Sunday, July 7, 2013

Week 9 - 20th Birthday, New Mission President and Zone Conference


"Ciao Everyone!

Sorry this email will probably be a little short. I don't have much time today. But first, thanks for the Happy Birthday and the money!  I might use it to buy some better soccer shoes or something.  We have been playing a lot of soccer here in Italy, and I really need to stop falling over!
I'm glad everyone is doing so well back home.  Things are pretty good over here.  I know what you mean about the weather being hot over there.  It is pretty hot over here, too!
This past week, my companion and I took a trip down to Fondi to contact some ex investigators.  There, we met up with an African from Gana named, Agostine.  He is very religious and very interested in our message.  He invited two of his friends to listen in when we came over, and they all bought us a ton of food and made us take it all with us when we left!  It was pretty awesome, and they were all super nice.  The only problem is, we found out that Fondi is just outside our area, so now we have to hand them off to some of the missionaries in an area right over Napoli...
We've also been working with a little boy named Michele who wants to be baptized.  I think I may have talked about him before.  I just want to repeat that I FREAKING LOVE THAT FAMILY!  The two little boys, Luis and Michele, are super cool and they always want to show us their pokemon cards and their toys.  I also found a way to relate to their non-member father when they pulled out the old guitar from the closet and wanted me to play it for them.  The father plays a little bit, too, and when I started playing, that kind of opened him up to actually talking to us missionaries instead of locking himself in his room the whole time we were there.
...One small step at a time!
We also had my second Zone Conference on my birthday.  Everyone got to meet the new President, President Whaddoups (I can't remember exactly how to spell it).  He is really cool.  I think he was some kind of state official or something before becoming mission President?  I don't remember exactly.
Other than that, this week was a lot of mostly tracting and finding.
Until next time!

love,

Anziano Jared Burnham"

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