Ciao-

This week was great! The beginning was interesting though. From Thursday-Saturday most of our time was helping people move! Thursday an Ecuadorian family asked for help because they were moving back to Ecuador. It was good but in Italy it's super hard to move for people. The family we helped move on Thursday lived on the 6th floor!! Luckily we had an elevator but the things that couldn't fit into the elevator we had to carry down all six floors. It was fun though I liked it a lot. I was a little sad because this family is super cool and because the economy here in Italy good, many of the families who have come from South America have to return because there is no work at all. But I was glad to help! Next day, Friday, the missionaries who live in the other apartment in Genova were switching apartments. So one of the senior couples came down and bought a ton of furniture to put into the new apartment. So we put a lot of the furniture into a small elevator and moved it like that. After for the rest of the day, we put together the furniture. So I was putting together wardrobes, chairs, and other things that the missionaries there would be using. The next day we had to move all the furniture out of the missionaries old apartment. This apartment was about 30 years old and was filled with garbage missionaries had just thrown around for 30 years.. Once again I felt like I was working for Wayne. It wasn't as bad as the cat house though!

Even though we didn't have too much time to do missionary work, we had a few miracles! Before Anziano Ibba was transferred, he set up an appointment with a part member family. I had never met the couple before so we got to their home and got to know them. The wife (sonia) is a member and is from Ecuador and (Erminio) is not a member and is from Sicilia (Sicily). Super cool couple. Sonia has been inactive for a bit but she knows that the church is true. They just got married 8 months ago and came to church about 3 times but I had never got to know them. I love Erminio super tall guy with gray hair 45yrs old. We brought a member and they are getting along great. It was funny, Erminio was like wait so you three (Me, Anziano Webb, and Sonia) were all born in the church. But the member we brought wasn't and he did great Erminio really like them a lot. Their house is amazing too, because it's right on the coast. But Erminio came to church this week and the members were always talking to him. The next lesson we had with him he said he really liked how friendly everyone was. We gave him a "soft baptism invite" meaning, I said Erminio, when you find these things to be true, will you be baptized by someone holding the authority of God? He was like yeah of course! So this week we might be setting a date for him around Christmas we'll see. I'm super excited thought he's such a great guy and has some problems but the gospel will help him for sure! This week has been benissimo! Grazie per tutto e ci sentiamo fra una settimana!

Vi voglio bene

Anziano Thomas