My first full week in Ragusa is officially over and now the
work has finally started! We had to do a bunch of permesso stuff this week so I
could be legal in this country and it took forever but oh well. We teach an
English course to a lot of people every Tuesday and Thursday and it's pretty
exciting since the people don't know how to speak English and I don't know how
to speak Italian ha. But the language is coming pretty well. I can do all the
lessons and am working on being able to have normal conversations which I can
do with missionaries because they speak clear and correct but the locals don't
always do that so I'm working on it. We taught a couple different lessons this
week and I thought they went pretty well. We have one girl on for a bap date
but she has to show up for church and another mother and daughter who are super
ready and exempting all the lessons that we passed off to the sisters. We're
working and praying for all the others and hopefully they have progress.
My companion gave a really good talk at church on Sunday about member missionary work. His mom was converted by missionaries so he has a close tie to the work were doing. Anziano Martin is really cool and I'm glad he is my trainer. He has 7 kids in his family and he's number 5. He is short and really buff so hopefully we eat healthy. Anziano Martin loves motorcycles and soccer. He went to BYU for a semester and then left on the mission. He has only been on the mission for 8 and a half months and served in rome before ragusa. He had a really great trainer and then 2 super hard companions after that. He hasn't had a ton of success on the mission but we seem to be doing really great here. We are going to try and focus this next week on member missionary work and getting them excited to participate and share the gospel.
My companion gave a really good talk at church on Sunday about member missionary work. His mom was converted by missionaries so he has a close tie to the work were doing. Anziano Martin is really cool and I'm glad he is my trainer. He has 7 kids in his family and he's number 5. He is short and really buff so hopefully we eat healthy. Anziano Martin loves motorcycles and soccer. He went to BYU for a semester and then left on the mission. He has only been on the mission for 8 and a half months and served in rome before ragusa. He had a really great trainer and then 2 super hard companions after that. He hasn't had a ton of success on the mission but we seem to be doing really great here. We are going to try and focus this next week on member missionary work and getting them excited to participate and share the gospel.
After he gave his talk a lady came up to us and said she has
had this nonmember boy friend for 10 years and they want to get married but she
wants to get married in the temple. So she has been praying for the right time
and the right missionaries to help teach here fiancé and after hearing my
companions talk and my testimony last week, she wants us to do it which is an
honor. Were going to fast and pray a lot to be able to teach him the way the
lord wants us to.
But yeah the mission is great and our other investigators
are doing fine. We had a San Giovanni festival in Ragusa (the catholics holiday
for John the Baptist) and handed out tons of pass along and english course
cards. Everyone in Ragusa came out so hopefully we get some new contacts.
The mission is great and I love the work,
Anziano Whiting |
| Fesival |
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| Buddhist temple we visited with ward mission leader Salvo |
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