Okay so things here are suuuper boring, I cannot WAIT TO GET OUT OF HERE. On tuesday we leave for the airport at 7:30 Am.
We then fly to chicago, london, and milan. SUUPER long flight. The mtc
has been great and there have been good talks, however, I am definately
going stir crazy. however here are the exciting things that happened
today! I saw Jacob!!! I pretty much tackled him when I saw him, but he
seemed happy to see me!
I also saw Eduardo!!
I had no idea he was coming in today!! That was also awesome!
Other fun things: Well this wasnt really fun
but Sister Van Alfen had her kidney stone removed yesterday! She really
is a trooper. Its also really cool to know that Mom and Sorrella Van
Alfens Dad grew up together! She wanted to know if you went to the dance
that pretty much ended in a riot. Good times. Ooooh, funny story, So my
district has this thing with trust falls, so Anz Alder and Lindley
decided it would be a good idea to do a "deep" trust fall, aka fall
almost to the floor. So lindey was on the recieving end and caught
Alder. With one problem. Upon impact, Anz lindleys pants exploded. it
was SOOOOO FUUUUNNNNYYY. its kind of sad but that was the most
entertaining thing that happened. We also had 2 Jesus cross protestors
outside of our temple walk this sunday.
It was midly interesting, but you have to respect them. They in their
mind are doing what is right, but there might be a better place to be
protestors, It might be a tad hard to be a missionary to 700 other
misisonaries. But there ya go! A few points from the devotional this
week.
- You are not finding anyone, the Lord already found them, you are the
lost one. Your job is to have the faith to find who he has prepared.
- God doesnt give us just one chance - keep in contact with past
investigators, read your area book, sometimes all it takes for
conversion is reestablishing that connection with an investigator
- Richard G Hinckley
- No tool or technology can substitute a misisonary with the spirit
- The greatest suffering a missionary can experience is regret
- What will my answer be when I leave the Mission, I wish I had? Or im glad I did.
Well Italy is going to be super legit! next wednesday
I get my Golden ticket, aka my first assignment, it doesnt really
matter where, because everywhere in italy is beautiful. My italian is
going much better and I can slowly feel myself becoming more imerssed in
the culture. I have started to talk using my hands A lot, and using
some of the hand guestures they use, because apperently thats really a
thing. Well I figure I should actually say something I learned in
Italian. Well the phrase "In bocca al lupo" Literally translates to in
the mouth of a wolf, but it means break a leg. The standard reply is
"Crepi" Or dead. Apperently thats how you say that. Also the phrase for
on the ball in italian translates to in the leg. Weird. Well I figure I
could probably start writing some of these emails in italian, but
I only have 2 minutes left to write so thats going to happen next week!
If youre going to write me this week send it to the
italian address! Unless its a dear elder. I will recieve mail every 4- 6
weeks. BYE BYE
NEXT EMAIL IS GOING TO BE FROM ITALY! GET EXCITED!
CIAO
Anziano Trevino
So I forgot to mention my companion anziano luening went to canada on monday
for his visa. I guess thats kind of important. I am now in a trio with
anziano lindley and anziano chamberlain, which puts my number of
companions in the MTC
to 5. Thats probably a record. I have come to the conclusion that I am
either the greatest missionary in the MTC which is why i get sent around
to fix other peoples companionships. Or I am the worst and no one can
handle me. Im not really sure which yet.
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| His companion Anziano Lindley |
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| Anziano Delgado ready for a nap! |
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