Hey everyone! Hope you all had a happy Thanksgiving! im
super jealous you went duck hunting without me but i'm glad you had a god time!
that's so crazy to hear that sammy is going to get married next march or april!
wow time really is flying i still remember when we were in the little kid
classes up in Aspen Grove utah playin night games with all the young kids haha.
Yea i actually did meet up with Adam ostergard twice already! Once when i was
getting transferred to La Spezia and all the missionaries went to Milan and then
another time when i went to the Firenze Conference last transfer. he seems like
a really fun guy! Lol mom you said you want pictures of my bike but here in La
Spezia we dont have bikes because it is such a small city. we just walk and
take public buses everywhere haha. And nope we arent seeing any effects from Mt
Etna erupting... i had no idea it even erupted lol. yea the sun is out ALL the
time. It is still so warm here in La Spezia some days but then at night the
temperature drops sooo much its crazy. But don't worry i don't need one of those
"substitute sun" lamp things for depression lol im doing great :)
So the work is going alright, it actually kind of just went
for a drop in the last week and a half. we lost that one investigator and we
had to drop a couple more because either they wouldnt ever answer us or they
never keep commitments and just arent wanting to make any progress. but
yesterday we found a non active member who's wife is a non member and they have
a 7 month old baby and they want to keep meeting with us. this non active
actually served a mission for the church and showed us all of his mission
pictures! he served in the dominican republic where he is from. So we are going
to work really hard with them trying to get him active again and his wife
hopefully into the baptismal waters where she belongs :)
Lol so the other week i had a super crazy experience. It was
a rainy day and for morning proselyting we decided to go to the boardwalk and
talk to the people there. But when we got there we saw that nobody was out
(probably because of the rain). So we decided to walk out onto the pier where
people sometimes fish whether it is raining or not but when we got there nobody
was there either. So we decided to go all the way to the end of this maybe 15
foot wide peir to see if anybody was down there that we could talk to. we
passed one guy that was sitting in his car probably waiting for the little
drizzle to stop and then begin fishing again but other than him nobody else was
there. so we got to the end and decided to turn around and go somewhere else to
find people. But right when we started to head back the wind picked up and the
rain started to really pour down on us. We were hoping it would stop soon but
it just got worse and WORSE. The wind was so strong that we had our umbrella's
completely perpendicular with the ground and the mist and rain from the ocean
right by us was still soaking our legs ankles and feet. The wind bent every rod
in both our umbrellas and completely broke them so they did us no good anymore.
and then we decided to just run to get off the pier because the wind was
seriously trying to blow us into the ocean. And as we were running anz. marin's
glasses flew off and were sliding toward the ocean so we both RAN for them and
saved them about 5 feet from the edge! I figured it was way to far to run all
the way from where we were on the pier to the beginning so i ran to get shelter
from a parked car and i whistled my loud whistle for anz marin to follow but he
couldnt hear because the wind and rain was so loud so i whistled again and that
time he heard. So he came and took shelter as well. Finally after about 3
loooooong minutes which seemed like forever the wind and rain faded away. So we
decided to get outta there asap lol. and as we were heading back we passed by
the guy sitting in his car about 10 yards away from us during the whole storm
just sipping on a hot chocolate and chilling in his nice warm air conditioned
car probably listening to some christmas carols while we on the otherhand were
getting our butts handed to us by this hurricane! lol it was INSANE you guys
would not even believe how crazy it was. INSANE. dont worry though mom im
totally fine, my suit took a couple days to dry out but its all good now
lol.
Well, thats my story of the week lol hope you liked it. see
you next time on "Crazy Adventures in the Life of a Missionary" ;)
Love ya guys!
Love, Anziano Delgado
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