Famiglia!
3/14/2012
Another week in Italy! My first week was almost like my first week in the MTC, everything was coming so fast I didn't know what was happening and I was just trying to make it to bed each night and try and comprehend what was going on and what to do and all this information that was being thrust at me. BUT now things are slowing down, in terms of new information and new things that I have to adjust to, and I am able to get a grip on this new life. I was able to establish a grocery list and do some shopping. I was able to organize my materials and get settled into the apartment and get the swing of life in that way. Also I am getting used to the slightly different schedule here and all the study schedules and the train rides and all the things we do in every day missionary life. SO, all in all everything is much better than last week and still just as fun. I have yet to forget that I am in Italy and I am always looking around. I think sometimes it marks me as a foreigner the way I am always wide eyed and looking at all the buildings and streets and everything that is so new. It's strange here in a few ways. The things I miss most second to family and other loved ones are:
1. Dryers, we hang dry everything; yes I use a clothesline and a...drying...table...things. They don't have dryers here because they have no way to vent them in these old buildings...so yeah I miss that.
2. Carpet, I miss carpet every time I roll of bed in the morning to say my morning prayer...it’s a cold floor.
3. Knowing what food is. Let me explain. We don't eat anything close to the same meats or cheeses or bread that they eat here in Italy... so I have no idea what kind of meat I am buying for sandwiches and
other stuff... and they have as many cheese here as we have chapels in Utah. I go to the store and I am lost for what to buy to make a simple sandwich...I will learn though. I know last week I told you I eat
nothing but bread...which is still mostly true...although now I have stuff to put on that bread. But still bread for almost every meal. BUT, I am loving it more and more every time I eat it. It is all really good
bread. Nic brings it to us so it might not be like this in future cities but for now he brings us really good bread...when I say bread I don't mean loafs of bread...I mean REAL bread. So I have really good
sandwiches. And I have been taught a few things about cooking pasta and such...hopefully I will learn more and bring that knowledge home with me. Ha-ha
Anyways, things with Anziano Blaga are going better and better. We kind of turned a corner this week, because I am new and don’t know what is going on or how to react to anything the first week was strained but once I got a grip and relaxed I opened up a bit and we laughed and joked more openly and now we are becoming friends. He is also a really good teacher...well in that he really forces me to grow which is a good thing. He doesn't coddle me in any way. It's the old “sink or swim” which is good because I’m...floating at this point ha-ha. But I am learning a lot.
For example:
We were doing some casa yesterday and a very nice older lady opened her door and I said that we are from the church of Jesus Christ and we bring a message of Jesus Christ, Do you believe in Jesus Christ." And she responded and I looked at Anziano Blaga because while I understood what she said I was thrown off because I didn't know what to say next. But he just looked at me with a face that said... "Say
something, what are you waiting for?" And so I just said what came to my mind and before I knew it was having a conversation about religion with a living breathing Italianite. (That’s what Anziano Blaga calls them sometimes) Anyways it was really a cool moment for me to have a conversation where was just talking and I didn't have to think about what I was saying and what she was saying.
Also when I think back to conversations that we have had with people I don’t remember that they were talking in Italian. I only remember what they said in English and it seems like we have the conversation
in English.
We are doing a lot of finding work and trying hard to get new investigators. We met a Nigerian man named Timothy and we taught him the first lesson. Funny enough the first time I taught the first lesson in Italy...It was in English...ha-haa but it was really amazing and really really powerful, when I recited the first vision (which I had to translate from Italian BACK to English in my head while I did it) the spirit was So powerful, maybe one of the most spiritually strong presences I have ever felt. But it was amazing and we are finding a few more people and the work is progressing slowly but surely I hope.
Anyways time is running short so ill give you best news I think I have for you...well for me too.
Anziano Blaga has let me in on the secret that you can send mail directly to me in Alessandria. All we have to do is make sure that we don't have letters sent 2 weeks before the transfer ends...which is in another like 3 months. (Well its 2 transfers but I will be with my trainer for 2 at minimum in Alessandria.) So!! You can write me and send stuff straight here!
Here it is.
Anziano Dustin Memmott
Via Piacenza 66
Alessandria, 15121 (AL)
Italia
There you go! Feel free to write me to that address and I will get it much much much much faster! Ha-ha I will let you know when to stop sending to that address
Oh and send me a little photo album of me and the family and just a lot of random pictures of my life. The members always want to see and Anziano Blaga has a little album. The dimensions of a picture...and he carries it to all the members houses when we have lunch... they love it. So fill it with pictures of me and the family and when I was a kid and all that stuff and send it in the next package. Oh and send all
packages to the office. That is probably better and safer with the packages...
Love you all and can't wait to hear from you next week and everything. I will try and write a few personal letters next week.
Love you all so much and hope that all goes well at home. I am praying for you every night!
Vi Volgio Benissimo!|
Love,
Anziano Memmott
He seems better this week and more upbeat. He is getting settled and learning the ways of missionary life. What a blessing he is to us. Thank you all for the continued prayers and support.
Another week in Italy! My first week was almost like my first week in the MTC, everything was coming so fast I didn't know what was happening and I was just trying to make it to bed each night and try and comprehend what was going on and what to do and all this information that was being thrust at me. BUT now things are slowing down, in terms of new information and new things that I have to adjust to, and I am able to get a grip on this new life. I was able to establish a grocery list and do some shopping. I was able to organize my materials and get settled into the apartment and get the swing of life in that way. Also I am getting used to the slightly different schedule here and all the study schedules and the train rides and all the things we do in every day missionary life. SO, all in all everything is much better than last week and still just as fun. I have yet to forget that I am in Italy and I am always looking around. I think sometimes it marks me as a foreigner the way I am always wide eyed and looking at all the buildings and streets and everything that is so new. It's strange here in a few ways. The things I miss most second to family and other loved ones are:
1. Dryers, we hang dry everything; yes I use a clothesline and a...drying...table...things. They don't have dryers here because they have no way to vent them in these old buildings...so yeah I miss that.
2. Carpet, I miss carpet every time I roll of bed in the morning to say my morning prayer...it’s a cold floor.
3. Knowing what food is. Let me explain. We don't eat anything close to the same meats or cheeses or bread that they eat here in Italy... so I have no idea what kind of meat I am buying for sandwiches and
other stuff... and they have as many cheese here as we have chapels in Utah. I go to the store and I am lost for what to buy to make a simple sandwich...I will learn though. I know last week I told you I eat
nothing but bread...which is still mostly true...although now I have stuff to put on that bread. But still bread for almost every meal. BUT, I am loving it more and more every time I eat it. It is all really good
bread. Nic brings it to us so it might not be like this in future cities but for now he brings us really good bread...when I say bread I don't mean loafs of bread...I mean REAL bread. So I have really good
sandwiches. And I have been taught a few things about cooking pasta and such...hopefully I will learn more and bring that knowledge home with me. Ha-ha
Anyways, things with Anziano Blaga are going better and better. We kind of turned a corner this week, because I am new and don’t know what is going on or how to react to anything the first week was strained but once I got a grip and relaxed I opened up a bit and we laughed and joked more openly and now we are becoming friends. He is also a really good teacher...well in that he really forces me to grow which is a good thing. He doesn't coddle me in any way. It's the old “sink or swim” which is good because I’m...floating at this point ha-ha. But I am learning a lot.
For example:
We were doing some casa yesterday and a very nice older lady opened her door and I said that we are from the church of Jesus Christ and we bring a message of Jesus Christ, Do you believe in Jesus Christ." And she responded and I looked at Anziano Blaga because while I understood what she said I was thrown off because I didn't know what to say next. But he just looked at me with a face that said... "Say
something, what are you waiting for?" And so I just said what came to my mind and before I knew it was having a conversation about religion with a living breathing Italianite. (That’s what Anziano Blaga calls them sometimes) Anyways it was really a cool moment for me to have a conversation where was just talking and I didn't have to think about what I was saying and what she was saying.
Also when I think back to conversations that we have had with people I don’t remember that they were talking in Italian. I only remember what they said in English and it seems like we have the conversation
in English.
We are doing a lot of finding work and trying hard to get new investigators. We met a Nigerian man named Timothy and we taught him the first lesson. Funny enough the first time I taught the first lesson in Italy...It was in English...ha-haa but it was really amazing and really really powerful, when I recited the first vision (which I had to translate from Italian BACK to English in my head while I did it) the spirit was So powerful, maybe one of the most spiritually strong presences I have ever felt. But it was amazing and we are finding a few more people and the work is progressing slowly but surely I hope.
Anyways time is running short so ill give you best news I think I have for you...well for me too.
Anziano Blaga has let me in on the secret that you can send mail directly to me in Alessandria. All we have to do is make sure that we don't have letters sent 2 weeks before the transfer ends...which is in another like 3 months. (Well its 2 transfers but I will be with my trainer for 2 at minimum in Alessandria.) So!! You can write me and send stuff straight here!
Here it is.
Anziano Dustin Memmott
Via Piacenza 66
Alessandria, 15121 (AL)
Italia
There you go! Feel free to write me to that address and I will get it much much much much faster! Ha-ha I will let you know when to stop sending to that address
Oh and send me a little photo album of me and the family and just a lot of random pictures of my life. The members always want to see and Anziano Blaga has a little album. The dimensions of a picture...and he carries it to all the members houses when we have lunch... they love it. So fill it with pictures of me and the family and when I was a kid and all that stuff and send it in the next package. Oh and send all
packages to the office. That is probably better and safer with the packages...
Love you all and can't wait to hear from you next week and everything. I will try and write a few personal letters next week.
Love you all so much and hope that all goes well at home. I am praying for you every night!
Vi Volgio Benissimo!|
Love,
Anziano Memmott
He seems better this week and more upbeat. He is getting settled and learning the ways of missionary life. What a blessing he is to us. Thank you all for the continued prayers and support.
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