Dear correspondents,
ha-ha jk,
Dear Loved Ones,
Bad news...I haven't gotten my package. Worse news...neither has the office. Conclusion, it got lost....I died a little inside when I realized that my pictures from the first day and basically the first transfer are by-by...hence my crying out WILSON!!! Actually I cried out "Package!" (My package is equal to "Wilson" from castaway....I hope someone finds that funny. because Anziano Blaga didn’t get the reference and it was awkward.)
Anyhow...Still need a thing full of pictures. So if nothing else, send a much smaller package only containing that. Also I have thought of something to try, but we will briefly discuss a few logistics (10 minutes) on the mother’s day call. We are going to set up a place to go and do the call. We have 3 or 4 Members that love us to death and would have us over for a long time to do calls. So we will get something set up and I will let you know next Wednesday. Can't wait.
So!
This week was great. We set a Baptismal Date with Anna, this referral from Famiglia Sinigaliesi. She is Golden. Not much more to be said. She stopped smoking and drinking cold turkey and it’s been 2 weeks and she is still going strong...yeah, she says she thinks she is getting her answer and the spirit it always SO strong in the lessons. And Fratello Sinigaliesi says he has ANOTHER referral that he is working on. So we will see...
Also while we were sitting in the train station to come back from our appointment with Anna, We got a call from the office and it was a referral! The missionaries in Padova were tracting and found a man and he wanted to learn more but he doesn’t live there. He lives about 20 minutes outside of Alessandria. So they took down his number and sent it to the office and they gave it to us and we fixed an appointment!
(Really cool fact! The Anziani in Padova are Anziano Mauldwin, Anziano Blaga's favorite ex-companion, and Anziano Love! He was in the MTC with me, and was originally my companion with Fiorentino before some shuffling! Ha-ha so yeah, that was cool to get from those two) Anyhow. We made an appointment with him and he drove 20 minutes into Alessandria to meet with us. Already showing he is a pretty good contact, and then we met with him and in the first lesson we made a baptismal date! He is also from Ecuador! So now we have 2 baptismal dates and things are going strong.
We also have another 2 member referrals that we are working on setting up appointments and getting things rolling there.
As for The other man from Ecuador, his name is Estuardo. We are going to try and meet with him this Friday. He has been giving us Bidone's....not sure what to call it in English...a Bidone if I haven't explained already is when someone doesn't come to the appointment...maybe we got dogged....or they didn’t show...English ha...Anyhow, this last Saturday we sent him a text and reminded him about church. He showed up and from what it sounds like he will be coming from now on. The only problem is that he doesn’t think he needs to be baptized because he was already baptized once and so we are going to teach him more about why it’s important that we have the priesthood. We only have had 1 lesson with him. So we still need to establish a few things but he is really awesome and I think that baptism is very plausible.
We had a really good week this week. I'm doing really well and after these last few trainings and district meetings Anziano Blaga and I have been working on improving on a few things (like Area book, 2 minute drills, SYL) and they have made huge difference.
We Implemented SYL this last week also. We speak English in the Apartment (This program comes from the area authority) so that Anziano Blaga can learn English better (he is basically as fluent as I am) and then outside the apartment we speak Italian. (So I’m learning a bit faster now, and some new words)
I’m learning so much. I'm growing so much. I’m changing SO much. (All in good ways)
I can't tell you enough how important the scriptures are and also the words of the Prophets. Please all of you make a good study of them both. And accompany your study with fervent prayer. I can't tell you how much I know that this Restored Gospel is true. Truer than truer than true!
Anyways,
I will e-mail you next week with the times for the Mothers Day call!
Love you all so much and hope everyone is doing well back in Utah.
Someone go eat some Cafe Rio for me! Anziano Memmott
ha-ha jk,
Dear Loved Ones,
Bad news...I haven't gotten my package. Worse news...neither has the office. Conclusion, it got lost....I died a little inside when I realized that my pictures from the first day and basically the first transfer are by-by...hence my crying out WILSON!!! Actually I cried out "Package!" (My package is equal to "Wilson" from castaway....I hope someone finds that funny. because Anziano Blaga didn’t get the reference and it was awkward.)
Anyhow...Still need a thing full of pictures. So if nothing else, send a much smaller package only containing that. Also I have thought of something to try, but we will briefly discuss a few logistics (10 minutes) on the mother’s day call. We are going to set up a place to go and do the call. We have 3 or 4 Members that love us to death and would have us over for a long time to do calls. So we will get something set up and I will let you know next Wednesday. Can't wait.
So!
This week was great. We set a Baptismal Date with Anna, this referral from Famiglia Sinigaliesi. She is Golden. Not much more to be said. She stopped smoking and drinking cold turkey and it’s been 2 weeks and she is still going strong...yeah, she says she thinks she is getting her answer and the spirit it always SO strong in the lessons. And Fratello Sinigaliesi says he has ANOTHER referral that he is working on. So we will see...
Also while we were sitting in the train station to come back from our appointment with Anna, We got a call from the office and it was a referral! The missionaries in Padova were tracting and found a man and he wanted to learn more but he doesn’t live there. He lives about 20 minutes outside of Alessandria. So they took down his number and sent it to the office and they gave it to us and we fixed an appointment!
(Really cool fact! The Anziani in Padova are Anziano Mauldwin, Anziano Blaga's favorite ex-companion, and Anziano Love! He was in the MTC with me, and was originally my companion with Fiorentino before some shuffling! Ha-ha so yeah, that was cool to get from those two) Anyhow. We made an appointment with him and he drove 20 minutes into Alessandria to meet with us. Already showing he is a pretty good contact, and then we met with him and in the first lesson we made a baptismal date! He is also from Ecuador! So now we have 2 baptismal dates and things are going strong.
We also have another 2 member referrals that we are working on setting up appointments and getting things rolling there.
As for The other man from Ecuador, his name is Estuardo. We are going to try and meet with him this Friday. He has been giving us Bidone's....not sure what to call it in English...a Bidone if I haven't explained already is when someone doesn't come to the appointment...maybe we got dogged....or they didn’t show...English ha...Anyhow, this last Saturday we sent him a text and reminded him about church. He showed up and from what it sounds like he will be coming from now on. The only problem is that he doesn’t think he needs to be baptized because he was already baptized once and so we are going to teach him more about why it’s important that we have the priesthood. We only have had 1 lesson with him. So we still need to establish a few things but he is really awesome and I think that baptism is very plausible.
We had a really good week this week. I'm doing really well and after these last few trainings and district meetings Anziano Blaga and I have been working on improving on a few things (like Area book, 2 minute drills, SYL) and they have made huge difference.
We Implemented SYL this last week also. We speak English in the Apartment (This program comes from the area authority) so that Anziano Blaga can learn English better (he is basically as fluent as I am) and then outside the apartment we speak Italian. (So I’m learning a bit faster now, and some new words)
I’m learning so much. I'm growing so much. I’m changing SO much. (All in good ways)
I can't tell you enough how important the scriptures are and also the words of the Prophets. Please all of you make a good study of them both. And accompany your study with fervent prayer. I can't tell you how much I know that this Restored Gospel is true. Truer than truer than true!
Anyways,
I will e-mail you next week with the times for the Mothers Day call!
Love you all so much and hope everyone is doing well back in Utah.
Someone go eat some Cafe Rio for me! Anziano Memmott
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