Wednesday, September 09, 2009

Letter dated 9 Sept 09, Torino

Well, I'm having a blast with my new comp! He is really funny. He's so girl crazy too! Haha...I tease him sooo much... We are getting along just great! Trying to keep the fire in him is a little hard though...but eh...I would imagine that it would be difficult your last transfer, so I can't blame him!

So, being in Torino....wow...Ya I already knew about it being the satanist capital of the world. (Ran into a few already last night...interesting folks...they just happened to "shrivel away" when I walked near them) haha...

Well with new city means I'm learning more words! For example...we talked to this guy on a bench and after I talked to my comp saying...."So, I understood the jist of things...but there were quite a few words I didn't really know..." He looked at me with a smile and said "Don't worry, you have all of your mission to figure out what those words mean..." haha so now Ive gone from learning gospel vocab, to Sailor's vocab! Go me! ;) (that is the blessing of a new language, all the curse words are completely unknown. It is wonderful to "not hear them when spoken")

So, as far as a cool story goes, we have had this African couple for awhile now, and she told us she needs help with her faith...the husband is pretty chill with things, he just wants to learn. So they have had a Book of Mormon for awhile now and they have started to read it (finally), and the wife came to us the next appt. and said she just felt this overwhelming joy in her and she couldn't understand why, cuz she couldn't sleep for anything the night before. She said she started reading early that morning and has been in a "joyful" mood every since. So we explained to her what that was and what it meant. I asked them to fast with us last Sunday. So they came to church and hopefully they received an answer (I'm sure they did) we have an appt. with them Thursday.
So, more to follow...

Ok, I love you guys so much!!! Thanks for your support!
DREW

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