Vicenza - Week 15

Buona Giornata Tutti!

This Wednesday we had a mission tour done by Elder Fingerly of the Quorum of the Seventy. We went down to Verona for the tour. All the missionaries thought we were getting IPads but it ended up that we might not being getting any at all in Italy. Elder Fingerly talked a lot about how we can use technology though to improve finding people to teach. He talked about how we should encourage members to use social sites to invite others to church events that missionaries will be at. He also talked about how we can improve results in our lives by looking to improve little things by just one percent. If we do that, all the little areas that improved by one percent with make a huge difference on the overall scale and will bring so much more to the work.

The week was pretty slow again, but we had some good lessons with Aurora, still prepping her for baptism in the future. We also went with a member in the Italian ward named Ringo to eat at an all you can eat Brazilian bbq place with a friend he wanted us to teach. It was such a blessing to not only get fed like crazy, but to have people trust us enough to teach their friends. To me, gaining that member relationship is huge because it helps us to create bonds and help them. It is so much better than going to a member’s house asking for someone to teach.  If they want us to teach someone, then they will ask us also. It really helps that relationship because we aren’t using them to find people to teach. We taught a lot more lessons and had some good times.

No favorite italian food yet, but there are plenty of interesting meals I’ve had like Bankoo, an African dish with fermented corn mashed into a ball with a spicy soup to dip the ball into.

Side note, I got to hang with Elder M. at the conference all day so it was pretty cool to be able to hang with him and some other cool bros.

Hope everyone has a good week and I get to email you all back Wednesday again!!