It has been a super good week. It has been really crazy but we are getting ready for one of the craziest weeks of the mission for me for sure. We have to figure out all kinds of transportation because of Zone Conference and we have a meeting the night before as well so we have to get 16 missionaries from the station to the church (and hour away by bus and longer by foot) then get them back home where we will have 18 missionaries staying in one hourse tomorrow hahaha. We did shopping for the whole thing today and just got everything prepared for the conference!! So I don't have a ton of time to write this week.
Anyway before all of that. We had a pretty solid week. I got to see Brian on wednesday!! That was super crazy and a cool miracle as well!! When we were walking with him this lady waved to us and we went and talked to her and she was a member in Gela (another city here in Sicily!) Then friday we went to Gela on an exchange and we were able to contact here again and she has some great referals for the Anziani there!! Also we had funny experience right before we saw brian. We went to go see this member that hasn't been to church in 50 years. He was baptized when he was 19 was active for a few years and then fell away and hasn't been back since. He is now 71 and we just decided to call him up and see how he was doing. He ended up coming to church and we went to go visit him right before we saw Brian. I should explain also that this person was explaining a little bit about his desire to recieve a testimony again and so we were talking to him about that when some random friend of a friend walked in and starting screeming at us and saying bad things about the church. He just yelled at us, wouldn't let us speak, said that we were of the devil and this whole time we kind of just let him talk because he wasn't allowing us to speak anyway. At one point this member started to defend the church and this guy wouldn't let him speak either so both my comp and I had him be quite so that this member, who was searching for a testimony, could bare it and have it be confermed to him by the spirit. Although it might not have seemed like the best experience, this member was able to bare testimony and in doing so recieve the confermation of the spirit tell him that what he was saying was true. What a miracle after having left the church for such a long time. Needless to say we will continue to work with him.
Tomorrow we will be getting the ipads! haha right at the end of the mission haha:) It should be good and I feel that it will help us as missionaries to fulfill our purpose with more organization. I was telling Brian about how excited I am to have the planner on the ipad. I think, at least for me, it will keep us more organized and make things a lot easier. It should be a great conference and we are looking forward to it, it is just super stressful because we had everything planned then late last night all of our plans were destroyed because of an extra meeting that we have to have tomorrow night! We are doing well though. This work is the best!! I love being here in Catania!! I hope everyone has a great week.
love
Anziano Passantino
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