Prato, Week 3

Another week come and gone here in Prato.

It's been raining here the past couple days, which isn't very fun to walk around in but we get by.

We usually get up and go running in the morning but this morning we decided not to because it was too windy and cold. So instead we sat on our beds and stretched : ) and talked for half an hour. It was a good rest. We have been running every morning so the rest was needed!

Last weeks events....

Thursday nights we teach an english class at the church. It's fun. We teach the intermediate class. Lots of good people, hopefully we can teach some of them the gospel!

Friday we do our weekly planning which takes all morning. Friday night we had an appointment with Nurshia and Anil at our new branch president, president Ianni's, house up in the mountains near Vaiano (maybe you know where that is dad.) It went well. It's so great to have a member there who can testify and help teach. We taught about prayer and how we pray to Heavenly Father in the name of Jesus Christ because Anil didn't know that. We also just talked about the godhead and thier relationship with each other and our relationship with them. Its was great. We'll meet with Nurshia and Anil again this week.

Saturday we met with a Russian lady who's living here in Prato taking care of a senile older italian. We left her with a russian book of mormon and she was so excited to see her russian language. We actuall went back last night and she had read over 120 pages in the book of mormon! We were like, what! Holy Cow. Her Italian isn't that great so it's a little hard to communicate with her. We tried to teach her that she should pray about the book to know if it's true. She started reciting this memorized prayer in russian and we just sort of sat there. She doesn't understand that she's got to say her own prayer. Anyways, we'll go back later this week.

Sunday, church. Church is great but always a little crazy. It's noisy and hard to concentrate but relief society and gospel principles are great. Renato invited us over for lunch next sunday so that'll be fun. Sunday night we met with the Diblasio family, probably a little younger than you, mom and dad, and have about 5 kids, some married, some Andy's age. They're great members. It was the best dinner ever. They have a real brick oven outside and so we got fresh, homemade pizza! Sorella Roper and I were in heaven and probably ate to much! But it was sooo good. We laughed so hard because they were trying to speak english. Anyway, we had a good lesson with them about missionary work and how it starts with our faith. I was able to give a portion of the lesson and share a scripture. It was a great night.

Oh yeah, we also taught Sabrina last Wed. We watched the restoration video with her and our relief society pres bore her testimony and everything. But Sabrina said that she hadn't felt the spirit. Yikes! So we kind of don't know what to do with her. She loves meeting with us but we don't know her motives. If she's happy with her church why is she meeting with us? We think it might be because we speak english and she likes to practice here english. So we've got to figure out her motives and if she really desires to find out about the true church.

Sorry if that was all a bit scatter-brained but I'm trying to hurry and write.

In all things are going good. I'm excited to work with our investigators this week and to help them progress.

Life is good, hard, but can't really complain.

Love you all and hope things are going well.

Love,

Sorella B.