Tough Week

Ciao tutti!

I have to say this week was pretty tough especially with the work. The other day we lost our baptismal date with Jamal. It was sad and I was so sure that he was getting baptized. What happened was we gave him a baptismal date and he said yes but a few days later he called his mom and she said "no we are Muslim" so after that he just dropped everything and didn't even see us to give us an explanation. It was tough and we're really bummed that it happened. I'm just so thankful for free agency. Anyway we don't see Jamal now. Another tough thing that happened this week was also with Mario we lost his baptismal date as well. What happened was he didn't answer our calls for a reminder to come to church and didn't come to church so we passed by and talked to him a bit about what's happening and told us right now he doesn't feel ready at all for his baptism. He said it was too soon, so we were like alright that's fine, we're not here to force anyone just to help them understand that these things are true. So it's fine I'm just bummed that I will be leaving Genova without any baptisms but I know I worked hard and was obedient. But we still have some baptismal dates 2 actually. One is Rafaele still and the other is Mauro. Mauro is for the 23 of March but we are going to have to reschedule it for sure because he's not ready yet. It's funny the work here in Genova has been like a roller coaster. One week everything is going real well and then the next week it stops for whatever reason. The focus for this week is going to be finding new investigators because right now we are losing some.

Today and yesterday it has been raining in fact we tried to go to Cinque Terre for P'day but when we got there it was pouring pretty hard so we saw a little bit and took a train back to Genova and grabbed some McDonald's. Things are going well just pray for us this week to find new investigators because we really do need some more. With the apartment we finally found one and it's in a really good place. So maybe this next week we might be moving some things around because by the 31 of March we have to be out of our apartment we have now. Thanks for all the support and prayers love you all!!

Anziano Thomas