Here is this week’s letter with a PS at the end (since we were online chatting back and forth yesterday!!).
WHAT UP WHAT UP?! I hope everyone had a good week this week!! I heard that BYU is playing super well right now so that is so sick! This week was a really good week; obviously there are some highs and lows but I think I am finally adjusting to being out in the field. Hey, if you have any good advice for cooking, recipes, life hacks that make things easier, please let me know cause I would love to hear! I have realized I am not the most amazing chef out there and I really have to start figuring out how to cook things other than just pasta, eggs, and pancakes lol. And I would love to hear from you too so that would be great!
The two biggest highlights of the week were Friday and Saturday. Friday was my first zone conference ever so we got to travel to Rome to all meet. I was able to see Anziano Brown (my MTC companion) and Anziano Chugg (buddy from the MTC). We were all the greenies there so that was fun haha. We also had the chance to go up and bear our testimonies and I was super nervous not going to lie, but I was helped so much during it! The gift of tongues is so real people I don't even know how to describe it! It was so cool cause when I started speaking I calmed down and we had a translator over on the right for the senior couples who only spoke English and as I was bearing my testimony in Italian, he was translating into English. It was super weird to hear the English translation and know that that was what I was trying to say! I am so happy that it went well. Anziano Calvanga talked to me after and he said that I spoke in perfect Italian so that was a huge blessing to me. GOD IS SO GOOD!!The other really big highlight for me this week was we had an awesome lesson with our new investigator on Saturday night. The spirit was so strong and he was asking all of the perfect questions. He really has a strong desire to know if this church is the true church, and so we talked to him more and more about the Book of Mormon and the restoration and having faith and he accepted to be baptized IF he knows that the Book of Mormon is true which is exactly what we want. He told us that he has read some of it and it makes him feel happy. Anziano Ray and I were like YESS!! We were so happy. We don't want to force him to do anything; we just want to give him the same happiness, joy, peace, and hope that we feel from the Gospel. Before that lesson, we had another lesson with this super sweet old lady that asked us for a Book of Mormon in Romanian. We gave her one and then finally met with her and she is already up to 2 Nephi 7! She told us that she already knows the book is true and she started talking to us and Anziano Ray and I could understand her pretty well!! And she was speaking Romanian?! It was sooo cool as she was explaining to us about her family and things like that. Afterwards she asked if I could pray and so I prayed in Italian and she stopped me after and said that I had prayed in Romanian.. Ummm? I was definitely struggling in Italian but I guess she was blessed to hear it in her native language. Again, so sick.Okay so my spiritual thought for this week is what we talked about at Zone Conference. The theme of it was about having No Fear. That is something that I am still working on cause not gonna lie I still get a little nervous going up and talking to people about something that means so much to me and then they normally just reject me hard core or try to embarrass me or swear in English. BUT I love this scripture in Doctrine and Covenants and it says-36 Look unto me in every thought; doubt not, fear not.It's short but there is so much hope in that. If I am looking towards God, being obedient, then I don't need to Fear Anything. So that is something that I am working on!Alright well I love you all, thanks for everything!P.S okay so a few weeks ago we met this really tiny lady and she started talking to us. She was so nice but every time this one guy would walk by she would be like droga lue faccia droga.. And so basically saying he was on drugs. Today in the grocery store he came in and started yelling at Anziano Ray and I and aww man it wasn't even that bad cause a lot of people are mean to us but this guy was saying some awful things. The whole store was watching but they felt bad for us so that was some nice support. It doesn't matter though cause I have no fear!!Nadia was baptized yesterday! The spirit was so strong and the guy that we have been working with was able to come, even though he wasn't able to make it to the church. It was such a special experience!
Love you all!Love,Anziano Spencer
PS A few days ago Anziano Palazzo made an agreement ( a bet but missionaries don't bet;)) that if he and Anziano Calvagna passed out 500 English course cards that I would have to go four days without socks. Which would have been unbearable. But he bet me his bed, and his bed is so comfortable and so I decided to agree. And I won!!!! I slept so well last night, it was so nice.
So I just sent a few pictures about what was happening in Centro a few nights ago. There was a huge all night festa for like 2 days in a row and so there were fire dancers, all these shops, a huge concert, all this stuff. It was pretty cool, but of course we were missionaries so we loved it cause there was so many people we could talk to haha. So those are the pictures that you are getting right now.
So fun to read about the adventures in Italy. I am sure it brings back memories for Sorella Riding :)
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