CIAO!!!!

Ciao!
This week has been challenging. We had almost all of our progressing investigators call and drop us. For different reasons, some are leaving to look for work in other places, others have family that do not want them studying with us, others have had surgeries and health problems. So we are thinking of ways to find new people that will stick. We noticed that we have a lot of female potential investigators that have the same age as many of the female less actives in our ward. We want to organize something to bring them all together, like a nail night or something like that. Hopefully we can get it all organized with some members so we can do it as soon as possible. We had our district meeting about working with members, so I learned a bit more on how to go about doing it. It is really different here than from Mistretta, since in Mistretta there were like 10 people to work with and here there are like 100.
I re started the Book of Mormon in italian to do this challenge that Sorella Kelly gave us to read the entire Book of Mormon by Christmas. I have decided to focus on the testimonies I see bourn throughout the book. So far I have found many that I did not even realize were testimonies before. It is great because it is helping me bear my testimony more to the people with whom I come in contact. I just love the Book of Mormon and what can be learned from it! Sorella Clark told me last night that when we were talking to a priest the other day and he was saying how it doesn't matter what church one takes part of, I just bore my testimony (instead of being contrary) and afterward she told me that she felt the spirit so strong. I love testimonies! Also, last night we were talking to a group of ragazzacci, one of them kept saying that he doesn't believe in anything and doesn't want to hear our lies. I bore my testimony about prayer and how he is a child of God and that God listens and wants to hear from him. I then asked him if he has ever prayed, with his own words not a written prayer. He got quiet and looked at me as to say, yeah I have, but did not want to say it in front of his friends. I felt that surge of the spirit that comes sometimes and I know that he felt it too.
We were doing finding in Citta' vecchia and saw a guy in a garage with a bunch of old fashion cars. He told us that he restores them as a hobby. We then told him about another kind of restoration, of the gospel and bore our testimonies of it and he changed attitudes toward us. We are going to stop by again this week:)
This work is incredible, it is so hard, but it is soooooo worth it and so true! 

I love you tons!
Have a good week!
Love,
Sorella Comollo