Agosto!

Famiglia mia!

I cannot believe it is already August!!!!! Time is flying!

We had a fantastic meeting with our district about asking about people for baptismal dates, not beating around the bush. I thought we were doing alright with talking about baptism with people, but we were not being really direct about it and explaining the importance. Whcih now that I think about it, not being direct, is so dumb. So since Monday we have been working on it.:) On Monday we talked to our investigator Jonatan to get baptized, he said yes when he knows it is true! Jonatan is really nice, he made us a CD with a bunch of techno music, we cannot listen to it, but the thought was nice:) Then on Tuesday we had an incredible lesson with a guy named Giuseppe. He said if he needed to get baptized again he would, so I asked him if he would on the 22nd of September and he said.... No... It was great though because now he knows what our goal for him is and it did not scare him away. He wants to learn more and he said he would for sure pray. Actually, he said that we were already a sign for him. We gave him a pass a long card with information about Enlgish course like a month ago. He came to the course and said he was more interested in the religious aspect, menomale! He then called us and said something along the lines like I feel like the Lord led me to you. It was awesome! He is so great I cannot get over it! We laughed so much together and I felt so comfortable around him, which doesn't happen all of the time because sometimes talking to people about religion is awkward. My awkward scale has sky rocketed, since I am surrounded by it I am now immune to it;)

We heard that President Nudo thinks a branch in Sant'Agata would be a great idea and he said he was going to talk to Pres. Kelly about it. We are hoping that perhaps something can be done to help this area more!

We talked to a lady last week about getting baptized, she said, vediamo. We went to see her again this week and the first thing she said is that she does not want to change religions because it would be like betraying her husband (a fun similie). She then pulled out her prayer book and started showing us more about her religion, that being the Catholic Church. It made me so sad to think that these people think that their words are not good enough, that they have to use other's in order to talk to God.

We are in Palermo for preparation day. The anziani planned to play laser tag and go bowling and then eat peruvian food with us (Personally, I would prefer to go around the city, maybe enter an ancient church and think for a tad while considering the art, but everyone else thought that sounded borning;)). The laser tag and bowling was closed for August. Welcome to August in Italy! There is no one and nothing is open! However, in Mistretta there are even more people because that is where the city people go to get away from the heat, in the mountains. So good for us, bad for Palermo:)   

I love love love love you all! 

I hope you have a lovely week!

Love,
Sorella Comollo