Cagliari Week 11!

Ciao Belli!

So, this week has gone by the fastest of all! Transfer calls are
tonight! Any minute now actually! I won't no anywhere because you stay
in the same place for twelve weeks to be trained but it's still
interesting to see what will happen!

Update on the Italian! I've been talking on the phone with the members
which has been one of the hardest things for me but I've had a couple
of successful phone calls where I did t have to give the phone to my
companion. Side note, no one in Italy answers their phone or shows up
to set appointments on time/at all.

So the week! Tuesday we had District meeting, we had a great training
on how our attitude effects our success as missionaries. It was
incredible to look back even just on the past few weeks and see how my
attitude has the power to change everything I do. Pranzo (lunch) as a
District made by Fratello Caravagna, one of our favorite members! We
then had some great Lessons with some great progressing investigators!
We taught both of them the third lesson that we usually share which is
"The Gospel of Jesus Christ" and I think it's my favorite, especially
to teach! I like it for one because I can explain it really well in
Italian and two because it is so simple, it brings together the
Restoration and the Plan of Salvation with the Atonement and tells you
why it's important and tells you exactly what you need to do!

Wednesday was a great day as well, we did some video finding with this
really cool video about Jesus Christ. We went to a park and found
people sitting on benches and sat down next to them with the video and
a bunch of them watched it! You never know if anyone will come out of
your efforts but you can always try!

I don't have as much time to email his week so I might leave some stuff out...

I gave a talk on Sunday! I found out Saturday night that I had to give
a talk on Sunday morning at 9, so I did the logical thing and went to
bed and said I would figure it out tomorrow. So at 6:30 I was up,
dictionary in hand writing a talk! They didn't give me a topic so I
chose to speak about how we can all be instruments in the Lord's
hands. I didn't plan to say this but at the end I asked everyone to
take out a piece of paper or their phone and write down the first name
that came to their mind when they thought about sharing the Gospel
with their friends/family and then to talk to the missionaries this
week and make it happen. Who knows if anything will happen but we can
hope right!

Today is Ferragosto which is an Italian holiday and on holidays in
Italy the whole country basically shuts down, there is no one on the
streets, everyone is, actually I have no idea where everyone is... So
we as missionaries get to spend the entire day deep cleaning our
apartment! So for us that meant some serious damage had to be done. On
Tuesday they had a senior couple of missionaries come from Rome to
inspect all the missionaries apartments on the island and ey said we
needed to get rid of a ton of our furniture and replace it all. So we
spent half of Thursday at IKEA ordering new closets and dressers etc,
and today we rearranged our whole apartment and cleaned sooooo much!
Which is why we're emailing so late, our P-Day is extended because of
all the cleaning! I'm excited for all the new furniture to get here,
it should be pretty nice!

Remember my permesso stuff with the PosteItaliano? Well you have to
renew them after a year and my companion renewed his in Taranto which
is on the main land so when it's ready to be picked up you have to go
back and pick it up in Person so at 5 AM this morning we took him to
the airport and because they don't have much notice to buy the flight
it's so expensive! So he's traveling by himself and I am staying here
with the zone leaders!

I'm sorry this email is soooo short! Like I said we spent so much time
cleaning today that we didn't get to do much p-day so next week it
will definitely be longer! I love you all, hope you have a great week
and I can't wait to hear from you!

-Jacob

P.S. If you would like to share photos with me throughout the week I
would love to see them, just add my email to a photo stream!