Something wetter this way comes.

  A different season comes! (And great was Fall of it) 3 Nephi 14:27, but I'm talking about the approaching Autumn, that kind of fall.

If you've ever been in an Italian rainstorm, you would know to expect lightning, I absolutely love lightning and thunder so when it rains I become a happier man. I also love rain, that helps too. It rained almost all night, I woke up cold, I wore a jacket to come do emails, etc etc... Perfect weather I think!

  We've met Cristiano Friday, he promised us he'd read the Book of Mormon but didn't come to church, I guess just one commitment was what he could handle. We are trying to meet again this Friday. Tomorrow is Anziano Stoll's birthday, we will be going to Agnis and Fred's house to celebrate (and give a lesson of course), this may be the first time I have Nigerian food if they cook anything. I hear it's weird, I'll tell you about it if I remember. Last week we got them ready to read the Book of Mormon as well, we will give them a nice little lesson about revelation to re-cover how our slow lesson went last Wednesday,

  Everything else here is just long days of little things. We met a man in a little store, he loved Mormons and said he wanted to come to church, he refused to give us a number for him, but he took the address and we will see about that as well. His last name was one of the most popular last names I've heard of in Italy, there are so many! The last name, is Gallo, which to anyone who speaks a Latin based language can guess, means rooster. There are a lot of Roosters in Italy, hmmm

Sorry, was I off topic?

I've covered most of the important parts, and I will again tell you all that my PDay will be on the 25th, a Tuesday, for next week. I will not see your emails until maybe Friday unless they are a day earlier than usual. The reason for this is a mission conference. Elder Kearon, the new area authority, is coming to visit the mission, on Wednesday I will be in Modena for this meeting and participating with all of that. You will get news on that if I remember it as well... The Tuesday PDay might throw me off schedule.

To end, I'm going to be silly, many of you will not know, but I think my family might read my emails out loud together, that means you must read this part out loud, I will subconsciously-overwhelmingly-allworldy laugh at you and your bad Italian (unless you can speak Italian) make sure you read it with your best mafia accent and all.

Chiaramente amo questo Vangelo di Gesù, amo questa chiesa, amo la missione. Ogniqualvolta il seme di fede ci sembra piccolo o meno utile, piantatelo e guardate il seme diventando un albero meraviglioso. In modo che la mia testimonianza potrebbe sembrare piccola, è piantato, fermo, immobile, l'albero cresce mentre l'amore per nostro Dio si rafforza.

I know the church is true, I don't just love and support it, I want to live it, I know our Heavenly Father has this plan, and this gospel for us.

Love you all!

--Anziano Benge