HELLO BEAUTIFUL FAMILY!
How was your week? Hope everyone is enjoying summer! It is SO hot here! It will be nice to jump in a pool soon! :) Man, when I said there is no time to slow down last week I was not joking! The craziness started Tuesday. We picked up the car from Roma 5 and drove to the other coast to go to Pescara for district meeting.
After district meeting we started our scambio with the district leader and his companion. Anziano Bermudes and Garcia, they are both from South America, so I worked on my spanish! We had a lot of fun that first day, we did finding all night and met some super awesome people as well and some super crazy people! One guy told us he wanted to get baptized, and still would as long and we reinstated poligamy! haha
It was a super fun time because there is a greenie in that city as well, Erik Mika, who if you remember was the star center for BYU last year! So I was with him all evening swapping stories, it was super cool! He is 6'10" so we are going to do another scambio and go play basketball against Italians, and teach them the Gospel when they lose! haha
The next morning we continued with finding and at lunch headed out to go to L'Aquila! THE RETURN!! The best thing about doing scambi in cities you have served in is that you don't have to do finding the whole time! So we went and saw old investigators and some less active members that I love! That scambio lasted though lunch the next day, and thats when we headed back to Roma!
So Friday we started work back in Terni! We were able to meet with a new contact we had who is Muslim, but very open to our message, his name is Mafi! The next day we made the journey to Caparolla to see Alessandro and Patrizia, and Riccardo, our ward mission leader came which was awesome, they know it is true but just have something holding them back. Afterwards we saw Anila (new convert) and she took us to a castle to do our lesson (just another day in the Italy, Rome mission :) And this was my last time seeing her because she is going on vacation. It is weird already saying goodbye to people!
Church was good, everybody asks me every week how long I have left, then tells me how little time that is! haha Then we went to the Di Lorenzo family, they are awesome, and he is pretty much a chef and made the BEST meatballs ever!!! Then we had another lesson with Mafi, but he didn't show, so we did a lesson with Riccardo who had come to help us out, and we just shared our favorite scriptures and talked about them.
It seemed like all the scriptures we picked all had to do with the Atonement. And it is something I have gained such a strong testimony of on my mission, especially the power to change ourselves. And change isn't an easy thing, but its not supposed to be. But its not that way to punish us, its that way so we can change, because we know from the scriptures, no unclean thing can dwell in the presence of God, but no unchanged thing will want to. I read a couple of chapters in the Book of Mormon that really struck me this week, so I invite y'all to read 2 Nephi 4, Mosiah 5, and Mormon 9. I love y'all more that words can say, I love the Lord and am so grateful for all he has done for me. Have a great week and enjoy the picture of our scambio!
VVB!
Anziano Bird
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