Well, life is just great. Time still
goes by too quickly, but I just have to accept that now. I had an
interview with President Dibb the other day for my temple recommend,
which I now have in Italian. It's super cool. haha. Anyway, in the
interview, he basically hinted that I'm leaving Ravenna in a few weeks,
so it's been kinda weird, because I'm still here, but I want to make
sure and say goodbye to everyone, so I'm trying to take a lot of
pictures. Even though I've been here for 6 months almost now, I'm kinda
sad to leave. I love Ravenna. It's super stressful sometimes, and I'm
pretty sure my life got about 6 years shorter while being here, but it
feels like home. All of my cities have felt like home. I miss Italy
already. I love this country so much. It doesn't help that I'm now at
that point where everyone asks me when I finish my mission and then when
I tell them in about 3 months, they all talk about how I'm at the end
and ask me if I'm excited to go home and what not. I swear, sometimes its
the members fault that missionaries get trunky! All they want to talk
about is home and what I'm going to do when I get back. haha. But don't'
worry. I'm not trunky. I love this work too much.
Anyway,
first things first. Mom, do you remember how you told me about the Celya's cousin, Anz West? Well....after 3
weeks into the transfer, I just realized that he is my district leader.
haha. I know! I'm horrible! He actually brought it up. haha. There you
go. Small world.
Well, if you remember, last
week I sent a picture of a snowman I made in San Marino. Well, that
night after English class, we were talking to the Sorelle and they
started talking about this snowman that they saw in San Marino that same
day, in fact, they took pictures! When I told them that I made it they
freaked out, but not as much as the member that took them there. She is
from Peru and is literally like a cartoon. She squealed when I told her
that I made that snowman. haha.
Then, this
past week, we had zone conference and we got to watch Meet the Mormons.
It was awesome!!!! I don't know if you've seen it, but its really good. I
miss movies. haha. It has such a good message about being tolerant of
other religions. It's OK to be Mormon, and it's OK if you're not. We can
all live together in harmony. Of course, if you want to become Mormon,
better yet! hahaha.
OK, so yesterday we had a
Martedì Grasso (Fat Tuesday) party in church. Naturally as missionaries,
we can't really dress up super crazy, but we did what we could. I was a
fat American tourist, of course with my Hawaiian shirt, and Anz
Cardullo was "Cesare Cardullus". haha. I will try and send of picture of
us and the Sorelle who were a hippy and Elsa. Everyone is crazy about
Frozen here! It was really fun to see all of our crazy members all
dressed up. I love Italians. They are so much fun.
Besides
all this fun, I've been pretty sick this week. Not like stay at home
sick, but I feel like I'm going to keel over and die while doing our
missionary work sick. haha. Like dad always says, "you can sleep when
you're dead!". Now I'm feeling better, so don't worry about me.
Miracle time!
So
in my interview with President, he gave me the challenge to teach 15
lessons each of the few weeks that I'm still here in Ravenna. On Thursday evening after zone conference, we made a lot of phone calls and
set up 10 lessons for the next two days. We were excited. However, when
we set up lessons, that doesn't always mean that we will teach them. In
fact, 7 of those 10 original lessons cancelled. We were devastated, but
we were able to find some more lessons. I didn't give up on teaching
15 lessons, but I had no idea how were were going to do it. Because of
scheduling, we had a few hours open on Sunday afternoon to do some
finding work. To be honest, I wasn't super excited to go out and do
straight finding work, but while we were biking to centro, I decided
that I needed to change my attitude or it would be a miserable
experience. So I prayed silently as we biked to our finding destination.
We started and immediately we stopped a young man who was interested to
listen to us, but wouldn't give us his contact info. So we kept on
going and we stopped some more people who were yet again, willing to
stop and listen to us, but wouldn't give us their contact info. We
looked at each other and just laughed. We were trying so hard, but we
weren't going to give up so easily. We kept on working hard and we were
blessed. We taught three prayer lessons during this time and received
two phone numbers, one of them is now a new investigator. We couldn't
believe our eyes! Not only that, but when we were tallying up numbers Sunday night, we found out that we had made it to 15 lessons! I was so
excited!!! The lord blessed us for our efforts.
It's
great to hear that everything is going well back on the home front.
Sorry that Obama keeps on causing traffic for you dad. haha. It's funny
you mentioned Gharidellli's, because I was just thinking about that
today. haha. That sounds like quite the dinner you had for Valentine's
day. Just wait until you come to Italy dad. The food is literally out of
this world. And, just to show you that I was sent to this mission to
learn how to cook, I made some pasta yesterday and Anz Cardullo said it
was super good. So...hai visto?? I've picked up some Italian skills by
being here. haha.
That's pretty cool that all
three of you will be speaking in the Spanish branch. Will Lizzy speak in Spanish??? She better. I need to remember my Spanish. It's pretty
useful in America.
Well, it's been a good week, and I'm happy. Tired, but happy.
Thank you so much for all of your prayers and support. I love you all so much and I wish you all the best!
Con affetto,
Anziano Langlois
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