> La mia famiglia!
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> Well the palace that i went and saw last week was amazing. Probably my favorite thing i have seen in italy. Old building are really neat but it was the most gorgeous place i have ever been. It was raining for alot of the time so we got our selves pretty wet but it was really fun. I will send some pictures. This is also where they shot part of the star wars movie. Anyway this week went pretty well. It was a little slower but this next week is looking really good. No one came to church but we were able to see a couple people. We saw arcangelo and talked about scripture study and prayer. He will not commit himself to do anything and so it is hard for him to progress. He wasnt able to come to church because he had to coach soccer. So we invited him to read 3 verses and thats it. Hopefully he can slowly gain the desire to read the book of mormon. We had a great appointment with Jacob this week. He has a little eleven month year old daughter who lives in ghana with his wife. We talked about the plan of salvation and baptism. He feels good about the book of mormon but he says he needs to be patient to recieve his answer. And he has commited to come to church this Sunday along with his 3 friends. So that will be wonderful. He is a great man. We had Emilda who is a recent convert help us teach and it went great. She has such a strong testimony and it was helping here understand some of the doctrine better also. It was so neat we were walking on the street with her and we started talking to some young men who were in their 20s. After we invited them to english class and we were walking away emilda had stopped and was digging through her bag. She grabbed out five cards that had the articles of faith on them and proudly handed them out to the young men. It was so neat. She has such a strong testimony and such a great desire to share this gospel. She is a great example for me. We also were able to teach Emilda this week about Temples. She is very excited to go to the temples. She did not know about that she could be baptized for her deceased ancestors and when we told her she was so excited.
> This last weekend we had to go to Rome to get the permesso for my companian. Its the card for his permission to be here. We did not have the receit for his card and so they did not give us the permesso but the trip was not wasted. Right after we left the permesso office, a little down, we met this really cool man from tanzania. He has a family of 8 children. He was in rome for a couple of days on a business trip. He had heard of the church but he did not know very much about it. So we had broughten with our luggage a book of mormon in english and italian. So we gave him the english book of mormon after we had explained the restoration to him. He said, well that would be important to read this book. We got his email address and he was very excited to read the book of mormon. It was such a neat experience. My companian said after it happened, its funny that he had to come to Rome to hear about the gospel. The lord is in this work. So this week went really well. Next week are transfers. I will probably be staying here in caserta and be recieving a new companian but we will see. Well i love you all! I love this work and there is nothing i would rather be doing. Thank you so much for all the prayers.
> Anziano Hale
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Hello!
> Well today we are going to the regia which is a big palace here in caserta so sorry if this is kind of short. I will send a few pictures next week from halloween and the palace. Well we were pretty busy this last week which is always a good thing. We were able to teach arcangelo once. He wanted to learn about the 2nd coming so we had a pretty good lesson. He has been harder to get ahold of lately because he kind of has a girlfriend. He also has a hard time keeping commitments but he really likes coming to church. He says he would come even if we didnt ask him. Then we were able to teach John Adam, Jacob and ebenezier from ghana. It went really well. We went to teach Jacob and then the others were all at the house. We watched the restoration together and then we talked about the book of mormon. We had a really neat american member there with us that bore amazing testimony. They were all really excited to read the book of mormon and they are going to try to come to church next week. I am so excited. It was such a spiritual lesson becuase they are so humble. This week my testimony was strenghtened on the power of the priesthood. We were able to give alot of blessings this week to members who needed them for sickness and also comfort. We were also able to give one to Rudolfos mother who is not a member. It was really neat. Sunday evening we called an inactive who we have been trying to get a hold of. We got through to her and she did not sound good. She said she wasnt feeling well. We asked her if there was anything we could do and she asked for a blessing. So later that evening we went over there. Luckily, well there is no luck in missionary work, but i was able to memorize how to give a priesthood blessing in italian earlier in the week. She asked me to give it and i was very nervous. It was a very simple blessing but Sister Russos faith was amazing. The spirit was so strong. It was a really neat experience. I have gained such a love lately for my studies in the scriptures during my mission. I am so excited every morning to study and am always sad when the studying time is over. The scriptures truly can give us a power that we need throughout the day. oh other good news is sister bove came to church again this last week and bore her testimony. it was so awesome.
> Oh yes on halloween I made a pumpkin pasta. The pumpkin that we cut out from our pumpkins with faces i put in the freezer and then on saturday turned it into a pasta. It was delicious. Hope everyone else had a wonderful Halloween. Well I love you all. I know this Gospel is true. I know its not always easy to endure to the end but i know as we search ponder and pray every day that we can become the people we need to. Ciao!
> Anziano hale