Summer in Bologna!

It has been a good week. We have had a lot of fun and grown a lot. Bologna is certainly quite hot but nothing new there. 

On Thursday, we did a ton of Finding work! But it was good we ended up teaching a lesson in the park to a girl in her 20's she was super open and accepted a baptismal invite with a date but then she told us that she was going on ferry (Around august all of the Italians go to the sea or the mountains and stay there for like a month) We had English class where we made another  story to do more verb work. They were excited about it. This time it was about Mickey and Minnie mouse...

We met with Ravindar again on Friday. It was really nice. I love that guy. It is always so good when we can see that he is understanding everything, because sometimes when people don't speak Italian or English, super well, it is hard to gauge their understanding.

We met Kris on Saturday, our Latvian Traveller. He has decided to go to Spain for a while. His goal is to get to South Africa before returning to England where he has been for a while and where his friends and job are. We made him promise to stop missionaries wherever he goes because our message is really important. We also went to a park that we frequent and the first people that we talked to, an Italian couple invited us to sit down and have a lesson with them. We accepted and had a really good lesson with them and at the end they gave us their contact information and a return appointment. That was really awesome. We didn't have an Italian Book of Mormon to give at the time so we gave them the Restoration film which they watched later. That was really great!

On Sunday, we had a lesson with a man from Cameroon who loves American Football. He a few days previous had stopped us on the bus and said "You are missionaries right? Take my number. I want to know more about your message". The Golden opportunity for a missionary. We taught him and he is so prepared. His father is an evangelical preacher and has apparently taught his son well about the Bible. We answered some of his questions and we talked about the Restoration. It was a good lesson.

On Monday we were in a park tracting after a lesson that fell through, and we met first Jehovah's Witness man who to me seemed a bit misinformed. His entire premise was that we live in a world full of oppression and therefore it is entirely impossible to be happy in this world as well as that Man has no power over the devil. I thought all of those things were ridiculous because, A) We have agency and we can be happy even when there are terrible things happening in the world, because happiness is something that we can choose to have and B) Man will always have more power than the devil because, God has given us a body and the devil doesn't have one. Men can be weak minded and weak willed and choose the wrong thing but in reality the devil isn't the one with any power. But after him, we met a guy from Tanzinia, who accepted a Baptismal date and a copy of the Book of Mormon. That was really nice. Later that night we taught a lesson in Family Home evening. That was really good.

Yesterday we had a scambio with Anziani Hess and Thompson. I was iwth Anziano Thompson. It was like a few months ago in Piacenza! We taught three lessons that day. One was in the morning with the husband from the couple that we ran into on Saturday. It went really well! Then we taught the guy from Cameroon. We watched the Restoration Film with Him and his friend in French. It was really good. At the end he said "That's the third time I have seen that movie. I watched it twice on your website last night." Also I read the chapter that you left me. He then proceeded to give a detailed account of Alma 32 and how much it helped him understand the parable of the sower that Jesus gave in the Bible. That was really cool!

After that we taught Ravindar and Kaor and that was a really good lesson! It is always good to hear from them!

Today, we are going to do a pass by of a less active member and then go to another park to talk to people. 

Tomorrow we are going to Zone meeting in Modena and then I will be doing a scambio with Ferrara!

It has been a good week. I am excited for the week to come.