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