Well, it's been a very wet and cold
week. Usually when it rains, its kinda warm, but not this week. It's
been pretty darn cold and it's rained for about four days straight. Fun
stuff. I would say that with the car it's not a big deal, but
unfortunately because we have to go to Milano twice this month (the
second time this Friday), and to Firenze yesterday for a zone conference
with Elder Fingerle of the 70 (it was really cool), and we have a
really long zone that stretches all the way down to Ancona 130 km away,
we're easily going to go over our km limit this month, so we have been
on bikes all week and it's just so much fun in the cold rain. We haven't
got drenched yet, but who knows how long that will last.
Any who,
despite a lot of rain and equally a lot of bidoni (does that make any
sense to you? Probably not. It's when some one doesn't show up and
flakes on you. we literally say, "ci ha dato un bidone", which means "he
gave us a trash can/dumpster". Yeah, kinda weird, but it makes sense to
me). It's been a tough week here in Ravenna. Unfortunately we've lost
two of our baptism dates just because they are impossible to see and they
won't be ready in time, but our other baptism dates are really going
strong. We are currently fasting with one of them to help him quit
smoking. The work is going well here. I'm happy. It's good.
Well,
like I said, we went to Firenze yesterday. It was super fun. We took a
slightly longer (time wise) path, so we could go through the beautiful
Toscana hills. Totally worth it. We ended up bring the Sorelle with us,
so it was pretty fun. Got some great pictures of the beautiful Italian
country side. I love this country. In other news, Firenze is a stressful
city to drive in. haha. It was much easier on train when I was in
Prato. haha. I saw old friends at this conference like Anz Parker,
Erickson, Johnson, and others. It was really great to see them again.
Anyway,
about Elder Fingerle. He's from Germany and he's in the third quorum of
the 70 I think. He is super into family history work. We talked about
something he likes to call, "Facebook for the dead". It's the "memories"
section of familysearch.com
where you can upload pictures, stories, documents, audio and other
stuff to kinda make like a "facebook page" for someone who has passed
on. He invited us to invite you as well as our members and nonmembers to
upload pictures and stories o four ancestors onto familysearch. Well,
here it goes, I invite you to do that. haha. I've really felt the spirit
of Elijah just talking about family history work. It is so interesting
and cool. Just the other week, Linda sent me some stories and pictures
of our ancestors from Mom's side of the family. It was really cool and
I've been able to share some of those stories with people to help them
get interested. So, will you do it? [Insert "yes!" here]
Well,
in other random news, I'm sad to hear that BYU soccer is out. Peccato.
Next season I'll be there to cheer them on in person. Whoa...that's
weird.
Before I forget again. HAPPY LATE
BIRTHDAY ERIN!!!!!! I had it written on my calendar, but I totally
forgot to write you last week. Sorry! I really hope it was a great day. I
thought about you a lot and told everyone that it was your birthday.
haha.
OK, random question. The other day I was
thinking about friends I wanted to get in contact with and someone came
to mind, so I'm going to ask you to do me a huge favor mom, or better
yet, Lizzy because mom might forget (love you mom). Can you go on my
facebook and find my friend "Jenny Sawyer"'s email? If it's not on her
page, just send her a message explaining that you're my sister/mom and
that I wanted to write her. In the random situation that you're actually
reading this yourself Jenny, please, write me. haha.
OK, random thought done.
Well,
I heard that a missionary from Anz Polson's ward, Elder Boyce, is now in
good old TO. Lucky man. What a great city. TO3!!!! WHOO!!!! haha.
It's
crazy that my friends that are girls are now finishing their missions.
That's so weird. And I have some other friends back at BYU who are
getting married. Even weirder! Life moves fast. I'm just trying to keep
up.
I hope you all have a great week. I love you all so much!
Anziano Langlois
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