Hey guys!
This has been a great week and things are going well. We have been
doing a lot of finding work and publicity for the English course hoping
to get new students that can possibly become new investigators!
We have also been doing more hospital visits because Rosa is in the
hospital unfortunately. She gets out today though so that's positive
and it's been nice spending some time with her and her family. Her
companion Mauro seems a little stressed because of the situation and
taking care of their two kids while searching for work. He got a job
offer as a tourist guide driver, but needs to improve his English in
order to get the job. To help him and the family out a little more we
agreed to meet more often, teach the family in the Gospel but also teach
him English with an occasional dinner appointment in between! It should
be a great opportunity to teach them and help unite them as a family
and also help them temporally.
This hasn't been a very eventful week but we are really trying hard
for new investigators. We had nice exchanges with the assistants and I
learned a lot. Anziano Longhurst is an assistant and he is such a great
guy. We went to a Peruvian family's house in our ward and had a nice
dinner with them and we discussed a few referrals that they have for us.
We are excited to teach them because they sound very prepared! This
Peruvian family is so awesome and I had fun playing soccer with the kids
outside as we waited for dinner to be ready. They also showed us videos
in Spanish of Peru and I was surprised by how much I understood and I
know Spanish is going to come very easily to me when I start studying
it!
We did have a few new people that we were excited to teach but
it ended up being a bit of a scam! We went over to the house and there
were three people with their Bibles out ready to start bashing us. It
was terrible and there was absolutely no spirit and I wanted to flee so I
made up an excuse and we were out of there! All of these lost hopes are
just paving the way to those that are really ready! I'm hopeful and I
know they'll come because I've seen miracles like this happen my whole
mission!
The highlight of my week was probably our weekly district meeting
on Monday. Since I'm the DL again, I gave the training and I had really planned,
prayed and thought about the theme for this week. I talked about finding
personal revelation through our studies. What I didn't expect were all
the visitors! A former missionary that served here in this mission,
Chris Hughes from England, was visiting and came to the meeting. The
assistants came also and we had a great discussion amongst the
missionaries and I think that everyone learned a lot from each other. I
really felt the Spirit during that time!
Today we went to the big shopping mall in Rome to go see the temple
progress! It is going up so quickly and it should be really cool when
they put the angel Moroni on top! I probably won't be here for that but
I'll keep hoping!
I love you guys so much! I hope you have a great week and that you
stay safe! I love you Dad, I love you Mom, I love you Morgan, I love you
Heather, and I love you Greg (I'm sorry about your arm!!! At least I
didn't cause this break this time!). Vi voglio un mondo di bene e mi
mancate tantissimo! Ci sentiamo presto!
Anziano Clay Lacey
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