Ladri, a story of sadness.

You know, really just a normal week except that WE GOT FLIPPIN' ROBBED! It was terrible.

It was the early morning on the 8th of October, sometime while we were sleeping. One of our balcony doors was accidentally left open and someone managed to climb up onto our balcony, open the door, and steal stuff.

Not a single person awoke, so we are thankful we got robbed instead of murdered, but that morning was interesting. Nothing in our bedrooms was taken, and only the two studies got robbed, but we awoke and couldn't find the cellphone for Squire and I. We searched the whole bedroom (where we usually keep it) and then went in the study. The next few minutes were like this:

"The phone isn't on the desk." I said.

"Perhaps in your bag?" Anziano Squire suggested.

"Uh... Where's my bag?"

"Wait. Where is my bag?!"

"What the..." 

"And my iPad! And my camera!" Squire paled here....

"Um." I left the room and checked the balcony door in the other Elder's study. Sure enough it's wide open.

With the rest of the morning, we made an inventory of things lost:

From Squire: 1 iPad, the companionship phone, a bag, a camera, a wallet, 4 debut/credit cards, drivers ID, permesso (the thing that lets us live here legally).

From me: my bag and wallet, my cards, my ID and permesso, 12 Euro, a map of padova.

From Scoggin: his wallet and money means, a Magic the Gathering deck.

From Driver: nothing

All in all, we have to get new Permessi di Soggiorno, which are super expensive. Squire and I have no phone, scheduling is hard... This week still was nice in someways...

We have no money for food, so the members of the ward are inviting us everywhere or making meals. Our member work is improving already!

We've met with Fratello Voltalina, he is ready for baptism and we love talking with him. Wilfred, he meets with us a lot every week at his store. He is ready to progress, he always wants us to come back soon! It's quite nice. Mainly, the work has continued even without money.

I love Italy considerably and Padova is grand! I know the gospel of Jesus Christ blesses everyone, I've seen miracles here already! 

Vi Voglio bene. If you have questions, just ask.

--Anziano Benge