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| Cuneo, a small city in Italy |
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| Anziano Mustafaraj and Ben at the Po River |
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| Anz Musta washing his bike |
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| Ben made pizza! |
Wednesday, June 26, 2013
June 26, 2013
Ciao!
Happy Birthday mom!! You're the best and I hope you enjoy this week!!! I love you!!
Well to begin this week was a little hard. Anziano Mustafaraj and I came up with this analogy together. It's like we had built a castle on a table and someone came over and kicked it down. So this week we lost a few investigators and one in particular, .. it was disappointing but in the end he didn't want to continue because he didn't want to follow all of the commandments.. we were pretty bummed because he was so close to changing his life. He was working so hard to stop smoking and in the end he just didn't want to commit himself which is unfortunate. But it's okay that just means that the Lord is preparing someone else for us. This last Friday we had a last conference with President and Sorella Wolfgramm. I really enjoyed it. One quote that I wrote down of president was when he was talking about his mission, "We have gained everything, and lost nothing" and that was powerful for me. It made me think how grateful I am for this experience here in the mission. I will be a big change having a new mission president. I've been with the Wolfgrams for so long it will be different but I'm excited for the Dibbs I know they'll be great! This week we also went to the dentist for Mustafaraj. Lately he has been saying that his teeth hurt and when I looked at his mouth, there was a huge hole and I was like Ahhh no wonder you're in so much pain haha. His filling fell out that he got for 15 £ in Albania so this week we are going to get it fixed! This last week I went to Cuneo again and we went to a little small down outside of Cuneo with Anziano Briscoe one of my MTC companions!! It was fun and crazy to see the countryside of Italy. Right now we are focusing on getting new investigators so hopefully we'll be able to find some soon. The other day we went and saw Alessio and Lisette they are awesome it's funny because he always keeps me updated with sports. Purtroppo lui è un tifoso di Manu Gianoboli e speriamo che lui si pentirà presto per questo grave peccato..haha things are going well hope everything is the same at home love you all!
Anziano Thomas
Thursday, June 20, 2013
June 19, 2013
Ciao!
This week was pretty normal nothing unusual really happened. We are still working with Evan and his progress is still going strong we are hoping that he will be able to stop smoking soon so he could get baptized. But we'll see he has to stop soon or we'll have to move the date. This week I was able to go to Cuneo again and I really liked it. Cuneo is a super small town south west of Torino surrounded by the Alps. I went with Anziano Spieser and really liked it. What I really liked was the country feel, we rode our bikes out to this smaller town and did some house contacting and the people in Cuneo are extremely nice. It was good. Anziano Briscoe from the MTC is now in my district and he's one of my favorite missionaries super funny and he's our district leader so I'm looking forward to that. The work in the ward is going great as well I love this ward. They like us alot as well. Right now they're doing alot of member work and talking to their friends to give us a referral. This last Sunday bishop gave me a suit and said he was planning on getting back into shape so he could fit into the suit but as of now he gave up so he gave it to me! It's really nice! Also unfortunately Tirso our new convert left Torino for two months for work in France but before he left he gave me a Juventus suit jacket haha. But I'll miss Tirso he's a really great guy and he told me before he left the first thing he put in his suitcase was his Book of Mormon! Work right now is going well we are doing alot of pass bys in the ward to get to know the members better and to earn their trust. Today we went to the Egyptian museum and went to Torino's huge market. Things are going well Anziano Mustafaraj may have to go to the dentist soon. One of his fillings fell out and when I looked inside his mouth, there was the biggest hole I have ever seen!! It's been bugging him pretty bad so hopefully soon we'll see.. Alls going well thanks for all your prayers and thoughts love you all! I want to wish my dad a happy fathers day and hope you really enjoyed it! Thanks for everything I love you!
Ben
Thursday, June 13, 2013
Ciao Family and Friends!
So once again I don't have a ton of time to write we have another appointment happening soon but these last two weeks have gone really well in fact I found out this week that Anziano Mustafaraj and I are going to be together for another transfer!!!! I'm so happy I was worried that I was going to get transferred but things ended up going good. This last week we are still working hard with Evan everyday we are seeing more and more progress and we'll find out the 21st if he's still good to go for the 29th! Speriamo! This week we were able to clean the apartment and something crazy happened as well! We did the Open house for the church this last Saturday and there was about 20 people that came. It was good the whole ward got involved. Funny thing, we were waiting outside of the church and we saw some people get out of their car and I was like Musta look these people might be coming to the open house! Musta looked at them and was like nooo.... wayyy.... I was like hmm.. these people look familiar and he's like that's my mom and grandparents!!!!!!! Hahahahhaah It was so funny they didn't speak any Italian and all I said to them was the few words I new in Albanian! He more xha sulo. e qysh mu gdhive a derr? mire? Haha when I said that they started busting up laughing. Anyway they came to the open house and all the members thought they were investigators so they were super happy more people came no one knew however that really it was Mustas family!! What ended up happening was Anziano Mustafaraj's grandpa won a bet with Mustafaraj's cousin who is a pimp in Rome haha this is true by the way. They played pool and he won so he got a free trip in Italy!! It was hilarious. But the open doors went well and we actually got a few numbers! Things are going well love you all! Sorry this is so short!
Anziano Thomas
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