I'm sorry if these emails all sound the same. I do my best to make my days interesting and to me they really are amazing! But I am sure to the outside world, some of the things we do might seem a little mundane.
Take for example on Tuesday, we had to drive all the way to Catania to pick up Easter biglietinni for the Easter video(which is great by the way) and then return immediately back. We made the trip fun with singing, practicing Italian, and getting a brioches with gelato for only €1,50,! And it was good! We also took an extra trip to Gela in order to hand over the keys to the missionary apartment and take a few things since they are probably selling the apartment for now. It's amazing how many things past missionaries will leave behind. We call it the "death closet" for when missionaries die but they was a whole lot more than just a closet full of stuff in this apartment.
Btw, those Easter biglietinni were totally worth it! We decided to go finding Saturday night and do the first gesso since it is finally warming up at least a little bit. So we went and for the first time in forever there were a ton of people on main street. And Anziano Albright when on a missionary power streak! We all passed out a lot together but it was hard for anyone to say no to Anziano Albright's slightly broken italian( posso lasciarti questo biglietinno). It was quite the miracle for us and we hope some real more miracles come from it.
For Easter, Italians do things a little differently. There is no easter egg hunt or easter bunny, but there are giant chocolate eggs. If you know kinder eggs, imagine those but giant! We found one that was bigger than Anziano Albright! It was so worth it to buy it. There is a surprise inside so the concept is at least the same. Also, kids take a week off school like Spring Break but for Easter and nothing is open on Sunday or Monday. Sunday is obvious but on Monday they have Pasquetta where everyone goes to the beach.
But other than those trips, the rest of the week was normal. Or at least normal for missionaries. We taught Sebastiano, our only investigator at this point, and he continues to progress. In every lesson, he shows a greater commitment to follow Christ and understands the Book of Mormon better. It's piano piano that wins the race and for Sebastiano we are going slow to make sure he's truly ready to make a commitment like baptism.
Everything else is great. Don't have time to talk but I am feeling the Spirit really strongly every night when I pray so I know I am doing the will of God even if the results can't clearly be seen!
Vi voglio bene!
Anziano Price
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