So this week was the best most tiring week ever!!! So i wanted to start off with telling you why haha. So first off this ex investigator called us to ask us to help her move... hmm okay maybe we can pick her up again and teach her. WRONG.... so it turns out she just wanted to use us because we are two men haha. So it was literally the worst move of my life. Lemme draw you a picture. Okay. So i asked if this giant closet thing need to go and she said yes. Okay this shouldnt be to hard i bet its light. SO me and Anziano Bosco go to lift it up (its about 7 feet tall f.y.i.) and it is SOOOO heavy. What?! I think to myself... hmm maybe theres somtheing in it like boxes packed away. hah wrong. I opened the closet and it was full of clothes and odd things. It was that type of move where you expect to come, lift a couple heavy things and be done, and then you arrive and the person throws you an empty box and says... okay fill it up and take it down. So lets just say it took for ever and we were literally dead afterwards! Ok enough with that.... so i want to descirbe the funnnest thanksgiving ever!!! So we still hadnt made any super special plans... .but Thursday morning we were out doing some finding work and we smelt a great smell... hmmm what is that???? So we discovered that there was a giant rotecery thing full of rotecery chicken!! (first time i have ever seen it in europe) So we finsiehd the work for the morning and decided to buy two chickens for lunch! It was sooooo delicious! It was literally the funnest lunch. We took some pics that i want to try to send. The computers here are pretty lame. but anywas lets get to the good part. SERGIO!!!!! So this is a very awesome story. So everything for the baptism was ready to go. It was wednesday afternoon. We were feeling really happy because the interview went great and everything was set up. We had an appointment that night and then again on friday to see him. We were so pumped up.... until we recieved a text... uh oh... from sergio??? Ciao Anziani i have to cancel tongight... bye. Hmm it is a little strange that he did that... .he's never done that before. We were a bit confused but at this point still not worried. Okay... well at least we see him on friday... Lets call him to make sure there is no problems. No answer. Hmm now were a bit more nervous. Strange. So thursday we try calling.... nothing. We try later in the day... nothing. Hmm now we started to worry a bit. Sergio always answers the phone. And then another time.... Hello?. YES He finally answered. On the phone this is what he said.. Hello Anziani i can't be baptized any more. I'm sorry. Sergio what why?!? Sorry i have to go...beep beep beep. Ok at this point i could say that we were utterly paniced!! We tried calling him later... nothing. Ok we have to pass by tonight to see what is the problem. No answer at the door. No answer at the phone. So no it is Friday... the day before the baptism!! We havent talked with him, and all we know is that he said i cant be baptized! We were seriously so nervous and stressed out. I think i even let out some sugar glider noises :) (shout out to dad!!) So we tried calling him throughout the day and nothing. Well we still have an appointment tonight. We knocked at the door and sergio answered.... oh hello! Come on in. He was a bit surprised that we were there. (PS... sergio is verrrrry timid but all around a stud) We come in and we say a prayer and we begin to talk. He explains to us that he met a priest in the street and talked with him and told him that he was about to be baptized. The priest........ i'm sure a nice man (bighting my lip a bit) filled Sergio's head with a bunch of lies. How he will be damned, and how our church will obligate him to give his job to someone who is jobless, and that we are strange. So Sergio was very agitated and nervous. We began to bear testimony to him and the spirit entered the room and his agitation began to ease away. The spirit was so strong. And after about 30 minutes with him, discussing the various questions he had, and bearing testimony we said.... Sergio tomorrow night there will be a baptism of one of the strongest and spirituall powerful man we know. And he just looked at us and said....Ok i will do it. The spirt at that point just covered us! It was soo cool. And the next day we went and picked him up and took him to the church. At this point he once again had his eagerness and excitement for the baptism. The baptism was sooo amazing. The spirit was really strong. After the baptism we talked with him and he was sooo happy. He said... i feel so light! What a wonderful feeling. And then on sunday he was confirmed and once again recieved a confermation that he was doing the right thing. Hmmm... i'm running out of time i think i have to finish this at the next library. Sorry! See you in a bit!!
Anziano Perkes
LETTER PART 2!!
Okay so i actually dont have a ton of time but i wanted to finish describing the awesome Sergio! So we went to see him last night and he was doing great!! There was literally a new light in his eyes! He says he has been praying and reading the book of mormon everyday and he feels great and he is so happy that he was baptized! So that was a awesome tender mercy that we saw. For a while we were quite nervous haha. So funny story. We did exchanges the other day and i stayed here in SWZ with Anziano Murdock from utah (PS... he is a super stud) and we got out of an appointment literally on the other side of the city. We live pretty close to the lake on the very end and we were on the other side of the lake about 2 or more miles down, and we got out of an appointment at 9:03. Now we have to enter at 9:30 and its about a 25 ish minute bus ride. So we run to the bus stop and there is not another bus for 25 minutes!!!! So clearly we would be late.. very late. So i turn to Anziano Murdock with a grin and say.... hey you like running? And he gives me back a grin and says... heck yeah baby! and we took off running. Luckily we had umbrellas with us (it rained in the afternoon but wasnt reaining then) so we felt a lot like soldiers from WWII with rifles in our hands running down the cobblestone streets of Lugano. We ran straight for 20 minutes and it was a blast. People looked at us a bit strange... but we wanted to be obedient so oh well. I can just imagine... 2 guys in suits and ties, running carrying an umbrella in tehre hands when it isnt raining. We blitzed through the door to the apartment and looked at the clock.... 9:29!!!!! Right as we sat down... out of breath the clock ticked 30. What a blessing we made it! So with the rain brought a couple of waterfalls up in the mountains that were beauitful!! It is kind of like at lake powell when it rains hard and waterfalls appear out of no where. Ok no i have a bit of time to answer the questions and then i gotta rap this up! So mom you asked about teh Christmas call. No please dont call me haha. I will buy a phone card that lets me call. And i am pretty certain that i can call the 4 different houses. I think we'll have time. its kinda hard to say now a month before but i am almost positive we can manage it. You asked if kebabs are kind of like gyros. There are similar but the meat is really unique. It has a taste that i've never tasted before. And yes that mans name really was voldemort. That is a very typical russian like name. For example like Vladimir, voldemort, Vloginfra, and Ron Weasly. There all very common names. Crazy huh! mom you asked about the number of people in church. I would say about 40 ish. It is proba bit smaller than somersowrth. But the chapel is tiny so it feels bigger. I cant remember who said it, but someone reminded me that i am more than half done with lugano. I KNOW!!! I am already starting to become sad. You have no idea. I love this city sooo much. Piacenza was awesome and i miss it , but for some reason i feel like i will die when i leave here. Very sad. Fun little thing and then i gotta really get goin. We were comin home the other night, and we say this guy with this big cauldren in centro. And there was a greattttt smell. So i asked what is it? And he replied chest nuts. Wow.... i finally understand why in all the christmas songs they say chestnuts roasted on a open fire. So we bought some and they were delicious! I highly reccomend it!! Well i better get going but i love you guys!!!!!!!!! THanks so much for all you do!
Anziano Perkes
BOUN NATALE!
Anziano Perkes
BOUN NATALE!
