Fabrizio is baptized!

We are having a busy P-day today. We had to do service helping a member move this week, so we don't have all that much time to email. But it was a good week. I am really liking Anziano Kenney. He is awesome. 

Fabrizio got baptized. The service went by really nicely and a lot of people came. We got a phone call from his son saying he wants to be baptized soon as well. So we will be working with him a lot. I am doing well here in Rome.

Sorry for my super junky emails...

Potential baptism! And transfers.

This week we received a text message from our one investigator, who said he is wanting to be baptized. He is the husband of a new convert. It was super out of the blue, especially since we were about to give up on the man. But he just felt that his wife was happy in her choice, so he wants to now follow her. So he is quitting smoking and will be baptized..... Pretty neat!

Also, this next week will be transfers and I will be getting a new companion. Also, the whole house will be getting changed up. Not really sure why, but President is moving around a lot of people this transfer. It will be good because it feels like the missionaries are starting to slow down.

I am really excited for my new companion. He is from my group and is super cool.

Well, that is about all for me this week! Ciao!

Runs, Scuffles and Splits

How was New Year’s and your run? Did you get the exposure you hoped for? 

The New Year’s run was awesome! I ran about 58 minutes. I was actually surprised at how well I did. I did not win. There were people that ran the 10k in like 28 minutes. Pretty crazy. It was fun handing out some pass along cards and what not along the way. Super beautiful run as well!

What was the hardest thing you did this week? 

We have been trying to meet with this one investigator for 4 weeks now... But this week he gave us 3 dropped appointments. It made me sad. But...it happens I guess. We have a lot of other people we can pass by in the meantime, but he actually has potential to progress. 

Who was the most interesting person you talked to this week? 

Well this wasn’t this week but last week I got into a little scuffle with a Gypsy kid. He got onto the metro and immediately all his Gyspy friends started making a distraction to steal stuff. This happens all the time so people don’t really pay attention, but this one kid start putting his hands all over my bag and coat trying to rip stuff off and it took everything in me to stay calm. We just pushed him away and gave him a stink eye. The thing about those Gypsy kids is if you push them they will bite you and scratch you and spit on you. There are lots of anziani he have had blood drawn from them.

What was your miracle of the week?

I went a scambio this week with Anziano Zito and Anziano Eads. I was with Anziano Eads. They did not really have anything for us to do while we were there, but me and Anziano Eads found a really awesome family and another man that they can start teaching. I hope they do something about them because they really were pretty awesome!

This is a pic of Bernie, the Book Store nun.

Shortest Letter Yet...

I am doing well. I am happy that the Feste are finaly over and things can get back to normal.

Christmas!

Christmas Eve was super rad! So we got to stop working at 1 o clock. Well... Nobody invited any of the missionaries over in our ward for Christmas so we decided to take our talents downtown where we had tons of fun! We had dinner at a fancy little restaurant next to the Spanish Steps. It was super pretty with all the Christmas lights in Centro. We also had permission from President to stay out till 10:30 so we went and saw everything there was to see downtown. Coliseum, Vatican, Piazza Nervona, Piazza del Popolo, Castel Sant Angelo, Trevi, and essentially everything else. Best part was Centro was completely empty because everybody was home doing Christmas parties so the streets were super quiet. Very strange. But super cool. That was a very good Christmas eve.

Christmas day was in the church. The Bishop had a bunch of families over all day and we all played board games, ate meat all day, played ping pong and foosball, opened presents, skyped. It was a gay ol’ time. That evening we also watched Frozen. THAT MOVIE IS AWESOME. Maybe it is because I have not seen a movie in a long time but I really enjoyed it. We were allowed to watch two movies. But... We liked Frozen so much that we watched it twice!

Also. President granted permission for us to run this 10K in Rome Centro called NIKE WE RUN ROME. It is sweet. It goes past Piazza Del Popolo, Circus Maximus, Coliseum, Villa Borghese, and all that jazz. He said we could run it because we said we would make Mormon.org shirts when we ran. I am super excited. The race is New Year’s Eve. And on New Year’s Eve President gave permission for us to go see Romeo and Juliet the musical. Should be pretty cool.

Questions from Ma & Pa:

Were you able to make any teaching appointments this week?

Well... Not really. We did our best. We were able to meet a little bit, twice, with a man named Robert but this week was a bit harder to meet with people. However this whole next week we are pretty busy with stuff to do which will be very nice.

What was your most memorable “Christmas in Italy” experience?

Christmas Eve.

What was your gift from the Vatican Nun?

I am a little bummed. The stuff never came. Either she never sent the stuff or the Italian Postmas robbed it. Who knows?

What are your New Year’s plans?

New Year’s Day we have an appointment in the morning and then I will be running a 10k in centro. I am super excited.

P-Day last week in Villa Borghese.