Ciao!: Week 15--October 19 (Terni)

Whattt up everyone!!

So this week was sooo awesome! (I am sorry that I don't have that much time, I am on the train back from Rome and there is a crazy man talking trash on us about our church and all the people are like siding with us so it's a good time for me to talk to them.) There are always ups and downs but we had such a great week with finding new people and teaching! And the best part is H. IS GETTING BAPTIZED!!! What what, I am soo happy. We had a great lesson with him yesterday and he told us that if he doesn't die by the time November 7th roles around then he will be baptized. It's so cool to look back and see where he was and then where he is now and see the happiness and joy that the gospel has brought into his life!

So on Tuesday we had such a sweet day. We taught 6 lessons like back to back with our new investigators and they all seemed genuinely interested! Like the cougar one even mellowed down once we told her our age. Kinda messed up but whatever lololo. So that was a really great thing for me to do because I was able to talk a lot in Italian. Hopefully they will keep wanting to meet with us and we can bring them the same happiness that the gospel has brought H.!

The one lady from the bar has been interesting. We met with her again and this time her friend was there who was not interested whatsoever. She was making fun of us and talking about smoking and all this stuff. It was kinda frustrating cause I don't take it well when people talk trash about me in my face but I couldn't understand most of it which was good for me, I guess.. We invited her to our quit smoking course and she seemed kinda interested cause she told us she smokes 36 cigs a day.

We have had other lessons too and the one that went really well was with C. We have been talking to him a lot about marriage and he finallly accepted that he really needs to marry L. So when he was at church on Sunday he told us about the conversation that they had and she said no! So now we have to figure out like why she said no, and he told us that she might be moving to Germany for work and then he could be baptized. We said yeah that would work but still... I was kinda like in shock he didn't seemed too bothered by it so that was kinda sad to see how marriage wasn't really important for them.

Well that's kinda all the main stuff that happened this week. Today we were able to tour around Rome and see the colosseum, the Spanish steps, a super cheap Italian tie shop, churches, old Rome and other amazing things so even though this letter isn't very long hopefully y'all can forgive me cause I took a lot of pictures.

I am also working hard at the language by trying to talk to more people on the bus. Last week I had a good like 20-minute conversation with someone so it is coming along! I just need more time, cause that's the best way to learn the language: talking with others (on a daily basis) and time. So I will get there!!!

Also, I stopped this guy on the street and he was not interested to really talk but he did tell us how he works for the Catitas (the organization that helps refugees from Nigeria and feeds them and things like that) and so we met with the boss last week. He said he has to talk to his bishop (cause it is run by the Catholic Church) but we should be able to help out. That would be awesome cause it is hard to find service work here in Italy.

Well I love you all!! Thanks for your support and your letters! I love getting them throughout the week cause they really help me when I have hard days and things like that! Thank you! The church is true!!

My spiritual thought for this week is about patience cause I still have a lot to learn on patience hahaha-

That positive perspective comes when we faithfully follow the Lord with optimism through our own wildernesses. As we do, we will one day discover that our wilderness experience wasn’t nearly as bad as we thought. We may even admit that it was totally worth it. To each of us the Lord says:

“Continue in patience until ye are perfected.