June 18, 2014

Buon giorno, cara famiglia!

Well this week has been soooo great! The end of last week we had a great sunday sacrament meeting and great classes following it. The main topic was about choices and how important it is to use our free agency to choose the right. There was a talk from an apostle quite some time ago that a member mentioned that says something like "Everything that we sacrifice to give to god was never really ours to begin with, it was always his. The only thing that we can really give up that truly belongs to us is our free agency. When we decide to not do our will but to completely give ourselves to the Lord then we are really giving something to him. And when we do that there will not be enough space for all of the blessings that will come our way. " Im pretty sure the talk went something like that lol. How great is that though? i absolutely love it :)

Well this week like i said was great. We did exchanges with the Zone leaders and i did mine with Anziano Ostergar! He is the funniest and coolest guy in the world. We had such a great time and in the first hour of finding work in a park we had 4 lessons and one of them was a member present lesson (as we were talking to to guys about our age a member walked up and started in the conversation and told them how they should really listen to our message and invite us over to their house lol it was so great)! We had such a great time and i really hope i get to serve with him sometime during the mission, i think we could do really well together.

Well yesterday we had a really crazy miracle! We got 4 new investigators in one day!!! We were walking back from the park to our house after a little bit of proseliting and we decided to stop on last guy as we were about 50 yards from our front door. We talked to him about the book of mormon and had him read the moroni 10: 4,5 scripture. he really liked it and invited us to his apartment which was about 10 steps away from where we stopped him haha. we walked in the house and there were to other people, a guy and a girl both about the same age as the man we stopped (25-28 years old). They are all from the dominican republic but have lived in svizzera for 15 to 20 years so they speak italian perfectly. They are all pretty religious and go to church. We talked to them a little bit more about the book of mormon and joseph smith restoring the true church on the earth. the really were interested in reading the BoM so we left them with 2 copies (since we only had 2 at the time) and a prayer before we left.

We also set another appointment to see them friday so i am so excited for that! Then later that night we ran into another man that we had had a lesson with the week before at the park and we talked to him a little, he said he went online on our website and read about our church and joseph smith and thought it was very interesting. we talked to him a little bit more about what he read and then had a little prayer with him and set up an appointment for next week! It was such a great day full of miracles! So then we decided that we had to celebrate by getting a couple of gelato's :)

So that was my week! is was pretty great :) unfortunately im not able to watch any of the world cup but i hear about it everywhere we go haha so at least i stay updated! well i hope you all are having a great time back in the states, i love you guys and pray for you often

:) Vi voglio bene! Ciao!

-Anziano Delgado

June 11, 2014

Ciao Tutti!

Well this week we had a lot of up's and down's. This week the weather and allergies have really been killing me. I got sick with a pretty sore throat and then the allergies really didnt help at all so it was kinda tough ha. Im feeling a lot better today though so things should be getting a lot better now :) Also, our really good investigator just informed us that her dog Suma (who is pretty much her only child) might have to be put down because she has epilespy and could possibly have cancer in the brain as well..... very sad. So she is SUPER upset and depressed right now because that dog means the world to her. I just really hope that everything turns out okay.

The up's were that we talked to A LOT of people, got some numbers and had some really good lessons and even a couple return appointments to teach them again. We also have come up with a couple new ideas for finding new (and hopefully more promising) investigators so i am very excited to see how it will turn out!

Okay well sorry for the short email next week hopefully ill have a little more time to write :) Love you guys, talk to you soon! :) Ciao!

June 4, 2014

FAST WEEK

Ciao Cari!

Well im doing great here in Switzerland, the weather is perfect and the people are great! This week really flew by quick though, i feel like every week seems a little shorter than the last! Well this week my companion and i got quite a bit of work done here in Lugano. We found another investigator, and we are really excited to meet with her and her husband who are both catholic but are really interested in our message :) Our most progressing investigator is still doing really well, she wasnt able to come to church this sunday but we are meeting with her tomorrow and she is really excited to learn more so we are super happy about that! We are still focusing on doing member work so we might start doing more member exchanges and do proseliting or door to door with them and try to get them a little more involved this month. This month is also "invite month" so we are trying to get all the members to invite a friend or someone they know to come to church so i am really excited to see how this month will go!

My companion and i are having a great time! He was born in Rome, and then moved to Pescara when he was 8 and he has the coolest dialect ive ever heard haha. He actually speaks english really well but he wants to be a lot better so he will speak in english 24/7 while i speak italian 24/7 ha. its a weird mix but we are both improving a lot so im happy with it :)

Well i still dont have any pictures for you guys because of some computer issues. so im not sure when ill be able to send you pictures but ill get them to you as soon as i can :)

Vi voglio benissimo, tutti quanti! Statemi bene! Ciao ciao :)

-Anziano Delgado

May 28, 2014

GREAT WEEK!

Buon giorno cari miei!

Well this week has been AMAZING! This sunday i gave my talk about Small and Simple things which went really well, i was super relieved ha. Also, my companion and i are really getting a lot of work done here in Lugano! We have already found 4 new investigators, 5 numbers from people we met on the street and had a lesson/prayer with, and we have been having a ton of lessons :) We really are working hard and having a great time doing it. These past two weeks we have decided not to use public transport and instead we are just walking everywhere we need to go (unless its outside of the city of Lugano of course) and talking to the people we pass. I've never been so tired in my life haha but i am so pleased with our outcome that i cant stop working and somehow i always end up finding the strength to push on no matter how tired i get.

Also, I am having a great time with my companion Anziano Salvatori! He is a really hard worker and an amazing missionary. Our situation is pretty funny though haha. He really wants to learn english and i want to learn Italian, so he is always speaking in English and i am always speaking in Italian when we are outside of the house lol. i bet it is really weird for the people we pass on the street but we get a big kick out of it ha.

Ok well i better get going, thanks for all of the emails, love you guys! Ciao caio!

Much Love,

Anziano Delgado