Anziano Steven Delgado: November 27, 2013

Portovenere!

Ciao Ciao!

Hey everyone! Lol thanks for all of the pictures you guys sent so many i love it! I'm doing great here in La Spezia and looks like i am going to stay here for another 6 weeks! I'm super grateful i didnt get transferred i love it here in la spezia. For this transfer we got switched from the genova zone to the FIRENZE ZONE! It is now the best zone in the mission because it has 5 terre, which is right by us, Firenze, and also the leaning tower of Pisa! so these next 6 weeks be ready to get some awesome pictures lol. my companion is still going to be anziano Marin so thats great b/c we get along really well. Super excited for these next 6 weeks :) So for Thanksgiving we missionaries put together a huge party and made mashed potatoes, stuffing, gravy and some other members brought some more food including a giant turkey it was a great time. we explained the reason we celebrate thanksgiving in america and hade a giant feast all sitting around a looong table haha it was really fun.

Well down to the important things, the work! The work is going really well here in The Spice of Italia. Our investigators are doing well and we are really seeing some progress in a couple of them. The other day was really sad though. It was saturday and we had a lesson with an investigator who had a baptismal date for the 28th of December and she was going to come to church with us the next day (she is our most promising investigator). We got to her apt. building but she didnt answer the door nor did she answer her phone. that was the first time she blew us off so we were kinda sad about that. and then we were walking around centro doing proselyting and we ran into her on the street! she said she was very sorry but she talked to her husband about going to our church the next day and he gave her an ultimatum and said that if she went to church or met with us anymore he would leave her. it was really really really sad. but on a happier note we are finding more and more people who want to hear our message and we are getting a lot of lessons! so we are still seeing many miracles here :)

Well today we went to Portovenere! It is really close to La Spezia and someone once told us that we can't say that we have been to La Spezia if we haven't seen Portovenere so we decided to see for our selves what the big deal was. Right when we got there the view was a bunch of colorful houses on the mountainside overlooking the ocean and a castle on the very top of the mountain...GORGEOUS! I got some good video and pictures you guys will love them! We didn't get time to go into the castle so we have to go again but we did get to hike up to an old catholic church right on the edge of a mountain overlooking the ocean and city and we got to go inside and on top and get some cool pictures i cant wait to show you them!

Alright well im gunna start uploading the pictures since it will take a while cuz i have sooooo many to upload lol. Love you guys a ton! cant wait to hear from you next week!

La Spezia!