March 7th 2012 Letter

 Ciao tutti!
> Things in Ravenna are great! Anziano Betzsold and I are having a
> great time teaching and working hard everyday! It sounds like
> everyone is doing great! About two weeks ago week got a refferal from
> a man who lives in Sardenia. He said he had a brother who was
> interested to hear from us! So we called the man and he said his name
> is Peter, a Nigerian refugee who was living in Libya prior to the
> Gadafi crisis. So we tried to find Peter and got lost because our map
> only covers the city of Ravenna. Two days later we tried again and
> rode around for seriously and hour and we some how ended up next to a
> major highway totally lost. We apoligized to Peter and he seemed a
> little irratated because he really wanted to hear what we had to say.
> Finally we got out branch president, Presidente Gresta to help and we
> still got lost! It was so frustrating because when we called him for
> help he had the heaviest Nigerian accent ever! So finally we said
> we'll just have to go home, but presidente said let's look one more
> time so we turned around and we found him! He's about 26 years old
> and he knows the Bible super well like the Africans here are better
> with the bible than the Italians it's funny in there prayers they also
> always quote scripture I love it! Some of them sing in their prayers
> too!! haha. Anyways with Peter he is super humble and we talked to
> him about the book of mormon because we didn't have enough time and he
> loved it! Then only problem is him coming to church because he lives
> so far away. So in branch council we talked about it and our 2nd
> councelor Columbus who is Nigerian sounds and looks like Morgan
> Freedom hahah but he's like well if he's legit I'll take him! So
> we've had miracolo after miracolo. Things looking bright. Although
> we've had some baptism dates fall through Peter is looking ready and
> he has a nephew too!
> This week we got to go to Bologna for District meeting and something
> I'm looking forward to is March 22 we are going to Firenze (Florence)!
> For Zone conference. Anziano Betzsold and I started running
> yesterday and today I'm super sore haha. We also had the opportunity
> to give out a Book of Mormon in Arabic which was crazy. The guy was
> from Nigeria, lived in Libya and now is in Italy! Life is good and
> the gospel is true! Thanks for all the prayers and thoughts! -Anziano
> Thomas