Hahah so, last week I got stopped by an ancient Italian man, who told me that my ring (CTR ring) was on the wrong finger. I keep it on my middle finger of my right hand, because that's where it fits the best, and it doesn't mean that I'm married. Well, this old man went on to explain to us what the meaning is of putting your ring on each of the different fingers, and ended by telling me that my ring on the middle finger of my right hand means that I'm an adulteress. bahahaha ooops, he caught me lol. ohhhh, so that was funny. He wouldn't let up either until I moved my ring to my pinky haha. So, yeah.
Alright, next. SO, we had a great lesson with Jean Carlos's family (torres), but we were a little late, and we stayed a little too long. But before I get to the funny part, let me tell you about the lesson- We failed pretty epicly. We planned, but our planning was no good. We were going all over the place, and didn't have much direction. BUT the spirit was strong, and they felt it! So we ended with committing them to read 3 Nephi 27, and also committing them to come to church next sunday! They couldn't this last sunday because they were out of town, but they said that this sunday they'll be there! Which is a huge improvement from the last time we invited them, and they just kinda shut it down, saying they didn't want to. The dad is very interested (he told us he was interested) and the sister is very curious to read the book of mormon, but the mom seems a little skeptical... BUT! It's going great =) Okay, funny part now. So, we were running very late to a Relief Society activity that we were hosting (we were teaching them how to make various american baked goods). We left the Torres family and got in the elevator to leave the building, while talking about how late we were, but how great the lesson went. Then we got to the bottom floor, and the elevator door opened, but the external door (Italian elevators are very different) would not open. This elevator was not very big either. So, we kinda started freaking out, none of the buttons were working, and we didn't have much clue what to do. So after several minutes of panicking my comp realizes that there must be some kind of manual opening mechanism in the crack between the elevator and the elevator shaft wall, which he finds, and he was able to open the door and save our lives. hahah so yeah. That was fun. We also had a member with us, who was freaking out (but he's also very funny) named Johnny, hahahah yeah. good times. Johnny said that he was already deciding which corner of the elevator he was going to sleep in lol.
Alright, and now a cool experience we had. So, on Pday, we decided to make a snowman. And it turned out pretty dang well! While we were making this snowman, a small crowd had gathered. There were 3 boys of around 12 yrs who were very impressed at our snowman-making skills, and even as soon as we finished, they all whipped out their cell phones to take pictures of the work of art. Hahah it was great. But the real cool part came the next day. So we were just leaving our apartment after lunch, and as we turn the corner where our snowman was, there were about 10 kids, three of which were the same from the day before. And one of the kids from the day before shouts out, "that's them! It's them!" and they all came running towards us. We thought they wanted an autograph or something, so I started pulling out my pen and some paper, but they instead started blurting out different things like "Where are the gold plates?" "What was written on them??" and other questions of the sort, and one of them gets out "We learned about it in school!" So, we finally got them all quiet and they told us that they studied in school that day how our religion came about in the 19th century. They were taught just about everything, except the first vision, where God and Jesus Christ appeared to Joseph Smith. So we explained to them the whole story, and gave them each a pass a long card that they could take home, and we told them also that we could give them a free copy of what was written on those gold plates as well. They were all super excited just to talk to us, and to hear it from our own mouths! It was way cool. I can't say I have too much confidence that any of their parents will listen to them, but maybe. Maybe someday down the road when they've grown a foot or two, they'll remember that day, and accept the missionaries into their own homes. So, yeah! Score one for Snowman Contacting!
No news on Nader. He came to church for Sacrament meeting, but we couldn't meet with him that night, so we're trying to see him during the week soon. Keep him in your prayers though!
We were also the other day trying to find out about these members on our ward roster, who we've never heard of, and one of them the other week told us to come back on monday and her dad (the member) would be home. So, we went back on Monday, and surprisingly enough he was there! He told us that we were an aswer to his prayers, that he's been wanting to come back to church, and was just talking about it a couple of days before we stopped by. So, we are very excited to have found him, and we'll be working with him getting him back to church in the next couple weeks! his name is Gianpietro Portinari. So, yeah, keep him in your prayers as well!
And that's all for now folks! Things are cookin' over here, and I'm loving it!
Take care, and don't forget to study the scriptures every day!!
-Anziano Bushman
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| Me and our snowman we made on Pday. Anz Camit is pictured below. |
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| The family Boldissoni |
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