Fwd: Anziano Rockwood

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From: Benjamin Jolley <benjamin.jolley@myldsmail.net>
Date: Wed, May 25, 2011 at 3:20 AM
Subject: Anziano Rockwood
To: Ariana Black <ariflutie@yahoo.com>, Camille Jolley <melers20@hotmail.com>, Caroline Jolley <caro.jolly@gmail.com>, Christopher Jolley <tophinator@gmail.com>, Dad <deanjol@gmail.com>, Elijah Milne <elm2164@columbia.edu>, Joseph ballsteadt <jgballstaedt@gmail.com>, Megan Milne <nutmegnut@gmail.com>, Mom <carriejolley@gmail.com>

Dear family,

 

I got my new missionary. His name is Anziano Theodore Rockwood from Fort Collins, Colorado. He is awesome. Speaks Italian really good for the amount of time he's studied it. I love him. Anyways, onto our good ol' travelog.

 

So, last wednesday, we went to Bologna after we emailed you, and we wandered around centro and it was insane. There are a lot of people there. I was intimidated. We stayed the night down there and then we woke up at 4 AM to get to Milano in time. After a long train ride, we got there, and picked up our new missionaries. On the ride back to Pesaro, we rode with Ancona, and we talked to a lot of people on the train. The first was a catholic priest, who said "We can't talk, until you pray to the virgin mother of God." That was strange. Then we talked to a young lady, who was interested, doesn't believe in God, has never had faith, but would like to have faith. I read Alma 32 to her, we bore testimony, and talked a little more, and she commited to reading the Book of Mormon, asking us if she could have it. That was awesome. Then we talked to a lady who wasn't particularly interested, but as we testified to her, a young 14 year old next to me was listening intently. I talked with him and got his phone number and address and passed it to the Forlì missionaries. We're hoping it goes well.

 

Friday, we planned, did some strada (a lot. I probably contacted 50 or more people. I was in a good mood). In the end, we found a young lady in a park who believes in God, has read the bible, the koran, and was very interested in reading the Book of Mormon. So we gave her one. Unfortunately, she lives in Bologna, as it turns out. So we get her information and pass it to those missionaries. (I am a referral MACHINE!) 

 

Saturday, we teach the marengo family, one of our less actives, and then do some casa in their palazzo. We find a couple of people in their palazzo who are pretty interested. "I'd love to talk with you. I'm going to work now, come back wednesday night." We ended up finding a couple of people to teach, including Renzo Tonucci, a nice 70 year old man who didn't believe in God when he was younger, but does now, having read the gospels and the bible (he listed them separately). He said he loves to read anything about Christ, so we shortly explained the Book of Mormon, and he commited to read it. Sweet! This may have happened on Sunday. I don't remember correctly.

 

The last two days have gone by very quickly, involving a leadership training and doing Anziano Rockwood's permesso di soggiorno. It was cool. I learned lots. The permesso had problems. (Anziano Rockwood's middle name is Wendall, and it was spelled Wendell. This took us three hours to fix). That's more or less it.

 

I love you tons and a lot.

Anziano Jolley

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