This week was strange. To start off we had a ton of investigators especially from the the other coppia being closed. But as the week went on, for one reason or another these investigators lost interest or couldn't see us for that week. So Phillip went back to the Ivory Coast. I was bummed to see him leave but we went and printed out some pictures that we took with him and gave him two and he was really happy. Really cool miracle about the city where he leaves in the Ivory Coast. There are 3 buildings, and each of these buildings have like 3 wards in them!! It's huge and we got Phillip the number of the Ivory Coast mission and also gave the Ivory Coast mission his number. It was really to see how the members of this ward really loved him and would always pass by the hospidal to see how he's doing. So we had one final lesson and he says that he knows that this church is true and when he returns he will be baptized. It was funny for the past few lessons we had taught him in English because that's what he always tried to speak to us. But after a few lessons we realized he could understand italian alot better.. haha but he understands everything. I was thankful for the oppurtuntiy to see and help him and glad he will strengthen the church in the Ivory coast. In other news, we've been teaching this guy named Giuseppe who we met the first day Anziano Hansen arrived in Genova. He is a huge chubby guy with a gotee and very catholic. Also is seperated and lives by himself. Anyways he's kind of a wierd guy but we were fine with that, we brought him to church a few times and everytime he fell asleep in all three classes. And when he wasn't alsleep he would just try to argue with the teacher about doctrine. So we were like whatever little by little he will get better. So the next lesson we have with him we bring a member so he can make friends in church. We tried to explain the plan of salvation but he ended up just wanting to argue with the member. Not us, the member for some reason. We tried to explain the trinity, show him a few scriptures and the member bore testimony and then... Giuseppe went crazy. We had a table in the middle of the room and he was leaned over it screamming at our member and dropped the f bomb 5 times and used some other words. I was like you need to calm down or leave. So Giuseppe left. Hahaha but we're fine it just means that God has prepared other people for us to teach! Cool miracle that happend the other day was we had a full day of finding and I was a little bummed because we didn't really have alot of investigators. So we pray before we do finding work and knock some houses. We go to the end of the night and nothing. But when we got on the bus to go home we bump into this guy named Paul from Nigeria and his wife and son we get talking and he was super excited we spoke English so we ended up getting his number. Also yesterday we had a zone conference and it was really nice just because it's a good break, we get to see other missionaries, and learn new things. Also my trainer, Anziano Betzsold is the new assistant so I was really glad to see him. He really did a good job and is a really great missionary. Things are going well especially this week we have alot of potentials and Erminio should be coming back from Brasil soon the 22nd of Gennaio. Well thanks for all the prayers I know that they help hope you all have a great week love you all!
Anziano Thomas
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