Vicenza - Week 8

The Vicenza Anziano

Hey everyone! This week was a very interesting week. We started off by going to Verona to pick up a permesso for Anziano S. We stayed with some other elders and had a great time. A friend of Anziano S. in the area gave us all huge pizzas. It was pretty awesome. We came back and went to a member’s son’s baptism in Padova. There were a lot of people there so it made us really happy. I shared a short spiritual message in Church the next day. It was quite difficult, but I used all the grammar I knew to make it a durable and understandable 5 minute message. Anziano S. was very proud of me.

We met with Eddie, one of our potential investigators, and he is like our brother now. He told us about how he escaped from Nigeria 6 years ago and how he relies on God to get him through. Our last lesson we gave him a book of Mormon and he said he believed Joseph Smith was a prophet. I invited him to be baptized and he said yes! We hope to have him be baptized on the 25th of this month. He is such a cool dude. In fact today we went with him to some stores he knew about and we got some really really nice clothes for under 20 Euro combined between Anziano S. and myself. I got a really nice Suit jacket and some shoes and S. got some really nice shoes.

Yesterday we had training in Bologna. On the way we met a guy who was cast in the new movie Exodus. He showed us a pic of him and Christian Bale. It was soo cool. He had a full on Egyptian beard, even though he is Italian. Right after that we met an English professor who told us a story about how he went to help a woman on the Street and she ended up going into labor and having the baby right in front of him. Talk about strange!!! On the way back from training (training was good by the way, learned a lot about taking care of ourselves, money wise, security, and housekeeping wise) there was this mentally challenged Italian saying.... shouting vulgar cruel stuff to this Brazilian lady in the bus we were in. She got up and started kicking her and spitting at her. We and some others moved the Brazilian lady away and the Italian left the next stop. It was a weird thing and it definitely made a lot of people on the bus uncomfortable haha.

We are seeing a lot more success and we are starting to get our groove here in Vicenza. Anziano S. and I have done a lot of work getting this place going, and it is on the uprise, so hopefully we can continue to work hard and see results.

Something cool I read last night was that we already have fought Satan once, and won. We should engrave that in our minds when we see him trying to push us around. We chose to come and face him again and we know we can win.

Also when we think about our hard times, remember that Jesus is right next to you through it all. He already suffered it, so he knows the pain, and when you are in pain, think of him going through it too. We all have trials, but in him we can be forgiven and lifted at the last day.

Miss everyone

Anziano Chase

Vicenza

 Hootenanny (German) Pancakes! They were delicious!