AMERICA! Eat a hamburger for me
Week 1 in Reggio Calabria!
So, I made it safely to Reggio with Anziano Malan. He's from
Morgan Utah. He's a really good
missionary. I'm excited to be serving with him. The members here
are a pochi ma buoni. There's Presidente and Sorella Pipolo (Geatano and
Sabrina) They are both amazing!! They might be the most solid members
that I’ve seen in Italy, especially Sabrina. They are really involved in
missionary work and ready to get work done! Yeah!! Then there are the other
members that really need help strengthening their testimonies and progressing
in the gospel.
Our investigators (so far) are all teenagers! Cool huh? There's
Tamara. She's 17 and from Georgia. She is orthodox, she has
read the whole book of Mormon in Italian, it took her 2 months and now has
started to read it in Russian. She said the first time that she read Alma
32, she cried. Then there's her friend Ahlam who's 16, she's Muslim
and from Morocco. She hasn't quite finished the Book of Mormon yet.
She doesn't believe that Christ was our Savior, so the Book of Mormon has
had less of an impact on her but she still really enjoys it.
President has asked us to try for a baptism during July and I really
think that Tamara can do it. She just needs to come to church, which
right now is a big obstacle due to family things. Then there's Frederico, he's an 18 year old
Italian who is interested in the history of the church. He's Italian and speaks
English really well.. Next pday, we're going to go on a tour of Reggio with
him. =)
Reggio is Beautiful!! The Lungo Mare is amazing. There’s a
huge castle that is on the block next to ours and there are a lot of churches,
museums and other cool stuff like that. But the big attraction is the beach,
everyone goes to the beach except us because there's better things to do. =)
Because Reggio is on the coast, it's kind of a long city and the
church is about 50 minutes on foot from our house. So that's a big
difference from what it was like in Messina with a car. Kind of a bummer,
mainly because it's very hot and humid, walking outside for 50 minutes leaves
you very sweaty but the weatherman said that this week is supposed to be
the hottest week of the summer. Personally I'm skeptical, but we'll
see.
Oh, I found a note from a couple months ago about a man who is from
Bitonto but lives in Provo who might have been one of the companions of James.
His name is Franco Lepore and his email is leporefranco at yahoo.com. He wasn't
sure if it was James (it was a long time ago) but you never know.
Well, that's all I have for now. I hope that you all are
enjoying your trip in Paris! I loved all the photos. Sara, don't be a
party Pooper!!
Have a great 4th of July!!
Transfer calls are this Saturday, we'll see what happens!!! =P we
both are going to stay FOR SURE!
Ciao!
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Mai a rendersi,
Anziano Stewart
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