Ravenna and other fun

Date: Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 2:59 AM

So today I'm emailing from the old capital of the Western Roman Empire, the city of Ravenna, on the Adriatic sea. We're going to look at some of the famous mosaics here, which should be fun and interesting. It's been an interesting week under all aspects. A lot of disappointments on Sunday when none of our investigators came, and then a lot of miracles in getting back in contact with them and finding out why they didn't come. So... Thursday, my companion got sick, and he didn't get better until Sunday. so... there wasn't much going on there. I cleaned the house.. really well. I was INCREDIBLY bored. we went out once or twice to teach some planned lessons. Like on Saturday we went out and taught Roger, who still feels very catholic, and was asking us if we wanted him to come to our church and stop being catholic. We responded by saying that what we want doesn't matter and he should ask God. Then my inspired companion asked him an important question. "How do you think your answers to prayers will come?" "Boh (I don't know)" So we explained that concept and invited him to pray some more.

 

Sunday, like I said, no investigators showed up. Ciro, Manjola, Yvette, no one. That's a depressing sunday. So we go out after church and drop a note in Ciro's box since he's also not answering the phone. then we went out and worked. I've never been so happy to work in my life. I was smiling super big. Nothing in particular came out of our finding work, but going out and working for the first time in 3 days felt REALLY good.

 

Monday, we had a good district meeting with our zone leaders. We talked about commitment invitations. Afterwards, Anziano Nelson and I went and taught Yvette a pretty good lesson about the gospel, faith repentance etc. Those children are awesome. and it was super good because our WML was there too. Then we went and did some casa, and got in on the third door to a very nice family. I taught probably the worst lesson of my life, where they were presenting a concern, which I understood, but I just kept going with my lesson. That was bad. They didn't give us a return appointment. I guess it just shows that I'm human. during the course of the day we also met a guy who overheard my companion say "wannabe wallabys" randomly, and thought that he had said "Wallace" which is the name of a missionary that was here about a year ago.

 

Tuesday, we headed to Bologna, and started a scambio with our capi. I came back to Forlì with Anziano Andrew Strobelt from Philadelphia. We went and taught a catholic priest who we had met on the street on Sunday and who called ME on monday. He was pretty cool. We sorta presented the restoration, once again with our WML. He said he'd read the Book of Mormon. His name is Padre Claudio. cool guy. then we went and did some casa. Later on, as we were going to centro Forlì to do some street contacting to wrap up the day, Anziano Strobelt hit a car. I rode past, and the lady opened her side door, which he ran into. His neck hit the corner of the car, and he was winded. The lady, Maria Rosa, was really concerned, and called her husband and an ambulance. The ambulance took its sweet time getting there, like 1/2 an hour, so we had the chance to talk to her and her husband about the church. We ended up getting their number and giving them a copy of the Book of Mormon. so... God works in mysterious ways.

 

This morning we just came out to Ravenna. Good week, all in all. I love you tons.

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