"Ciao Everyone!
I
hope everything is going alright back home! Tell everyone I miss them and
they are great. (of course, my favorite people are the ones who send me
emails ;) )
The
mail is weird here in Rome...so mission office is the best place to send
letters and packages!
Things
are actually going really well here in Italy. I had some really cool
experiences here in the last week. Yeah, sometimes I get down about
something, or the work is hard, but I usually get over it pretty quick. I
LOVE Italy and the people here! And...the office literally just called to tell
me that my contacts finally got here!! WOOOHOOOO!! YES!!!
Anyway,
my new companion is awesome. His name is Anziano Smith. He is from
Roy (near Ogden I think), and he is a super motivated and energetic missionary.
Him and I have a lot of fun doing a lot of work together. He is
kind of a redneck, but in a hilarious way. Let's just say...he says
"tractor" like "tracker" sometimes when he gets excited and
his accent comes out. I'll defintely be sure to send a picture of him and
I. He is a super fun guy and you can tell he just loves his mission.
On
our first day in Ostia together, Anziano Smith and I went down near Gasparri,
an area where a lot of our members live, and there was a Harley Davidson
festival going on down there near the harbor. It was so cool! I have
never seen so many beautiful motorcycles! And, I don't think I've been
more proud to be an American than when a bunch of bikes rode past with American
guys and their bandanas down the streets of Ostia and all the Italians were
watching and saying, "oooo", "aaaa", "Americani".
Hahaha It was so cool!
I will send some pictures of the
festival for you to see! :D
For
the most part, we spent this last week doing finding and meeting a lot of the
ward members who we are trying to work with. On Saturday, we played
Calcio (soccer) or Calcietta (a five on five version of soccer) with the
Padilla family and some of their friends. It was super fun but I am
absolutely terrible! Their whole family is from Peru, and soccer is their
life. I felt like a total noob...but we now have one potential
investigator out of the friends they brought, so overall, I think it was a
success!
I
also ate my first crab pasta for family night at the Fresta's house. It
was pasta with literally whole crabs in it. The idea was to eat the
noodles and then break open the crabs and suck out the meat...it was
interesting and messy, but it was SOOOO good!
We
recently recontacted one of our investigators that was avoiding me and Ginolfi.
I may have told you about him before, his name is, Luciano. He has
a great testimony and he knows its true, but he gets down and gives up a lot
because he has a serious problem smoking. We are starting to work with
him again, and I am really excited to help him come closer to Christ.
Keep your fingers crossed!
I
apologize for my terrible English these days. This Italian is messing me
up, and I don't have time to go back and proof read. I just want to end
by saying that I know the church is true, and thank you all for all the
support!
Until
next time,
Anziano
Jared Burnham
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