Subject: Transfers again? Already?
My dear family,
I'm doing quite well in all aspects. The work here is picking up
again, and as always when that happens, someone got transferred.
Anziano Clove is headed to Biella, in my old district. Anziano Millar,
who's currently in my district is headed to Vercelli. And I'm getting
a new companion. I'm apparently the senior companion now. hmm... that
should be... interesting. In other exciting news, my new Zone Leader
is Anziano Petersen! This'll be the first time I see him since May. I
can't remember my companion's name... ballet, dallet, something like
that. I'll tell you next week.
This week has been an interesting one. since I forgot to bring my
planner, it may be a little less detailed of an email. Last wednesday,
our bishop gave us the job of meeting every member that he doesn't
know, and finding out their stance toward the church, as hostile,
indifferent, or willing to meet with him. So we proceeded to attempt
this task. Unfortunately, half of them live in areas that we cannot
get to without a car. Trains to those areas simply don't exist. oh
well.
Thursday, we taught one of our less actives, Marcel and his sister
Giordana. She had some rather... odd questions about several things
that led us to decide that she doesn't really have a testimony. This
conclusion came from the fact that she doesn't understand commandments
that breaking doesn't have an obvious affect on others. As we
listened, her brother fell asleep. That was pretty funny. So.. we'll
be trying to help both of them develop a testimony, probably starting
from the beginning of the missionary lessons. Should be an interesting
experience.
Friday, we did some whiteboard survey, asking another question.
Apparently people believe that Jesus is the Savior of the world, but
aren't so sure that God exists... how that works, I'm not entirely
certain. oh well. That evening, we tried to contact a few of the
inactive members the bishop gave us, and then we went to the Pogetti
family, who we taught about missionary work.
Saturday, we had an appointment with Manuel and Ingrid, to which we
were going to bring the Carcelen family. We went to the carcelen's,
and it turned out that Manuel and Ingrid had gone to visit their
children in San Remo for a week or so... oh well. We did some strada
for a bit that evening.
Sunday, after church, we ate lunch with Ken, our new Convert, and then
we taught him about several of his questions. We were going to go to
an appointment with him to Tina, another Nigerian, but she was in
Milano for church still. So we rescheduled for Monday. We then did
some finding work, during which I found that Anziano Clove was
discouraged and down, and I tried to help him out of it. It sorta
worked. As I was doing so, Ken called, telling us he had scheduled an
appointment for Monday with Tina. That cheered me up a lot.
Monday, we taught Tina, with Ken. Tina was very open to our message,
but she kinda had trouble understanding me an Anziano Clove, because
we speak American, and she speaks African. Ken was able to translate
for us, thankfully. He also invited her to church. She then asked if
she could feed us. I didn't want to, because we had an appointment
shortly thereafter, but apparently Ken had asked her to cook something
for us. So we ate her food. I hate being fed on the first appointment.
Then they think they have to feed us every time. I hate that. Anyways,
after that, we had district meeting with Lecco, and then we did a
scambio, me going to Lecco with Anziano Millar. We did some
interesting finding work, and since he doesn't sleep well, neither did
I. Also, they live right next to a bell tower that rings every hour.
That's annoying when it's 4 AM and you're trying to sleep. oh well. It
was a fun scambio. We came back to Merate, after being delayed by
several trains being cancelled due to snow, and then Anziano Clove and
I went to Paola's for dinner, as always. We got transfer calls, and
Anziano Clove started packing.
This morning, it was snowing pretty hard. and it hasn't stopped.
There's a good inch or two on the ground now.
I love you all!
Anziano Jolley
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My dear family,
I'm doing quite well in all aspects. The work here is picking up
again, and as always when that happens, someone got transferred.
Anziano Clove is headed to Biella, in my old district. Anziano Millar,
who's currently in my district is headed to Vercelli. And I'm getting
a new companion. I'm apparently the senior companion now. hmm... that
should be... interesting. In other exciting news, my new Zone Leader
is Anziano Petersen! This'll be the first time I see him since May. I
can't remember my companion's name... ballet, dallet, something like
that. I'll tell you next week.
This week has been an interesting one. since I forgot to bring my
planner, it may be a little less detailed of an email. Last wednesday,
our bishop gave us the job of meeting every member that he doesn't
know, and finding out their stance toward the church, as hostile,
indifferent, or willing to meet with him. So we proceeded to attempt
this task. Unfortunately, half of them live in areas that we cannot
get to without a car. Trains to those areas simply don't exist. oh
well.
Thursday, we taught one of our less actives, Marcel and his sister
Giordana. She had some rather... odd questions about several things
that led us to decide that she doesn't really have a testimony. This
conclusion came from the fact that she doesn't understand commandments
that breaking doesn't have an obvious affect on others. As we
listened, her brother fell asleep. That was pretty funny. So.. we'll
be trying to help both of them develop a testimony, probably starting
from the beginning of the missionary lessons. Should be an interesting
experience.
Friday, we did some whiteboard survey, asking another question.
Apparently people believe that Jesus is the Savior of the world, but
aren't so sure that God exists... how that works, I'm not entirely
certain. oh well. That evening, we tried to contact a few of the
inactive members the bishop gave us, and then we went to the Pogetti
family, who we taught about missionary work.
Saturday, we had an appointment with Manuel and Ingrid, to which we
were going to bring the Carcelen family. We went to the carcelen's,
and it turned out that Manuel and Ingrid had gone to visit their
children in San Remo for a week or so... oh well. We did some strada
for a bit that evening.
Sunday, after church, we ate lunch with Ken, our new Convert, and then
we taught him about several of his questions. We were going to go to
an appointment with him to Tina, another Nigerian, but she was in
Milano for church still. So we rescheduled for Monday. We then did
some finding work, during which I found that Anziano Clove was
discouraged and down, and I tried to help him out of it. It sorta
worked. As I was doing so, Ken called, telling us he had scheduled an
appointment for Monday with Tina. That cheered me up a lot.
Monday, we taught Tina, with Ken. Tina was very open to our message,
but she kinda had trouble understanding me an Anziano Clove, because
we speak American, and she speaks African. Ken was able to translate
for us, thankfully. He also invited her to church. She then asked if
she could feed us. I didn't want to, because we had an appointment
shortly thereafter, but apparently Ken had asked her to cook something
for us. So we ate her food. I hate being fed on the first appointment.
Then they think they have to feed us every time. I hate that. Anyways,
after that, we had district meeting with Lecco, and then we did a
scambio, me going to Lecco with Anziano Millar. We did some
interesting finding work, and since he doesn't sleep well, neither did
I. Also, they live right next to a bell tower that rings every hour.
That's annoying when it's 4 AM and you're trying to sleep. oh well. It
was a fun scambio. We came back to Merate, after being delayed by
several trains being cancelled due to snow, and then Anziano Clove and
I went to Paola's for dinner, as always. We got transfer calls, and
Anziano Clove started packing.
This morning, it was snowing pretty hard. and it hasn't stopped.
There's a good inch or two on the ground now.
I love you all!
Anziano Jolley
NOTICE: This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message.
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