Dang, it's so cool to be able to read about a bunch of the stuff that's going on at home! I really love getting all your emails, thanks!
I noticed in Kalyn's letter she talked about her Ausstellung or something, where she does like a street stand. Well, we have something like that here. We have been working on getting the Permesso for it for about a week, and we have it scheduled from Thursday until Sunday. It's called the Mostra here, and each area in the mission is allowed to do it 3 times a year. Most areas do it one day a week for a month or so, but the city of Messina kind of stinks in that all the days have to be right after the other. It works, but it takes out a LOT of our time to be able to visit people during the week, and we have to wait to be able to follow up with the people we meet. But it's gonna be great, so long as it doesn't rain too much, haha! We have the ward choir coming to sing a few Christmas songs, we have a lot of members willing to help all the times we set up. It's gonna be crazy!
Ok, CRAZY story this week! The first week I got here, Anz. Stewart told me that the old bishop one time had a dream that there's a future priest who lives on this one street by the church, and we've both wanted to go there, but with so many appointments and without a car, we haven't really done a lot of street contacting or house. But Sunday, when all of our plans fell through, we decided to go down that street and work a bit there. There were a few good prospects, and we're hoping to be able to get back to them next week (on account of the Mostra).
But we get down to the ground floor of one of the palazzi (apartment buildings), and at one door, two older women opened the door. We started to talk with them, and the older one started to tell us to go away, she didn't want us here. The other one was just trying to figure out who we were. Finally, Anziano Stewart said fine, but he wanted to leave them a "Joy to the World" pass-along card. Then the older lady said, "Oh wait, I know who you are", or something, and (neither of us are sure how), they were both saying "Oh please, come in, come!" We said we couldn't come in without a man, and at that moment, the older one's husband walks up! So we go in, start explaining a bit, and they start talking, and they seemed super excited to see us! Turns out, they had ocassionally seen the missionaries a few years ago, but nothing came of it. However, for a week, the older lady has been having the same dream every night, that 2 Americans would be coming to her door with a paper in hand. I was thinking "WHOA, WHAT THE...?!?!" It was cool! And then there was a 13 year old boy that came in at some point, so we made an appointment with them for Tuesday at 6.
Well, the trams were late, and we got to their house, and nobody was there. We are for SURE going to go back though! But when we were about to walk in, a man outside stopped us and said that he and HIS family met with missionaries a while back, and he wanted to meet with them again! We both walked away from that place, and Anz. Stewart said "Man, that place is like a miracle workshop!" For sure, though. We're gonna try to get a LOT more new people in a bit.
But ok, down to business: we arranged with a member here to Skype with our families on Christmas, and it's funny, we were wanting to Skype at the exact same time Kalyn wants to call! Perfect timing, haha! So we'll see how that goes, but if anything comes up, Pres. Kelly said that we can call home to arrange the Skype call if we need to. If something changes, I'll let you know. And the money I took out: almost NONE of the stores here take cards, so I took out 150 in advance for anything. So far, I got a coin purse and gloves. Thanks!
Besides that, I don't see any business that needs to be "gotten down to". For P-day today, us and the Reggio missionaries went to Taormina, a city about half an hour away by train. It was cool, there was an old Greek Theatre there, and the view was fantastic! It's a city built all over the mountainous terrain here, and the ocean was such a deep blue, it was great! Except for a bit of rain, but you can't have everything, haha!
Anyway, love you all, and I'll see you at Christmas (if the internet here works well enough, hopefully).
Ciao ciao!
Anziano Walker
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