What are some the
Roman Easter traditions? Anything you are looking forward to?
Rome is too big to really have any traditions,
unfortunately. I loved Easter in the small town of Sciacca. That was seriously
the most memorable experience I have had on my mission. There might be some
Easter traditions that people do here but we don’t hear much about them. The
people on this half of Rome are all from Pakistan, Afghanistan, India,
Bangladesh, China, Peru, Russia, Nigeria, and Ghana. It’s nutso. So this side
of town has lots of different traditions. I am looking forward to conference
more than anything. We are planning on making some Napoli Pizza and watching
conference. We are inviting all the members who want to come to come. We will
see.
What was the best
thing you ate this week?
This week we had a lesson with a less active Peruvian
family. They cooked a really good turkey and rice dish! We have been trying to
meet with this family for about 2 months now and eventually one of our members
was able to work some magic and convinced her to let us all come over.
Who was the most
interesting person you talked to this week?
We did a lesson with a referral we got from Salt Lake
City. From the office they said he has just been married and has met Mormons in
the past and is looking for something more in his life. He is having some
marriage troubles and wants to learn more about how Christ can help him.
We were super excited! So we get there and within 2
minutes he is screaming at us telling us everything that he thinks is wrong
with our church (95% of which was the Catholic Church, which he must have
thought we were or something). We eventually calmed him down enough to pray
with him but right after the prayer he got super heated and started going off
about nonsense. So for 30 minutes we tried to calm him down but he just kept
yelling at us. We eventually had to tell him that we had to leave. Wow...
What was your
miracle of the week?
We were able to meet with a family! They have been coming
to English course. They are really nice. The father however may be the coldest
most Catholic man I have ever met in my life. Anyways... I will give an update
on how that goes but it was really hard.
