Ciao Tutti,
To start off I wanna share an awesome thing that happened to us
just this Monday. After knocking doors for about 4 hours and not really having
much luck we decided to head back home because it was getting late. While
waiting at the bus stop I was telling Anziano Lacey a story about some
forest fires and forgot the word in Italian for "forest fire" so
I got up and walked over to a guy waiting by us and asked him about it. He told
me the word and I told him "thank you, I'm still learning Italian"
and he told me that he was learning Italian too haha. I then asked him where he
was from and he said Bolivia. He trains horses and has been here in Sassari
with his family for 5 years working. He took the same bus as us so we continued
our conversation on the bus. We than went on to talk about religion and he told
us that he has read the whole entire Bible. He grew up in the Catholic church
but did not agree with many of their doctrines. While here in Italy he started
studying with the Jehovah Witnesses, but lucky for us he had issues
with their doctrines also. So he basically got off the bus at his
house and told us to come back the next day. OH YEAH! He was so nice too. We
stopped by his house yesterday morning and taught a super powerful first
lesson. Probably one of the best in my whole mission. We also brought him a
bunch of materials in Spanish. He is going to talk to his wife and see if
we can come back around Saturday. The problem is his wife and kids are all
studying with the J.W.'s. So we have
some work to do but the spirit is good at taking care of that stuff. It's
amazing though how this worked out. He is probably one of the best
investigators we have found for a while. I'm very excited to see him again. He
is such a nice guy and we are already like best friends.
So other than that little miracle this week has been rough. The
weather has been nutz here with more snow and more shut down public transportation.
Not only that but this Sunday they CANCELED CHURCH!! Italians are a
bunch of babies when it comes to the weather haha There are millions of people
in Utah and Idaho who go to church through thousands of feet of snow! I’m just kidding though we actually have a
great branch here. The only lame thing was that our branch president decided to
call everyone to tell them that church was cancelled, EXCEPT US. We got all
ready to go when we got a call from the Olbia Anziani who asked what we were
gonna do since church was cancelled and we said " WHAT!?!? church is
cancelled?" Turns out they got cancelled too
and indirectly heard through one of their members that ours was
before anybody had done us the courtesy. So we commenced calling all of
the members here and after 4 different people, one of them finally answered and
made us aware that church was indeed cancelled. =P So no investigators in
church this week.
Sorry I wrote Mike a letter and no one else. I figured he was a
reliable source for some of the information I wanted and I am excited about his
college applications to BYU. Today I will write everyone else so you can all
feel wanted haha. And a note for next week. I will be E-mailing
you Tuesday not Wednesday because I will be traveling to Rome next
week for a big conference where Elder Texiera of the Quorum of the Seventy will
be talking to us. Also I am still waiting on bank account info because my card
keeps telling me to contact my bank (which I cannot do) so please get on that
as soon as possible and get back to me. I really hope everything goes well with
Brother Powell and let him know he’s in my prayers. To answer some questions
you asked mom. No baptismal dates yet but I'll let you know first thing. The Muslim
lady didn’t end up being very interested. oh well. I think they are almost
harder to convert than Mormons haha. Oh and Kristin's letters are
really starting to scare me a little because she sounds all teenagerish now and
a lot less little girl. Well I guess she had to grow up someday.
I miss you all and love you all also! Have a great week and I'll
hear from you guys next Tuesday okay? Be excellent to each other! and party on
dudes. Vi voglio bene, ci sentiamo, e arrevederci!
Con Amore, Anziano Kyle Hill
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