April 1, 2009

Missionary work is so great! I had the great opportunity to do 2 exchanges (scambis) at the beginning of this week. We went to Olbia and then to Sassari. It was great to be with these missionaries and to help them with their work. I am loving being a zone leader. I am not overwelmed anymore. I am getting the hang of things. I love my companion. I am learning a lot from him. We have been having a fun time joking around and telling stories from the mtc and from our missions. I love our zone members. They are such good elders and sisters. When i was at sassari they had me listen to a beautiful musical called the garden about the garden of gethsemane. It is beautiful. You have to get the cd and try to find the sheet music because it is wonderful. I wish i could tell you the whole story but i will tell you a little bit. It is about 4 elements: a seedling (that cant grow), a ram (that is stuck in the bush), a tree (that is barren) and a millstone (that doesnt feel like his of importance). They are in their misery and blaming themselves for the things that they lack. A gardner comes (a prophet) to help them grow, become better, but then there is the landlord (satan) who says that they are his and that the gardner cant save them so a man of many names (jesus christ) has to come and save them. It is wonderful. I want to do it so badly. Let's do it together ok? OF course when umpiring is over and you are set with work. Another neat thing is that on sunday i was talking with the old zone leader here in cagliari, anziano bruno (from Catania). He finished his mission in october i believe. He is dating the Sardegna district president's daughter. He is going to work here in a month and move here. Last year when we was here they did the musical My turn on Earth (il mio turno sulla terra) and this year they want to do a musical that was written in the north of italy about the prophet Joseph Smith. I am excited. We are going to help and be in it. Last year it helped the branch out a lot. It brought unity among the members, inactives came back, they had a baptism from it, and they recieved many contacts and new investigators from it. We had a good lesson with Marilena (anziano Soro's cousin). we watched the restoration. she said the closing prayer which went well. She is going to read the book of mormon and pray to know if it is true. She is a great lady. I would love to have her as a relative. I think i am going to adopt her as my italian aunt :). We are also teaching a man from Nigeria (destiny) a woman from the philipines (celina) and our new investigator is Giovanni who is great. He is a really short, stauky sardanian who is so kind and Buono! proprio buono. We taught him for the first time saturday night and it was incredible. The spirit was so strong. He has read to the death of ishmael in the book of mormon. I am excited for him. I love our members. We have a lot of them and they are so quiet and humble. It is very different from Battipaglia. They were so loud, funny, prideful and contentious (at times) where these members are afraid of their own shadows. Not all of them just the single men. We have about 5 of them. They help us a lot with missionary work. Elder Brewster