Italy Treats one Well

And insipidly, another week has fled.
And I don't have any more photos for you, I'm sorry.

This week our ward was on a trip to the temple. So we focused our week
on passing by long-missing members. We traveled to Porcia to pass by
them. En route, we met a man named Robert. He is from Ghana, and
really didn't speak English that well.
At one point in our discussion, Elder Douglas said "Awesome!" And
Robert thought that he had said a word in the Twi language "boasom" or
something. Which means "I love you."
So of course Robert just starts cracking up, and couldn't even finish
the conversation because he's laughing. He left us like that, without
us getting his number, but at least he was in a good mood.

Saturday we had dinner with the Giurintano family. And Elder Douglas
had his first experience with trying to play chess with a 90 year old
Siciliano. I usually play, but I escaped it fortunately.
Sunday was really nice. Belal, from Pakistan, came to all three hours
of church and participated in the lesson. He says he likes
Christianity, but still doesn't quite understand Christ. Of course, do
any of us? As we learn, you can only teach someone as far as you know
for yourself. We did our best, bearing testimony in Gospel Principles
class, but it still seems he uses church only as a past time.
For dinner, we were invited to the American bishop's home, and we ate
South Korean food, and Philippine food, and then went to another
member's home for pies, pies, and more pie.
Americans are so awesome in a completely different way than Italians
are, but it is very hard to switch cultures like that for me.
Yesterday we had troubles with Elder Douglas' documents, so we have to
go in Friday this week. Aye, I've spent too much time in government
offices. Beh, persevereremo

Va bene, quel è tutto per questa settimana.
Sii una Luce. Sii come Gesù, la Lace del mondo.
Tvb
--Anziano Benge
(Austine, a recent convert in Firenze, emailed me this photo of him,
Iyke(far left), and Rocky(middle).) they are all new converts and I
really miss that city! Him and Iyke just received the Melchizedek
priesthood.