Ciao!!
so this week was pretty crazy haha ill start with wednesday night...
WEDNESDAY NIGHT- after p-day we went to teach that brazilian family, i dont know if i told you there names or not but the mom is sandra the aughter is bruna and the son is pablo the father is cloves but hes down south working. so we went to sandras house with the 2 children and taught the restoration, we brought wener with us, he is a brazilian member here in Mantova. the lesson went really well and they all understood everything and seemed the except it very well, im really excited for their progression, keep them in your prayers.
THURSDAY- we had leadership training part 2, it was really inspiring and helpful, we talked about a lot of stuff, first President Wolfgramm taught about the doctrine of Christ and how we need to teach the points of doctrine an then we read a bunch of scriptures that talk about the points of doctrine, then the assistents taught us about using inspired questions, about following the spirit and about teaching people not lessons, and to slow down in lessons and to let the spirit talk to you and tell you what to say it was very good, and then the zone leaders taught us about using the 10 point in chapter 10 of preach my gospel under the heading when you begin teaching. they told us to memorize those and to use them in lessons because they bring power and conviction. this training was very well done and i did learn a lot. it ended with President Wolfgramm saying something and i wrote it down he said "everyday we are faced with an obstacle and everyday we over come those obstacles ad we grow from them" its nothing i didnt already know but its nice to hear it every once and awhile.
FRIDAY- we went to a members house because we were invited for lunch, so we went over and it took an hour bus ride... the members live so far away, it was good we ate this meat pasta stuff it was delicious, then we came home and used our personal time to go to weners home to teach him and his fmaily italian, we went over some verbs and how to conjugate them it went well. them we went to a less actives house her name is margharita, its not her fault that shes less active really, maybe ive explained this but her sister in law has cancer and she goes over and helps her and she needs to go over on sunday anwyays we taught her and talked with her just to give her strength. it was a good day but a lot of running around from like busses and the bikes, but it was a good day.
SATURDAY- we had english class in the morning with carla and she is reading the book of mormon but she still doesnt want us to come over and teach her, but she agrees to coe to church haha, she said that she needs to read the book of mormon first before having us over to talk about anything, but she is willing to talk and loves talking about the doctirne and learning at church, so i dont understand her... then after we had lunch at that amerian restaurant that we found it was so good again hahaha just like home....i know its a sin because im in italy and i should be enjoying italian food, but i eat italian food so often that i need a break every once and a while and i need to eat american food haha anyways its all good :) then we had an appointment with sandra, but wener couldnt come, we went over anyways but sandra was still at work, so we told them that we would pick them up for church the next day. then we did some finding work and nothing... but we will continue and work hard and the Lord will bless us.
SUNDAY- was such a good day! we had church in the morning and we went with our ward mission leader cyro ( the one that added you on facebook) and we went to pick up sandra bruna and pablo, and they all came it was awesome, for us sacrement meeting is the last hour, so when they got there is was the 2nd hour so wener taught gospel principles class, we were hoping that it was only going to be us wener and the brazilian family but them some other italians came like new converts. anyways wener really only knows how to speak portuguese, so i told him that i would translate, portuguese to italian for everyone else, haha i dont know why i told him i would do that because i dont even remember or know portugese from brazil... but them something cool happened, i understood everything wener was saying, pretty much and i was able to translate brazilian portuguese to italian so that was pretty sweet. then it was the third hour...testimony meeting. it went really well. my comp bore his testimony i bore my testimony it was awesome and there were no crazies haha and sandra actually started to cry, it was awesome! hahaha they are so awesome! so church was great, after lunch and all that we went to the town lunetta which is a 20 min bike ride from home, anyways we did casa there and got let in this guys name is stefano and he said he has been taught by the missionaries years before, anyways long story short we got a retur appiontment with him after that it was time to go home....but the problem was it that it was raining CATS AND DOGS!!!! haha for real it was pouring down so hard and we were a 20 min bike ride from home, and i had my camera and the phone on me, i thought for sure they would get destroyed, we said a pray that the rain would slow down and that our stff wouldnt get destroyed. i think the rained just about got worse haha but we rode home and it was sooooooo fun! haha i cant explain why but i just really enjoyed myself i would going in the puddles and just enjoying myself, haha in times like that if you dont enjoy yourself you just get mad but who wants to be mad haha anyways i got home and my bag was soaked, i open my bag and get my stuff and not a single drop of water was on my camera or my phone but my pass along cards were soaked, it was truly a miracle haha :)
MONDAY- we went to Verona for district meeting it was really good we listened to a talk about member work and bore our testimonies, the spirit was so strong, after we went back to the train station to get our 1:57 train, but there was a STRIKE!!!! so non of the trains were running, we waitted for the 2:40 train...nothing then the 3:20 train...nothing then we saw the capi zona in the trainstation and we decided to go to thier home and we just did a blitz and slept over, i went with anziano anderson hes a cool guy hes from texas we got let in doing casa and we also taught this new convert, it was a good blitz and then we came back and ordered pizza and all hung out it was fun.
TUESDAY- probably one of the most un-pleasant days of my mission hahaha but i did learn from it... so we get back from verona in the morning to find that our bikes which we left over night at the train station, were not to be found haha someone jacked them... which was just soooooo annoying because there was nothing we could do because of the strike, i called the church office and they told me i wouldnt have to buy a bike with my own money because i already bought a bike and it wasnt our fault that the bikes got stolen so we spent the WHOLE day looking for bikes and couldnt find any under 180£ and the church only wants us to spend at most 130£ so we looked and looked, and nothing, we had to cancel 3 of our appointments so we got to do like no work and because we are in Mantova we walked for like FOREVER! haha but then i called a member to see if he could drive us to this one place i knew about and so he did and i found a bike there for 130£ :) i didnt buy it because we were going to be late for our last appointment and it was with sandra so we will come back thursday, we told them to put it on reserve so its no big problem. then we went to teach sandra and bruna because pablo wasnt there but thats okay next time, anyways we read 3 nephi 11 together and talked about baptism nd gave them a bap date for the 25th of june, it seems a little soon but we felt good about it and then accepted so thats awesome! i am really excited for them, so the day was a little frustrating but in the end it was a good day! then we went to cyros house our ward mission leader to talk about the missionary work here it was a good day :)
so that was my week i love you all sooooo much! for my b-day package i cant think of anything i really need maybe just some american money so that i can save it for when i go home because i have some money here, like what grandma gives me and im saving it for when i come home, so maybe just some money, buy as in terms of stuff also maybe dads tape of him singing put onto a cd that would be so awesome! anwyays i gotta go time is a running out i love you soooooooooooooooo much!!!!!! and im so grateful for your love and for your examples :) love your baby bend boy Anziano Glowa
Love Anziano Glowa :)
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