Wednesday, August 14, 2013

August 14, 2013

Hello everyone again!  Everything is really good here in Verona.  It gets pretty hot some days but it rained today and I hope that cools things down a bit.  The work is acually moving kinda slow in Verona right now.  This week there is a big holiday here in Italy called Feria Agosto.  All the stores close down and everybody leaves town for a week!  It is difficult to find people to teach.  It narrows things down to Africans and Sri Lankans but va bene we can't keep the gospel from them!

For P Day last week we went to the Resurrecturis.  It is a big cemetery here in Verona with lots of old statues and pictures.  It was really big! My favorite part of the cemetery was the entrance.  It had some really cool statues on it.  One of the statues looked strangely a lot like the Angel Moroni.  Kinda cool. 

So like I said before, the work has kind of slowed down for this week.  But that doesn't stop the miracles!  One of the less actives we have been working with finally came to church!!  It was soo cool to see hime there.  I don't know if I've told you his story so I'll go ahead and tell you about him.  About a year ago he had a stroke.  It made it really difficult for him to get to church because half of his body was paralyzed.  He has been going to therapy and has actually made a huge recovery! That is a miracle in itself!  He takes really long walks everyday to keep the muscles loose.  For the past couple of months, we have been inviting him to come to church.  He is hard to catch at home because he's always walking and he never answers his phone.  But we try to meet with him as often as we can.  We have had some awesome lessons with him.  I was so excited to see him at church! And he was able to sit by some of our African investigators and explain to them what was going on.  We hope that he continues to come.

I hope everyone is helping the missionaries wherever you live! It sure helps when we have the help of our members.  Our lessons are so much more spiritual when we have the testimony of a member.

Well I gotta get back to work! Ciao tutti!

-Anziano Cody Petterborg





This picture is actually from last week, but it's of Cody and his companion after a big rainstorm!


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