Wednesday, December 12, 2012

12-12-12


Ciao Tutti!

     Wow it truly is hard to believe that December is almost halfway over and Christmas is right around the corner!!  I am excited to be here, even has alittle taste of home with all the snow!  The internet defiantly lied when it said the weather here was like Southern California! haha  But this week was so sick!  In many different ways.  First off last P-day did turn out to be incredible!  Saw tons of things and it was my first real P-day of getting out and seeing a ton of sites.  Cant wait for y'all to see pictures.  Just wish y'all could have been here to see it!  Then Thursday and Friday we did a scambi (exchanges) and I got an Italian comp. so it was sweet!
     Then Friday night we got to head back to Rome because on Saturday they had a huge service project to clean up and fix up a huge park area.  It was near the temple site so that was cool for those people to see us helping that community.  Another cool thing is last P-day another companionship went to the Vatican, and they went to the top, and when the Temple in Rome is done, you will be able to see it from there! How cool is that?!  But the service project was a lot of fun!  The first half of this week the work wasn't great, one we didn't have a ton of time with being in Rome so much, but then it was back to finding and one of our investigators that is awesome, Mirella, has 2 houses that they live in because she is moving, and there was confusion and we went to the wrong house so we missed that lesson.  But on Tuesday we got a lesson with her.  It was one of the most incredible things I have been apart of.  We are really starting to see the miracles here, first of all she is the one we found after our dinner appointment got cancelled, but then we didn't get to meet with her for a long time.  But she told us yesterday after she met us that first day she just had a feeling she shouldn't smoke anymore, and that night she said a prayer and hasnt smoked since!!  She is one of those people that you feel like you were called here to find them specifically.  And she really opened up during our lesson and we invited her to be baptized and she really wants too!  He husband is against it right now, but we will see.
     Monday was another incredible day!  We had 3 lessons!  Which basically matches what we had our first transfer!  It is so true if you are obedient, work hard, and have faith, you will see miracles.  Another interesting thing that happened Tuesday morning, we were doing street and we came to a park where there was a ton of people, unusual because it is freezing outside.  We were trying to figure out what was going on when we saw and heard a huge group of people on the road marching and protesting something.  We saw that and the cops starting to close in and so we figured it wasn't the best place to be, and we heard a huge BOOM and so we decided it was time to leave right then. haha 
     After English course yesterday we had the opportunity to be apart of 2 newish members (that are awesome) receiving the Melchizedek Priesthood!  It was way awesome!  Mattia is leaving to go to the M.T.C. this next week, and we have another who has his papers in, pretty cool.  We re-watched a little movie you watch the first night you get here of a bunch of pictures missionaries have sent in of the different areas, I have decided I have to serve in Napoli, Sarracusa or Palermo, Malta, And Rome! haha  I love yall so much and hope yall have an incredible week!

Love,

           Anziano Bird

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