3-20-13

Ciao tutti. Un'altra bellissima settimana in Italia.

 

Well I have a lot to catch up on the past 2 weeks because of the train issue. We went down to leauca which is the furthest south you can go in puglia. It was alot of fun, but it took forever to get there so and we missed a train on the way back. We made it back to brindisi just in time for our appointments so I'm really sorry for last week. The weeks moving along and time is flying by. 6 month mark already. Transfer calls were this week. There are 25 new missionaries coming in and 22 leaving. I bet transfers were kind of crazy for pres to organize. I will be in Brindisi for sure for another 6 weeks. I was hoping to go to a new city, but I guess there is something here in Brindisi that I need to learn better or someone out there that I need to find while I'm still here. They made me district leader for this transfer so I will have a little bit more responsibility like giving trainings every week and making sure everyone is doing okay.

 This week I did an exchange in Lecce for a couple days. There is such a contrast in the work between Lecce and Brindisi. Lecce is on fire right now there has already been two baptisms this year and many more coming up. All these people being baptized in lecce are from 1 person that got baptized last year and just went crazy within his entire family with missionary work. I learned alot this exchange. Here in Brindisi we need to get the branch excited about missionary work otherwise nothing is going to move ever. We have one woman here getting ready to be baptized. She is the wife of one of the members so their whole family will be together in the church soon. I am hoping this is the push to get things moving here. We are working hard and doing our best to find new people to teach.

Absolutely don't use dear elder instead of Email. It takes at least 6 weeks to get to me so it's really not worth the pain. They print them out at the mission home (if they even still use it here) then they are given to us at zone conference which is only once every transfer. It can be up to 2 months apart so I'm really happy with the email system.

The video sean tried to send me got blocked.   By the way I got the Music and I am really happy. I've been going crazy before english course practicing Chopin. Hopefully I will be able to master some Chopin pieces. The hymn arrangements are great for prelude music. I can read most of them I just have to play really slow while I play them. Hopefully with some practice I will be able to master a few of those to. Since I'm going to be here for another 6 weeks and the music made it you can try to send those packages that you wanted to send.

I didn't have a 6 month Gelato, but I did have plently of pasti cioti. When you guys come to tour we are going to Lecce, not just because its called the Florence of the south, but because these Pasti Cioti are the best tasting pastry ever. Lecce is the place to buy them to. Everyone says Lecce is where they are made the best.

Mark Davis will like this. I met some people that have been members of the church in Lecce for over thirty years. You can ask him if he remembers the Bruno Family. We ate lunch with them. And I took a picture with them. I'll send it next week so he can see.

It's starting to get really hot here, but we have to wait until conference to take off our jackets. I'm pretty sure these suits will be destroyed by the time I come home. Don't worry about the letters from the other Elders making me feel weird. I know that these missions are very very different. They have their hard parts and I have mine. They have their successes and I have mine. I love reading about their successes and just how their missions are going. It helps me to know that they are out there doing their best while I here toiling away at the work as well. Keep sending them I have enough time to read them every week and write you guys. Except last week. I didn't have time for anything last week unfortunatly.

 

Vi voglio bene. Godete la pasqua. Quasi ho dimenticato, ma ho sentitio troppo del papa. Sono in sud italia dove la chiesa catolica è piu forte.

 

Anziano Faggioli