First off, about the water.Last P-day we went up to this park in the City where they have like these public water faucets that they have here in Italy. We took my comps suitcase with like 8 two liter bottles and filled them up. It was a little bit strange but we didn't want to pay. We looked super sketchy though with our white shirts and ties and a random suitcase with water bottles in it trying to fill them up as quickly as possible so that people didn't get mad at us. hahahaha it must have been quite the site.
Then we had Zone Conference. Zone conference week is crazy here. We left on Tuesday at 6 in the morning and we arrived in Taranto at 1:30! Then we ate lunch and studied the language and then off to the church to have our interviews with president. Those went well and we also had to wait for the two Anziani there that we were staying with and doing exchanges with for that day because they were waiting for their interviews and and an investigators baptismal interview. Then we taught their English Course and I got to teach with my old Comp Anziano M*******! We worked together through most of the week so that was cool to be with him again for exchanges. Then Wednesday was Zone Conference and more exchanges and we came home on Thursday and arrived around 3 headed straight to a lesson and then straight to English Course. It was pretty crazy.
Luckily we were able to catch an early train back to Catanzaro so that we could get a lesson in with the English Teacher on Thursday before we had to be back for English Course. It went well and she said she would try to come to church but she wasn't able to. We will really be trying to focus on how she needs to come to church in this coming up week so that she can make a relationship with her and the branch. We really feel that once she comes she will love it but Satin knows it as well and is trying to stop her from getting here.
We are also working a lot with a less-active sister now. She really has a fear of leaving her house and has a doctors note saying she has this Phobia but we were able to bare testimony of the Enabling Power of the Atonement and how because of Christ's Atonement we can see miracles in our lives and we will be able to overcome the difficulties and do things that we may think we can't physically do. We also bore witness of the power that we can receive through the Atonement to have strength beyond our own. Step by step we are trying to help her come to church and show her that with the help of branch members and friends and most importantly our Savior Jesus Christ that she can overcome any obstacle in her life and become stronger.
I have a strong testimony of this. Whenever as missionaries we fall or we get week, our Savior lifts us in ways unimaginable and ways that we wouldn't even have been able to imagine. We also can receive answers to our prayers if we are asking with a sincere heart really wanting to know!! The scriptures have been so vital in my life and I really appreciated the trainings that we received this week about the importance of the scriptures about them at this past Zone Conference. I feel so blessed to be here helping others and see how they are really helping me as well. I testify that Christ lives, He loves us, and He will help us in ANY way that we need if we will be humble enough to ask for it and have faith in His Plan!!
This is me eating Puccia. It was sooooooooo goood. It is like Pizza dough specially made but then they cut it open and put in french fries, Mozzarella, ketchup, mayonnaise, and raw ham, It is amazing. And they only make it in Taranto/Statte where our Zone Conference was!
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