Hey guys,

not a whole bunch happened this week. It was a fun though.

We've been doing a lot of work with our inactives and our less actives
and they are doing well. Unfortunately, we have a few members who are
falling away and we're doing all we can to help them. It just hurts me
so much when we go during the week to visit these members, and we feel
the spirit, and then on Sunday, they dont come to church. Its so
annoying! But, its something they need to do, we cant take away their
free agency. On thursday, friday and saturday we did a lot of moving.
It was not too fun, but, now we're all set in the new place. Also on
Saturday, we got our transfer call and we're staying together for
another 6 weeks. I'm excited, it's gunna be awesome, im confident that
we'll baptize and reactivate some more members. Then on Sunday, we had
another meal appointment and we ate like kings like always here in
Italy. Our member gave me some beer, and it was disgusting, i dont
know how people drink that stuff.... btw, it was nonalcoholic, so, i
didnt break the word of wisdom. The members here, although not great
in number, are great at feeding us, and the Calabrian food is money!
On monday, we had our halloween party that me and my comp organized,
and we thought it was pretty fun, we liked it, and there were 10 other
teenage girls that came and liked it, but our old lady members didnt,
they kept complaining. But, its okay, the problem is they didnt play
any of the games that we organized. But overall, it was a sucess, we
had like 15 nonmembers and 10 members show up. It was a lot of fun.

also, a few days ago, during english class, some moron threw a fire
cracker into teh church and exploded right next to me and my
companion. It didn't do any damage, but, it was really loud. The kids
that did it took off quick, so, we couldn't do anything about it.
then, a few days later, on halloween, the spa right next to our church
exploded. what happened it the Mafia came down b/c of some issue that
tehy had with this spa and broke im, put gasoline everywhere, and blew
it up. Apparantly its the 3rd time in 3 years it's happened to that
spa, so, there's a problem there... anyways,

one of the bad things that happened this week was 2 of our
investigators fell away, and dont want to see us anymore, it was that
lady and her son that loved us. Like i've said before, the x-district
president, that fell away from the church is completely against it and
he lies to people and tells tehm that we're corrupt, and it seems like
a lot of our investigators are some how are contacted by him or
someone who is against the church and they lye and say false things.
We've seen this with 2 large families who we came in contact with a
few months ago. We had 2 incredible first lessons with baptismal dates
set and the3 next time we showed up at the lessons, they told us to go
away and never come back, it was really strange, and upsetting, but,
we know that The Lord is all-powerful and that Satan will not win this
battle.

on the other hand, margarita is doing well. she's super prepared and
is reading the book of mormon, and she came to church and she really
knows that the church is true. She feels the spirit so strong too. We
gave her a blessing yesterday b/c her health is a little lacking, but,
she's doing great.

thats basically it. have a great week guys,
love you all,
Anziano Lane


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the halloween party