Beneamati Genitori miei,
I'm glad to hear that things are okay. I will respond to all questions in a moment, allow me to talk about things from home. (I'm trying to be more formal, but I think I'll just be me).
Mom: I'm glad the Taggarts dog made it back all right. Marcus is now 20? I thought I was old! Tell him Happy Birthday for me and that he now knows what I feel like...at least in age. (Dad's the only one who knows what it's like to be a missionary in the family, and just how stinkin tiring it is! )
Tell Kendra that I wish her luck with her interview and that things go well. I think she would like working at an eyeglasses store!
Dad: Busy as always. I think you and I can be considered the busiest members of the family right now! (I'm kidding mom!)
Sorry observing is going to be lonely for a while. Once I get back, I think I'll start going with you, that is if you've built my scope. And if you haven't I'll still go with you every once in a while.
I got the message on the 05. I think that'd be a good idea. I like that car.
Both: Well, as sad as I would've been, I wouldn't want Coda to be in pain, and it would've been better for him. But I'm glad that he's still alive, and I'll get to see him when I get home.
Okay, well, here we go:
Well, what to say about this week? I'll sum it up in a few words: I am in love with L'Aquila!
This week, I've spent most of my time meeting with our investigators and meeting some of the members, so it's been a rather good week.
On Monday, we went and had family home evening with the Melone family, and we taught about faith to one of the new converts and the friend of one of the members. It went really well, and they all comitted to find a way to show their faith in Jesus Christ.
Then we also taught Iole this week. Iole is an investigator who lives in Avezzano, an hour away. She's been taking the lessons for a while now, and we taught her the Gospel of Jesus Christ this week. We went twice, once on Wednesday, and once on Saturday with members. We taught all the principles and invited her to be baptized. She said she didn't feel ready at the moment, as she wanted to know more. She did, however, pray that Heavenly Father would help her become a Mormon, so she is sincere in her desire.
This fast, aside from being for the Scherbel couple, was also, at least for us, the chance to fast for Monica, one of the friends of the members. She was an investigator for a while, but the mother has all but stopped her progress. We talked to her friends, both of who are members, and asked them to join us in a fast to soften the heart of the mother, and let Monica begin to progress in the gospel.
I feel the fast went over rather well, and I have a feeling we'll be seeing the results very shortly. We're going to be seeing Monica at the FHE tonight abnd we're going to be taking some actions, ie: asking if we could met with the mother so we could help soothe out any problems or false ideas, to help this fast work out.
Besides that, that's been our work lately. We have one other investigator who just got back into the city, but then went to Rome for the weekend, which I hear is a weekly occurance. I hope that this week we can see her, and begin to teach her agian. So, been doing a lot of finding lately. This week, because we both feel we need to find more people to teach, we're praying that the Lord will lead us to find these people he's preparing for us, and I know he will lead us to these people, or he will lead them to us. That's not really faith, I've seen these miracles happen too much, it's a testimony to me now.
So, basically, the same situation that I'm always in. The only difference is that now, I get to drink from the tap, and I'm plenty hydrated because of that, and I'm still losing weight. I'm going to be down 100 lbs. before the end of my mission easily.
Mom: Anziano Bethke is from Washington D.C. and he's really chill. He's from the same group as Calchera and Stamps (three from the same group in a row...hmm...). He's really good. He likes to go and work, and we get along well. We both like the same music style so things are good.
Okay well, that's about it for me this week...Love you!
NaNa
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