Okay, so week 2 in Napoli, shaped up to be pretty crazy! So a lot of Monday was spent on working on permesso stuff for Anziano Hansen. Then we got to go to the super nice part of Napoli and see some American members, the Volkers, that are up there. They are a young couple with a 2 year old daughter, and she made us tortilla soup, which with the cheddar cheese may have been the best meal I have had this month! haha We had a super awesome lesson with them about being examples and living the principles that we believe, and afterwards, we got an invitation to come over for Christmas!!!!
Tuesday we had to go into Napoli to the church there to have DDM, it was really good to hear other peoples experiences as well and get new ideas on how we can help our investigators. Later that day we had a lesson with a less active member, Fratello Di Orio, he looks to be about 98 and stands maybe 5' tall on a good day. He was awesome and had such a testimony and knew everything about the Gospel, just needed a way to get to church! Then we had English course, which went good. We have a student, Pasqualle, who learns all his English from American rap, so he comes up with some pretty interesting things sometimes! haha
Thursday we got to do some street contacting and it was awesome because there is a college near to our house and younger people are a lot more open to listen to us, and they also just want to talk to us because we are American.... haha But we talked to these high school kids and one of them is the class president and we are going to try and set up an appointment where we can do a presentation for their whole class! It would be sweet!!
Then that afternoon my zone leader companion, Anziano Malan, and the 2 sister trainer leaders from our zone, we all headed up to Rome for "capi conference" which is our meeting for the leaders. It was a pretty long train ride but I got to know Anziano Malan pretty well and he is awesome, and that night we went to the Villa and had a cafè rio style borritto bar! So as far as food went, it was about the best week ever!
The next day we had to conference, and we mostly just established rules and stuff, then the area doctor for Europe came and spoke with us and I learned a ton!!! Saturday we had our first coordination meeting, and we had it at the branch presidents house, so just like in church, every single word had to be translated, and it makes everything take about twice as much time! haha But we got a lot accomplished and learned a lot about how we can help out the branch here.
And earlier in the week we had found a record of somebody the missionaries had taught in 2005, and we gave them a call and they said they would love to have us over! So Saturday night we went over there, they were awesome people and we made pizza and it was great, and we got the commitment out of them to read and pray about the Book of Mormon! So that for me was a pretty cool story! Then of course we got an hour more of sleep, which was needed!
Yesterday church was awesome, and afterward we went over to the Parisis house, he used to be the branch president and they are a super strong family. And afterwards we went to take the sacrament to a lady in our branch who has luchimia (I don't know how to spell it) and it was a really cool experience because although she is going through so much right now, she has such a strong testimony of God's love for her and how he has not abandoned her once throughout the process. I love y'all so much and hope everyone has a awesome Halloween!!
Anziano Bird
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