This last week has been pretty slow. A lot of our appointments we meet in parks with people, and because of the rain we haven't been able to have many appointments at all. Along with that, my companion (who is an awesome guy, we get along great) has been sick. From about Sunday on he hasn't felt up to doing finding work, but the appointments we can make we go to anyways, which is funny because since he is out of it I had to carry the conversation for the most part for the first time. Which once I started to, I figured out that now I can almost talk to people about anything, sure I have to ask a lot of questions about new words, but then once they say them I can remember for the most part. But anyways, it has been kind of a long week. When I am not working I am thinking and planning and calling and then those appointments dropped because of rain. The reason I was unable to e-mail yesterday was because me and my companion were at the hospital waiting for him to get tests. One quick side note, I never realized how lucky I was to, first of all, have American health care, and second of all, not have to wait in lines at hospitals. I guess I just hope to never get sick enough to have to go to an Italian hospital. Anyways, they said he had an infection in his ears and throat or something, and so he has to take some medicine and rest it off. So it might be another couple of slow days before we can get back to working again. It is a good lesson to me to learn what missionary life is like if I don't work hard every day. I would rather talk to random people all day than just sit inside all day.
So you will have to forgive me for this letter being a little shorter than usual, like I said not much has been going on. Elena (the Russian lady) went back to Russia because of family things. I don't know if or when she will be back, she didn't know either. We will find out where she is and hand her off to the missionaries there though. Stefano is still doing great, we hope to invite him to be baptized the next visit. We are also starting a new English class, so we have been handing out tons of fliers for that. Last time 10 people came, but we have to have at least 30 in these next 3 weeks.
That is about it, it is great to hear all those things, and tell Owen, Sam, and Ellie that they have to make sure Uncle Ryan takes good care of the chickens. That looks like they are going to have a bash with the new group of chicks. Jenny and Aunt Stacey are doing great work, it is really tough getting people to come to activities regularly, but if there's anyone that can make someone do something, Jenny can. Oh, and I bought my first set of Italian clothes. I know it looks funny, but hey, it's the fashion over here. I got two pairs of pants for 15 euro each, and the shoes were 60. I decided now that I don't want to have any American clothes by the time I get home. Don't worry I still use them every once in awhile, mostly on the rainy days though. Haha. I also learned to cook carbonara, it's super easy, just cook eggs and noodles then mix them, but it's Italian, so it counts. Jack is turning 14! Wow. That is crazy. This week I also had my first English mistake because of Italian. We were getting a ride from a member who speaks English and he was talking about something to do with the ward activity we want to do. So to agree with what he was saying I wanted to say something like "you're right I think that's a good idea" but instead I said, "you have reason, I think that's a good idea." Which I guess isn't wrong, it was just a literal translation of "ha ragione," so that was funny.
Not much else to talk about, I hope to be able to fill you in on all the miracles we are hoping will happen this next week. Have a good week!
Ti voglio bene,
Anziano Vaclaw
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