Ciao Tutti!
Hey everyone! Ive had another awesome week here in Italy. To start off though i just wanted to tell Tia, THANK YOU SOOOOOOOO MUCH for the sweet package!!!!!!! Hahahaha oh man you have no idea how bad I've been craving fruity candy! The package was absolutely perfect!
I had Zone conference this last week in Rome and i got all of my mail that has come in these last 6 weeks. Thank you so much everyone who wrote me, its so great getting mail as a missionary, its seriously like Christmas when we get mail.
It was an interesting journey to Rome this time because they changed it to a different Church building than the one we usually go to. This time we had to take to metro to the end of the line and it was absolute madness!!!! Hahaha and i got separated from my companion and was totally lost in the crowd and i was pretty sure he got on the metro but wasn't 100% sure so i kinda waited a little while people started getting on and i didn't see him so i assumed he had already gotten on so i went to get on too and there were soooo many people there wasn't any room for me to squeeze on so as I'm trying to wiggle on with my big bulky back pack the door to the train totally closed on me and i got smashed right down the middle!!! Thank goodness it had a sensor on it and opened back up but before i could re-adjust or anything it closed on me again and again and again... and every time a loud alarm would go off! hahaha oh my goodness it was so embarrassing. Sadly i had to just force my way on and push the entire group of people over until i could fit, and i think i might have smashed an old lady or 2 but i HAD TO GET ON THAT TRAIN!The last thing i wanted to do was to get lost in Rome by myself. So after i was on the train i could see my companion over the crowd ( cus Italians are short) and he was crying he was laughing so hard at me. I totally made a huge seen..... leave it to the big dumb American.....
Then when we got to our stop we realized it was pouring outside and so we got to walk 3 miles to the church up this hill in the pouring rain. And to add to the wonderful experience we were 30 minutes late, and on top of that we had been out of water for the last 2 days in our apartment so i wasn't able to shave. We were quite the sight walking in to Zone conference 45 minutes late, soaking wet to the bone, and with both of us practically having a beards......
Thankfully president understood our circomestances. That word is sooo spelled wrong, sorry i have the hardest time reading and spelling English now the Italian totally throws me out of whack! but anyways it was a fun experience in Rome.
The work has been going good this week we have been doing a whole lot of finding and have met some incredible people. There truly are the "elect" out there. K so for all of you who have seen the movie "the best 2 years " you know the part when their mission president calls them and tells them he is coming to visit their apartment so all the missionaries scrabble as fast as they can to clean the apartment and the one missionary flips over the pictures of those girls and on the back are pictures are pictures of prophets....hahaha yeah well we have the EXACT same thing happen to us on Monday. President called us and said he would be to our apartment in about 3 minutes for interviews. All I'm going to say is i have never cleaned that apartment so fast in my life! It was so funny!!! But interviews went great and President even commented on how clean the apartment was. HE is such an incredible Mission president he has already taught me so much.
Last night at English class i taught the advanced class and told them all about River Bend and everyone loved it. Man i sure miss all you guys! i hope everyone is doing OK. Mom i sure hope you fell better soon, i heard your conference was incredible. Cade, way to go dude with the missionary work! isn't it the best!!!!! I'm so proud of you! Well i need to run now but i look forward to hearing from you guys next week!
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Working with the Members!
Hey DAD,
Man i miss you like crazy, thanks for keeping me updating with the emails. hahaha yeah you guys are totally going down with the baptismal challenge, We are on fire right now! The member program were using is so sweet! Today were actually fasting with the family we are doing it with so we can know who the Lord wants us to work with and who is prepared for the gospel NOW.
K so this is how it works.... Missionaries come and do a family night with a family making sure all of the family is there for it. Then as missionaries we teach a very simple, short, but powerful lesson on the restoration. After the lesson we have a testimony meeting with the entire family on how the Gospel has changed there lives and each person is invited to share their testimony about the restoration and what it means to them. Then while the spirit is the strongest we teach the family that with this incredible knowledge we have the responsibility to share it with everyone, and by doing so we can bring the light and happiness of the gospel into the lives of other. We then pass out pens and papers to everyone and have them fold their papers in fourths and put at the top of each of the boxes a tittle, which were Family, Friends, Neighbors, and Others. Then, we have them write down EVERYONE they know in these categories who are not members, regardless of whether they think they will accept the gospel or not. Then when everyone has finished we kneel and pray as a family and pray to know which of these are the most prepared for the gospel right now. After the pray everyone circles their top 4 people on their papers. We then challenge them to find a way to do service for each of the people they circled during the week. We then returned the next week for Family night again and we began a fast to know as a family the overall top 4 in the family that are ready for the Gospel now. When we have the top 4 we will then do a lesson on easy ways for the members to talk to their friends and invite them to a casual activity that us missionaries will be at, and from there us missionaries will take the lead on introducing the gospel and the member family will be the key role in testifying and hosting the lessons in their home. And together we will baptise! Person, after person and person until we have worked with every family in this ward. And when we finish with all the families we will do it again. Its a never ending source of baptising and changing of lives hand in hand with the members.
By teaching and doing this we will gain the trust and respect of the members and will get them all fire about sharing the gospel. Ive been working on putting this thing together since Ive been in the MTC and its working so far better than i ever could have imagined, the Lord is definitely guiding his work!
MAN I LOVE BEING A MISSIONARY!
Yes i survived another transfer and I'm staying in Pescara with Anz. Daniels. I know there is a work for me to do here.
It sounds like you guys have been super busy with the conference and with taking those classes. That is SOOO cool you guys are doing that!!! For sure keep me posted with all of that.
It's crazy Bailey and Wills have a house and stuff and she's pregnant! SO WEIRD!!!!! Things are gonna be so different when i come home.
OH my gosh, yes i miss football like crazy actually, sometimes i start thinking about it when im laying in bed at night and get so excited i cant fall asleep for a long time, haha which is kinda annoying. But yeah for example in the Mesa high game when i got the sack the first play of the game, its such a rush....good times good times. Cade will catch on as he gets older i didn't really get it till i was going into my senior year. I know Cade is gonna be a beast.
hahah so yeah its absolutely freezing here in Italy, i had no idea it would get so cold! and its a different kind of cold its a humid cold, absolutely bone chilling. And being on the coast the wind of the water is pretty brutal. i might freeze to death this winter.
Being in the same city there are not a ton of new pictures but i will try to do better with keeping my camera close. I went on an exchange these last two days with our Zone leaders from L'Aquila and stayed the night there. It was an incredible experience and really opened my eyes to some new stuff that I'm exited to try.
Well anyways i love you guys and miss you all so much. Tomorrow i get my mail from this last month in a half when we go to Rome for Zone conference, and I'm excited to see if you guys sent any letters. Hopefully i get something. Well got to run, have a great week and don't forget to get those baptisms!!!!!!!!
Love, your boy Anziano Koozer
Man i miss you like crazy, thanks for keeping me updating with the emails. hahaha yeah you guys are totally going down with the baptismal challenge, We are on fire right now! The member program were using is so sweet! Today were actually fasting with the family we are doing it with so we can know who the Lord wants us to work with and who is prepared for the gospel NOW.
K so this is how it works.... Missionaries come and do a family night with a family making sure all of the family is there for it. Then as missionaries we teach a very simple, short, but powerful lesson on the restoration. After the lesson we have a testimony meeting with the entire family on how the Gospel has changed there lives and each person is invited to share their testimony about the restoration and what it means to them. Then while the spirit is the strongest we teach the family that with this incredible knowledge we have the responsibility to share it with everyone, and by doing so we can bring the light and happiness of the gospel into the lives of other. We then pass out pens and papers to everyone and have them fold their papers in fourths and put at the top of each of the boxes a tittle, which were Family, Friends, Neighbors, and Others. Then, we have them write down EVERYONE they know in these categories who are not members, regardless of whether they think they will accept the gospel or not. Then when everyone has finished we kneel and pray as a family and pray to know which of these are the most prepared for the gospel right now. After the pray everyone circles their top 4 people on their papers. We then challenge them to find a way to do service for each of the people they circled during the week. We then returned the next week for Family night again and we began a fast to know as a family the overall top 4 in the family that are ready for the Gospel now. When we have the top 4 we will then do a lesson on easy ways for the members to talk to their friends and invite them to a casual activity that us missionaries will be at, and from there us missionaries will take the lead on introducing the gospel and the member family will be the key role in testifying and hosting the lessons in their home. And together we will baptise! Person, after person and person until we have worked with every family in this ward. And when we finish with all the families we will do it again. Its a never ending source of baptising and changing of lives hand in hand with the members.
By teaching and doing this we will gain the trust and respect of the members and will get them all fire about sharing the gospel. Ive been working on putting this thing together since Ive been in the MTC and its working so far better than i ever could have imagined, the Lord is definitely guiding his work!
MAN I LOVE BEING A MISSIONARY!
Yes i survived another transfer and I'm staying in Pescara with Anz. Daniels. I know there is a work for me to do here.
It sounds like you guys have been super busy with the conference and with taking those classes. That is SOOO cool you guys are doing that!!! For sure keep me posted with all of that.
It's crazy Bailey and Wills have a house and stuff and she's pregnant! SO WEIRD!!!!! Things are gonna be so different when i come home.
OH my gosh, yes i miss football like crazy actually, sometimes i start thinking about it when im laying in bed at night and get so excited i cant fall asleep for a long time, haha which is kinda annoying. But yeah for example in the Mesa high game when i got the sack the first play of the game, its such a rush....good times good times. Cade will catch on as he gets older i didn't really get it till i was going into my senior year. I know Cade is gonna be a beast.
hahah so yeah its absolutely freezing here in Italy, i had no idea it would get so cold! and its a different kind of cold its a humid cold, absolutely bone chilling. And being on the coast the wind of the water is pretty brutal. i might freeze to death this winter.
Being in the same city there are not a ton of new pictures but i will try to do better with keeping my camera close. I went on an exchange these last two days with our Zone leaders from L'Aquila and stayed the night there. It was an incredible experience and really opened my eyes to some new stuff that I'm exited to try.
Well anyways i love you guys and miss you all so much. Tomorrow i get my mail from this last month in a half when we go to Rome for Zone conference, and I'm excited to see if you guys sent any letters. Hopefully i get something. Well got to run, have a great week and don't forget to get those baptisms!!!!!!!!
Love, your boy Anziano Koozer
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Hal translated his letter to Bud to Italian and then back to English
Son, this is the exact English translation of the Italian letter I just sent. It doesnt make any sense to me, GOOD LUCK and GOOD READING!The hook so a lot. Like its mission goes? The family does large! Our efforts of missionary go well. We slept in the garden since the time has cooled. The emmett informed me that has not ever lifted a stretch out first. I am a most agile one or that? I received the Italian the mine saves the time and pleased it a lot. I hope that she can understand that I say. I am so recognizing for the Church and for a living prophet. I loved the general lecture! Mine I am consecrated to God once again. The mommy and we carry some classes for the next one ten weeks in manner that we can become some adopted parents. We should travel in the Month all of the Tuesday and Thursday evening until December. I want to know it than I have a deposition of this Gospel of Jesus Christ. I am so recognizing for her and the time she gives the Mister and the persons of Italy. Its service blesses our family beyond the measure. To thank the for the man she became and it thanked it for the example that she regulated for its brothers. So I am excited for this new child of the inside court to unite our family. All it loves here the Monson of name, therefore resembles to that would be able to be its name. It cannot await to damage the child. The thought that comes from a place where was with the our Savior and with Jesse and all the other grandfathers and the family that are passed across the veil. It knows that us and it its family chose to be us. So that saremo I am excited an eternal family. She has an address? We would love to seek on the Land of Google and it sees where she lives. And she can receive the mail there? That it is its food preferred in Italy? The tongue was difficult to learn? I should run for now, but I want to know it that the hook. The good day for now, the DadP. She could read this letter and was grammatically correct? Wow this did not turn out exactly like I had expected!!! HAHAHAHAAHH It is so funny!
Hal'a attempt to write Buddy a letter in Itailian
L'amo così molto. Come la sua missione va? La famiglia fa grande! I nostri sforzi di missionario vanno bene. Abbiamo dormito nel giardino poiché il tempo si è raffreddato. L'Emmett mi ha informato che non ha mai alzato una tenda prima. Sono un più sciolto o che? Ho ricevuto l'italiano il mio risparmia il tempo e ha piaciuto esso molto. Spero che lei può capire che dico. Sono così riconoscente per la Chiesa e per un profeta vivente. Ho amato la conferenza generale! Mie sono consacrato a Dio ancora una volta. La mamma e portiamo delle classi per il prossimo dieci settimane in modo che possiamo diventare dei genitori adottivi. Quando diventiamo dei genitori adottivi, ogni bambino ci pagherà un addizionale $1.600 dollari per il mese. Dobbiamo viaggiare nella Mesa tutti i martedì e giovedì sera fino a dicembre.
La voglio sapere che ho una testimonianza di questo Vangelo di Gesù Cristo. Sono così riconoscente per lei ed il tempo lei dà il Signore e le persone di Italia. Il suo servizio benedice la nostra famiglia oltre la misura. Ringraziarla per l'Uomo lei è diventato e l'ha ringraziata per l'esempio che lei ha regolato per suoi fratelli. Sono così eccitato per questo nuovo bambino della corte interna per unire la nostra famiglia. Tutti ama qui il Monson di nome, dunque somiglia a che potrebbe essere il suo nome. Non posso attendere di avariare il bambino. Il pensiero che viene da un luogo dove è stato col nostro Salvatore e con Jesse e tutti gli altri nonni e la famiglia che sono passati attraverso il velo. Sa che ci e ci ha scelti di essere la sua famiglia. Sono così eccitato che saremo una famiglia eterna.
Lei ha un indirizzo? Ameremmo cercare sulla Terra di Google e vede dove lei vive. E lei può ricevere la posta lì? Che è il suo cibo preferito in Italia? La lingua è stata difficile imparare? Devo correre per ora, ma la voglio sapere che l'amo. Il buono giorno per ora, il Babbo
P. Lei potrebbe leggere questa lettera ed era grammaticalmente corretto?
I am not sure this worked, but it was fun trying! I have had fun with this. Love you Son!Dad
La voglio sapere che ho una testimonianza di questo Vangelo di Gesù Cristo. Sono così riconoscente per lei ed il tempo lei dà il Signore e le persone di Italia. Il suo servizio benedice la nostra famiglia oltre la misura. Ringraziarla per l'Uomo lei è diventato e l'ha ringraziata per l'esempio che lei ha regolato per suoi fratelli. Sono così eccitato per questo nuovo bambino della corte interna per unire la nostra famiglia. Tutti ama qui il Monson di nome, dunque somiglia a che potrebbe essere il suo nome. Non posso attendere di avariare il bambino. Il pensiero che viene da un luogo dove è stato col nostro Salvatore e con Jesse e tutti gli altri nonni e la famiglia che sono passati attraverso il velo. Sa che ci e ci ha scelti di essere la sua famiglia. Sono così eccitato che saremo una famiglia eterna.
Lei ha un indirizzo? Ameremmo cercare sulla Terra di Google e vede dove lei vive. E lei può ricevere la posta lì? Che è il suo cibo preferito in Italia? La lingua è stata difficile imparare? Devo correre per ora, ma la voglio sapere che l'amo. Il buono giorno per ora, il Babbo
P. Lei potrebbe leggere questa lettera ed era grammaticalmente corretto?
I am not sure this worked, but it was fun trying! I have had fun with this. Love you Son!Dad
Answer to Dad's letter in Italian
Ciao Famiglia!
Hahaha that was so weird getting an email from you in Italian! How did you do it, google or something? I read the entire thing and completely understood all of it, in Italian that is. The English version didn't really make sense. Its incredible what reading the scriptures has done for me with the Italian. I would say its prob been the biggest help to personally in learning this beautiful language. Going from the ancient form of writing in the scriptures to reading normal letters and stuff like what you sent me has helped me to learn so much! I'm finally starting to get pretty comfortable with my speaking ability, and its getting more and more fun to teach and to interact with the people. Not that I've ever been shy before, its just now I'm starting to make sense to people when i talk to them, haha.
But anyways, Tia to answer your question, of course you can join the baptism-off! I hope you are all working hard cus its looking like we might have a few baptisms comin up! We have been working so very hard with our investigators and they are making some huge strides in their progress. I cant even describe the love i have for these people, its a different kind of love than I've ever felt. I don't know its hard to explain,like, all i want is for these people is to have success in their lives, all i want is for them to feel true happiness that comes in following the commandments, and want them to know their Father in Heaven and to know of the love that Christ has for them. It's incredible studying for them, praying with them and for them, and watching them grow in the Gospel and to see the light of the of the gospel come into their eyes and into their hearts. IT physically changes the appearance of people, its incredible. I have never found more joy or happiness in my life than now, serving the people of Italy.
The Lord is blessing us with success, and is definitely guiding this work. My companion and i have been trying some new things that have really been working. Instead of just going and doing "house" as we call it, (which is knocking door to door) we decided that we are going to do "house-teaching". SO instead of just ringing door bell after door bell for 3 hours we set a goal before we start off of how many houses we are going to get into and how many lessons we are going to teach, and also how many new investigators we are going to find. We then say a prayer and ask for guidance and then we're off. Before we started this new plan i had never gotten in doing house ever!!! And once i proposed this plan to my companion, we have gotten in over 25 houses this week and have found a full page and a half of potential investigators. We are now using this technique for all of our modes of finding work and have been having a blast! I'm so grateful for Heavenly Father guiding my companion and I, and blessing us with such wonderful people to work with. I know with out Him i am nothing.
We have also come up with a sweet new member program to get involved with the Ward and to get the members excited about missionary work. We had our first trial run on Monday night while doing a family night with the Giusti Family and it worked better than we could have ever wished for! I'm so pumped to start doing using it with all the other members of the ward! MEMBERS ARE THE KEY TO MISSIONARY SUCCESS!!!!!!!!!!! So for all you Members get to know your missionaries and HELP them, we cant do it alone and neither can you!
Anyways, the weather has been absolutely crazy here. We had a typhoon hit us here in Pescara the other night and it tore up the city pretty good, and it wasn't too nice to my umbrella either! haha yeah we got caught outside during the storm and ended up tracting the night away soaking wet and freezing cold, it even hailed for about an hour, but hey its always good weather for missionary work! SO how is the family doing? Everyone good? I miss you guys like crazy.
Bailey i love the name Monson for your boy, but i also like the name Lugard too. That's the name of one of our investigators, haha he's awesome.
Wait so you guys are adopting or fostering? And are they special needs kids or normal ? I want the details of whats up, that's so so so so COOL!
Oh no i just looked outside and its pouring rain and i totaly forgot my umbrella, it was sunny outside when we left the house. Mannagga!!!
Dad my favorite food by far is Arrostacini, its skewed lamb and I'm also in love with the pasta. haha last p day we did a bbq and my comp and i ate 2 kili of Arrostacini which is more than 4 pounds. hahaha and thats one of the reasons that my suits don't quite fit like they used too. I starting to regret the day i ever told you dad that i would never be fat... its impossible with the food they feed us here.
Our address is ( Via Stradonetto 207, Pescara Italia) Yes i can receive mail at the house but its way safer, and easier for me if you just send everything to the mission office address. Well, I love you all and hope to hear from you next week!
Love Anziano Koozerps- I need to pull some money out today I'm going to buy a study journal and some pens and maybe some marking pencils. thanks love ya!
Hahaha that was so weird getting an email from you in Italian! How did you do it, google or something? I read the entire thing and completely understood all of it, in Italian that is. The English version didn't really make sense. Its incredible what reading the scriptures has done for me with the Italian. I would say its prob been the biggest help to personally in learning this beautiful language. Going from the ancient form of writing in the scriptures to reading normal letters and stuff like what you sent me has helped me to learn so much! I'm finally starting to get pretty comfortable with my speaking ability, and its getting more and more fun to teach and to interact with the people. Not that I've ever been shy before, its just now I'm starting to make sense to people when i talk to them, haha.
But anyways, Tia to answer your question, of course you can join the baptism-off! I hope you are all working hard cus its looking like we might have a few baptisms comin up! We have been working so very hard with our investigators and they are making some huge strides in their progress. I cant even describe the love i have for these people, its a different kind of love than I've ever felt. I don't know its hard to explain,like, all i want is for these people is to have success in their lives, all i want is for them to feel true happiness that comes in following the commandments, and want them to know their Father in Heaven and to know of the love that Christ has for them. It's incredible studying for them, praying with them and for them, and watching them grow in the Gospel and to see the light of the of the gospel come into their eyes and into their hearts. IT physically changes the appearance of people, its incredible. I have never found more joy or happiness in my life than now, serving the people of Italy.
The Lord is blessing us with success, and is definitely guiding this work. My companion and i have been trying some new things that have really been working. Instead of just going and doing "house" as we call it, (which is knocking door to door) we decided that we are going to do "house-teaching". SO instead of just ringing door bell after door bell for 3 hours we set a goal before we start off of how many houses we are going to get into and how many lessons we are going to teach, and also how many new investigators we are going to find. We then say a prayer and ask for guidance and then we're off. Before we started this new plan i had never gotten in doing house ever!!! And once i proposed this plan to my companion, we have gotten in over 25 houses this week and have found a full page and a half of potential investigators. We are now using this technique for all of our modes of finding work and have been having a blast! I'm so grateful for Heavenly Father guiding my companion and I, and blessing us with such wonderful people to work with. I know with out Him i am nothing.
We have also come up with a sweet new member program to get involved with the Ward and to get the members excited about missionary work. We had our first trial run on Monday night while doing a family night with the Giusti Family and it worked better than we could have ever wished for! I'm so pumped to start doing using it with all the other members of the ward! MEMBERS ARE THE KEY TO MISSIONARY SUCCESS!!!!!!!!!!! So for all you Members get to know your missionaries and HELP them, we cant do it alone and neither can you!
Anyways, the weather has been absolutely crazy here. We had a typhoon hit us here in Pescara the other night and it tore up the city pretty good, and it wasn't too nice to my umbrella either! haha yeah we got caught outside during the storm and ended up tracting the night away soaking wet and freezing cold, it even hailed for about an hour, but hey its always good weather for missionary work! SO how is the family doing? Everyone good? I miss you guys like crazy.
Bailey i love the name Monson for your boy, but i also like the name Lugard too. That's the name of one of our investigators, haha he's awesome.
Wait so you guys are adopting or fostering? And are they special needs kids or normal ? I want the details of whats up, that's so so so so COOL!
Oh no i just looked outside and its pouring rain and i totaly forgot my umbrella, it was sunny outside when we left the house. Mannagga!!!
Dad my favorite food by far is Arrostacini, its skewed lamb and I'm also in love with the pasta. haha last p day we did a bbq and my comp and i ate 2 kili of Arrostacini which is more than 4 pounds. hahaha and thats one of the reasons that my suits don't quite fit like they used too. I starting to regret the day i ever told you dad that i would never be fat... its impossible with the food they feed us here.
Our address is ( Via Stradonetto 207, Pescara Italia) Yes i can receive mail at the house but its way safer, and easier for me if you just send everything to the mission office address. Well, I love you all and hope to hear from you next week!
Love Anziano Koozerps- I need to pull some money out today I'm going to buy a study journal and some pens and maybe some marking pencils. thanks love ya!
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Hey everyone!Did everyone LOVE conference? i know i did! We had the opportunity to watch it through satellite at our church building, although i didn't get to watch all of it cus we are i think like 8 hours ahead of you guys and so we missed the last Sunday session, and in was in and out with investigators through the sessions which was super distracting but i was able to watch a good portion of it and took some awesome notes. IT is absolutely incredible that we have a living prophet today who leads and guides the lords church. I definitely needed to hear the messages given! DAD holy cow! your police video was SOOOO sweet! haha you have to teach me how to do that when i get home!
And Cade, wow Props with the missionary work, seriously way to go!!! Emmett and Bailey i hope you 2 feel better soon, i love you! Hopefully you all wont get sick....
Well last night i survived another transfer call, i get to stay another 6 weeks here in Pescara. I guess i still haven't finished my work here, and the Lord has more people for me to find in this city. Now its just a matter of finding them! I'm super excited and pumped to start a new transfer. Its an opportunity to set new goals and reach for greater levels of success. MAN i love being a missionary!!!!! Anziano Daniels and i have had a great week and has been super duper busy. Haha we kinda been going crazy with the same routine so we are gonna try to spice things up this new transfer and try some new things with finding work and with working with members. Dad I now understand what you meant by saying that there are definitely betters ways of finding people than through tracking.
But hey family i was thinking and i want to challenge you guys to a "baptism-off". k, so here it is, with this next year and a half i want to challenge you guys to share the gospel with everyone you guys know and with all those you come in contact with and I'm of course gonna do the same. And the winner is who ever can baptise the most people. The winner will get prob the greatest prize that could ever be won, the satisfaction and knowledge that you were an instrument in bringing the happiness and light of the gospel into other peoples lives. I would say its a pretty fair match up the entire family vs Me. Yes it is what i will be doing every day all day but hey there are 7 of you all together. What do you say? Are you all up to the challenge? I want a response by next week from each of the members of the family of whether you are in or out. We have the greatest knowledge there is to have, and i think it would pretty selfish of us not to share it with those we love and respect. Well anyways i love you all and am so happy to hear from you guys, and will be looking forward to your response to the challenge by next week!
PS- Mom i would absolutely love an ipod! Its what all the other missionaries have, and I've seen a few different set ups. But the most common that I've seen is just a dock that charges the ipod. But i know that an ipod is super expensive and would be super super risky sending it in the mail. so i don't know wiring money is definitely the safest thing to do. But i don't know its up to you please don't stress about it I'm totally happy and fine without anything like that. I love just hearing from you all seeing pictures and stuff, so no worries.
Love ya!Anziano Koozer
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And Cade, wow Props with the missionary work, seriously way to go!!! Emmett and Bailey i hope you 2 feel better soon, i love you! Hopefully you all wont get sick....
Well last night i survived another transfer call, i get to stay another 6 weeks here in Pescara. I guess i still haven't finished my work here, and the Lord has more people for me to find in this city. Now its just a matter of finding them! I'm super excited and pumped to start a new transfer. Its an opportunity to set new goals and reach for greater levels of success. MAN i love being a missionary!!!!! Anziano Daniels and i have had a great week and has been super duper busy. Haha we kinda been going crazy with the same routine so we are gonna try to spice things up this new transfer and try some new things with finding work and with working with members. Dad I now understand what you meant by saying that there are definitely betters ways of finding people than through tracking.
But hey family i was thinking and i want to challenge you guys to a "baptism-off". k, so here it is, with this next year and a half i want to challenge you guys to share the gospel with everyone you guys know and with all those you come in contact with and I'm of course gonna do the same. And the winner is who ever can baptise the most people. The winner will get prob the greatest prize that could ever be won, the satisfaction and knowledge that you were an instrument in bringing the happiness and light of the gospel into other peoples lives. I would say its a pretty fair match up the entire family vs Me. Yes it is what i will be doing every day all day but hey there are 7 of you all together. What do you say? Are you all up to the challenge? I want a response by next week from each of the members of the family of whether you are in or out. We have the greatest knowledge there is to have, and i think it would pretty selfish of us not to share it with those we love and respect. Well anyways i love you all and am so happy to hear from you guys, and will be looking forward to your response to the challenge by next week!
PS- Mom i would absolutely love an ipod! Its what all the other missionaries have, and I've seen a few different set ups. But the most common that I've seen is just a dock that charges the ipod. But i know that an ipod is super expensive and would be super super risky sending it in the mail. so i don't know wiring money is definitely the safest thing to do. But i don't know its up to you please don't stress about it I'm totally happy and fine without anything like that. I love just hearing from you all seeing pictures and stuff, so no worries.
Love ya!Anziano Koozer
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