Week 13--October 5 (Terni)

CIAO BELLI! (Hello beautifuls is the translation) yeah.. People say that a lot here haha!

Hey everyone!! This week was an awesome week. Because Anziano Slade (still just the coolest name ever) didn't get here until Thursday, we were in a group of three doing all of the work for both companionships. It was really good and a good learning experience for me. We also had a car which to be honest I didn't really like cause I'd rather walk and talk to people but because we had it we were able to go up to Perugia  cause we have investigators and some members there to visit. One super cool place was this piazza drago which means place of the dragon. Essentially.. The dragon place.. Super sick. 

Anziano Slade is such a cool missionary!! He came from Ena which is like right in the middle of Sicilia and he showed me pictures. It's a city high up in the mountains and in fact the missionary apartment is on top of one of the mountains so you are above the clouds! It's amazing!! You look out and you are right up with the clouds--it looks incredible. 

Conference weekend was sooo awesome, oh my gosh it was so good to watch it and hear counsel from our prophet Thomas S. Monson and the Apostles. So I have gotten a lot of questions about how and when do I watch it because I think I am 7 or 8 hours ahead of y'all right now. So we watched the first session on Saturday night and it was me, Anziano Ray, and H. (he came oh man it made me so happy!!) in a little room in the church in English while everyone else watched it in Italian! So I don't remember the names of some of the people but the one that was perfect for Henry and I really enjoyed it too was the one from the woman with the super heavy southern accent. He said he really enjoyed it! Then on Sunday we watched 3 sessions (the priesthood and then Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning). The ward, though, wanted us to watch it with them so I tried to have a good attitude when it started but to be honest I was like dang this really sucks cause I really can't understand anything and the translator earpiece that they gave me was set to German, not English. Why it was in German I have noo idea. So I was kinda ticked just cause conference is something that I really enjoy and was excited to be able to understand all of it. So I started to pray. Cause I was really discouraged about the language and prayer is really the only thing that I can turn to right now, and all of a sudden C. and L. walked in!! (our investigators) and the ward switched it to make sure the translators were in English and so I was so happy!! God does answer prayers; it was such a good testimony to me!

Other than that we had some really good lessons this week with C. and he really opened up to us and explained some things that he was trying to figure out in his life. The spirit was really guiding that lesson so that was really powerful and spiritual to me! 

Well this week we are planning on doing a lot of finding so I am hoping that it goes really well and we are able to find those who want to hear us and recieve the joy that I have felt from this gospel. 

The thing from conference that I loved was the quote: "It will all work out in the end." That really stuck with me cause this is honestly so hard. But at the same time it's the most incredible experience that I have had. You talk to people that are so mean, like one guy I stopped to talk to him and he started yelling at me that I was a pig and I was just straight up swine... But then you get other people who are so nice and they want to hear you and talk to you. Or others who don't want to talk about the gospel but just need a friend. We have made a lot of friends throughout centro who we see a lot and it makes their day when we talk to them. It's so nice. 

Well I love you all! Sorry I don't have any funny stories for this week, I will next week though haha! Also shout-out to my little brother Caden who turned 11 this week. I love you so much little bubba! I wish I could have been there for you! You're such a little stud!

Love, Anziano Spencer

P.S I have Zone conference on Wednesday!! I am so excited!

PSS Tristan did have a funny story after all. He sent it to us separately and then decided I could include it with the above: 

So what happened is during English course on Thursday is we had planned to throw down a super sick prophet devotional to invite people to conference. Right before we were going to start this BEAUTIFUL Italian girl comes up to me and says something super fast in Italian and to be honest I thought she didn't know where the bathroom was so I
walked out with her to point her to where it was. And I walk out "to be honest really stupid of me and I don't know what I was thinking" and her friend is standing there. And then I realized what was happening and I was like oh no. Her friend then said in broken English.. "I... I... I have I have a crush?? A crush yeah.. I.. Have a crush on you." And I looked at her and was like I am sorry I don’t understand. HAHAHAHA oh my gosh! And then I was like sorry I have to go back in and Anziano Ray is throwin down a sick devotional and then there is me studying to get away from this girl and she grabs my arm and was like wait. And then she's like, "I like you..." And I was like "ohhh" and then she is like can we just be friends? And then shook my hand and walked away. Awww it was awful. Sooo bad! Then I walked in and talked to my homies Fredriko and Leonardo who are like typical Italian studs, they are so cool. So yeah that was my kinda one interesting experience this week, so I don't have more. Nothing huge happened, I am hoping this week will be better!! I love y'all so much!! So so much!!