And a Happy New Year!

Buongiorno Tutti!!!

Well, it has been a great week! Since I wrote last things have been going well! We had an awesome time during Christmas and everything and it all went well! It was sweet! So, just some updates for the work, S* has a baptismal date for the 24th of January now and A* is still going strong for the 10th. This week because of the holidays, we have only been able to see S* and we were able to teach him the Word of Wisdom, which he is ok following. That is new for an Italian, usually they have some problems with Coffee and Alcohol and Tobacco, so that is pretty sweet that he is already following that. He just is going to cut the tiny bit of coffee he drinks and he is set. He is a good guy. This week we have been trying to set up a date for the baptismal interview for A*a. Things seem to be coming together though.

So, yesterday we had some interesting things happen. There was a crazy wind storm that hit on Saturday night and lasted until Sunday evening. I was woken up by one of the doors in our apartment banging open and closed because of the wind. It was some pretty insane wind for Gela. So, on Sunday, because of the storm... Nobody came to Church. Well, that isn't actually true. A High Counsilor and his wife drove from Catania and came. Strange how they could make it from Catania in the storm and no one else closer could come... Well, we kept apologizing to the High Counsilor and he kept saying, it isn't your fault... Kind of funny. We ended up having a tiny sacrament meeting only. We blessed and passed the sacrament and then the High Counsilor bore his testimony and Anziano Lazarte and I bore our testimonies. That was pretty fun. Then we headed back out into the wind to do some finding on the street. Also, yesterday I was reading some random verse in the Bible in a letter from Paul. He said something like you are drinking too much water, you need to drink wine. Well, lately, I have been drinking a lot of water, so this verse hit me. So today I bought some juice haha (the closest substitute for wine) and I drank that. That was a random thing that happened this week.

Well, everything else has been going well here in Gela. It still smells kind of funny, but it is alright here! I am enjoying being here! It is crazy, there isn't a whole lot of time left... We are trying to finish strong in all that we are doing here and I think these last three weeks we will see some great things! It will be awesome! This week will be cool with Capodanno and everything. We will probably here some bombs and fireworks go off, so that will be fun and exciting! Well, that is all I have to write this week! This next week will be great!

Family, I loved skyping you!!! That was the high light of my week! Also, thanks for the Rootbeer and Chocolate! I loved it! It is a good way to end drinking sodas haha! Thanks for everything!!!

Sincerely,

Anziano Burton

Happy New Year!

Pics, The wind on the Sea, some pretty big waves for Gela. Me and the wind on the Sea.  Me and the Gesso (Chalk) drawing we made in Enna for finding during the Zone Blitz in Enna.