Ciao Mamma!
So I realized that Mama actually has 2 m's, that is a little embarassing. That basically shows my progress with the language right now though. I make tons of mistakes, but luckily my trainer speaks really well, so he is always correcting me. I am just grateful that I am able to talk enough now that I make mistakes. I have been doing a lot better though, for example, last night we went to the member family's house that loves having us over. It is really neat actually because their daughter has a friend who is about 16, and we go over once about every 2 weeks and have dinner and teach her a lesson. She is interested, but we have not been able to ask her to be baptized, because the family worries that they do not know her mom well enough. So the next time they are inviting her over for dinner as well! I hope that goes well. Since dad loves hearing about the food, I will mention what we ate, because it was amazing! We started out with pasta, of course, and we actually made the pasta ourselves by pushing dough through this guitar-string type thing that cut out a bunch of noodles for us. I wish I could say all the stuff they put in it, but I honestly do not know the names in English or Italian. I should write them down more. Anyways, after that we had sliced potatoes in olive oil and other stuff, and then to top it off we had donuts with sugar, they always have some kind of desert. The lesson went great, we taught the piano di salvezza and she was really attentive. It is awesome to see how the plan of salvation just makes sense to people.
Kathleen had a baby?! What is this little guy's name? One more boy and she is going to end up with a family like ours. Maybe you should give her advice on how to deal with so many little guys. Aunt Stacy and Uncle Jeff must be busy with all these new additions to the family, and mission papers in the future too, that is awesome to hear.
Elder Ruka sounds like a cool guy, which is to be expected since all missionaries are cool guys. One missionary that is excited for the work and wants to serve the Lord really makes a large difference, not only to his area but to the missionaries serving with him as well. And I am wondering, what are some of dad's projects around the house? He is always doing something.
The weather here is cold, cold, and colder. My warmest part of the day is the shower now, because we finally got hot water again! I am super happy with that. Those vacations you mentioned would be fun! I bet Jack is dying to go to New York or DC. I hope you start feeling better! Sunshine will be coming in about a month for us, and I cannot wait. For my entire mission I have been cold. I want an Italian Summer!
Well for this week's story, I guess the neatest thing was that I was feeling pretty sick, I do not know with what. I had bumps on the back of my throat, hurt to swallow, headache, felt a little weak, maybe dad might know. Anyway, I did not feel super good for about 3 or 4 days. We had appointments scheduled for those days, so I still went to each appointment and we did finding when we were supposed to, and so far we have had much success with finding, in the sense that we have return appointments with the three people we found. We found a girl named Valentina, and she was with her friend, and her friend was quiet, so we asked if they had time in which we could share the message of the plan of salvation. We talked about it, and she seemed interested, so we made another appointment to see her. We met her at Prato, and her friend was there again, and she talked a lot this time! So it was a neat 2 in 1 deal. They are making good progress and we are hoping for a baptismal date the next time! So we are finally getting those progressing investigators. The Lord blesses us when we do what we can.
That is awesome to hear that Sawyer is training as well! All the Bartlesville boys are taking on some responsibilities while I am still being trained. All in good time though. I hope you all have a great week!
Ti voglio bene,
Anziano Vaclaw
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