Okay, at long last, the email that you have all been waiting for. Hopefully ya'll won't kill me later when we Skype.
I guess I should start with that chemical accident that Dad mentioned. That sounds like it was painful. Sorry that you had so much gas buildup. On the bright side, the damage was only superficial, and that saved your life. Just remember to not have so much gas!!!!!!! (private joke).
Okay but in all seriousness:
Mum: I made it over to Rome without incident. Just gotta say that the FrecciaRossa was fast! I was super impressed with the speed of that train! For information, the FrecciaRossa is one of the fastest trains in all of Italy. It goes from Napoli to Rome in an hour and ten minutes. The intercity train I took was about 2 hours and 30 minutes. So, yeah, fast train!
Thanks for the emails, and the prayers. Honestly, if you want to know the truth. I fasted and prayed about it that next Sunday. I won't say the personal revelation I recieved during that period, but I prayed about it all the time up to the train ride, asking the Lord to help me deal with the call, and help me to do what I need to do.
Yeah, miracles still happen, every single day. I honestly don't have any problems now. I've found the bright side of being in Rome. The office is close by, so I can get stuff whenever I need, and reimbursements get done fairly quickly as well. Rome itself is pretty cool.
So, while I can't say I'm super-happy, I'm at least content with the situation, so I can work with the Lord and my comp.
So my new comp is Anziano Zito. He's cool. It's nice to have another Italian companion. I rather enjoyed it with Anziano Curzola, and so I'm happy to be with Anz. Zito. He's, more or less, from a city called Alessandria, which is a small city in between Milan and Torino, about an hour from both. He dies this transfer, so I don't get out of killing someone.
I honestly don't know who that is (Nathan's mom asked if he had met a Anziano Peter Mcullum, who is a ward member's nephew). Maybe he's in a different zone. I don't know anymore. PW got rid of the trunk sheet, the list of where all the missionaries are, so I don't know, or ever met him. Probably won't meet him either, I'm too old in the mission now.
Sounds like both of you guys have had one heck of a busy week! Mom, you got head underwear? What the heck?!!?!?!?! That's wierd. Tell Dad that I'm praying that all goes well with him! I love him, and got his back!
Well, not much to say this week. Spent the first half in it in Napoli saying goodbye to people and stuff. It was kinda hard to say good bye to our investigators, especially when they all started crying. That, at the very least, means you did a good job with something, making a lasting friendship with them.
Then after I got to Rome, it was service opportunities! Been doing a lot of service in Rome 6 as of late. We helped people move around twice, helped out in the office, man it was busy. It was nice, honestly. I enjoyedf helping out people who really needed it and the spirit was pretty strong throught out the day.
We did teach one lesson to our investigator, Nabil, about prayer and how he can know the truth through prayer. Seems like he really wants to change his life, and we're inviting him to do just that with the invites we're leaving. I think there's a good chance for progress there.
Okay, yup, that's been our week. I'm excited for what's coming our way this week.
Later,
I'll let you know about Skype once I know myself. We're still organizing some things.
Well, love ya!
NaNa
Here are some pictures taken from the Rome/Napoli Specialized Training. Yes, they are doing the nativity again and based on the pictures, I believe Nathan is a narrator. Last year he was the "star" and this year he got covered up by the star! Oh the fickle nature of "stars."
See below, Nathan got covered up by the "star" this year!
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