Keeping up with Elder Bird

MALTA!!!!


September 11, 2013

Hey everybody,

     So it was only a couple of days since I wrote so not a lot of new things have happened.  Sunday we had to really start preparing for Elder Ballard to come for the Stake Conference next week to split the stake.  There will now be 4 Stakes in our mission!  On Monday we kept preparing and also had a lesson with a man we met when we were in the basement of a Catholic church doing a P-day at Assasi.

     It was interesting to say the least.  We should have known the was something up when he was so eager to meet with us and and saying some weird things.  In the end he was not interested in the Gospel, he was more interested in Anziano Kasper and I..... so probly no more lessons with him.  

     Our house is pretty crazy right now because they are tearing off all our old wall paper and painting so the whole place is a mess!  Tuesday morning we got on a plane and got to come down to Malta!!  Just so happened to be my birthday, funny how that worked out!  But Malta is incredible!  So much different than I thought it would be.  They speak Maltese here, which is alittle bit Italian, Spanish, English, and alot of Arabic!  But luckily they speak english too.  So yesturday I was trying to talk to people in Maltese and preaching the Gospel for the first time in English, and it was pretty hard.

     We taught a lesson to a man from the Ivory coast yesturday and did finding the rest of the night.  And we saw so much success.  I would love to come down and serve!  It is pretty sweet because not a lot of people get to come see Malta, but we do!  So we will leave tomorrow afternoon, I dont want to leave but there will be a lot of work waiting for us in Rome! 

     I dont remember if last week I told yall about Laura, our sweet investigator.  We had a super awesome lesson with her last week and set a baptismal date.  And we had an Anziano with us who is in his 2nd transfer and so he doesnt really understand a ton yet.  And this lady has cats, and they were rubbing on his legs and he was trying to avoid them.  And so she stopped and looked at him and and if he was scared, but he didnt understand, so he did what every greenie does in the situation and just nod your head and say "si" really enthusiastically!! haha And so she jumped up and locked the cats out, it was hilarious!

     Just alittle bit more about today, there is a senior couple here that took us on the grand tour of the island so that was pretty sweet and this afternoon we have some appointments set up so I am excited!  I love yall a ton and hope everyone is doing good!

Love,

         Anziano Bird