"Tu sei la gomma, Io la matita. Ti prego di non cancelar mi dalla tua vita"
(You are the eraser of a pencil. Please don't erase me from your life)
Sometimes, graffiti is just too great to pass it by! =P
Ok, this week was my first week proselyting in the snow!! Exciting... kind of. Yesterday was the coldest day in southern Italy in the past 40 years. The humidity makes it so much worse!! It’s freezing but don’t worry we stay warm. This week we made another trip to Trani, only this time we went for the entire day (like 12 hours). We got so much work done it was great. Sadly the records we have are so old there are only a handful of old investigators/members who still live in the same house. But we’re going back this next Monday because there is still a lot to go through; I’m really looking forward to it. It’s such a beautiful city!
Anziano Miller got a pretty sweet package this week. There were homemade caramels! Pretty sweet huh?!
This week I broke a record: most lunch appointments in a week. We ate so much food, we have so much food, and I’m still full!! I really feel like the member’s think, "well I normally don’t make this much food but the Anziani are coming over and they eat a lot." This is great, if you haven't eaten with a member for a while... but I think they look at it like a game with us...but after a while, the game isn't fun anymore. We passed by the family De Feo on Sunday because the kids were sick and only Sorella De Feo came.
Now it is literally impossible to meet with Fratello De Feo just because he works like 18 hours every day, every day of the week. But we went and saw the family and said hi and she ended up making us orzo (a drink from barley, like hot chocolate that’s really good!) and croissants and then she gave us Pepsi, cake, milk, bread, and more croissants. She’s really a great sister and Michele and Raphael are always through the roof.
I got a nice letter from Angie this week; it's so great to hear from family!
Being District leader isn't too much of a change from normal missionary life. Only now I need to prepare training for every Monday and collect numbers on Sunday nights. Other than that just to make sure everyone in the district is doing well and doing work. But I couldn’t be in a better district they are all great missionaries. The problem with Anziano Pedreira's eye was really strange. He had a problem where basically the perfect circle of the eye wasn’t perfect anymore. They said it's something that takes like 20 years to happen but for him it happened in 5 days. All he needs to do is wear a contact lens in the eye. Pretty simple.
That’s sweet your growing wheat grass and sprouts and tomatoes. I'm growing basil (a MUST!), onions, and I’m trying to grow garlic. Something that a lot of Americans do that really hurts the flavor of tomatoes is they put them in the fridge. Just a tip maybe it will help you.
The smokers and Maria are doing all right. I don’t know why but here it is really hard to see people more than once a week. So their progress is pretty slow but there is progress.
Sara, how’s the soccer practice going? Soccer season is about to start right? How’s your ball handling?
Mattie, mom said you’re going to do a volleyball camp that’s sweet!
You guys need to take more pictures and send them to me!!!
I love you all and I wish everyone a happy valentine’s day. I pray for you all the time.
Vi Amo,
Anziano Stewart
"Tu sei la gomma, Io la mattita. Ti prego di non cancelarmi dalla tua vita"
Sometimes, graffiti is just too great to pass it by! =P
Ok, this week was my first week proselyting in the snow!! Exciting... kind of. Yesterday was the coldest day in southern Italy in the past 40 years. The humidity makes it so much worse!! It’s freezing but don’t worry we stay warm. This week we made another trip to Trani, only this time we went for the entire day (like 12 hours). We got so much work done it was great. Sadly the records we have are so old there are only a handful of old investigators/members who still live in the same house. But we’re going back this next Monday because there is still a lot to go through; I’m really looking forward to it. It’s such a beautiful city!
Anziano Miller got a pretty sweet package this week. There were homemade caramels! Pretty sweet huh?!
This week I broke a record: most lunch appointments in a week. We ate so much food, we have so much food, and I’m still full!! I really feel like the member’s think, "well I normally don’t make this much food but the Anziani are coming over and they eat a lot." This is great, if you haven't eaten with a member for a while... but I think they look at it like a game with us...but after a while, the game isn't fun anymore. We passed by the family De Feo on Sunday because the kids were sick and only Sorella De Feo came.
Now it is literally impossible to meet with Fratello De Feo just because he works like 18 hours every day, every day of the week. But we went and saw the family and said hi and she ended up making us orzo (a drink from barley, like hot chocolate that’s really good!) and croissants and then she gave us Pepsi, cake, milk, bread, and more croissants. She’s really a great sister and Michele and Raphael are always through the roof.
I got a nice letter from Angie this week; it's so great to hear from family!
Being District leader isn't too much of a change from normal missionary life. Only now I need to prepare training for every Monday and collect numbers on Sunday nights. Other than that just to make sure everyone in the district is doing well and doing work. But I couldn’t be in a better district they are all great missionaries. The problem with Anziano Pedreira's eye was really strange. He had a problem where basically the perfect circle of the eye wasn’t perfect anymore. They said it's something that takes like 20 years to happen but for him it happened in 5 days. All he needs to do is wear a contact lens in the eye. Pretty simple.
That’s sweet your growing wheat grass and sprouts and tomatoes. I'm growing basil (a MUST!), onions, and I’m trying to grow garlic. Something that a lot of Americans do that really hurts the flavor of tomatoes is they put them in the fridge. Just a tip maybe it will help you.
The smokers and Maria are doing all right. I don’t know why but here it is really hard to see people more than once a week. So their progress is pretty slow but there is progress.
Sara, how’s the soccer practice going? Soccer season is about to start right? How’s your ball handling?
Mattie, mom said you’re going to do a volleyball camp that’s sweet!
You guys need to take more pictures and send them to me!!!
I love you all and I wish everyone a happy valentine’s day. I pray for you all the time.
Vi Amo,
Anziano Stewart
No comments:
Post a Comment