The Mish!
Hey everyone! It is so good to hear from all of you! Its
crazy to think that a week has already gone by since the last time i was
emailing you, time is seriously flying! well Im really glad to hear that all is
going well but im a little bummed that they didnt get to finish the mcdonads
two drive-thru lines while i was there haha. thanks dad and mom for your emails
i loved them both so much! I especially liked all the pictures that you guys
sent me, keep sending more if you get the chance to take some!! Dallin
and Missy i hope you both do really well in school and work hard like i ALWAYS
did ;) remember, C's get degrees! hahah just messin. Hey Matt im not sure if
you are going to go to school or not but im sure whatever you do is the right
thing for you, keep up the hard work at dad's office if you stay home and if
you go to school, kill it! I'm really sad to hear about granna i hope she is
doing well and she will definitely be in my prayers. Dallin i hear you are
playing defense in soccer now, thats pretty awesome little man! they put all
the big kids on defense because they are the toughest players on the field!
Keep up the good work D! And good job with keeping the family on task with FHE
Missy :) i heard you did a GREAT JOB in YW! like for real tho thats awesome im
so proud of you sis. your such a strong girl and i wish i were as solid of a
kid as you when i was your age. you are all so dear to my heart and i love
hearing about all the wonderful things you are accomplishing!
Ok, so this week has been another fantastic week! Thursday
we had New Missionary Training with our District and President and Sister Dibb.
It was for the most part a recap about the rules and how we can recieve the
most blessings by respecting and obeying them. i guess now if we have a lady
investigator that we are teaching and their are sisters in our area then
we pass the investigator over to the sisters. and same goes for them if they
find any male investigators. at first i didnt totally agree with it but now
thinking about it it really would take out any of the what-if scenarios since
we are limited as men or women to be around the opposite sex without others
present. but also people of the same gender might be able to connect more so
thats also another upside. its actually pretty genious what president dibb did
so i am really excited to see what comes out of it! of course ill have to wait
till my next transer though becuase there are no sisters serving in Brescia.
Friday didn't go as great as was expected. we had three lessons planned, one
with a new investigator, one with a less-active member, and one with another
investigator. Oh by the way sorry i am not allowed to say any names of my
investigators or really anything about them other than their progress...
sorrryy :/ but for our first lesson the lady never showed up and wouldnt answer
the phone and our second lesson with the meno attivo member started late
because he showed up like 30 minutes late. it was a really good lesson though
so that made me a lot happier. but we were starting to cut into the third
lessons time and this time we had to go to the man's house. so we called him to
tel him that we would be a little later and he had to cancel because he had
things planned for later. so to say the least i was pretty bummed. Saturday
however was really good! we went to the saturday shop in central and i got
dallin a really cool italia t shirt so im going to mail that soon! and
afterward we went to have pranzo (lunch) at a members house. It was a 28 year
old girl and her mom who invited us over. they were both super fun and
outgoing. they are from the Ukraine and speak italian and somewhat english so i
wasn't completely out of the loop ha. the food was pretty good, it was rice
with mushrooms stuffed in bellpeppers. and then some meat patties, fruits, and
for desert we always have gelato from the members. oh my goodness the
strawberry gelato is BOMB! im really starting to expand my stomach because i
dont want to be rude and not eat a lot of food. also because dinner isnt really
that big of a meal in italy, the european diet is pretty weird but i kinda like
it at the same time because i wont get as fat haha. after we ate we had a
little lesson with them about service out of the "Liahona" book which
was really good and we might get a referal from tonya the 28 year old that has
a friend that might be interested. after pranzo we had a lesson with one of our
investigators, a different one than before, and we talked to him about the
gospel of christ which is, faith, repentance, baptism, confrimation/recieving
the holy ghost, and perservering to the end. i really bore my sole to
himi about the importance of going to church and by doing so we are showing our
faith in Christ and Heavenly Father. he is a tough on but we'll get him :)
after that we met with a less active member who welcomed us in and offered us
drinks and we gave her a little lesson about service as well.
Sunday was awesome! unfortunately we only had one
investigator out of the 4 that we invited that came, which was really sad, but
its alright becuase this lady is SOLID. she is from ghana, is 25, and is
christian and loves reading in the bible and she had the coolest story of how
she found out about our church. while i was talking to her waiting for
sacrament to start she told me that when she came to italy she stopped going to
church for about 7 years. and one day it just hit her that she really needed to
start going to church again. so she went to a catholic church and a christian
church but each time she went she really felt like it wasnt a good experience
and she didnt feel comfortable in them. so one day her lds friend told her
about the mormon church and invited her to check it out. so she checked online
but couldnt find any church near where she lived. that night she had a dream
that she saw our church and she was really excited to go in and had a really
strong feeling that she needed to go. and when she woke up the same feeling was
overwhelming her. so she found one near her and went to it sunday and now here
i am talking to her. i was so speechless and had the goosbumps for the longest
time it was insane. we talked a little more about the church and she said she
had a really great feeling talking to me and wanted to have lessons with me and
anziano allen. when sacrament started i told her how this meeting was a little
different than the other ones because its the first sunday of the month and
people have the opportunity to share their feelings and thoughts as to how the
church has helped them and bare their testimonies about things that they know
have recieved an answer from God that it is true. after about the 3rd or 4th
person there was a long pause so i just stood up haha i dont even know what
compelled me to do it then but i did. i bore my testimony that i know that this
church, the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is true. i bore my
testimony jesus christ and his atonement and how we can be saved through it. i
bore my testimony that i know that joseph smith was called as a prophet from
God and how he translated the book of mormon through the authority the
priesthood of God which i bare. i bore my testimony that the Book of Mormon is
true and that it is the Word of God.
After i closed and sat down the new investigator looked over
at me and with a big grin said "i thought you said you couldn't speak
italian! that was great!" hahaha she was totally thrown off as to how i
could speak like that for only being out 2 weeks. i didnt mention the 6 weeks
in the mtc tho lol... oooops :) but anyways, im super stoked to teach her, i
cant wait! so monday was awesome as well! i was in the metro with anziano allen
and a Ukranian couple, but speak italian as well, probably in their 30's sit
down next to us and ask us, if we teach english class which we do every
wednesday for free. we gave them the information on the back of a hand along
card lol. they asked us what it was and we told them we are volunteers for our
church (by the way this mostly just anziano allen talking since i can still
hardly speak the language ha). we got into a LONG convo about the gospel and
went waayyy far from the place we were supposed to get off but its ok because
we have monthly passes so we can just ride it for fun if we really wanted to
lol. but the man was super interested and wants a russion copy of the BoM when
we meet them today at the english class. so i cant wait till we go see them
tonight! and then yesterday we were getting onto the metro and an older italian
man in his mid 80's walked up to me and pointed at my name tag and read it out
loud. he started saying how he is catholic but also feels like he is christian
as well or something like that haha i couldnt really understand. so anziano
allen came into the convo and we started to talk about our faith. he said he
has never heard of our faith but has always been interested in learning more.
so we had a full on lesson about the restoration and first vision. and talked a
little about joseph smith. he was super interested but he is having some
problems with his wife and thigs at home so he probably wont be able to meet
till september. but we are going to bring him by a BoM anyway since he gave us
his address and phone number and all that jazz. its so cool though how God
prepares people to be taught. so many miracles have been happening and its only
the second week! i love it!
Well, thats pretty much it! pretty boring life right ;) i
love you all so much and tell granna ill be praying for her! love you all so
much, and cant wait to hear from you next week! oh and next week im going to
Lecco! IM TOTALLY STOKED TO THE MAX ABOUT IT!!! (sorry, inside
joke haha). ciao!
-Anziano Delgado
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