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Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Sassari, Sardinia - 3/7/2012


Carissimi Famiglia,

Since you asked for some photos you're gonna get some photos. We climbed up this huge mountain in a place called Gulfo Aranci (Google it) These I think are all photo's from that trip. At the top of the Mountain there is an old giant building where the first radio telegraph message in Europe was sent from here to Roma. The building is all abandoned and falling apart now so we only climbed around a little of it but it was way fun. I'm bummed Kristin is sick and really hope she gets better soon. Everyone here in Italy has also been sick with the flu (except us). To answer your questions. I wrote Peter a while ago but haven't heard back from him and I haven’t written Travis because I don't know his address haha, apparently can't just write "Bro who lives at the bottom of my street" on a letter and hope it gets there. I'm glad to hear they are tearin it up at Sunday school teaching though. They are an ultimate team. Transfer calls were this week and I'll be staying another 6 weeks here in Sassari with Anziano Lacey again as far as I know.
Our Bolivian investigator Adhemar is doing fantastic. We met with him yesterday and he came to church this Sunday for the first time. I see him getting baptized real soon. As for his family we still need to work with them. They won't meet with us because they are still studying with the Jehovah Witnesses. In-fact yesterday while we were teaching him they showed up at his house to teach his daughter, so they went in another room to do their stuff.  We'll see him again Friday and then again at church Sunday. Speaking of church this Sunday we had another amazing thing happen. I guess I forgot to tell you about this experience we had last week. While waiting for a contact to show up and meet us in church last Wednesday morning, a young 21 year old kid named Maurizio who was a brand new English course student from the night before randomly showed up looking for our priest or leader of our church. He wanted some council on some things. We told him to come back Sunday and meet with the Branch President. Well the contact never showed up and we left and started our P-day. This Sunday Maurizio came to church and spent 45 MINUTES!?!?! with the branch president. It went way well. He came to Sacrament meeting and it being fast and testimony last week he got to sit through that. The best and craziest part though was toward the end of the meeting he said "Io non posso andare. no?" which means "I can't go. no?" and I said "Se vuoi, puoi" which is "if you want, you can" He lets out a long sigh and then pops up and goes straight to the stand. The look of confusion on some of the members faces was priceless haha. I looked at my companion who was sitting across the chapel with Adhemar and he had a look of solid fear, sorta like "I really hope this kid doesn't say anything nuts and scare away our other investigators". So Maurizio goes up there, not knowing anyone other than us and the branch president and bears an awesome testimony of how happy he is to be here with us, how he knows Jesus Christ and all that good stuff. I was blown away, and the members probably even more than I was. After church they all saluted him and thanked him for his testimony. THAT KID IS GONNA BE A MISSIONARY ONE DAY!!!! at least in my opinion. The ward was incredibly impressed with our ability to bring two investigators into church that can hopefully contribute to the ward one day. 
             So that’s my story for this week. I'm thankful for all your letters. You and Kristin have, just this last week, passed up Dani in writing me so I would like to congratulate you guys. I miss you all and hope you all have a great week. Vi voglio bene e ci sentiamo ok? 

          Con amore, Anziano Kyle Hill

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