Porca miseria!!! Time is flying by. I
can't believe that its almost my birthday and that I've been out on my
mission for so long. It's totally crazy. Any who, first of all, I want to
thank everyone for the birthday wishes. It's going to be weird not
really having any connection with you guys on my actual birthday, but I
know that you are always close. I can feel it. Also, I'm going to be
20. WHAAAAAATTTTT???????????? I will never be a teenager again. Meno
male. But that's so weird. Also, I realized that I will never be 20 in
America. Weird right? So crazy that I'm going to be in Italy for an
entire year straight.
Other random, not so important news. Thanks for the
bracket info dad. I'm pretty sure mine got destroyed. haha. That's crazy
that Duke already lost. I know they always choke, but I wasn't thinking
that early. That's why they call it March madness, its really crazy. We
all made brackets in our apartment, so we'll see who wins. I think it
might be Valencia who just picked his by flipping a coin. haha.
OK, so I just read Linda's last blog post about
Jude. He is so cute. Oh my gosh. And I'm sad to say, but I'm pretty sure
Jude's English is better than mine right now. haha. I swear I make no
sense. I don't know how you guys read these emails. They probably make
no sense.
Any who, I haven't gotten the package yet, but don't
worry, I'll get it eventually. haha I don't have headphones here at the
university, so I can't watch the video right now, but I will try to
watch it when I can.
OH yeah! I found out that Fratello Jeter (my teacher
from the MTC) trained Anz Davis' (my grandpa) trainer, so I'm his great
great grandson! Small world right? haha. I thought that was funny. Let
me think, other random new things. Oh yeah! That's so crazy that Robert
gets home in 30 days!!!! The other day I was thinking about him, and I
didn't realize how close he really was to finishing. Crazy how fast time
flies. I also hear that Brooke Hamilton is getting married. Auguri to
her! The last of the clan to get married.
Any who, so this week was crazy like always, but in a
different sense of the word crazy. Basically, Anz Parker and I have
been just kinda talking in English to one another (I know dad, syl syl
syl syl ), but just speaking English, we've got stopped by 6 or 7 people
randomly. One of them is here on business and he just decided to go out
one night, even though he doesn't really speak Italian, and guess who he
runs into, but two Americans speaking in English. He was super pumped
and he was actually super interested in the gospel. We're trying to see
him again because he's really busy so we can give him a Book of Mormon,
but he's super bravo and was totally led by the spirit to go out that
night. Then we met an Italian who was born in Texas and basically all of
her family except her are members and she asked us for a Book of Mormon
for her friend. Super crazy things happening.
In other news, we set 3 more bapt dates this week!
That puts us at 5 for this month and I'm pretty sure we are the highest
in the zone right now. That's pretty cool. We are just super
blessed. Last week, the other Anziani had to come to Voghera to bring us
Anz. Parker's wallet (like I mentioned last week), and while they were
there, they met a man named Victor. They taught him really quick and got
his phone number. Then they passed him to our copia, so we called him
and set up an appointment to meet him. Anz. Valencia and I met up with
him on a scambio and started teaching him the Restoration. When we got
to the great apostasy, his wife, Macy, walked up with their two
children. We invited her to sit down with us and listen to the lesson.
She happily agreed. After we taught about the Book of Mormon, we gave
them a copy and then we invited them both to be baptized. They both
accepted, so we proceeded to try and set a date, and they accepted that
too. So it was a miracle! We started teaching one family, and just like
President Dibb always says, "we're in the business of completing
families", so we are already on that path to complete this family in the
gospel.
Then we set another bapt date with the wife of one
of our new converts. Super awesome. We are trying to hard to make sure
that these dates stick and actually go through, while setting even more
and trying to find even more people to teach. Life is hectic.
Like I said last week, I found out that Tullio got baptized in Prato. In fact, Anz Andersen called me from the baptism and I
got to talk to Tullio for a minute. He was so happy and I could just
tell how important the gospel is to him. GOSH!!!! I love Tullio! He's
such a boss!!!
Another thing, I gave my very first talk this week.
It was on how Christ is the rock of our salvation. Super easy topic. Had
a ton of scriptures and it went great. People said they liked it, so
that's always good. And in SYL (speak your language) news, I just finished the Pearl of Great Price in Italian last week, so now I've read the entire triple in
Italian. I'm now in the New Testament. A lot harder to understand, but
the first day I read in it, I literally learned so much. I had such an
awesome study for an hour straight. It was so cool! I didn't want to
stop reading. I love the scriptures.
I also made the armor of god out of pizza boxes and
tin foil for our serata familiare. We put it on one of the sorelle's
investigators, Eduardo. It was so funny. I attach the picture.
Oh yeah! yesterday, we got fed well. Anzi, we got fed well
this whole week. We had an awesome meal with some investigators last Wednesday, then Thursday we ate with a part member family. Then
yesterday we ate lunch with our vescovo and then dinner with another
family. I love Italians. They treat the missionaries well. I hope you
guys are prepared for some good food when you come over here.
Well, that's pretty much my week in a nutshell. We're going to Milano today, so I'll have some cool duomo pictures next week.
Thank
you all so much for your birthday wishes and your support. I love you
all so much and I hope you all have an amazing week!!!
Statemi bene!
Anziano Langlois
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