Lots of Work to Do

Tell us about Fabrizio, his baptism and his son.

So the baptism went really well. However... Me and Anziano Kenney smelled cigs on him a few minutes before the service and saw him sucking on tons of mints so we pulled him aside and asked him if he had been smoking. He said no. There were about 60 people at his baptism and there was a lot of pressure on him... Woof. So we went on with the service. However, a few days later we talked with him and he is still smoking. :( He is meeting the Bishop pretty regularly to see if he can get the Priesthood. It is a little sad because he is holding back his family back a bit. We are going to work with them a lot because we set the date for one of the boys for the 21st. We hope that he can make it.

What was the best thing you ate this week?

This week we went to a less active’s named Peter. He is Filipino. He is the head chef at a restaurant and we ate there. SUPER GOOD! He gave us lots of food and every single person in there was from the Philippines. So essentially everybody knew us in there as missionaries. His restaurant is right in Centro so we are going to eat there like every PDAY.

What was the hardest thing you did this week?

We were super busy this week with Zone Conferences/Zone Leader Conferences/Interviews and I also did a baptism interview. We were busy running around Rome like all week long. It is nice that we can finally start to do missionary work again. We have a lot of people that we are working with. There is a lot of stuff to do here in Rome. There is such a big difference between Rome and South of Italy. It is crazy. I don’t know what it is. Whether it is the culture, the people, religion. But missionary work is just so much easier here. The south is super awesome. I miss it a lot. But things are super different here. It is a completely different world than Lecce or Sciacca. The mentality of the people is so different. In the south people were really content with how things were. They didn’t want to better their lives, they just wanted to be happy and eat and sleep (not a bad life) but the further north the more work there is to do. 

What was your miracle of the week?

We met a man on the train this week from Bangladesh (the east side of Rome is where all the immigrants live. Sooo many immigrants.). We exchanged numbers with him and tried to meet him but he said he was busy. He then suggested we come over tonight because his whole family would be home and we could come "preach to them." So that should be fun. He spoke a little English. A little Italian. We will see how it goes.

Well that is about it for me this week!