Hey family!! 8/21/13
Okay, first off, guess where I am! Palermo!! But we will get to that in a second. So starting back at last week, we had a lesson with our investigator Laura. We planned on teaching the Restoration, but as we started to talk, she really opened up and told us all about her life and how she had been studying genealogy for a lot of her life! So we decided to teach the Plan of Salvation. It was one of the best and most spiritual lessons of my mission. She was so happy and overwhelmed that she was in tears half the time. The spirit was so strong, and we hadn't really covered the Book of Mormon yet, but she said "I have been thinking a lot about Native Americans lately and their history, I'm not sure why!" So we explained the Book of Mormon and we were all just blown away! She has truly been prepared by the Lord.
Saturday we had to go the the other side of Rome to do a baptismal interview, and we met this Filipino family that are members of another ward here, and they were incredible!! So we did the baptismal interview at their house and then ate and talked with them. The made fresh cantaloupe juice and it was the best thing ever! Filipino people are the nicest people on the planet I have decided! And it was about that time I got a call from a member in the bishop rick here to give a talk the next day! Its nice to be the back up plan! So this was my second talk here in Roma 2, which is awesome, because I actually really like giving talks now, and it is a good way to try and get people pumped about missionary work!
So Sunday morning was spent planning a talk and church went great! Then right after we headed to Roma 3, a ward across town, for the baptism of Moses. A man we taught here in Roma 2 then passed over to the other missionaries. So it was awesome to be able to go to that! Then we ran home and had about 30 min to eat and pack for our almost week long trip! We flew out of Rome on Sunday evening and flew into Catania. The first night we did a mini exchange with some of the younger missionaries there. There are a lot of really young companionship's in our mission and so we need to do a lot of exchanges so that their spirits will be lifted and they can learn to enjoy the work.
Monday we had Zone Conference in Catania, and I did exchanges with Anziano Hatch, and we went out to the American Navy base outside of Catania with the Sorelle and we taught Italian class! It was really really fun!!! Also weird because it was like little America!! Everyone spoke English and there was grass, and carpet, and Chevy camaros!! haha And afterwards we met a guy that seemed really interested in the Gospel and got to share some things with him, which doesn't always happen on the base because you can't talk about religion unless they ask us something.
The next morning we left early to head to Palermo!!!! And we head the first Zone conference in Palermo in who knows how long! Other than the power being out and it being SO hot, it was incredible! And we got to do splits here last night and I got to see everyone!!!! My new converts, investigators, members, everyone!!! It was so cool! And so we are doing p-day here today, then driving over to Trapani to do scambi, then Thursday we are going to Sciacca to do more scambi, then back to Catania, and then flying home on Friday! So it will, and has been a super fun week!! Love y'all a lot!!!!
Anziano Bird
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