Thanks mom for the updates sorry I have been in Firenze and Bolgna the
past two days! I probably will not be getting transfered for 2-3 more
months so I will be here in Ravenna for awhile longer but I love it! I got a Saint Patricks Day Package from you and I love it!
Thank you so much its great! Things are going great here and I am
enjoying everyday of my time here! Thanks for all that you do and
next week my P-day will probably be on Tuesday or Friday I will be
going to Milan for New missionary training. My bike is doing fine I
just have to be carefull with it. Did anyone get their mission call?
Sorry my notes are short sometimes we have to go fast because we pay
for internet. .50€ for every 15 minutes thanks for everything! Love
you and glad you're staying in shape! It's funny when we go to
members they want to see what my family looks like and see it
everytime they're like Mamma Mia tua madre é bella haha everytime so
funny they think Daniels older everytime too so annoying they say
Hailey and Emmy are super beautiful too haha funny stuff. Love you!
How fa my guy-
(How is it going) Pigon English
These past few weeks have been pretty crazy we've had alot going on
with companion exchanges and zone conference. For conference we went
to Firenze and let me just tell you the train ride there was
incredible really. I saw Italy's green rolling hills and it was so
beautiful. We had zone conference and there we had Steven Allen from
the 70 talk to us! Before he started talking to us we got to shake
his hand and he asked where we were from and I found out he used to be
a mission president from Mesa Az. He talked to us how to be better
missionaries and told us about staying obedient and told us to
not deviate from the course! We had a great zone conference and then
we went to Bologna right after for p-day! It the morning the
missionaries in Bologna had this new convert who knew Muai thai a type
of fighting. This guy was from the Philippines and was crazy. So we
went to the church and he showed us how to become Muai thai masters!
It was so funny like Karate Kid! But then we got to look around
Bologna we went to the two towers in the middle of the city and at the
top we could see the whole city it was beautiful! Bologna was great!
As for the work it's going great we have investigators and still 2
baptisms for the 7th of April! Peter and Mark are doing great and we
are looking forward to their baptism! I love serving the people here!
Thanks for all the prayers and thoughts I love you all! -Anziano
Thomas
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
March 14, 2012
Salve!
This week flew by! The work has been going great, I don't know if
I've already metioned this but we will have a baptism April 7 for
Peter and Mark! Peter is about 23 years old and is a refugee from
Nigeria and his nephew Mark is 11 years old and they both are great!
They we a referral from a member in Sardegna. Peters brother is a
member there and called us to talk to Peter about our church. Peter
lives in a refugee home and we had a hard time finding it but thanks
to our Branch president we found it! It's funny because Mark just
calls me American and he loves America they both are great! This week
the work has really picked up with teaching and finding new
investigators! What I've learned is the importance of member
missionaries. When I first got here I did not like the idea of
involving members in our lessons I thought that we could take care of
it ourselves but this last week we have really involved the members
here! For example we had a lesson with one of our investigators
Franceso and we brought in a member who had served a mission to help
us teach the Plan of Salvation! For me this is one of the harder
lessons especially in Italian but it was great to have a member there!
During the lesson our investigator asked him, <<what made you deside
to be a member?>> which was great and after the member left Francesco
told us that he was super impressed with him! As the prophets and
apostles have said members are key to helping spread the gospel to the
world! Things in Italy are going great I love everything the people,
the food, and the culture! Thanks for all the thoughts and prayers!
Vi voglio bene! -Anziano Thomas
This week flew by! The work has been going great, I don't know if
I've already metioned this but we will have a baptism April 7 for
Peter and Mark! Peter is about 23 years old and is a refugee from
Nigeria and his nephew Mark is 11 years old and they both are great!
They we a referral from a member in Sardegna. Peters brother is a
member there and called us to talk to Peter about our church. Peter
lives in a refugee home and we had a hard time finding it but thanks
to our Branch president we found it! It's funny because Mark just
calls me American and he loves America they both are great! This week
the work has really picked up with teaching and finding new
investigators! What I've learned is the importance of member
missionaries. When I first got here I did not like the idea of
involving members in our lessons I thought that we could take care of
it ourselves but this last week we have really involved the members
here! For example we had a lesson with one of our investigators
Franceso and we brought in a member who had served a mission to help
us teach the Plan of Salvation! For me this is one of the harder
lessons especially in Italian but it was great to have a member there!
During the lesson our investigator asked him, <<what made you deside
to be a member?>> which was great and after the member left Francesco
told us that he was super impressed with him! As the prophets and
apostles have said members are key to helping spread the gospel to the
world! Things in Italy are going great I love everything the people,
the food, and the culture! Thanks for all the thoughts and prayers!
Vi voglio bene! -Anziano Thomas
Saturday, March 10, 2012
March 7th 2012 Letter
Ciao tutti!
> Things in Ravenna are great! Anziano Betzsold and I are having a
> great time teaching and working hard everyday! It sounds like
> everyone is doing great! About two weeks ago week got a refferal from
> a man who lives in Sardenia. He said he had a brother who was
> interested to hear from us! So we called the man and he said his name
> is Peter, a Nigerian refugee who was living in Libya prior to the
> Gadafi crisis. So we tried to find Peter and got lost because our map
> only covers the city of Ravenna. Two days later we tried again and
> rode around for seriously and hour and we some how ended up next to a
> major highway totally lost. We apoligized to Peter and he seemed a
> little irratated because he really wanted to hear what we had to say.
> Finally we got out branch president, Presidente Gresta to help and we
> still got lost! It was so frustrating because when we called him for
> help he had the heaviest Nigerian accent ever! So finally we said
> we'll just have to go home, but presidente said let's look one more
> time so we turned around and we found him! He's about 26 years old
> and he knows the Bible super well like the Africans here are better
> with the bible than the Italians it's funny in there prayers they also
> always quote scripture I love it! Some of them sing in their prayers
> too!! haha. Anyways with Peter he is super humble and we talked to
> him about the book of mormon because we didn't have enough time and he
> loved it! Then only problem is him coming to church because he lives
> so far away. So in branch council we talked about it and our 2nd
> councelor Columbus who is Nigerian sounds and looks like Morgan
> Freedom hahah but he's like well if he's legit I'll take him! So
> we've had miracolo after miracolo. Things looking bright. Although
> we've had some baptism dates fall through Peter is looking ready and
> he has a nephew too!
> This week we got to go to Bologna for District meeting and something
> I'm looking forward to is March 22 we are going to Firenze (Florence)!
> For Zone conference. Anziano Betzsold and I started running
> yesterday and today I'm super sore haha. We also had the opportunity
> to give out a Book of Mormon in Arabic which was crazy. The guy was
> from Nigeria, lived in Libya and now is in Italy! Life is good and
> the gospel is true! Thanks for all the prayers and thoughts! -Anziano
> Thomas
> Things in Ravenna are great! Anziano Betzsold and I are having a
> great time teaching and working hard everyday! It sounds like
> everyone is doing great! About two weeks ago week got a refferal from
> a man who lives in Sardenia. He said he had a brother who was
> interested to hear from us! So we called the man and he said his name
> is Peter, a Nigerian refugee who was living in Libya prior to the
> Gadafi crisis. So we tried to find Peter and got lost because our map
> only covers the city of Ravenna. Two days later we tried again and
> rode around for seriously and hour and we some how ended up next to a
> major highway totally lost. We apoligized to Peter and he seemed a
> little irratated because he really wanted to hear what we had to say.
> Finally we got out branch president, Presidente Gresta to help and we
> still got lost! It was so frustrating because when we called him for
> help he had the heaviest Nigerian accent ever! So finally we said
> we'll just have to go home, but presidente said let's look one more
> time so we turned around and we found him! He's about 26 years old
> and he knows the Bible super well like the Africans here are better
> with the bible than the Italians it's funny in there prayers they also
> always quote scripture I love it! Some of them sing in their prayers
> too!! haha. Anyways with Peter he is super humble and we talked to
> him about the book of mormon because we didn't have enough time and he
> loved it! Then only problem is him coming to church because he lives
> so far away. So in branch council we talked about it and our 2nd
> councelor Columbus who is Nigerian sounds and looks like Morgan
> Freedom hahah but he's like well if he's legit I'll take him! So
> we've had miracolo after miracolo. Things looking bright. Although
> we've had some baptism dates fall through Peter is looking ready and
> he has a nephew too!
> This week we got to go to Bologna for District meeting and something
> I'm looking forward to is March 22 we are going to Firenze (Florence)!
> For Zone conference. Anziano Betzsold and I started running
> yesterday and today I'm super sore haha. We also had the opportunity
> to give out a Book of Mormon in Arabic which was crazy. The guy was
> from Nigeria, lived in Libya and now is in Italy! Life is good and
> the gospel is true! Thanks for all the prayers and thoughts! -Anziano
> Thomas
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