This week was one of the best
weeks I've had on my mission
Maybe a number one highlight
was Skyping home for CHRISTMAS!! It was so nice to see all your faces and hear
how all y'all are doing. I love you all so much.
We weren't allowed to go
teaching Christmas Eve or Christmas day so we spent time with members for most
of that time. We also went and played some Rugby Christmas day with some
members and an investigator which was SUPER cold in the snow but way fun. One
of the Spanish Elders turned down a deal to play professional rugby in
Australia so he could come on the mission so that was fun to take him on.
Luckily the snow slowed him down enough to even the playing field just a little
bit. Anyways, even though we didn't go out teaching Christmas Eve that
afternoon we saw an awesome miracle. That afternoon we got two members to come
teaching with us and I went with one member and Elder Smelcer went with another
and for about three hours. We were hoping we might see two or three families
apiece but we were able to visit 4 FAMILIES EACH!! The spirit was so strong in
all of the lessons and it was just a miracle to be able to do so much good in
so little time and spend so much time with people that we love. It was so cool.
We also met a really awesome
family that the Spanish Missionaries knocked their door for kicks and they
invited us back so we came and had a great conversation with him. It was cool
because he's all tatted out and was cranking death metal when we came in but all
his questions and what he was talking about was exactly in line with what we
share with people. He really wants to be a good dad and loves his family and
we're way excited to start talking with him more often to help him find the
answers to the great questions that he had.
Another fun day was when I got
to go on exchange to the Spanish Area again. We had a couple really good
lessons and it was cool because I understood almost everything and remembered
enough to participate a little bit so that was fun.
I'm looking forward to this
week because we've got our work cut out for us. Two of our most interested
investigators moved out this weekend. One we'd known about a week or so ahead
but the other we found out about yesterday and barely got to see him before he
left. It's too bad because we were getting to see them a lot and they were both
studying one their own and we just had great lessons with each of them. Then
our investigator that is most prepared for baptism left to Wisconsin with a one
way ticket for a vacation that could be a month or permanent and we also found
out that our final most interested and progressing investigator is moving on
the 17th. So this means that we are going to be spending more time helping
less-interested investigators develop their desire to seek answers and working
harder at finding more people to teach. When we saw all this happening before
our eyes it sounded like such a pain but now we're starting to see it as an
opportunity to see more people we wouldn't have seen and meet more people we
wouldn't have met so we're excited.
I'm loving it here, I'm sure
there's a reason I haven't got my visa yet. I don't know if I've found that
reason yet but I have faith there is one.
Love,
~Elder Della-Piana
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