Marco's Baptism!

This week was super awesome and we finally had Marco's baptism! It was a super spiritual experience and he was so happy to make this first promise with God. On of the members that has been Marco's friend for the 5 years he has investigated the church baptized him, his names pino dimartino. When we went to the church Saturday morning and started to fill the font and it was freezing. Turns out the water heater for the font was out so we used sink water and boiled up a bunch of water for the font. It took almost all day since we had to wait for the water to boil and for the sink water to heat up, but it was worth it.
We also had a cleaning day on New Years where we cleaned the house and had a small lunch with our ward mission leader. The apartment we have is pretty old but we got it all cleaned up. At our ward mission leaders house we ate a cake in the shape of a tree and when he asked his 4 year old daughter if she wanted cake she said"but we don't eat trees daddy" haha it was super funny, I love those guys. We also had our ward Christmas/New Years party last week and the whole ward got together to eat and listen to different musical numbers. We met some pretty cool people that the members brought so hopefully we can start teaching some. Now that Marco is baptized we have to get some more solid investigators. But anyway, I'm loving it here in Italy and I'm praying for all of you!
Vi voglio bene,
Anziano Whiting

The ward mission leader's house with the tree cake

Here's us at the baptism