5/18/15

Family,

Well what a great week. We have really been blessed and had some crazy things happen. On Wednesday we went to Siracusa on an exchange and it went really well. The Anziani there are doing really well and they are working really hard and doing some great work. Funny part of the story though. Wednesday night they had to many things going (washing machine,fan, a.c. ect.) and the power went out. Well because the washing machine was going, then entire room where it was, was filled with an inch and a half of water and everything,including all the stuff the my comp had brought for the exhange, was soaked and lots of it was ruined. So we spent the morning helping them and working with their down stairs neighbor who wasn't very happy when he woke up to leakage from above. That was a pretty crazy experience along with the fact that they had a few lessons set up that they had to be at but luckily for the most part it was fine when we needed to leave. 

Then that night we got a text message from a member in Brazil that gave us a referral and we felt like we needed to go see them as soon as possible so right when we got back from Siracusa, (we did the trip in P.J.'s because our normal clothes were completly soaked we got changed really quick and went and found this referral. We got there and they let us in but these people spoke little Italian, they spoke only Siciliano. So that was fun and the referral was drunk to add on top of that and so it was twice as hard to understand him but the parents seemed to be interested and when we see them again hopefully they will be sober. haha

Then we had a good day on Sunday. We actually had a cousin of a member come to church and he is AMAZING!! He seems really cool and very prepared and we are beyond excited for him and to see if we can help him in anyway shape or form. We had a really good week and we have been blessed a ton. My comp leaves on Friday and so that will be weird. It has been weird just seeing him get ready but lots of this week will be the goodbyes and getting ready for him. I hope you all have a great week and know how much i miss you all and love you all!! 

Love

Anziano Passantino