 75: 20-21 today, makes ya want to shake people and tell them all they are missing out on when they so easily reject you. Yesterday we did house all day, had no success until the very last house we knocked on. A young girl answered so we started to talk and she actually listened. Then we got to talking , and she was Catholic, and she told us she would believe there is a living prophet today and she said this on her own, "I also think people in churches should not get paid for their services" so I was super excited and she was also very interested in English course, so the Lord will bless you if you have faith and work hard! Sorry I wont be sending out too many hand written letters cause it is pretty spendy for a poor missionary haha, but I love to receive them! I love hearing from everyone and how yall are doing. P-days are also super nice because there is a basketball court not too far from our house so we get to go shoot around every week, and hand out pass along cards haha. It is actually pretty cold here in the mornings but usually warms up, but never thought i would come to Italy and be freezing outside, we will definatly be wearing jackets from now on! next p-day will be Halloween and we will be spending next p-day in a town about an hour away, I forgot the name but should be a fun day. One of the newer converts, Roberto, is 22 and he is awesome!! and his family owns a shoe story in town and their are a bunch of clothing stores nearby so he is gunna show us around and teach us about style! haha the style is defiantly different here but I like alot. that first day I noticed alot of the older missionaries had those side bag things, or man purses, and I was making fun of them, but everyone has one and they are actually super awesome!! so I will keep my eye out for one of those. Cant think of too much else to say, all the days kinda blend together and we do a lot of the same thing, but I love it! Going to pick up ingredients for Alfredo sauce today, since it is not Italian, and they think it is hilarious that we think it is. Turns out like 3/4ths of the things at olive garden are not Italian haha. We made brownies for our English course last week, they were kinda gross, but they thought they were the greatest things ever. And one of the ladies in the ward attempted making banana bread with our recipe, it was good, but nothing like home haha. Love ya'll and hope everyone has a great week! love, Anziano Bird