Sorry about not writing last week. I wanted to but there were just a lot of
problems. The work is going well still. We are seeing a bit of a Christmas
slowdown. Not a whole lot, but a little bit. It’s also strange to think that
the transfer is almost over. We get transfer calls next week. I am really
hoping not to go, but sometimes you never know.
Last week we went to Siracusa and saw the Nutcracker. It was
really good but a bit short. I finally understood it as well. In Siracusa I got to see some friends like
the Ardilo and Maranci families. Then
last p-day we had a bunch of missionaries here from zone conference and we went
up to Etna and went sledding. We had a lot of fun, too! There was quite a bit of snow, but the sun
was out. I was up there in short sleeves and I was just fine, but as soon as
you touched the snow, you had to put a jacket on cause it was cold. Our sisters
here weren’t able to go because there wasn’t enough space in the cars, so we
are going to go again this next week.
The work is going well.
We are helping about 5 of our investigators to quit smoking. We are
having a harder time seeing some of our other investigators. Marco finally quit
“quit” smoking. He hasn’t smoked for
like 3 weeks and will get the Aaronic priesthood this Sunday.
One of the members we are working with the most is having
some problems with local leaders. I understand why, but its not a good reason
to be doing what he has been doing. We were teaching some referrals from him
and were planning on working with their family members. However, we with
actions of this member we lost them as investigators. However, we are working on getting them back.
We are finally starting to see progress from Francesca. She
doesn’t have a huge testimony of the Book of Mormon but there is something. We
are now working on Joseph Smith. We want to plan another date, but we really
want to work on this testimony more. We have taught everything, we just need to
finish the commandments. Things are
going well.
Then we have the married couple (Massimo and Anna) and the
brother (Mario). We have been focusing a
lot on Anna and she agreed to a date February 2nd. We need to work
on her brother a little bit, but by Sunday we will have a date with him as
well. They are great investigators. They have lots of questions. It took us 3 appointments to explain the plan
of salvation for example.
Things are fun here.
Really enjoying the work and hoping to stay longer. Look forward to letters. Love you all lots. -- Mitchell
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