January 17, 2017 We taught a prince, of sorts

January 17, 2017

We went less active finding and just before we got to the bus stop we talked with a guy for like 30ish minutes about the gospel and ended up missing 3 buses because of it and not even finding who we went out for, but we met with that one guy so I think it was a success either way.

Also electricity running through a house really isn't that much at least not here, I mean it didn't hurt bad at all and I'm still alive so I think it's fine.

We got to teach a prince which was strange but still way cool. He was a super nice guy and he has his own buisness card thing (picture).  He is like crazy richer than anyone else here and he only married into the prince title and she even left him, he kept the title and its just strange, but anyway we could only teach him half the lesson because he insisted that we take a tour of his house which was super catholic.  Here is a list, he sleeps with a cross on his chest with 3 surrounding his bed, a prayer room with statues pictures and a bunch of cool catholic stuff, his own personal church downstairs with everything that goes with it.  It was just a oddly interesting experience, but we have a return date to continue teaching him so that's good. (The statue is his ex wife's aunt).

Anziano Farinotti and I found and taught a guy named Alessio who works at a car place and his friend who just happened to be there and they both have a book of mormon we have a new friend, and they know a little more about what we believe.

We had a meeting before zone conference that was really cool and i learned alot from all of it.  I also got a new free tie that is really cool which you will probably see in a picture eventually.

We later went on a scambio with the AP's (assistants to the president) and it was super awesome and a great learning experience. First off the wind was so strong we had to lean forward to walk and make progress. We taught a lesson to member family about missionary work and we taught a lesson to a random guy we met on the street and we also met a guy from Russian that neither spoke English nor Italian so that was very difficult to communicate (we needed you Cody).  We also went finding the next day by cleaning a park (because Italians think it is odd when two Americans start cleaning a park the Italians don't even clean). But we taught two lessons in the park and i had a full conversation with someone by my self so that was fun, and one of the lesson was to a guy that worked at NASA it was very interesting and he was super smart, obviously.

When we went to Ascoli I went on a mini scambio (exchange) with Anziano Ruiz and after he did a backflip on a sketchy public trampoline we taught like 20 raggazi what mormons are and invited them all to English course, we also met a small polish family that recognized missionaries from 15 yrs ago in Polland and brought up English course before we did and plan on going, so that’s going to be cool. And there will be a baptism in Ascoli in a few weeks for someone they met a while ago so that is exciting.

So this week I was also asked to give a blessing (in Englisn luckily) to an Afrikan member who had been sick for an entire week and it was a super spiritual experience for me to be guided by the spirit, and even though I had been slow in my words a feel sure that they were the right words because she actually did get better that next day.  So the lesson learned here was to trust in the spirit fully even if you are unsure of yourself or if it doesn't come all at once just be patient, bear with it and trust.

And i would like to leave my testimony through some scriptures.
Moroni 10:5 and Moroni 8:26

The prince cards
A cool building in pre-Rome Ascoli