Ferragosto

This last week was really exciting. We were able to teach Andrea and valerio a couple times this past week and valerio is definitely progressing a lot more than Andrea but we still love both of them.

They even came to play ball with us in the morning so that was cool.

We had a nice miracle with our new friend Angelo. He's from Peru and showed up at the church when we were teaching Andrea and valerio.

Angelo was fine with just sitting down for the lesson wi us as well when we asked him. He really loved the plan of salvation though.

Something really cool about laquila is that we get to do service at the Mensa every week. It's a refugee camp that serves food to homeless people. A lot of members volunteer there and they've invited us to participate as well. So we go and usually wash dishes for a couple hours ha but it's a really cool experience. Because it's run by the Catholic Church we are not allowed to proselytize there but people still ask us questions all the time which is really cool. They know that somethings different but they can't pinpoint what it is and we're happy to explain what it is!

A big buy this past week was some tennis racquets because our ward mission leader is big into tennis and wants to play us on a pday. So will see how that goes. We had a fun experience Sunday with our boy chino. Buses don't run on Sunday's in Italy so he just barely made it on time to church and then stayed the whole time, said he loved it, and then waited at the bus stop for a couple hours. If anybody got blessings for coming to church, it was chino. He was telling us how he knows that God gave us 6 days for ourselves and 1 for him. He doesn't want to disrespect God after he gave such an honor as that to us. For the missionaries it feels like everyday is Sunday which has really helped me to come to appreciate the sabbath day and the time we get to give service to God.

Vi voglio bene

Anziano Whiting

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