New Companion

Ciao!

Well so this last week we had transfers and now I'm with Anziano Colemere!  He's a really cool missionary from Alpine Utah and super funny.  His dad works for the church and talks with Elder Holland once a week.  Anyway we've been getting along great these past few days.  He likes doing outdoor things like rock climbing, going to the lake, wake boarding, skiing so we have a lot to talk about.  So funny story that happened this last week that is kind of a miracle.  We were walking by the train station and we pass this group of Philippine people and one of them calls out to us and says ELDERS!  ELDERS!  So we turn around and start talking to him.  His name was Rod and he was a really cool guy.  He had been in Italy for a few years now and hasn't been able to come because of work problems.  We started talking and he shows us a tattoo on his forearm... It was Captain Moroni with the horn hahahhahaha I couldn't believe it.  It was a well done tattoo however..  so we talked with him got his number and he told us that his friend has interest so these next few weeks we should be meeting with him so we are excited for that!  Another thing that has also happened this week is a less active that we found on the street that is from Peru is looking to return to the church.  The last lesson we had with him was interesting/sad.  He came into the lesson and told us that one of his friends in Peru had just got shot and now is dead.  He wanted revenge.  Like he wanted to fly back to Peru and buy a guy and take justice into his own hands.  We were like Noooo!!  It was sad but something cool we were able to do was we talked about the plan of Salvation and told him where his friend was.  After that he calmed down and felt the spirit.  It was nice to explain that and just a great blessing for me to have this knowledge.  Right now we are still working with Riccardo.  This week he's been a little busy with work but the next lesson we have with him we will give him the baptism invite which will be great!  Things are going well we have more investigators but we are still looking for more!  Thanks love you all!

Anziano Thomas