Week 10

(Week 4 Caserta)

Our Africans! (Met them on the street. They were sitting on stairs and we say hello in English to every African we see and then it starts conversation.) They are so awesome and progressing super well! Felix and Evans are super knowledgeable about Jesus Christ and just gospel stuff. During the plan of salvation lesson Felix explained the whole fall of Adam and Eve to us and Evans is always talking about how important baptism is. My favorite phrase Felix says when we extend invitations is, "yes, I am ready to serve my God." These lessons with them go super well and we always have our Italian friend Daniel there, he also speaks English. He is a super great friend to Evans and Felix and just recently got the priesthood so it would be cool if he was able to baptize them. 

The Simone family! (Antonio, Antonella, and their two children) We brought Alicia, a brand new convert, to our lesson on Wednesday. Soooo glad we did! We had given the family a Book of Mormon on our first visit and when we arrived they had soooo many questions! Alicia was a HUGE help with answering questions, relating to them by being a convert herself and also with translating when we needed it. The father Antonio is very interested but when we called to make a return appointment the wife said she isn't interested anymore so we are hoping somehow to get back to teach even just Antonio.

More Ragazzi (boys)

Lovely things we see.......

Pizza at district meeting in Napoli

I love Sorella Hamilton!

Us with Alicia

Little Italian boys (taught them
how to sing I Am a Child of God)

We did a scambio (exchange) with the Sorelle in Battipaglia on Friday to Saturday and I was with Sorella Barona, she's awesome. We did casa a casa for a while with no success and then went to a main piazza for bench finding. Fun fact: Italians just stick their head over their balcony to see who is buzzing their bell. We have to yell to these old ladies so here we are yelling, "possiamo condividere un piccolo messagio di Gesù Cristo?" Hahaha love it! No success until one lady. I know that because we showed the Lord we were willing to work and open our mouths and talk to people that He put someone in our path. We also did a "gesso" where we went to a big piazza and drew the plan of salvation with chalk on a sheet. People would gather around to see what we were drawing and then we would start a conversation! Super fun and made some friends with little Italian boys.

Pozzuoli pictures from the
 balcony of the church.

Stake Conference! Saturday session in Pozzuoli and Sunday session in Caserta! Highlight: our Stake president gave an awesome talk to the members about the temple. He said that if you are waiting for the Rome temple to be finished to go to the temple, you won't be ready for it. He really believes that when the members show Heavenly Father we are ready for the temple, the Rome Temple will be finished. 

Once again a stellar week! Love my companion! Love my area! Love the language and the gospel!!

Love, Sorella Nelson

Mystery meat that is soooo delicious!