December 17, 2014 - Baptism on the 20th!

Hey everyone!

Well this week went by super fast! My new companion is Anziano Shepard and he is from Duchesne Utah. He is a really great missionary and we get along VERY well! He played high school football and his team won state championship 3 times in a row! crazy right?! We also moved back into the apartment with the zone leaders Anziano Jensen from Idaho Falls, Idaho and Anziano Peterborg from Idaho as well but i'm not sure what city ha. We have are having a great time and are doing a lot of good work here in Bologna!

Well I have some CRAZY news to tell you guys but you might have already heard... Sister D'ambrosio (Madeline's really good friend) is serving here in Bologna and is in my district!!! How insane/weird is that?! We talked over the phone since she and her companion took over the apartment and area in which i just served in last transfer and so i was helping them out get around and what not and when i told her my name she asked if i remembered who she was and said that she was good friends with madeline from back home. I had no idea which one she was because madeline has a ton of friends but then later that night when we all went to teach English class she ran up to us and was all excited and said, "STEV... i mean Anziano Delgado!!". haha i totally recognized her and was SOOO thrown off haha it was crazy for me. And then she was like, "i just saw your mom like 3 months ago!! She is so sweet!!!" hahaha i was pretty caught off guard to say the least. So yea she is serving here in Bologna and we are having a good time. 

Yesterday we just had the baptismal interview for Sara and everything went great! She will be baptized this Saturday right before the Christmas party so there should be a lot of people there :) Also, she asked if i could be the one to baptize her! I'm so excited for her and her mom they are so great! Even though she is so little she has such a feel for spiritual things whereas when i was her age i just went through the motions. She is such a funny girl and i am so happy for her and her mom :) I'll send you guys some pictures of the baptism next Wednesday :)

So everything is going great here in Bologna as you can see. We did have to give up some of the people we were meeting and teaching to the sisters since they are females but that's alright the sisters are already doing such a great job here in the first week! Also one of the ladies that we passed a few days ago came to church this Sunday and brought her non-member husband!! It was so good to see her and him together in sacrament, the husband said he had a really good time and looks forward to coming next week :)

Okay well X-mas is coming up soon and i can't wait to see you guys! i am pretty sure i will be at the house of our ward mission leader and his wife who is American. I am still unsure of what time we will be there but im guessing it will be around 3ish our time. I will let you know more details next Wednesday just to confirm. 

I absolutely love this work and i know that i could never do it without the help of the lord. I love Christmas time because it helps everyone remember their savior and redeemer Christ and helps them think a little bit less about themselves and a little more about others. Christ really was and is the perfect example of love and my Christmas wish this year is that i and you all can really show our love for Christ by loving and giving charity to the ones around us. "When we are in the service of our fellow beings we are only in the service of our God" :) I love you all very much and can't wait to see your wonderful faces next week!!! Ciao!

 -Anziano Delgado

December 10, 2014

TRANSFER CALLS! 

I am staying for another!!! YESSSSS! :)))

Okay so the most unexpected thing happened to us. Remember last transfer how i lived with the other anziani and we were in 4 in the other apartment? Yea, well 2 more sisters are coming to bologna and kicking us out of the apartment that we just moved into and we are moving BACK in with the other 2 anziani hahaha. I have packed my bags 3 times now and i haven't left bologna xp

No i am actually super excited for this transfer i like living in 4 it has god perks and it is much more exciting and fun :) HOWEVER, my companion Anziano Bingham is getting TRANSFERED! Crazy right?! This will be my third companion in 3 transfers! crazy! His name is anziano Shepherd... i don't really know him but he is about 2 or 3 transfers under me and apparently he is a really cool guy so that is good!

So if you still have the address of my last apartment then perfect, if not then here it is just to make sure...

Via Giovanni Brugnoli, 11

40122 BO
Italia

So yea very crazy transfers this time around, i was not expecting that ha. The only down part is that all but one of our contacts are females which will have to be passed to the sisters when they get here thursday. Little Sara will still be ours to teach though since she only needs two more lessons before she can be interviewed for her baptism which as of now will take place on the 20th!

 Ok so today for pday a less-active member, Fratello Mantovani, took us to a place called "The Motor Show". IT WAS AWESOME!!!! We got to see so many different kind of cars it was amazing. We got to ride in a race car simulator which was really fun haha almost like a rollercoaster, we road in some cool test driving cars that took us drifting around some obsticles which was SWEET, we ate at a VERY good but VERY expensive restaurant and then we got to watch a bunch of souped up cars race each other around a drifting course and we were right next to the action! I took some really cool pictures and even cooler videos that i will have to send to you next week when i bring the cable to hook up to the computer! Unfortunately this computer wont let me send you the videos (I have already tried a bunch of times in the past) so i'll just send you the photos. And then tonight after i finish writing you guys Sara and her mom are taking me and Anziano Bingham to get some pizza which will be super fun, i love them so much they are hilarious :)

 Well i have already moved into the new apartment (i guess old apartment ha) so feel free to send the package whenever you guys want. It should arrive this time since we have a really nice lady in the lobby of our apartment that makes sure all the mail gets delivered right. Also, thanks for all of the pictures that you guys sent me! HOLY CRUD DAVIS IS BIG! I can't believe how tall he is!!! Man it just blows my mind haha. Wow kelsea and wess's baby is very cute! Can't wait to see you guys for Christmas! Talk to you later, ciao!

 

-Anziano Delgado

December 3, 2014

Ciao ciao, 

This week went by super fast!! Our investigators are all doing well, especially little sara :) She is CRAZY fun haha a little difficult at times to teach because she just wants to play haha so at the beginning and end of each lesson we make a little chaos in the church playing games haha :) 

Well this Christmas is going to be kind of weird for us missionaries. I am actually pretty bummed out. This year we aren't going to have any Christmas Conference... i guess our mission president doesn't feel that it is necessary... :((( kinda lame. Tomorrow we will be having a small Zone training though so i'll be able to say hi to some of my friends there :) 

So this week we didn't find any new investigators unfortunately. The weather and Christmas season isn't really favoring us right now. It has been raining every day non-stop this week and since it is Christmas a lot of people are out of town or just don't want to talk to us, but it's okay because the members are starting to invite us over to see them more often! 

So this week we weren't held up by a drunk guy BUT i did get hit by one! haha We were walking down the city center where all the people go and as we were walking down the street there was a group of drunk kids about our age walking toward us. The "ring leader" that was also the most drunk looking one tried to spit on my shoes but i moved and as we walked past him he swung at me and hit me in the back (im not sure exactly where he was aiming but it hit my upper back ha). I probably would have been more upset if he hit me somewhere else but i didn't really care in the end. There are so many weird people here in bologna though, everywhere we go we see the strangest sorts of people. We have had many people tell us that the streets of Bologna at night are not the safest places to be haha go figure. 

Well other than that things are going pretty well here in Bologna! My companion and i are getting along alright, kinda so-so but i got some good advise from President Dibb on how to help out the situation. I just hope that this last week of the transfer we can really get along like best friends and look past the dumb little imperfections that we each have.  

Okay well Saturday we get the transfer calls so next Wednesday i will let you guys know what is going to go down here in Bologna :) ciao cari miei!

-Anziano Delgado

 Also, this Saturday we find out about transfers so next Wednesday i will let you guys know what is going to happen here in Bologna.