Week 43

This week was another good week!!! It sounds like you all had a ton of fun!! Last Monday we walked past the beach and saw these kids playing volleyball; so, being curious to see how my skill level was, I decided to jump in for a game! We played two on two! I have to admit the net was a little low but I could jump higher then ever before because I have been walking soooo much! I bounced a couple of balls into the street and even one onto a shack roof about 20 meters from the court!! It was quite amazing and afterward they all asked where I was from and I told them I was from California and they all just about died, they thought I was from Trapani!! hahaha! Well I have started to read El Libro de Mormon in Spanish so I can master another language while I am here! When I don't understand something, I just have to look in the Italian book to understand!! So its been really awesome! I am growing in so many ways ! I think after Spanish I am going to try German because it is close to English!  So just keep helping Nathan!  Be an example to him and pray for him, and the rest of the family, haha! 

Thanks for sharing the story of the miracle!  I loved it!  That is so amazing, you should write that down somewhere! Speaking of journal writing, my journal writing has been pooop this week because we have been doing so much work and I also just forget, but anyway this week was cool!  We went to a city called Monreale with all of the anziani in our district to do missionary work with them and it was really great! We met this one kid who was from Texas; his parents were divorced and so he lives now here in Italy with his dad, but it was super cool to talk with an American and tell him about the gospel! The anziani there in Monreale will see him later this week!   So the big news is that today we are receiving the iPads to do missionary work with!! I will be posting on Facebook regularly to try to get some more contacts here in Trapani! It will be a great tool (or a very dangerous one)!  We will be allowed to use our Facebook and to post and message almost everyday! So, if anyone wants to contact me that way they can! This week also my companion had foot problems like on his heel the shoe was cutting into his foot because they are brand new, so he just pretty much gave up.  He really doesn't like missionary clothes all that much. So we stopped in a store and I grabbed him some cotton pads and some tape to tie up his ankle and heel and we kept marching along! It has started to the warm up here in Sicily which is not the greatest for walking around 8 hours a day, so we have been trying especially hard to get appointments to stay out of the sun! It sounds like everything is going well and i hope you all have a great week and put your faith in the Lord!

Love Anziano Goode

The African member in the last picture is from Ghana, he was baptized a year ago! He rides his bike an hour to get to church every Sunday.

Well anyway, I love you guys tons and miss you guys, have a great week!!