Weekly Email June 30th, 2014

Things from home: I'm glad that the new diet is working out really well for all you two! Hopefully Dad will be down as much as I am by the time I get home that would sure be different. Sorry you can't eat meat mom. I swear you wouldn't have to diet if you worked out at least thirty minutes a day. That's what I do, and I haven't had to chagne a single thing in my diet. Then again, I'm in Italy, so food is totally different here. 

I am rather shocked that Mom has gone observing with Dad twice. I nearly died of shock, in fact these smilies were my face when I read that:    

I?m glad that Grandma is doing fantastic and that she is doing much better. I think the fact that I'm doing so well is helping her. Maybe she will make it to when I come home, and then she'll live for another 18 months to wait for Sam. 

Now as for my week:

Well, I made it into L'Aquila perfectly fine, no problem what so ever. It was a long journey, but I did make a friend on the train up from Catania. He was heading to Napoli for university, and he wanted to practice his English. So, I gave him the corso website and told him he could find the address on there. We also had a good conversation about what I was doing in Italy. Hopefully something comes of that.

The last few days, I've spent getting myself acquainted with the members, and getting to know the city a little bit. L'Aquila's a really beautiful place, and I'm really going to like it here. Anziano Bethke introduced me to quite a few of our investigators, and I'm rather happy that our work is really good. Let's hope that we can keep the swing of things going up!

I'm really excited about the member work, and I'm super content that the branch is doing a great job of missionary work. It's rather fantastic!

So, yeah, that's how things went this week. I'm looking forward to meeting all our investigators this week, and getting to know them. Overall, a good transfer.

Talk to you next week!

NaNa

PS: Sending email with answers soon!

Answers to some of our questions:

Okay here we go:

I took an inter-city train from Catania to Rome-Termini. It took 10 hours, and then another 2 hours by bus to get into L'Aquila. My new companion is Anziano Bethke, and he's one transfer younger than me. It's only the two of us.

The branch has about 25 members that are active. It's rather nice. They are really into missionary work, and we have a good amount of referrals coming in. Just need to keep up with them. It's rather nice.

I don't know what finding is going to be like in L'Aquila, because most of the people live out of the city as it's under reconstruction. But I'm not overtly worried about it. I've had worse situations in finding.

The evidence of the earthquake is a bunch of scaffolding on buildings, and construction equipment all over. L'Aquila is actually being fixed which is nice, and I think it'll be done before the temple. (Italian construction takes forever!)

I live in an attic. Literally. They added a fourth floor to a three floor building, and we right on roof level. It's our own apartment, but it's small. Perfect for two people, but if anymore come, it's a bit crowded. Yeah, I like it though.

Okay, there ya go. Next week then,

NaNa