Ok, first, thank you all for your letters! They were great!! All I got out of Mattie’s letter is that she's
a very sick person... oh, and that Abby got her wisdom teeth out. =) This is so
great! I'm very grateful for you all and the examples that you are and the
support that you give. You're the best, I couldn't ask for a better
family.
Man, things are really changing there! Almost everyone's going
on a mission, and everyone else is getting married. Ha, ha that is so cool
that Lyss has put in her papers! Let me know where she ends up going. I didn't know that Grandma and Grandpa were
thinking about going on a mission! That is so cool. It kind of
stinks because if they leave when school gets out I won't see them for another
couple of years but it's worth it! =)
So my new comp is Anziano Walker. He's from the Los Angeles
area. He's adjusting to this crazy, amazing life pretty well. The
first couple of days were kind of rough but that's normal. The first days
you're jet lagged, exhausted, confused, you don't understand anything everyone
says, and you usually get down on yourself because you want to do all you can
to be the best you can but you're lucky if you get a couple of sentences
out. But he's great. He's having a little trouble with the language but
it's not his fault, it's because here people speak 1/2 Italian, 1/2 Siciliano. He also has a sister that's serving in
Germany, sadly not the Frankfurt mission, she's in Berlin.
As far as Nicole and Pina, things are going great, more or less.
With Nicole things couldn't be better, the interview went perfectly, and
now we're preparing for the baptism on Saturday! She's so cute!! I'll
make sure to send some pictures next week. I find it very fortunate that
on the week of Thanksgiving we have a baptism. (It wasn't planned; no one here
knows or cares about Thanksgiving Day) Tender mercy.
With Pina, things are going a little less well, but there is still
hope. In Latin there is a saying that hope is the last to die. =) Her addiction
to smoking is very strong. She wants to be baptized but there's that
little part of her that is holding back and that is what keeps messing us up...
But we're hoping to have a nice powerful lesson with her tomorrow in
church that hopefully will put everything into perspective for her and we can
get going at 100%
Well family, I need to go... sadly. Know that I love you
and that I can't wait to see you at Christmas!! Let me know how
Thanksgiving goes, and say hello to everyone for me.
VVB
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"Look inside yourself, you're more than what you've become.
Remember who you are." The Lion King
Anziano Stewart
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