Fwd: Investigators that progress!

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From: Benjamin Jolley
Date: Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 7:02 AM
Subject: Investigators that progress!

This week, for the first time since I've been in Pesaro, we had some progressing investigators! Yay!!! They are the Peruvian family that we taught for the first time on my birthday. Julio Manuel, and Mary, his wife.

 

On Wednesday evening, we taught the incredibly old Glauco. He's 90. He speaks English. Unfortunately, he wants company, not conversion. So.. we had to drop him. darn. Cool guy though. His name means blue eyes.

 

On Thursday, we did a lot of casa, and then we taught one of our less actives, the DiCosimo family, who have a son that turns 8 in May. So we and the primary and everybody else in the branch are scrambling to get them active and get Andrea to understand the gospel enough that he can be baptised the day after his birthday. It was interesting.

 

Friday, we did our planning and did a lot of casa and strada and then we taught Manuel and Mary. They'd read from the Book of Mormon, and they were excited to learn that they'd been praying in a perfectly acceptable manner. That was exciting. Unfortunately, Manuel plays soccer on sunday mornings with his friends, so it may be a little difficult to get him to church. But Mary did come! Real investigator in Church!!!

 

Saturday, we taught our new english students a lesson on the restoration, and gave them each a Book of Mormon. They were very interested to find out that we have another book of scripture, and such, but they feel no need to learn more for the moment. They will however, read the Book of Mormon, so there is still hope. After that, we did a lot of casa.

 

Sunday, Mary came to church for all three hours. And loved it. She'll be at General Conference next week in Rimini, with her member friend! yay! After church, we taught Marina, a Russian lady, about the Book of Mormon, and gave her a Russian copy. She was pleased with it, and will come to church the week after Conference. She's busy this week, unfortunately.

 

Monday, we had district meeting and a lot of casa. At around 7, Anz Russo was done. in every sense. So we talked. For about 20 minutes. On the stairs of a random Palazzo. That was fun. Then we found someone who was interested.

 

Yesterday, we did a lot of casa and strada, and taught Laura, a contact from several weeks ago, with her boyfriend. Unfortunately, they aren't interested in hearing more for the moment. They have a Book of Mormon, though. And she said she'd read it. So... that's a little success.

 

Today, we did our shopping. That's about it. I love you muchly!

Anziano Jolley

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Fwd: A long week. But awesome.

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From: Benjamin Jolley
Date: Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 7:11 AM
Subject: A long week. But awesome

It's been a very long week. I'm very sleepy as a result. Last p-day was rather uneventful. We just stayed at home. did some cleaning, etc. didn't find anyone that evening.

 

Thursday, we taught Alberto, our new convert from Congo, did some casa, getting in several times, and finding Glauco, a 90 year old man who gave us an appointment for this evening, as well as a scoutmaster who said to call in a couple weeks.

 

Friday, we did a scambio with Ancona, so I was with Anziano Murray from Idaho for the next day. we had three appointments, and they all fell through. so we did a lot of casa. we didn't find anyone. ouch. whatever.

 

Saturday, my birthday, we unscambioed, and then Anziano Russo and I planned for the week. then we had a frustrating casa day, with some delicious food for lunch. I cooked myself chicken mushroom pasta (thanks for the recipie!) and then we got pizza in the evening. Then we went to a member's house after a bit of confusion. I thought we were going to talk with her friends about the church, so I called the Ward Mission Leader. He called back telling me that she was inviting us over to give us some food for my birthday, and we went, and turns out that it was both. So we got a young recently married peruvian couple as new investigators. They were very excited to have a Book of Mormon and to meet with us again. woot! That was the best birthday present ever for a missionary.

 

Sunday, we had a good day in church with two of our dry members and like 5 less actives coming. Later in the evening, we had coordination, then we talked with Alberto again, he wanted to give us letters for missionaries, and then we taught a less-active, Victor, who is making his way back into the church.

 

Monday, we had Zone Conference in Firenze, and then on the way home I just felt I had to talk to this girl on the train. I talked to her. she was interested. I gave her a Book of Mormon and got her phone number and gave it to the missionaries in Prato. Then I talked to another person while we waited for our next train. He was interested in talking, but not in our message or the Book of Mormon. another girl in the room piped up saying (in English... the guy was English) "I'm interested, what's that book?" So we talked with her, gave her the book, and got her number. I talked to another man, who was also interested, and then another who was totally atheist but ok with talking. It was the most amazing train ride of my mission. Literally everyone was interested in our message. We gave about 5 referrals to various missionaries in the course of about 2 hours. and gave away 2 Book of Mormons, 2 pamphlets, etc. It was amazing. The best thing was seeing the other missionaries I was travelling with start to follow my example. Anziano Murray and Roberts started to talk to people on the train too, and it was amazing. We got home to Pesaro, starting a scambio about 11 PM. Anziano Roberts and I spent the day yesterday together.

 

Yesterday, we had an appointment fall through, and then we did some casa. We didn't find anybody in our efforts the whole day but one who said to call in a month, and then we had English Class. After English Class, our 5 new students from last week asked if we could talk about the gospel. We didn't have time then, but we have an appointment to talk with a family of 5 (a woman with her sister, her husband, her mom and her aunt) on Saturday. EXCITING!!!! Then we taught one of our Peruvian members with our Ward Mission Leader, and he wanted to invite 2 of his friends to hear the missionary lessons within 2 weeks. WOOT!

 

This morning we riscambioed, and then we came here for email. exciting stuff is starting to happen! I love you family of mine!

 

Anziano Jolley

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Fwd: What a week

Oops! I forgot to forward this last week!

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From: Benjamin Jolley <benjamin.jolley@myldsmail.net>
Date: Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 3:39 AM
Subject: What a week

My dearest family,

This week has been quite the week. We taught Maurizio two or three
times, and when it became clear he only wanted to talk with us, not
quit smoking or be baptized, we dropped him. Our Ward Mission Leader
has started us off on a great start to our ward mission plan. (read
branch where I write ward.) We have gone by half of our members and
asked them to write a list of their friends that could be interested
in the gospel. Then we asked them to fix a date by which they will
invite their friends to hear the gospel. two of them said by the end
of this week, and the rest by the end of the month. exciting? I think
so.

On Thursday, we had a Leadership Training Meeting, in which we talked
about faith, and several rule changes, the most important of which is
that our email time has been reduced by one hour. Meaning we have an
hour. and we can email immediate family and the mission president
only. So all of you not immediate family members that email me, this
is the last week. I would appreciate your letters. they are absolutely
still allowed. We also discussed memorization of the scriptures to use
in teaching and a teaching technique called teach to find. maybe ask
the missionaries near you if they do it. It's a very effective finding
technique. in essence it is this.
1. teach a principle (45 seconds)
2. ask a question  (10 seconds)
3. bear testimony (30 seconds)
4. companion bears testimony
5. companion teaches a principle
6. etc.
Very effective. and cool. We're trying to put it in practice. It's
tough, though.

Friday, we acquired a bicycle, and we did a lot of casa, and then
passed by two of our members. It was a long day. We've done a LOT of
casa.

Saturday, we got in three times doing casa, but to people who weren't
interested in us coming back. We also taught Alberto, a new convert,
and dropped Maurizio. not a very cool day.

Sunday, we had a good testimony meeting and sunday school. I liked
when our ward mission leader bore testimony that the members need to
invite people to hear the gospel, and also talked about an experience
we had friday night. I stopped a man on the street, asking him what he
thought happened at death. He then asked me who I was, I explained,
and he yelled at me. I was very proud of myself for remaining
perfectly calm in the face of a man that was rather... angry. We did a
lot of casa that evening, and my companion kinda broke down near the
end. We hadn't gotten in after 3 hours, and he just sat down. We
talked, and then we knocked a few more doors, finding a really cool
contact and some really old people who didn't understand that we
weren't catholic. oh well. Luca is a cool guy.

Monday, we had a good district meeting and then the Zone Leaders,
Anziani Duersch and West did a blitz with us. (a scambio with both of
us in Pesaro). I went with Anziano West and we taught an excellent
lesson to Nerina, our contact from the week before, who commited to
coming to church and reading the book of mormon and praying about it.
Her son, Marco commited to reading the book of mormon, and he
introduced us to his girlfriend. When Valentina, his girlfriend,
showed up, he was super excited. Nerina said "He hasn't seen her in a
week, he's excited", Anziano West and I both said "It's been about a
year for us." I thought that was a funny moment. We then did a bit of
casa and strada and found 7 or 8 new contacts, which was great. That
evening, I cooked some gingersnaps, and was very pleased with them. in
other news, I'm very pleased with my cooking skills. I'm awesome at
cooking now. Though I would very much appreciate a few recipies. Like
for the various cookies mom makes, and maybe like tuna casserole or
something.

Tuesday, Anziano Russo and I went out and worked a lot. I was very
pleased with myself in some of the stuff I did that I would not have
done before. such as, talking to a girl of about my age, and getting
her phone number for another time, walking into a house when it looks
like they're going to let us in anyways. etc. It was a cool day. The
Zone leaders left us with a powerful talk by Gene R. Cook titled
"Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ". It's crazy.

Today, we shopped. and studied. and now I'm down to crunch time on
email. I love you!
Anziano Benjamin Jolley


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Fwd: going a little crazy

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From: Benjamin Jolley
Date: Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 8:14 AM
Subject: going a little craz
Dear family,
Well, I'm in Pesaro. Since many of you asked, I'll describe in detail
our trip here. I went to Milano from Merate Thursday morning, where we
met up with the other trainers, and we went to Milano 2, where the new
missionaries were all waiting. We had an EXCELLENT trainer meeting,
getting our new missionaries just super excited about life, and then
we were paired up, one at a time. The 4 companionships that were
whitewashing, the assistents before saying who it was asked the
trainers (including me) if they'd ever been to their city. "Anziano
Jolley, have you ever been to Pesaro?" "nope, not in my life"
"Someone's in for an adventure, and they might be russian. Anziano
Russo from Sacramento California hops up and gives me a big hug. we
get our things together, and we get on a train at 3:30 to Bologna,
getting there at 6:30 PM, and then another train to Pesaro arriving at
8:37 where our Branch Mission Leader picked us up in his car and drove
us to the apartment. We arrive, unpack a little, and don't find ANY
information about the city. we find some lasagna in the fridge, throw
it in the oven, and I get a call from one of the former inhabitants of
the city. He explains to me where to find things of importance, where
the church is, and a little about our members. Also he transmits a
VERY negative attitude about the city. "It's tiny! you can't work
there!" "Have you ever been to Merate?" "no, why? because it's a tenth
the size of this city." "wow. suddenly 100,000 people seems like a
lot." Come to find out that we have... 0 investigators. ZERO.
wonderful. well... casa here we come. at least there's a lot to do
here. It's the biggest city I've served in, so... all good.

Friday, we wake up, study, do our groceries, I pay for both of us in
the largest spesa I've EVER made. 55 euro. wow. ouch. Then we go home,
plan, which mostly means that we discuss what our transfer goal is. I
ask Anziano Russo how many baptisms he wants to see this transfer. He
says 10. I say... wow. That's going to take a lot of work. It's
possible I guess, but... wow. The whole mission got 25 baptisms last
transfer. He says, let's do it. I say... wow, ok... that's intense. I
think what are they teaching them in the MTC these days? all right,
since I have no idea what to expect, that's our goal for the transfer.
We eat the rest of the lasagna and I realize that this kid doesn't eat
as much as Anziano Ballif. not even close to close. So we go out, and
we do some casa and some 10 inviti. I'm doing some of my best work my
whole mission, and he's following. We get in once doing casa. We give
out three book of Mormons, and get 2 potential investigators. The
other one isn't from Pesaro. So then we go home, tired like crazy, and
somehow we don't get lost. Thank you navigation skills.

Saturday, we go out and we do a lot more casa. We get a call from
Alberto, a New convert, he wants to meet us in the church at 7. phew.
I was not looking forward to casa all day. We go crazy on casa, and...
don't find anyone. ouch. But we teach Alberto, and he's a SOLID guy.

Sunday, we show up to church, and it's branch conference. By the way,
we have 15 active members here. 4 new converts and 15 less actives.
Small branch. This ain't piemonte. Or Lombardia. We're part of the
Rimini district. not even a stake. wow. Anyways, we get a new branch
president and our current branch president is now our branch mission
leader. We go out after a delicious lunch (My cooking skills are
awesome now.) and casa like crazy. We get in at the last door to a
psychological house... for minor cases. We talk with the caretaker and
one of the patients, who is apparently an ex-investigator.

Monday, we hit the casa, and then we go to start Anz. Russo's permesso
process. Then we meet with Maurizio, the psychological case.
Apparently he's been taught everything, he just won't give up
cigarettes. so we set a return appointment with him. and ask him to
come to church and read and pray. he says he will. We go out and do
more casa. niente

Tuesday, we go do some more casa, and then we eat lunch, once again
cooked by me. then we go look for bikes in a store because only one
works. Also, we go do some casa, and Anz. Russo starts to get a little
discouraged. We say a prayer, and find two potential investigators
about 20 years old. exciting! At 6, we meet with our new DLM (branch
mission leader) who has a plan all worked up for how we're going to
get referrals out of our members. we call half of them and get
appointments for every evening this week. WOOT! then we teach english,
and go home.

Today, we wake up, study, do our shopping and then go on a quest to
find an internet point. we eventually find this library that uses IE2
and windows me and I start this email. we have a lovely city. and....
that's my week.

Training is interesting. The kid barely speaks italian at all. He's
far too similar to me in that he doesn't like to plan lessons. uh oh.
It's going to be an interesting transfer. I'm a little stressed, but
mostly just happy. I'm in a city again. that gives us SO many
possibilities. we live way on the periphery of the city though. by the
way, my address is

Anziano Benjamin Jolley
Strada di Borgheria, 15
61100 Pesaro (PU)

The fact that we have only 2 investigators is driving me a little
crazy. we need a lot of prayers. We're working ourselves like crazy.
hopefully we start to find people this week. we're not going to see 10
baptisms this transfer if we don't (goodness that's a lot.)

I love you all!
Anziano Benjamin Jolley


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Fwd: transfers

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From: Benjamin Jolley
Date: Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 3:22 AM
Subject: transfers

My dear family, transfer calls have come again. I'm off to the south of the mission, to Pesaro, on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. I'm whitewashing (both of the missionaries there were transferred out), and I'm training a new missionary. That's intimidating. Especially knowing that 3 other cities are doing the same thing, and the other 3 trainer/whitewashers were Zone Leaders this transfer. This is my address, I think:

 

Anziano Benjamin Jolley

Strada di Borgheria 15

Pesaro (Pesaro-Urbino) 61100 Italia

 

I'll confirm that next week. If you want to be sure to get me a letter, just send it to the mission office in Opera (MI), the address of which I already sent.

 

Anyways, summary of my week, On Thursday, we did a bunch of finding work, and we taught Sorella Armilotta. I learned probably 50 new words in that lesson. She has a HUGE vocabulary. We also taught English. Not a very exciting day.

 

Friday, We did our planning session, and then we did a scambio with Lecco, me and Anz. Anderson here in Merate. We had a cool day. In the afternoon, we just did a bunch of casa, and didn't get in. As we were leaving a palazzo, a romanian guy named Vassile yelled "Hey did you ring?" yeah! Then we taught him and he was super interested. He was a Badante (old person helper) to an OLD man named Carlo. It was a good lesson. Gave him a Book of Mormon. Then we taught the Madafferi's, to whom we gave a book of Mormon, but they weren't super interested. That evening, we taught the Muçe family, and Brixhilda said that she'd be baptised the 5th of March by her Uncle, so our goal now is to try and get the rest of them ready for baptism by then. It was a sweet lesson. We talked about the temple and Baptisms for the Dead. I told them that my little sisters just did it for the first time, and it was super cool. Also, as we were going home, we gave a book of mormon to a guy that wants to go to Utah to ski. His name is Giuseppe. (Joseph).

 

Saturday, we riscambioed, and then I went with Anz. Ballif to teach Alfredo, who was a contact from a month ago, who was touched by who we are, but won't read the Book of Mormon, so we left him with, Maybe we'll call you. That afternoon, we biked to Calco Alto, where we passed by the Dallaris, taught a short lesson to them about prayer, and then casa'd right by their house. Of course, the first person we talk to is interested, and says all sorts of stuff that just is screaming "PLAN OF SALVATION! GIVE HIM A PAMPHLET!" Of course we don't have one. So we give him a restoration pamphlet, and he said that the next time we're in his area to give him a call. He literally is the next door neighbor of the members. Awesome. We then go down to Carnate and do some casa, not finding anybody, and then we go to the Pogettis and teach them and eat Aglio, Olio e Peperoncino (Garlic, Olive oil, and hot pepper, with a little parsley in it too.) Excellent day.

 

Sunday, we go to church, all of the Muçe's come, and Brixhilda brings a friend, named Roberta. Super brava, her. Then that evening, we go do some finding work, then we go back to teach Giuseppe from the scambio, with his wife. They're interested, and give us a return appointment, and we give the wife a russian book of mormon. Then Anz Ballif says, "let's go knock that palazzo." The door's open. We go up, find a guy that gives us his number, and then we knock another door and the man answers, I say "Piacere, sono Anziano Jolley" (Nice to meet you, I'm Elder Jolley) and he just says, Come on in! so we do. He's catholic, but super open. We give him and his wife a Book of Mormon, and they say come back on Friday and we'll talk about it. It's so exciting!

 

Monday, we make up a baptismal calendar for the Muçe's for next saturday, and then we go and go some finding, and then we go to the Muçe's who take us down to the Dicataldo family for a FHE, we teach a short lesson, and then eat food and go home. During the day, as we're knocking doors, another missionary calls us and says President is making transfer calls. So we were really distracted. We were super depressed that we didn't get a call after about 6, resigned to do another transfer together.

 

Tuesday, we go to Vimercate and knock some doors when President calls. He says "Is it going to be a problem for the Muçe's baptism if you get transferred?" Nope. Then he tells me I'm off to Pesaro, training and whitewashing, and we head home to Merate. Then we eat lunch, and go out to work some more. As we're knocking in Robbiate, Anz Ballif says, Let's go knock that door. So we do. It's a villa, with a camera and everything. NO CHANCE we're getting in. Surprisingly, the lady says, yeah, come on in, let me open the gate for you. we go up, thinking NO WAY! and who answers the door, but Giuseppe and Lucia, our english students who do genealogy in the church. We find that they have a massive collection of nativities, and are super open to religious discussion. We teach a good lesson, and get their phone number, and we go home, in awe at the power of God. Why? 1, that's the first time Giuseppe's been at home that time of day in years, practically. 2. We'd planned that area to do casa 4 or 5 times, and never did. 3, they're awesome. I feel super good about leaving this city now. I've left it in a good place.

 

I then packed last night, and had trouble sleeping, like I always do when transfers come. And now I'm doing email. I'm excited for the future. I love you.

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Fwd: Tough but excellent week

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From: Benjamin Jolley <benjamin.jolley@myldsmail.net>
Date: Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 2:58 AM
Subject: Tough but excellent week
Dear family,

 

This week has been a good one, but pretty tough too. On Wednesday, we taught Alessandro and his family, explaining the first lesson, and they were pleased to have us over. Also they said they'd come to church in 3 weeks. Because the dad shouldn't be working that sunday. He works as a rent a cop. tough hours. apparently.

 

Thursday, we did a lot of casa, with little success, after which we had english class, to which we had 3 people come. We were expecting 12. ouch. After, we passed by the Muçe's who passed the illness to another one of them, so we gave them a movie to watch again.

 

Friday, we did a lot of member work, passing by fratello Carcelen, who apparently needed the visit. His family seems to be in a tough position. That evening we ate a delicious meal with Fratello Pogetti, of lasagna, followed by a short lesson about prayer.

 

Saturday, we did some casa in Vimercate, trying to buy tickets for our bikes, but not being able to, so we got off free with that. We taught Marcell a short lesson on prayer, (actually all of these members were "practice lessons" them pretending to be investigators), and he said to pick him up for church the next morning. Slla Armilotta we then passed by, teaching the same thing, during which I learned a lot of new vocabulary. She uses big words. Afterwards, we had the opportunity to put into practice the things we had practiced (huh, not expecting that), getting into a BEAUTIFUL family. At the door, I said to Anz. Ballif "This family will be our next baptism." And then we got in. When we left, his jaw was on the floor. So was mine. They're the Pozzi family. Incredible.

 

Sunday, we went to pick up Marcell, and he couldn't come. darn. The Muçe daughters came to church, and then we studied and went to a member baptism, at which there were lots of nonmembers. I didn't know how to talk with them about how they felt, because they all left super fast. But Brixhilda and Albert came to the baptism too, and quite enjoyed it.

 

Monday, we had District Meeting, after which we taught Evelin and Alexandra, two ecuadorian girls. With a member. YAY! Then, immediately after, we went with another member to the Pozzi family, who are really good folks. They belong to a part of the Catholic church called CL (communione Liberazione), unfortunately, they're busy until two weeks from now. They also gave us a Catholic Gospel CD. (Catholic Gospel is not as fun as black gospel. not even close to close). After that, we taught the coolest lesson ever to the Muçe's. we talked about the baptismal interview, and then all of their needs just came out. And we taught. At the end, we found out that 1. Albert started smoking again. 2. All three of the others want to be baptized soon, but not super soon. I asked Brixhilda and Klara to be baptised next Saturday, and they didn't respond, except Brixhilda saying "And I was like, Are you kidding me?" (in english.) Seriously though, super powerful lesson.

 

Tuesday, we did a lot of casa. And then we read Alma 32 with the Muçe's. and then we went home. boring day. I got sworn at once by an old lady as we were knocking doors. That was surprising. Old ladies can have quite a mouth, I've found out.

 

Today, we came to do email. woot. I love you!

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A slow week

Date: Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 7:21 AM

Subject: A slow week

For some reason, this week has dragged on for a long time, it feels like. We did a lot of casa and traveling, I think. I don't know. It's been a long week. On Thursday, we did casa for a LONG time, with very little success, and then we had English class. We had one of the biggest english classes I've ever had, with 12 students. People are just coming out of the woodwork interested in it. We should have even more people this week, because a lady from several weeks ago said she'd come back this week. In the morning, a drunk bolivian stopped us saying he wanted to change. He didn't show up the next day, and his phone was off. oh well.

Friday, we planned, did a lot more casa, and we found one guy. We set a goal to speak italian out of the apartment during planning, and we've done it about 99% successfully. It's pretty cool. That evening, we taught the Muçe's again, we taught about tithing with the Bishop there, and he helped a ton, and Albert had been thinking about tithing the whole week that we didn't see them, and decided, "If I'm going to join this church, I'm going to join it like a crazy person." Now it's just a matter of when.

Saturday, we didn't have a baptism, because of various problems, primarily that two of them got sick and we couldn't teach them for a week. But we passed by them right after lunch and started a fast and gave the mom who was still sick a blessing. We also did a scavenger hunt as we were going around that day, and I had to stop an african as part of mine. I saw one, and just started following him. He was walking WAY fast, so it took a long time to catch up. I eventually did, and he had seen us before in Rome, and wanted to find a church to join and seemed just this genius contact, and it turns out he lives in Brescia, in a different zone. So I passed his phone number to Anz. Duersch, a good missionary. I hope he's a good contact. His name was John. We also taught Marcell, our peruvian less active, and asked straight, why don't you come to church? My dad went back to Peru, and I've been gone so long. He couldn't come to church the next day, but we're hoping to see him in church this sunday. We'll see. He's a good kid. That evening, we also went by the Pogetti's, but since we were fasting, didn't eat with them. We taught a lesson and looked at some of their old photoes of missionaries. One was from Anz. Ballif's stake.

Sunday, only the daughters could come to church, because Valentina was still sick, and Albert stayed home to take care of her. but we had a good lesson, and then we had lunch to break our fast with them. Afterwards, we did a lot of casa, and didn't see much success, unfortunately.

Monday, we did a LOT of casa. all day. we didn't get in once all day until late in the evening, when we started to get in like crazy to Romanians. two of them became new investigators. It was cool.

Yesterday, we had district meeting, and then I stayed in Lecco with Anz. Malku, for a scambio. we taught a lady who doesn't want to be pushed into baptism, but wants to study with us, it was odd. There was a good member there, though. Then we did a lot of casa. little success. We gave a man a Book of Mormon, so that was good. In the meantime, Anz. Ballif taught one of the best lessons he's ever taught to the Muçe's, trying to fix a baptismal date, for the 19th of February, but Albert wasn't there, so it didn't really work, but they understood, apparently.

This morning, we did some of our Pday with Lecco, and I woke up oddly at 6:30, without an alarm. we played some ping pong. It was fun. I love you!