Buon Natale tutti!!!!!!
Spero che questa stagione speciale vi trovi in un tempo bello e sereno.
I
love Christmas so much. It is the best time of the year. What a
beautiful country to be in as well for Christmas. I can't believe this
is my second and last Christmas here in Italia. Time goes by way too
fast.
Well, this letter won't be really long because we are going to Skype Tomorrow. The plan is at 8:00 your time.
We
also have been baking cookies. Yesterday morning, we baked a ton of
sugar cookies that we are going to give to members and investigators
tonight when we go carol to them. It made us feel like we were at home
again. haha.
It doesn't matter that my
Christmas gift is late, I got a great gift last night. Anziano Windley
came and spent the night in our apartment because his comp and to get
his permesso. It was so great to see him again. We can't believe just
how fast the last year has gone. I still remember Skyping HIS family in
Prato last year! haha.
Speaking of caroling, we
had some cool miracles the other night. The other night, we went out
caroling with the Sorelle in Centro. We met near the big Christmas tree,
but there was a problem. No one was there. Literally zero people were
walking past. However, on a cold December night that close to natale, it
was the best thing that we could do with our time, so we decided to
sing anyway. After we started singing people starting coming out from
literally nowhere. A young man started talking to us and then pulled out
his phone and said, "can we exchange numbers?". Then a family walked
past and asked us if they could give us some money, we told them no and
gave them a "Egli รจ il dono" pass along card instead. I also started
talking to man and after giving him a pass along card, he asked me if we
could leave him with something more, so I gave him an opuscolo of the
restauration. Then the biggest miracle of all was that one of our
investigators who we had not seen for a long time walked past. He left
today to go back to Spain and we really wanted to keep him in contact
with the missionaries there, but we decide have his info. Luckily, we
ran into him while we were singing and we were able to get the
information that we need to pass him to the missionaries there. It
really was a night full of Christmas miracles. This is such a great time
to be serving the Lord here in Italia. I really have seen so many
blessings every single day.
In other news, like
I said last week, I was kinda sick. Well, we were going to go on a
historical tour of Ravenna with this member, but we didn't because I was
sick. Then he stopped by to say hi to us, but unfortunately we weren't
home. Well, we called him this week to see him and he decided to take us
out to lunch in the small city, Comacchio, which is a little Venezia,
but it was too foggy, so we went somewhere else and I'm not joking, we
literally went to five restaurants looking for one that was open. It was
ridiculous. That's one of the problems of Italia, restaurants are
closed at lunch! That doesn't make any sense. Oh well. We ended up going
to an adventure with him, and during that we went on a ferry boat, and
found a ton of yak statues. Yeah, I know, kinda weird. but he was so
sweet. I love members. They are so great.
Now
for worldly news. That's super awesome that BYU made it to the finals,
but that stinks that they lost. That's cool that Hamsen got drafted.
What team is she going to?
Well, I love you all
so much and I can't wait to see you all tomorrow. I hope you have a
great Christmas eve or vigiglia as they call it here.
I love you all!!!
Spero
che tutti voi, chiunque sei, un amico, un parente, un fratello, un
conoscente, o un straniero, abbiate un buon natale e capo d'anno!!!! Dio
vi benedica.
Anziano Langlois
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