Ladispoli Transfer 16 Week 4

This Transfer has brought some of the weirdest emotions, so much excitement but an equal amount of sadness, some fear of the future as well as a eagerness to see what will happen next! Today marks two weeks left so there is still a lot of work to do here in Ladispoli and we had a great week this week!

This week we met with a ton of members! It started on Monday night... we went to the Gambi family’s house for a Family Home Evening, we used this cool cup and knife display to explain the importance of sustaining one another in our families. We share our testimonies, we share our experiences and we seek to build each other up. It was a good thought! We were in a trio for this which was pretty fun! Anziano Delgrosso has been here for about 3 weeks but I’ll tell you a little bit more about him later because we did an exchange this week. 

Tuesday was kind of a waste of a day but we tried to serve and that was the important part! We went to Rome to help a Nigerian Refugee member at the immigration offices. He ended up not having an appointment and some other drama so it was kind of a rough morning and then we had to go to the institute building to print him off a bus ticket back to Como. Turns out it was taco Tuesday at the institute and they asked us if we wanted to stay so we lucked out on lunch! We had actual Cheddar Cheese! Haha it’s the little things you miss ;) 

That night we had another FHE with the Meade family, the Dad is American and the Mom is Italian so they speak English at home. The Dad has all of these Book of Mormon historical theories that he explained to us, they were pretty interesting and then we had some brownies and a spiritual thought to finish it off! 

Wednesday was our District Meeting, one of the Sisters did the training and she did a great job! We talked about finding joy in the work and it was really good. Then we made peanut butter pasta which was so heavy but really good and then Anziano Delgrosso and I went back to work in Ostia! We got to go to dinner with the Cevallos family which was awesome, I love them! I told her I was coming the other day and so she made us a special dessert and this giant dinner! We are going to try to meet up while my family is in Rome! In our spiritual thought I got to be pretty bold with her husband and tell him I love him and promise the blessings of baptism. He’s not ready yet but one day he will be. 

Thursday we continued the exchange and did some great finding, we talked to so many people and had so many good conversations. Anziano Delgrosso is a stud! 

Friday was up and out to Manziana again to go visit Max! We brought the Bishop with us and had a great lesson! He’s progressing towards his baptismal Date of June 2nd! Then in the evening we went to the DiniCiaci’s house, they’re amazing. The Dad is actually Elder DiniCiaci, he’s an area seventy. They have four kids and Elder DiniCiaci has never spoken to them in Italian, he only speaks to them in English so they’re growing up bilingual which is really cool. They speak to their Mom in Italian and their Dad in English. Dinner conversation is a little bit of a headache but it’s cool! We had a great dinner with them and talked about having love at home and charity towards each other... 4 young kids at home ;) 

Saturday! The Gambi family has a terrace on top of their building and they told us we could come and do our personal city up there some time so we took advantage of it! Brother Gambi brought us out some juice and Nutella and bread and it was really nice! We then did weekly Planning ;( Not my favorite but a necessary evil! We spent the whole evening doing finding! It was a really good day!

Sunday was super busy... we had Church of course and I gave a talk! I talked about true conversion to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Our investigator Mimmo came to Church too! I translated for some American guy for the second and third hours. We got invited to lunch by this family that comes to our English Course. They’re so cool! We had a great time with them, unfortunately they’re not super interested in the Gospel but we were able to talk about the family and the importance of it! And we ate a ton of food! They brought us home just in time to study and head to the Poli’s house! We had a great lesson with Valerio and Anita, we taught the Plan of Salvation and we got to answer a lot of their questions! Valerio kept asking questions about baptism and explaining to his wife that it is a necessary step! We stayed around and chatted with the Poli family, they asked us to stay for dinner and so we did! They’re one of my favorite families here :) 

This was such a great week, Anziano Huntsman and I have gotten to know a lot of members and have had some really great lessons! “No unhallowed hand can stop the work from progressing!” 

I hope you have a great week! 

Love,

Anziano Bellucci