8/8/14
It is really weird to think that this is my release date for next year! Well it has been another great week with tons to write about! So Thursday and Friday were just the normal days doing a bunch of crazy work, we got new budgets and numbers for the mission and we found out that within the next 2 years they want us to have 31 new houses for missionaries, so, we have some work to do! Then we were dealing with travel for peoples permessos so they can stay legal and stay in the country!
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We have a completely new english course program that we will be starting next transfer and so we have been preparing all of that stuff for zone conferences. Sunday we got the official plan from the bishop on families we really want to work with. We got the Lopez family, they are Peruvian and they are the BEST!!!! We went over to their house for the first time last night and they are so ready to share the Gospel and we set up a plan with them to do it. They already want to have us over twice a week and they want to make us all kinds of Peruvian food! YES! The closest thing to Mexican food I can get!
Sunday was also super awesome because we had a ward council and got to meet with everyone to talk about all our investigators and new converts and less actives, there is a lot of work to do! Then we spent a lot of time preparing to go to Bari and Taranto for zone conferences. So about 7a.m. Monday morning we heading down to Bari. Had a sweet zone conference, our training was on our responsibility to the Lord and our mission president. It went super good. Then that night we got the opportunity to go and do exchanges with 2 struggling missionaries in Bitonto and really help them out.
Tuesday morning we drove down to Taranto, which is super cool! They have a super strong ward there and probably on of the nicest church buildings here. Another good conference, and for lunch one of the members who owns a pizza place made us lasanga and a sister down there made salsa especially for me, so it made it one of the better lunches I had had! They also have probably the most youth and young adults in that ward and so every year that ward basically produces the Italian EFY music, so we got our hands on that too, MoTab was getting a little old. haha
And here is the super cool story of the week, its not very spiritual, but its super cool! So on the drive back from Taranto Tuesday night, it was dark, and cops here don't really pull people over, they just drive around with their lights on. So we were on the freeway and I see a cop coming up behind us with his lights on, so I got over. And as this cop car passes, I look over, and this is no ordinary cop car, its a Lamborghini!!!!!! Yep a real Lamborghini Murcielago cop car!! And he just cruised past. And Anziano Kasper and I looked at each other and couldn't believe what we had just seen!! So I was talking to the Italian that we live with and he said yea, there are only 2 in all of Italy, and they use them to transport organs, because ambulances aren't fast enough!!! I felt like I was in a video game or a movie!
Also yesterday for p day some members from the U.S. took us out to eat at a restaurant facing the Colosseum and then they paid for our tickets to finally go it and see inside! It was pretty cool I guess! Glad I got to do it for free! But it was super fun! Hope y'all are well, and I love y'all a ton!
Vi voglio bene,
Anziano Bird
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