Lost Sheep

Ferragosto!....You know what that means!...Everyone comes to Sanremo. The last few days the streets have had a lot more people in them. There have been tons of Germans, French and others all over the place. We're hoping the crowding of the streets will be a positive instead of a negative. We will treat it as a positive though.

The confirmation on Sunday went great! Felice is felice (happy) and no pun intended. He is doing really great and his wife is just contentissima (so content). We've actually really been working with her and her own missionary work. She has a few friends she wants to introduce the Gospel to hopefully something will pan out.

Anziano Free, Edith, Michel, Felice, Anziano Neff

Anziani Neff and Free with Felice

We were able to see Brunella after church on Sunday and had a wonderful lesson with her. She of course came to church and had a much better experience than last week. Last week the kids behind her made lots of noise and really distracted her I guess. She's become best friends over a matter of weeks with the Cangiolisi family and they ''hang-out'' often.   She is currently not working because of medical problems which makes it a bit difficult to see her often. She also lives very far away and by herself so it's difficult to go and see her. I think the Cangiolosi's are convincing her to move to Sanremo so that'd be wonderful for her and us. She, during the lesson, was just so willing to listen and partially knows already that what we say is true. We invited her to pray nonetheless so she could receive that special answer for herself.

Everything with Ivano is going forward. Still it goes slowly AVANTI (ahead). One of his legs is healed and he's really started recognizing the help of our Heavenly Father in his process. We invited him to baptism for a date next month but he doesn't feel like his leg will heal in time. We personally think he's not ready to obey Chastity yet. He did say though that he thinks by Christmas time he would be ready.! It's a bit off but I think it's good that he is thinking himself about when he could be ready. He said it in a way that sounded like he actually wants it. We are happy with his progress.

This Sunday we got this really great less-active person to church. A few weeks ago we met Sujey who is from Santo Domingo. She is about 25 years old and has two kids, Adon and Aura. Her mother and younger brother are also both members! Anyways, we've seen them twice and are all super great (we haven't taught the mom yet). They didn't know the church was here but they were already less-active upon arrival in Sanremo. Both times we taught them we were able to get a member there and seeing how they don't speak Italian or understand it, it was difficult. Anz. Free used to speak pretty good Spanish but with learning Italian everything sort of got lost. He still speaks decently but I sort of just throw out Italian, praying they understand.

Well we walked with them to church on Sunday, Sujey and her two children. It was super awesome to have Yajaira, Steve's wife there, because she's from Santo Domingo. They hit it off and had a great time in church. The two kids Adon 5 years, and Aura about 3 years also seemed to just love Primary. Yaraira in fact spent much of yesterday evening with their family and got really close with them. I guess she said that Sujey wants to help her family all get close again to the church. It's great how the Lord is always preparing his children both members and non-members. He uses all of us as instruments to better help his other ''lost sheep''.

There has been a bit of a comeback with Romolo this week. We had basically dropped him on account of his multiple cancellations and bidones (no shows). We finally set an appointment up though and were able to have a good spiritual lesson. Over the last week he's been struggling with depression. There have been lots of problems with his wife's documents. She is currently in Peru still and hasn't been able to get here. It's been really rough on Romolo and he's just preoccupied a lot with this situation. It was great to bear testimony about how Prayer and reading of the B of M can really help him in this time. It was great to see a lot of the burdens be lifted off his back after he said the closing prayer. There was a good peaceful spirit and he recognized it too. We plan on seeing him again tomorrow night.

Everything is going great here and I hope it's all going great there!....Any chance on having Dianna's baby named after her favorite nephew?.....at least get my name as the middle name...just saying.

Sorry to hear that Hill and her team lost. They'll tear it up though during the regular season. When Ben gets an interception we have to get the announcer at his games to call him Benny the Jet. If not I'll be there with a big Benny the Jet sign.

Anyways thanks so much for the letters. It was great hearing from you.

Talk to ya next week.

Love,

Tuck.