Elder Peter Goode: Week 17 - 4 Months have passed!

Well this week was awesome!! We have been working super hard and still trying to have some fun at the same time! This week we had a couple of lessons! All with people who could be very interested in hearing more about our message!! This week we also received transfer calls and it turns out I will be staying here in Bitonto but will be getting a new companion from Torrance, California! It should be awesome! This week we also did a bit of cleaning around the house and I found this bucket of water in the laundry room that was like green so I thought it was a bit strange so I took it outside and dumped is out. I looked closer in the water and there were some baby mosquitoes and all of these nasty worm things in it just squirming around it was absolutely disgusting but I finally solved the mosquito problem I think! hahha! Oh, and my comp wanted to use the bucket to mop the house, so he said I had to fill it up in the sink, but then when he saw the worms he totally changed his mind and said that if I would have filled up the bucket in his sink he would have made me drink it hahah! Also this week in our English course we had over thirty students!!!! It was seriously incredible!!

Last night we had a lesson with these two people in their 40's. One is a doctor and is super smart the other is his girlfreind who is a psychologist! At first I was a bit nervous to meet them because I thought they would just destroy every thing that i would say because my Italian is still a bit broken. Well we started teaching them and they were both super nice! She asked me why in the world I would leave my family AND California for 2 years to go on a mission? And that is my favorite question to answer! I told her, with all sincerity of my heart, that I knew the church was true and that we are all children of a Heavenly Father that loves us and who wants all of his children to be happy and to hear this wonderful message to be able to return with him after this life! Me and everyone in the room could feel the Spirit so strong it was undeniable. She started crying as well as this member of our church that was there with us, I hope she will remember that feeling for the rest of her life. I know that there is nothing that I could have said to them, with my little knowledge to convince them of the truth of our message, but I know that the Spirit told her exactly what she needed to hear. I have come to see the change in my self as well as the change in others because of the gospel and I know it can bring happiness to everyone!

I am so grateful for this wonderful opportunity i have to be a missionary and a representative of the Lord! I am seriously so grateful for this time to learn and grow and change! If I have learned anything, it is that everyone can change and should change throughout life, but we should decide today what we want to become and how we can do it!!! Thanks to everyone for all of the support!

Love, Anziano Goode

In this picture I cooked Sicilian food, which was amazing but the first bite I took was the hottest pepper I have ever eaten and I started coughing and choking and crying! It was incredible how terrible it was!! The member totally understood that i was dying! hahah! Everyone was staring at me! I thought the whole thing was going to be that hot! I got so scared to eat more!