Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Hello!!
well internet is being silly today so this might be the only letter i get off. Well i will start with the big news first. Yesterday we got calls from Presient to tell us about transfers. I was 90 percent sure my companian would be leaving and i would be staying. Well it was not as i thought. The bad news is that i am leaving and i am very sad. I came to love this city in 6 weeks and i will miss it very much. i will also miss anziano gillespie very much. we got along great and did a great work together. there were definately hard times this transfer but in the end it was great. i will miss our investigators but i can trust anziano gillespie to take care of them (especially Salma). i will also miss Austin who got baptised and 3 other recent converts named lily, giuseppe, and nertil. so i am sad but the good news is where i am going. i am going back to Rome! infact the same ward and apartment and everything. That is where gemil and Sharlene were baptized and i havent seen them since so i am very excited. i really love the ward there. and something very interesting is this transfer at random times i have thought back to serving in rome with anziano herrick and wondered if some of the people i knew will ever get contacted again. but now i know they will. also we had the investigator Zang Bu Dong from china here in Prato that moved to rome so i am going to start teaching him again. my companian will be anziano morris who i have heard good things about but do not know him great. so i will be going back to rome tomorrow. crazy who fast things can unexpectedly change. well the work went pretty good this week.

I met this man named Alex from Brazil who was really neat. He is about 27 and is studying theology and is becoming a priest. But the good thing is he was interested in the book of mormon and he is now reading it in portuguese. And i know that the book of mormon can change his mind about wanting to be a priest because he will feel and find the truth. Hopefully my companian and his new companian can visit with him tomorrow or friday. We also got an investigator from knocking house. His name is samuele and he is italian and way cool. He is studying greek and is very smart. He really liked the book of mormon and was excited to read it and also to see us again. He is probably 27 or so. So those were two really cool miracles. Samuele had told my companian when we were on an exchange that we could come back later. And we did and he allowed us to teach him. I think he is only like my fourth investigator from knocking house. Salma was very busy and so she could not see us but she wants to meet with us tomorrow. She really wants to come to church and she is enjoying the book of mormon. I will keep hoping that everything will work out for her. She is so amazing. Sad news is the father named Donado that i met a couple weeks ago let satan get into his mind. When i met him he really wanted a book of mormon and seemed so sincere. But then i finally got hold of him and he just hung up on me. So we sent him a text message with a pay phone (cause we dont have text) and bore our testimony of the book of mormon. It is so sad who powerful satan is. He truly has a knowledge of the importance of this message that we have and he does everything he can to get people to not to listen. We also found a cool albanian family knocking house and hopefully they can start investigating the church. Had an appointment with lorenzo and stefano that went pretty well. We have still not seen the pakistanian family allthough they still really want us to come over the dads work schedule is just very random so we have to call every day and see if they are available that day. So i have seen so many miracles in this city. The second week of this transfer after austin was baptized we had no investigators. Now we have quite a few and some who are promising. The Lord has truly blessed us and i hope i can put into practice the things i learned here in rome. Eric from nigeria was baptized on sunday. The sisters here in prato had been teaching him. It was a great experience and he was so happy. He bore his testimony and said he has never been happier and he will never forget his baptisimal day. It was great. Well that pretty much sums up this week. So next week i will be talking to you all from Rome. Love you all. Ciao Ciao

anziano hale