Saluti da Bari!

Ciao Cari!!!

Okay, so about my address, we are not moving until the end of September so you can send all of your letters and packages to the mission home and I will get them at zone conference and when missionaries come from Rome to Bari.:) I think that would be best anyway, because we cannot really accept packages here, since one needs to be home in order to accept them and we are never home during the day.

The mission home address is:

Sorella Eva Comollo

Missione Italiana di Roma

Piazza Carnaro 20

00141 Roma, (RM)

Italia

Hopefully that works for you all!:)

So this week has been crazy. In Mistretta when we had four hours of finding ahead of us I kind of always wanted to poke my eyes out in frustration, pardon the grafficness, finding in small towns is hard, possible, but difficult) Here it is a cinch, I can never nor will never complain about four hours of finding again for Mistretta prepared me well. There are just so many people to talk to and to get rejected by and to get accepted by. I decided the other day just to go around on the bus passing out publicity for our english course and the church's internet site, it was just so much fun! And Sorella Clark is awesome, she just talks to everyone! She is a beast! We had a fun culture finding experience the other evening. We were walking down a pretty sketchy street and it started to rain. We went under a balcony for a minute to check where we should go on the map. We heard music while there, a piano and a man singing some pretty vibrato opera. We decided to search for the source. We got into the building and followed the lovely serenade and knocked on the door. The woman who answered asked what we wanted and we said we just want to listen to her music. She grabbed our arms and pulled us into her apartment and she pounded on the piano while her friend sang us don Giovanni. It was lovely. Then after we talked about why we are here and shared about our message. She said we could come back next week! hurray!

We went to a lady's house the other day. She lost her husband last month to parkinson's disease. She told us how when the symptoms of the degenerate muscle syndrome started she had to work hard to take him around the house, to the kitchen to eat, to the bathroom to wash him. She told us how on the way to these destinations, she holding him, almost dragging him, since his legs wouldn't work, they would stop and start swaying, dancing a little, doing a little waltz, some tango, she said those moments were perfect, for even though he had this illness, they did not let it overcome them, they faced it with serenity. She said she knows she got the strength both physically to carry him and mentally to accept this trial of his illness through the Lord. This reminded me of a talk given by Elder Bednar in the April 2012 Ensign about the enabling power of the atonement. Yes the atonement is meant for us to repent and change from wrong to right, but there is another aspect of it that sometimes I think we forget. Its saving grace is meant to make that right into something even better and giving us the strength to do it.

I am sending the talk to you in this email, since it is so wonderful! Everyone should read it this week,I know if you do you will have a better week!:)

We have a new investigator named Anna. She has a daughter in law who is a member. It is so amazing to see how the spirit works in peoples lives. She came to church on Sunday and told us how wonderful it was, how she has never felt so happy when walking into a church before. She wants to read the book of mormon and understand it. I am grateful for her example, for sometimes I take for granted those little things that bring such a peace, like cherishing a scripture or sitting in church and listing to the prelude music. In testimony meeting a man got up and talked about how he went to a space observatory this week and how he was awed by how much he didn't know was in the sky. He said by using the instrument of the telescope he was able to see more than he had ever imagined. He compared the telescope to the gospel, the gospel helps us to see, in a spiritual sense things that we never thought were there or that were so wonderful.

I love the gospel!!!

I love you!!!

Have a good week!

Con amore!!!

Sorella Comollo