Casa

Oops! I forgot to send this last week! Still waiting for today's letter.
Carrie

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Date: Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 2:56 AM
Subject: Casa

This week was very... empty. We did a lot of casa. That was the large part of the week. The frustrating part was that we didn't get in except once the whole week. So basically I'll just say that this week we did a lot of casa, getting in Saturday in a cool story. We knock doors and for the thousandth time we hear "non mi interessa" (I'm not interested), and we ask if he knows anyone who WOULD be interested. He says... yeah. In that palazzo next door. Go there. So we do. We find out that in this palazzo there's a part-member family. They show us some pictures of old missionaries they knew, including Anz. Petersen. They're good people. Maybe we'll be able to get the husband to finally get baptized. His wife was baptized 15 years ago.

Otherwise, we taught Stefano, a contact from the scambi with the zone leaders several weeks ago, who had read 50 pages of the Book of Mormon. He's super busy, and angry at God for taking his mother. His sister is also angry at God. Hopefully as we teach them they'll find peace with God. I hope. And then they'll get baptized.

Sebastiano, the brasilian evangelist we were teaching we dropped this week. Bummer.

The Muçe's we taught three times. Once about following the prophet and baptism, once about the Word of Wisdom, and once watching "the restoration" with them. The two older daughters, Clara and Brigilda have fixed baptismal dates for the 5th of February. The dad, Albert, is struggling to quit smoking. When he does, he'll be baptized, though. The mom is trying to read and to quit coffee. We're praying a lot for them, and hoping that things go well for their baptism. The youngest daughter is 7, turns 8 in april, which makes my goal to baptise Albert before then and have him baptise her. Her name is Greta and she LOVES Primary.

We also told Paola, the lady that feeds us once a week but isn't particularly interested in our message that we can't come back. so she's more or less dropped. This means that our investigators at the moment are essentially the Muçe family and sort of Stefano and sort of Manuel. (Manuel is the ecuadorian that Anz. Clove and I found.) Also Saydi, the Peruvian lady and her son, but we didn't see them this week. We're doing a lot of finding work at the moment.

I love you. I'm probably going bowling this afternoon, it being one of the few attractions of Merate.

Benjamin