Weekly Email January 27th 2014

Hello!

Well, I've got a lot to address and plenty of time, but I'm lazy, so this email may be short. We'll see.

Let's start off with how things have been for me in my mission life this last week. Well, mark off another item on the missionary checklist. I got sick. Second time in the mission, and it was, like the last time, just for a little bit. I was back to normal the next day. The down side is: MY PERMA-COUGH HAS BEEN REACTIVATED! Yeah, so I'm hacking up my lungs every two seconds. YAY!

I blame the weather. It's been super cold and rainy here in Ragusa, which I hear is common in Gennaio (I'll be using a lot more italiano in my spelling because it's hard to think of certain words in english now), but that doesn't make it enjoyable in the slightest. But the work moves forward.

So, we met with Issac, our new convert who is now the Gospel principles teacher. We've been helping him prepare the lesson that he teaches on Sunday, and just encouraging him. He has this great wish to increase his scriptural knowledge, and he really tries. His lessons are always really good on Sunday.

We also met with Valentina, our other new convert. We taught her the Restoration with one of our members, as part of the after baptism lessons. It went okay. The member was a little unique in his teaching style, but we made the adjustments and the lesson went over well.

We met with our investigator whose named Issac, we taught the Plan of Salvation. I have my worries over whether or not he understands everything we say, but he seems to get the concept, and he has never missed church as of yet, so I have hope. We also met with Rose, and taught the Restoration. Again I don't know how much she understood, but she came to church as well.

We met with Elvis and Vittoria our investigating couple. We had to do a little box-breaking, and really inform them that they needed to read the Book of Mormon, and they need to pray about it. It went over well, and Elvis was in church on Sunday. Vittoria however, was not. She hasn't come in a while, I understand. I think we need to address that issue next.

Besides that, things are going great. Work here is steady, consistent, and growing. We've had to make adjustments since we've lost Valentina as a simpat, but we're going to be doing a lot more things. We have some good plans.

This next Sunday, for example, we're going to be doing a fireside about missionary work for the members. Our ward mission leader suggested the idea, and we went with it, because we really need it. Ironically, I was thinking about suggesting something like this when I got into Ragusa, and look at that! I didn't have to do a single thing. It was truly inspiration.

So yeah, I'll let you know how that goes. Besides that, things roll on like normal.

Well, love you guys, talk to you next week.

NaNa