venire a Cristo: Can't Believe it is Already September

So it's September now and that's kinda weird to think about but this
week was a pretty good week we are working hard but the next two weeks
are going to be very busy.

Tuesday. So we didn't have district meeting today. So, this morning
instead we went to go see Abraham. We talked about prophets with him
but it got cut kinda short because the police came ha-ha. So he is a
refugee so he lives in a refugee camp and they were not getting the
things the government promised so they called the police to make it
better ha-ha. So we left cuz they had stuff to figure out. Then we went
back to Termini to do an exchange with the zone leaders. So my hommie
from Palermo, Anziano Holbrook, who is now here in Rome came with me.
We went to go do some work and stuff. We went and visited a member and
she gave us a ride closer to our house. She dropped us off near the
mall so obviously we went to Ikea. Bought some meatballs and €.50 ice
cream and then came home. We cooked those meatballs and they were dang
good.

Wednesday. We went to go see Abraham again this morning ha-ha. We went
over the baptismal interview questions and it went great. He is
getting closer to being ready for baptism and it was nice for Holbrook
to see him because Holbrook is actually the one who found Abraham so
that was neat. Then we went back to city center to get my old
companions. We had English course Wednesday night and a bunch of new
people came. So the class was more fun and at the end we did like an
introduction to the restoration and they loved it. Some of the new
people even asked us to do longer spiritual thoughts at the end which
was great.

Thursday. So we did some planning this morning for the week. We had to
figure out what we were going to do when me and Just go to Napoli and
how we are going to get all the work that we need to do, done. It will
be an exciting week. Then we went and helped an American member learn
Italian. He really needs it. Then we just went out and put up some
English course posters because it's working. Anyways, not the most
exciting day.

Friday. So today we had specialized training. It's like zone
conference but shorter. It was really good. I really liked Presidents
training about how to have no fear. He used a talk by president
Uchtdorf to new mission presidents about Peter. How he denied knowing
Christ three times because of fear and how he eventually changed all
that. It helped me to realize that I do have fear of talking to people
or maybe not being good enough or something like that. Idk. But I
really felt like the only way we can dispel that fear is through
faith. So I'm going to start studying that to dispel whatever fears I
may have. Also after conference we had some bomb sandwiches for lunch.
Wow they were good. Then we had correlation and then Abraham came to
church for his baptism interview. It went really good. He passes but
we just need to help him understand a couple things better but in the
end it was good. We are so excited for him.

Saturday. We went to go see Abraham again this morning.... We go and
see him a lot ha-ha but this morning it was raining soooooo hard. Like
it was just pouring out and I was like wow. That's a lot of rain. But
it didn't stop us from seeing Abraham. Thing about rain here in Rome
is, is that it doesn't stay around for a long time. When it rains, it
rains hard but only for like an hour then soon after you have clear
blue skies and a lot of humidity ha-ha but then for lunch we went to
chicken hut with our friends Gilbert and Antonella. Love going to
chicken hut cuz it's like friend chicken and I like that. Then we had
to go back to church to grab an Anziano from the AP's. I guess he is
leaving for medical problems but for now he is with us. He is so funny
though, I've met this guy before and I laugh so hard when I'm around
him. Anyways, Saturday night we had to go to Ikea because we are
looking for a new bed for my companion. Ikea is crazy. Like that place
is amazing but I don't want to take my future wife there because I
like not maxing out my credit card. Ha-ha swag.

Sunday. We had church. Translated. Met some tourists from Troy. Also
Abraham came to church and so did a crap ton of tourists. So many
tourists came this week, it was crazy. Sunday night we did a gesso,
which means chalk in Italian but we take a bed sheet, draw something
on it like the temple and then we lay it out for people to see and
then we talk to them. So Anziano Mercado, because he is a hommie at
drawing, drew then temple, we went to the mall near the temple and
talked to a ton of people. It was fun.

But yeah so that's the week. It wasn't like super exciting but I learned a lot.

Anziano Yskes

Basilica San Giovanni in Laterano