A crazy week, and TRANSFERS?

Date: Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 4:11 AM

Subject: A crazy week, and TRANSFERS?

Dear family of mine,

First and most importantly, I'm being transferred to Vercelli, where I was on exchanged. This means that my address has changed. If you send letters to my current address, I'll still get them, but my new address is:

Anziano Benjamin Jolley

Via XX Settembre, 37

16100 Vercelli (VC)

Italia

This week has been crazy. We taught an incredible amount of Casa lessons, meaning that in total lessons taught, we led our Zone. We taught 27 lessons this week. I'm not being prideful about this... I don't think. The Lord has really blessed us though. We found a new family to teach, who are really solid and already progressing. The Dad's name is Rocco. I'm excited for them.

Ilmi is making a lot of progress with the word of wisdom, so thanks for the prayers.

We found a lot of people this week. Some Africans from Coste d'Ivoire, who were watching the World Cup, which has been real interesting for us. It means everyone's home, but they're busy watching the World Cup. We also found an old lady and her son. They have 11 children in that family, but we've only met the son. We also found a guy who really likes Indian stuff, and a lot of Muslims.

A lot of our investigators have fallen through and so we've had to drop them, like Fernando.

Yesterday, for half of P day, (which we did because of unique scheduling problems, today is just email half) we went out to Acqui Terme, a really pretty city with Hot springs that apparently Romans used. I'm attaching photos of that. Out there, one of our members is a Pizzaiolo, and we ate with him. It was really good.

Anyways, though, I'm getting transferred to Vercelli. My current companion, Anziano Jones is staying here and retraining an elder who got deported and served in New York, New York South for two transfers and is coming back. He's older in the mission than Anziano Jones, but he will need help getting his language back up to speed, so he's taking my place here in Alessandria.

I'm taking the place of Anziano Merrell, our district leader, who used to be one of the Assistants, who's going home (I'm not the district leader, another Anziano in Biella is). My companion is Anziano Zippro, who is from farmington, Utah, and the same MTC district as Anziano Jones. He has really solid language skills, is extremely neat, and I quite enjoyed the exchange we were on together.

Since I'm taking the place of a former assistant whose super solid, the work is apparently about to explode there. I'm quite excited to see what happens this next transfer. I'll miss Anziano Jones though.

I'm not really a greenie anymore though... which is scary.

I love you all! Keep praying for me!
Anziano Benjamin Jolley

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