Ciao tutti,
Hey thank you so much for the awesome pictures you sent me I loved getting to see the family and all the fun stuff you guys are doing! Everyone is changing so much, its crazy to see the little boys not being so little anymore. Cade is a beast now, Dane is my mini me, and Emmett is growing up so fast, he looks like one of the big boys now.
That snow looked like so much fun to play in, just wait till you all see my snow pictures of Florence that I'm sending. Which by the way I scratched the package idea... I'm just gonna send a bunch of manila envelopes, you would be surprised to see what you can fit in one of those things! Italy's mail system is quite interesting to say the least....SO I'll just slap a 60 cent stamp on there and stuff it in the mail box and you should get it no problem.
It wasn't a super exciting week this week. It was a lot of just street contacting and teaching. nothing really out of the ordinary... Our investigators are doing good we're not quite ready for any baptisms that's for sure but people are progressing and the work is going forward.
Its been really cold lately, and has been raining almost every day. I'm ready for some SUNSHINE! Well that's about it for today, I love you all so much and hope to hear from you next week!
Love, Anziano Koozer
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Ciao Tutti,
Hey everyone I hope your all doing great! Cade it sounds like you did a great job with your talk in church, dude you totally should have flexed though! I would have done it back in the day but not any more I'm totally fat now... the members feed us way too much pasta haha.
I hope the flu passes quickly for you all, the Lord sure blesses us missionaries and keeps us strong and healthy. I haven't had any health problems yet and I'm doing all I can to stay strong.
It sounds like the ward is changing quite a bit, by the time i get home I'm not going to recognize anyone from the ward. I'm sure gonna miss the Greer's hopefully they don't move too far away...
Dad I know your B-day is coming up soon so I'm gonna be sending you all a package to cover everyone B-days and holidays for the year, it will be way easier that way especially since I'm in Florence with the markets and everything.
Well I had a great week this week, we had a lot of fun. This last week our apartment had a finding competition where all the church resources we handed out were worth a certain amount of points and so were new investigators and phone numbers we received. Lets just say things got pretty heated in the competition especially since you all know how much a hate losing. The losers had to buy a pizza for the winning companionship and got bragging rights. For all of you who don't know, finding work in Italy is tough.....REALLY REALLY TOUGH, like i would say a week of football camp is easier than a week of looking for new investigators in the streets of Italy. With that said here are the combined numbers that our 2 companionship's pulled in for the week; we received 57 phone numbers and addresses, we gave out 82 copies of the Book of Mormon, and well over 100 pamphlets. IT came down to the last night and unfortunately the other companionship beat us.....which i was kinda bitter about.
Reporting these numbers to the Zone leaders we were informed that we had set the all time mission high for the entire mission with the numbers we had! Monday was Zone conference and were asked to stand up and tell everyone what happened. It was so cool we talked about true potential and finding the fire within, it was sweet!
On Sunday I too had give a talk in sacrament, and I spoke on repentance. All went really well and my Italian wasn't too terrible either. I'm sure grateful to my companion for being so patient with me and helping me soo much , he's really helping me take it to the next level.
So far this week we have just been setting appointments with all the people we contacted from last week and are re cooping for next week cus we are challenging the other district and the zone leaders and the sisters to the finding competition, there are 4 of us against the 8 of them and we are totally gonna kick their trash! haha!
I'm totally jealous your all going up to the Pinedale, I really miss going on family trips up to the cabins and to Riverbend. But time really is flying and i know my time is short here and so I'm taking advantage of every second. I love you all and look forward to hearing from you all next week!
PS- Good luck with the baby shower! Hurray for Monson!
Love Anziano Koozer
Hey everyone I hope your all doing great! Cade it sounds like you did a great job with your talk in church, dude you totally should have flexed though! I would have done it back in the day but not any more I'm totally fat now... the members feed us way too much pasta haha.
I hope the flu passes quickly for you all, the Lord sure blesses us missionaries and keeps us strong and healthy. I haven't had any health problems yet and I'm doing all I can to stay strong.
It sounds like the ward is changing quite a bit, by the time i get home I'm not going to recognize anyone from the ward. I'm sure gonna miss the Greer's hopefully they don't move too far away...
Dad I know your B-day is coming up soon so I'm gonna be sending you all a package to cover everyone B-days and holidays for the year, it will be way easier that way especially since I'm in Florence with the markets and everything.
Well I had a great week this week, we had a lot of fun. This last week our apartment had a finding competition where all the church resources we handed out were worth a certain amount of points and so were new investigators and phone numbers we received. Lets just say things got pretty heated in the competition especially since you all know how much a hate losing. The losers had to buy a pizza for the winning companionship and got bragging rights. For all of you who don't know, finding work in Italy is tough.....REALLY REALLY TOUGH, like i would say a week of football camp is easier than a week of looking for new investigators in the streets of Italy. With that said here are the combined numbers that our 2 companionship's pulled in for the week; we received 57 phone numbers and addresses, we gave out 82 copies of the Book of Mormon, and well over 100 pamphlets. IT came down to the last night and unfortunately the other companionship beat us.....which i was kinda bitter about.
Reporting these numbers to the Zone leaders we were informed that we had set the all time mission high for the entire mission with the numbers we had! Monday was Zone conference and were asked to stand up and tell everyone what happened. It was so cool we talked about true potential and finding the fire within, it was sweet!
On Sunday I too had give a talk in sacrament, and I spoke on repentance. All went really well and my Italian wasn't too terrible either. I'm sure grateful to my companion for being so patient with me and helping me soo much , he's really helping me take it to the next level.
So far this week we have just been setting appointments with all the people we contacted from last week and are re cooping for next week cus we are challenging the other district and the zone leaders and the sisters to the finding competition, there are 4 of us against the 8 of them and we are totally gonna kick their trash! haha!
I'm totally jealous your all going up to the Pinedale, I really miss going on family trips up to the cabins and to Riverbend. But time really is flying and i know my time is short here and so I'm taking advantage of every second. I love you all and look forward to hearing from you all next week!
PS- Good luck with the baby shower! Hurray for Monson!
Love Anziano Koozer
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
New Years in Italy is Nuts!
Hey everyone!
Thank you so much for your emails this week, it was so great hearing from you all. It sounds like your all super busy and having so much fun! ha ha no worries with missing email last week mom its totally fine.
So DAD wrote an autobiography? I WANT ONE! Send it to me for my birthday along with peanut butter and beef jerky.
I haven't done any shopping in the markets yet Iwas gonna wait a week or two and gets some more pictures of stuff and wait till all the party season is over cus Italy is still on Holiday and its a pain trying to get around with all the messed up bus schedules and with everything closed. So I'll prob put something together in a few weeks.
I'm so excited for Bailey and for the baby from what I hear from Tia its gonna be a SWEEEET baby shower!!! Its good Cade is getting his Eagle together he'll be so glad when its done. Emmett thanks for emailing me it sounds like your doing awesome keep working hard ciccio! Dad isn't that book so good? I read it in Italian and it is awesome! I learned so much!
Well this week was pretty low key... We had to stay in our apartment new years eve and new years cus its dangerous to be out and they don't want us getting in trouble. Italian New Years parties are absolutely nuts, it was like a war Zone looking off our balcony cus anyone can buy the huge fire woks we watch as shows from far away and they light them off in the middle of the streets and wherever they want. Its complete madness..... Then a few days ago my comp rolled his ankle playing basket ball and it swelled up the size of a softball and turned black and purple so our finding work lately has consisted of sitting on buses and trains talking to people, which actually hasn't been bad at all we have been seeing quite a bit of success.
With the new years we have all started new goals and one of the main ones is trying to get unfat... so Ive been nominated by the apartment to be the district trainer. So Ive put everyone on a strict new diet and exercise plan and things have been going great. I also tried doing my 40 day English fast and broke after 2 days.....My comp and I were ready to kill each other due to lack of communication and misunderstanding hahaha so now we just are speaking Italian out of the house and during our hour of language study. Our investigators are doing awesome we have been having some really fun lessons. Well my times about up so I need to go but I love you all and will talk to you all next week!!!!
Thank you so much for your emails this week, it was so great hearing from you all. It sounds like your all super busy and having so much fun! ha ha no worries with missing email last week mom its totally fine.
So DAD wrote an autobiography? I WANT ONE! Send it to me for my birthday along with peanut butter and beef jerky.
I haven't done any shopping in the markets yet Iwas gonna wait a week or two and gets some more pictures of stuff and wait till all the party season is over cus Italy is still on Holiday and its a pain trying to get around with all the messed up bus schedules and with everything closed. So I'll prob put something together in a few weeks.
I'm so excited for Bailey and for the baby from what I hear from Tia its gonna be a SWEEEET baby shower!!! Its good Cade is getting his Eagle together he'll be so glad when its done. Emmett thanks for emailing me it sounds like your doing awesome keep working hard ciccio! Dad isn't that book so good? I read it in Italian and it is awesome! I learned so much!
Well this week was pretty low key... We had to stay in our apartment new years eve and new years cus its dangerous to be out and they don't want us getting in trouble. Italian New Years parties are absolutely nuts, it was like a war Zone looking off our balcony cus anyone can buy the huge fire woks we watch as shows from far away and they light them off in the middle of the streets and wherever they want. Its complete madness..... Then a few days ago my comp rolled his ankle playing basket ball and it swelled up the size of a softball and turned black and purple so our finding work lately has consisted of sitting on buses and trains talking to people, which actually hasn't been bad at all we have been seeing quite a bit of success.
With the new years we have all started new goals and one of the main ones is trying to get unfat... so Ive been nominated by the apartment to be the district trainer. So Ive put everyone on a strict new diet and exercise plan and things have been going great. I also tried doing my 40 day English fast and broke after 2 days.....My comp and I were ready to kill each other due to lack of communication and misunderstanding hahaha so now we just are speaking Italian out of the house and during our hour of language study. Our investigators are doing awesome we have been having some really fun lessons. Well my times about up so I need to go but I love you all and will talk to you all next week!!!!
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