CIAO TUTTI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So we went to the top of San Pietro and got to see all of Rome. It was breath taking and glorious. There was even a whole rainbow over the city, since it was a rainy day, to top off the spectacular view. But guess what is even better than that!!!!????? I heard yesterday at Zone Conference that Giovanni,  the investigator from Bari, my sweet Giovanni, got baptized!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! When I heard my heart just soared!!!! He did it, he was able to get help with his alcohol addication, he was able to receive the Holy Ghost on Sunday and he is going to be fantastic. He already knows that the church is perfect, even if the members aren't. All of the offense he could have taken he didn't, he did not let anything that anyone did or say crumble his testimony of the truth of this church, the truth of this gospel and the truth of our savior at its head.

Out of 11, How many cleaning items did you complete today?
It is clean. I have never felt so much joy!!!! There is a special spirit that comes when one hears of exciting changes in the lives of their loved ones.:)

On Friday we had a fun adventure. We met stefano on the train, he lives in a little city near Ladispoli, with his mom. We got his number and he said we could call him. Well he did and he said we could pass by. So he gave us an address. We took a train to get there and then started asking around to get to this via. Well, it was via rucellai 1. There was no such address it seemed. We walked around via rucellai for ever, but the only numbers were evens. Finally, after learning the word for even and odd from a man that helped us (pari/dispari), we found this blessed address and guess what it was... An ambulance hub! Oh dear, we just laughed! Stefano was not to be found there! I can just image him getting like a flyer for this place and then while talking to us and trying to "get us out of his hair" saying oh yes my address is, um, and then looking at the flyer for ambulences and giving us the address of it! The people that worked there thought we were crazy:)

Zone Conference was much needed. I received an answer to my prayers. I have been struggling for a while with what I need to be doing when we are looking for new investigators. I feel like I have been finding for the majority of my mission, in the sense of personal contacting and tracting, I love it so much, I think it is fun and I enjoy talking and getting to know people. I have made it a game, trying to figure out how I can start talking about the restoration from any small talk conversation starter (be it the weather,  (like you know what else happened on a clear day like this, a vision), be it talk of family, of school, of social problems, of work, of food). I love asking people for their number and telling them about prayer, even praying with them on the street. I love when I get to recite the first vision to a crowd of people on the bus or train and the excitement that comes when I bear my testimony about it. However, I feel like all of this finding has not led me to a ton of "fruit". I have been feeling like there must be a better way to find people that "stick" diciamo. I remembered a quote in the Preach my Gospel that says working with members is how to do it. So, I went from one extreme to the next, from always finding, to always trying to meet with members. However, I learned that there is a balance and I am learning it in how I am finding and what was said and what I felt at Zone Conference is going to help me understand this balance even more.

Love you all! Have a good week!

Love,

Sorella Comollo