Monday, December 12, 2016

December 12, 2016

6 Dic
Today I did another scambio with Anziano Farinotti, who is from northern Italy, and we headed out for Ascoli which is more north and to the west. After a few trains we finally got Ascoli and it is a super old city and has some really cool old stuff like an awesome bridge that overlooks another bridge which was super cool. We tried to do some finding in the Centro there we got to talk to a guy for awhile but that was about it. We then went home to get ready for English course. We were planning on having like two people come but they both canceled, however, two new people Stefano and Anna came and it was just a two on two lesson and we got to know them pretty well and after the class we showed them the video for Christmas and we bore our testimonies of the message in the video and they wanted to know more and that was cool since it was my first time to help get an investigator so that was way awesome and also spiritual as well.  Way excited even though I won't be teaching them.
7 Dic
We went shopping in a bizaar for both costume pieces for the nativity our zone is doing (I'm a Shepard) and for district secret santa (but I didn't buy anything for that cause Anz. Farinotti is my person). I then went back to Pescara and Anz. Olsen and I made chocolate chip cookies for the Bosco family and we went over there and ate pasta with them and I was taught Italian by a couple of six-year-olds, so that was fun.
8 Dic
So after we woke up at 2:30 then went back to bed we learned our part of the family history cornetto. We didn't have enough time to go back to the house to change quendi, we went to a dog rescue shelter in full suits to try to help a girl named Abby (from England) with some stuff we ended up doing almost nothing since the place was caked in mud and most of the dogs were wet (so many dogs) and she didn't want us to get dirty even though at that moment we didn't care but after we thought back and decided that it was a good decision on her part.  On our 3-hour trip home we helped a member with her bags on the way home.
9 Dic
We were able to teach a French guy and part way through the lesson his dog was invited in by my companion, and at first i thought the dog would just be a distraction. But it turned out to be brilliant because the man has a lot of trust in his dog's ability to detect what kind of a person strangers are. This dog loved us basically the entire lesson so that was a plus for our side.
10 Dic
We had another lesson with Carlo and although he was an hour late he brought his son who is also cool and we had a very good lesson with them. We really hope that they come to church domani.
11 Dic 
We had a good church meeting and afterwards I learned how to make pasta alla carbonara which is basically an egg bacon pasta with other smaller things in it.  It was pretty good. We then watched the Christmas Devotional with a bunch of membri e simpatizzanti and Carlo came and he is now officially probably going to get baptized on the 31st of Dicembre so that's cool.

12 Dic
We went to the questura to get Anziano Olsen's permesso stuff done. After we got Carlos (the blind member) and Valentina  (mostly blind member) and we went to a japanese buffet. We ate a bunch of stuff that I don't even know the names of.  I ate an oyster with a tentacle wrapped around it, and my compaion ate several mini octopuses.

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