Keeping up with Elder Bird

Hey family!!

     Wow, this has been quite the week!  So when I wrote last week I was in L'Aquila again, this week I am happy to say I am back in Rome!  So last Thursday night we headed over to Pescara where we were planning on doing scambi all the way until Sunday.  And I was with Anziano Alessandro (an awesome Italian) And part way through our scambi on Friday we got a call saying we needed to come back.  But in the few hours we were there we saw so many miracles!  We did street finding and just had a ridiculous amount of success and then we got to teach a man who was baptized this past weekend.  And to listen to his story and how he was truly converted to the Gospel of Jesus Christ and put into practice all the principle that we all know, faith in Christ, repentance, baptism, gift of the Holy Ghost, and enduring to the end.  And we got to share 2 Nephi 31:14-20 with him that are really powerful scriptures that make us realize the importance of the covenants we made when we were baptized and how important it is to endure to the end.

     Then on Saturday it was a scramble to get everything ready for the conference down in Bari on Tuesday.  Church on Sunday was super awesome, they just split the ward but we still all met together because we had been planning a missionary focused day for months.  I got to give a talk which was super awesome, my third one in this ward! haha And they had many returned missionaries in the ward give talks as well.  And what makes it even funner is I am the new translator for sacrament meeting!  Then that evening we finished packing up and left to go down to Foggia!  And so all Monday we did scambi in Foggia, and the miracles just continued to come.  Obedience has been our theme for these zone conferences we have been doing and we are really seeing the blessing come we are being obedient to all the rules.

     So Tuesday morning we headed to Bari, had zone conference, then tried to get out as soon as possible but when we got on the road and looked at TomTom, it said we would get home around 11.  So Napoli was on our way home so we stopped and stayed with the Anziani there, and then of course got some pizza and ties from Napoli this morning, then we headed back and now we are doing Internet.  And it all starts again here pretty soon!  Because next week we head to Sardegna, and will be there most of the week! YEAH!!  Then I will have hit every where in the mission! I love y'all so much and hope ya''ll know how much I miss y'all but love what I am doing here.

Love,

           Anziano Bird

Pic - Napoli pizza (aka best pizza in the world!)