Still More Carnevale

Not all too much time to email today because the members are doing a BBQ in just a little bit.

But the big news for this week is that Carnevale did not end. In fact, they canceled the last two days of the festival last week because of the rain and they decided to postpone it to this weekend. But the thing is all of the shops, floats, and stages were still left up and all the tourists did not leave because there was still things to do. So there were literally 2 weeks of Carnevale and I am sooo sick of it. The last two nights were crazy. Tons of drunkards, police, fireworks, and music. They burned the floats at 2 in the morning last night and had a huge firework show that kept us up throughout the night. But it was good fun for all who attended. The day after Carnevale there is another holiday to "rest" from the holiday. So the members are doing a BBQ.

Anziano Brown (my companion) is 6 weeks older in the mission than I am and a good missionary. He is very tall and speaks very well. He served in Puglia and Agrigento.

This week was actually really a rough week for us. Because we could not be in the city we went out to the small town of Sciaccamare, next to Sciacca, to work. Hours of knocking doors, getting yelled at, and made fun of... But that’s just how it goes. It was a nice, humbling week.

Didn’t really help that Zone Conference was all about finding and baptizing people. We are doing are best here in Sciacca but it’s been super hard to find people for the past little while. But we are still trying hard and being obedient. In fact our motto for this transfer is “Obedience with Obsession.” What we took from the Zone Conference, and the news of a big Zone Conference in Rome, is that we just have to keep looking for people and leave the people who are not progressing behind, which is going to be hard for us but it’s probably what’s best for now!

Our one investigator, Marianna, got a baptism date this week. She has been an investigator for like 2 years and agreed to try for a date. It was a pretty happy moment for us and we are hoping and praying she takes this seriously. Because we are. 

This week we also found a Muslim African Refugee house that has like 12 potentials in there. I will probably talk about it in the next letter but it’s time to get going.

In two weeks we have a mission tour in Catania that we are going to! Should be good fun!