(the first few lines are Elder Parker's answers to questions or comments from our letters, I left them on here this time so you would get that info too)
HI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I will for sure tell Tuni about my bro and the sympathy he has! Tuni broke his when he was getting out of the bus and it drove away before he was all the way out, they do that here, you gotta go quick! He is doing much better now!
I will just pull the tooth my self!
haha yeah thanks for taking my surf board lol! :D that’s a REALLY good idea!!
our mission does have a rule about toys sadly...its a no no! but thanks anyway!
So this week has, as usual, been awesome!!!!
After email last week we went to Catanzaro, it’s a city in our zone, about a 45 minute train ride, to see some of the stuff and go to a store there for some contact stuff for Anz. Shaw. It was a blast!!! We had a great time! There is also a McD's there so we had a quick bite to eat! It was really fun!
Also while we were there we went into this little store to get a notebook for writing letters, and I found one with a picture not only a surfer getting barreled but jack Johnson getting barreled lol! It was a great find! And only 50 cents! So I got it and now am writing my letters from it lol!!!!
On Thursday the highlight of the day was English course, but no one in my class came lol! It was because the next day was a festa (a party) for some random saint in the Catholic Church. So I joined with Anz. Shaw’s class! It was fun. After that we went and got a pizza from this little shop that we like with an offerta....deal.....of a whole giant pizza (I mean HUGE) plus fries and a 2l drink for 10 euro! The people at the shop really like us and finally dream of my life is coming true! lol! We walk into the shop and they say hey all excited and then say...the usual! ha ha I have always wanted that! I don’t know why but I have, and now it’s a reality! It’s such good pizza too! And the best part is they are starting to ask questions about the church! as well as the other usual customers that know us now too! It’s great!
You see that’s a large way that missionary work goes here. We do do a lot of housing, street etc...but we also like to make friends with people its a really good tool here!
Friday was the usual, we got up and did our usual routine and then went out to do service with Alessandro! That is always fun! When we get there he always gives us money and tells us to go get graffe from this little bar on the corner! Graffe are SO GOOD!! It’s like a doughnut kind of bread that has sugar on it and then inside there is a great cream filling! They rock! We only eat them once a week though! Oh and so you know a bar in Italy isn’t at ALL like a bar in America! Its just the name they use here, its just a place where you go get sweets and maybe a sandwich, its more like a café they just call it a bar!
After that we had planning, which is always great!
Saturday we did the usual...missionary work! We were doing street in the evening and this lady heard us practicing Italian (like pres. told us to do all day when we are outside) and we started talking to her! When we talked about the gospel she had some great questions and here is the best part...SHE WANTS TO LEARN MORE!! She has seen us walk by her house everyday (she lives up on our hill) and has been curious and she really wants to learn! it is AWESOME!!! The family name is fortunati which means the fortunates! lol! They are pretty well off! :)
Sunday was really interesting! Most of our branch including Pres. Sarcone went up to Switzerland to go to the temple because Giovanni is leaving on his mission next week, so it was just the two of us! Anz. Shaw conducted, we both passed and blessed the sacrament, and we both gave talks, and led the music, for the three ladies that came! It was great though! It was awesome!!
Monday we did the same ole same ole lol! Nothing much interesting from Monday!
Tuesday again the high light was English course! I taught my students (they came yay lol!) about reductions and contractions in English! For example instead of saying is he, we tie it together and say izzy, or for going to we say gonna! lol! It was really fun! The class really liked it! They had fun talking like Americans! It was great!
And then that’s it!! It’s been a great week so far! We don’t know for sure what we are going to do today but we are excited about it!
I hope you have a great week! I hope all goes well for you! Good luck with everything!! Talk to you later!!
Love,
Anziano Nielsen
Saturday, November 28, 2009
Monday, November 23, 2009
Oct 7, 2009 photos!!
Anziano Nielsen, Magda, Anziano Shaw
After the baptism, we had to bail the water out of the font with buckets lol!
General Conference!
This is puppy!Oct 7, 2009 Magda's Baptism!!!
Man I love Wednesday because I get emails from YOU!!! Yay!!
I LOVE SERVING!!!!!
Conference was awesome! I got to see some of it and I loved what I did!!!
We had a few investigators come on Saturday but only us missionaries and Magda were there on Sunday.
I will tell you all about the Baptism is a second!!!
Scapato means escaped lol! Sorry I forgot I just threw that in there. Here is a fun note for an Italian lesson. If any word ends in "ato" "ito" or "uto" it is in the past or in other words it means that it ends with "ed" we escaped abbiamo Scap"ato"! See there you go, random Italian lesson #22 lol! :)
Tuni actually broke his wrist and had to get that taken care of so we haven’t seen him for awhile! But we have talked to him on the phone and hope to meet with him soon. His wrist is ok, and he feels great, he just has to take it easy for awhile.
My tootsies are doing fantastic!!! They feel SOOOOO Great!!!!
My tooth is about out now, I just don’t have much time or means to take care of it, but it doesn’t hurt or cause problems or anything like that! SO it’s all good!
I can’t believe that its a reality! [that we are moving to Okinawa] Its so crazy!!! >But SOOOOOOOOOO exciting!!!!!!! Man I cant believe it!!!!!!!!!
I’m so glad that the Lord has helped you so much with all of this!! I LOVE Him! and I love YOU!
Oh yeah the waves were so awesome!! You should have seen me jumping around and yelling, I was like Anziano!!! LOOK!! and then I would hop and laugh lol! It was very good for me!
That is the other really really exciting thing! I WILL GET TO SURF AGAIN!!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ha ha!!!
Translations are fun, but hard lol! [That lady we did the translations for] is studying sports medicine!
Thanks for the congrats on English course! It was fun! And my students rock!! I usually have about 6 students!
Puppy is so cute! Lol! I love him! When we come down the hill we yell to him and he comes galloping up in his awkward way and licks us and rolls over and looks at us with his big eyes! lol! He doesn’t ever speak though, but his eyes speak volumes! He really loves us!!
Man six months blew by so fast!!
While we were in Catania we got mail!!!
For my week, well it has been awesome!!
Conference, Zone Conference, A Baptism! "Can life get better than this? I submit that it can NOT!" lol!
Ok so first off, after we emailed last week, things were pretty normal. We just had a few more lessons with Magda to answer all the questions and make sure she understood!
Then on Monday we had our District leader Anz. Pelfry and his comp Anz. Alvarado (from Peru) came down to do district meeting and to do her baptismal interview! That went really great! District meeting was great as well!
OK so the crazy stuff started about Friday. We found out that not only was president coming to the baptism, but the Harris couple as well. Not only that but we found out that we would have about 40 people there. Also Anziano Benson who helped teach her was able to come back.
So we had to get everything ready for that. Not only that but we had to get out little font ready to go, and we had to make programs, and prepare a musical number, etc., anyway we were pretty stressed lol! but it turned out great!
SO on Saturday we woke up early to get things ready. We headed down to the church and on the way ran into this HUGE protest! We don’t know what it was for but it was huge!! Anyway we were trying to help president Sarcone get the satellite working for conference. It actually never worked.
We went and got the font filling up (we cleaned it on Friday) and then got the programs figured out, and printed. Then we practiced our musical number a lot! We arranged the baptism song (I like to look for rainbows) and I love to see the temple. Anz. Shaw played the piano and we both sang. It turned out really well. Pres. and S.lla Toronto liked it so much they asked us to perform it at zone conference.
So anyway, everyone showed up for conference and we ended up listening to it on Anz. Harris' laptop, in Italian, so I don’t really know much of what went on, mostly because I was taking care of stuff for the baptism that was going to be immediately after.
SO right after conference we started.
Magda was really really excited! SO we had the talks and everything etc. and took the pictures. Then we sang, and actually even though we sang in English (For Magda) everyone was crying because the Spirit was so strong! It was great! Then right after that was the baptism! That went really well as well!
While they were changing Anz. Adams (Anz. Benson’s comp) did a little talk, and I taught a lesson.
Right after that was the confirmation! I was really nervous to do it, but it went well!
It was a great night! One that Magda said she will remember for ever!! It was so spiritual! and uplifting!! After everything she got up and bore an incredible testimony! It was fantastic!!! Wonderful!! Best Saturday ever!!
Then on Sunday we watched the second half on the Saturday session, then the first half of the Sunday session live, (time difference) Next Sunday we will finish conference! It was really great what we heard! My favorite was Pres. Monson's talk on service! It was fantastic!!
Then on Monday we went down to Cosenza for Zone Conference! That was a blast! The cool part was that for a long time it was in Italian and I understood it! It was great!
Also Pres. hasn’t ever really heard me speak Italian, there just hasn’t been the situation where he can hear. So when we shared our success story, in Italian, I watched his facial expressions and he was surprised, lol it was fun for me to see that!
We learned a lot of great stuff!! I love ZC!! After we just got on the bus and came back to Crotone, no Zone pday this time! Which is alright with me.
Anyway life is great things went really well! I love being a missionary! Have a great week!!!!
Love,
Anziano Nielsen
I LOVE SERVING!!!!!
Conference was awesome! I got to see some of it and I loved what I did!!!
We had a few investigators come on Saturday but only us missionaries and Magda were there on Sunday.
I will tell you all about the Baptism is a second!!!
Scapato means escaped lol! Sorry I forgot I just threw that in there. Here is a fun note for an Italian lesson. If any word ends in "ato" "ito" or "uto" it is in the past or in other words it means that it ends with "ed" we escaped abbiamo Scap"ato"! See there you go, random Italian lesson #22 lol! :)
Tuni actually broke his wrist and had to get that taken care of so we haven’t seen him for awhile! But we have talked to him on the phone and hope to meet with him soon. His wrist is ok, and he feels great, he just has to take it easy for awhile.
My tootsies are doing fantastic!!! They feel SOOOOO Great!!!!
My tooth is about out now, I just don’t have much time or means to take care of it, but it doesn’t hurt or cause problems or anything like that! SO it’s all good!
I can’t believe that its a reality! [that we are moving to Okinawa] Its so crazy!!! >But SOOOOOOOOOO exciting!!!!!!! Man I cant believe it!!!!!!!!!
I’m so glad that the Lord has helped you so much with all of this!! I LOVE Him! and I love YOU!
Oh yeah the waves were so awesome!! You should have seen me jumping around and yelling, I was like Anziano!!! LOOK!! and then I would hop and laugh lol! It was very good for me!
That is the other really really exciting thing! I WILL GET TO SURF AGAIN!!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ha ha!!!
Translations are fun, but hard lol! [That lady we did the translations for] is studying sports medicine!
Thanks for the congrats on English course! It was fun! And my students rock!! I usually have about 6 students!
Puppy is so cute! Lol! I love him! When we come down the hill we yell to him and he comes galloping up in his awkward way and licks us and rolls over and looks at us with his big eyes! lol! He doesn’t ever speak though, but his eyes speak volumes! He really loves us!!
Man six months blew by so fast!!
While we were in Catania we got mail!!!
For my week, well it has been awesome!!
Conference, Zone Conference, A Baptism! "Can life get better than this? I submit that it can NOT!" lol!
Ok so first off, after we emailed last week, things were pretty normal. We just had a few more lessons with Magda to answer all the questions and make sure she understood!
Then on Monday we had our District leader Anz. Pelfry and his comp Anz. Alvarado (from Peru) came down to do district meeting and to do her baptismal interview! That went really great! District meeting was great as well!
OK so the crazy stuff started about Friday. We found out that not only was president coming to the baptism, but the Harris couple as well. Not only that but we found out that we would have about 40 people there. Also Anziano Benson who helped teach her was able to come back.
So we had to get everything ready for that. Not only that but we had to get out little font ready to go, and we had to make programs, and prepare a musical number, etc., anyway we were pretty stressed lol! but it turned out great!
SO on Saturday we woke up early to get things ready. We headed down to the church and on the way ran into this HUGE protest! We don’t know what it was for but it was huge!! Anyway we were trying to help president Sarcone get the satellite working for conference. It actually never worked.
We went and got the font filling up (we cleaned it on Friday) and then got the programs figured out, and printed. Then we practiced our musical number a lot! We arranged the baptism song (I like to look for rainbows) and I love to see the temple. Anz. Shaw played the piano and we both sang. It turned out really well. Pres. and S.lla Toronto liked it so much they asked us to perform it at zone conference.
So anyway, everyone showed up for conference and we ended up listening to it on Anz. Harris' laptop, in Italian, so I don’t really know much of what went on, mostly because I was taking care of stuff for the baptism that was going to be immediately after.
SO right after conference we started.
Magda was really really excited! SO we had the talks and everything etc. and took the pictures. Then we sang, and actually even though we sang in English (For Magda) everyone was crying because the Spirit was so strong! It was great! Then right after that was the baptism! That went really well as well!
While they were changing Anz. Adams (Anz. Benson’s comp) did a little talk, and I taught a lesson.
Right after that was the confirmation! I was really nervous to do it, but it went well!
It was a great night! One that Magda said she will remember for ever!! It was so spiritual! and uplifting!! After everything she got up and bore an incredible testimony! It was fantastic!!! Wonderful!! Best Saturday ever!!
Then on Sunday we watched the second half on the Saturday session, then the first half of the Sunday session live, (time difference) Next Sunday we will finish conference! It was really great what we heard! My favorite was Pres. Monson's talk on service! It was fantastic!!
Then on Monday we went down to Cosenza for Zone Conference! That was a blast! The cool part was that for a long time it was in Italian and I understood it! It was great!
Also Pres. hasn’t ever really heard me speak Italian, there just hasn’t been the situation where he can hear. So when we shared our success story, in Italian, I watched his facial expressions and he was surprised, lol it was fun for me to see that!
We learned a lot of great stuff!! I love ZC!! After we just got on the bus and came back to Crotone, no Zone pday this time! Which is alright with me.
Anyway life is great things went really well! I love being a missionary! Have a great week!!!!
Love,
Anziano Nielsen
Sep 30, 2009 Email
[Sorry for neglecting the blog, I'll try to catch up asap!]
Can you believe it I am in Italy!!!!!! It’s crazy
For part of the talent show we actually scapato to burger king lol! Pres. Oliverio's song was awesome! He has a really good voice! It was fun to see all the members doing stuff too! It was great!
Man the lightning has been awesome!
Magda's Baptism is on Saturday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHOOOOO HOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! Anz. Shaw will be baptizing her and I will be confirming her! She is really excited and so are we! She has made incredible progress! It is awesome!!
We haven’t been able to meet with Tuni yet darn it! It’s really hard for him to get a ride recently from the camp...but he is reading every day and knows that it’s true! We have an appointment with him tomorrow so we want to challenge him! The thing is that he will be leaving soon since he got his documents and is no longer allowed to live in the camp so unless he finds a job here he will have to move. So we just want to prepare him for baptism so that wherever he goes he will be ready, unless he stays...we just don’t know......it’s all good though the Lord will provide!
Oh man! It’s totally legit now, we are moving to Okinawa!!! Wow! That is so crazy!! But WAY awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can’t believe it!!! Good luck with telling all the friends and family! The Lord will help you!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoo HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO we are goin to OKI!!! Wow good luck with all the moving stuff!! Sorry that I'm not there to help! The Lord will bless you as you do His will though!
That is such a sweet tender mercy that the Lord led you to those comforting songs! I love that He will communicate with us in the exact way we need! He knew at that moment that you would be receptive to music and would be comforted by it! Man I love it! I love the Lord, and I love YOU!!
Oh yeah for the Christmas packages that is perfect! It is actually recommended by the mission that they are sent earlier so that (because Italian mail is crazy, and transfers are right before Christmas) packages are sure to get there for us before the giant rush!
Thanks for the awesome pictures! It is so fun for me to see everything that is going on!
Oh yeah guess what I saw.........WAVES!!!!!!! Oh man it was so cool! Because of the recent storms a huge sand bar was created and the waves were awesome! We walked out on the pier and took pictures! It did my soul good!!
After email last time we just went back out and did some work!
Oh yeah we are working on these CRAZY translations for this lady, they are nuts!!! I have translated 11 pages so far and that is about half of the booklet! lol! and the topic is really boring too, its about obvious stuff! Over training in exercise. If you work out to hard with out good enough rest then you will hurt, its tons of pages about this just over and over but hopefully something will come of that! We hope to start teaching her soon!
So lets see what else....I have been saving this tidbit.....MAGDA IS GETTING BAPTIZED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The crazy thing is that Pres. Toronto is coming! Which he never does so we are pretty nervous but excited at the same time! I will be great! She is so ready! It is awesome! So awesome!
Sorry there isn’t much to tell this week since it’s been so short that we have written!
I taught English course last night by myself for the first time and that was kind of scary but it worked out really well! It was fun!
Also there is a little puppy at the bottom of our hill that we named puppy, he is a little black Labrador, he is so cute! We went and got some food for him (he is without family) and gave it to him and he loves us now! He is a great dog!
Happy October too! Can you believe that!? Wow already it’s October! I hit my five months on the mission this month, and now in October I will have been on my mission for 6 months! That is half a year!!! Man it is going by so fast!
We finally had district meeting this week, (last week we missed the train lol :) and that was great! We did it in Crotone this week since Anz. Pelfry our district leader had to interview Magda for baptism!
Man things have been going great! I love life! I am happy healthy and well! All is good! The sun shines, the sky is blue, I live in Italy! Life is great! My comp is fantastic! We get along really well!!
There have been some changes in the mission too, we no longer hand write president letters we now do them with email and there are no more pct's which is just weird, but we will follow pres. any direction! We are excited to see next week at ZC what the changes are all about!
Good luck with everything! I can’t wait for next week!!! I will talk to you then!!! Have a great day!! and week!
Love,
Anziano Nielsen!!
I will tell you all about the baptism next week! And I will try and send pics!
Can you believe it I am in Italy!!!!!! It’s crazy
For part of the talent show we actually scapato to burger king lol! Pres. Oliverio's song was awesome! He has a really good voice! It was fun to see all the members doing stuff too! It was great!
Man the lightning has been awesome!
Magda's Baptism is on Saturday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHOOOOO HOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! Anz. Shaw will be baptizing her and I will be confirming her! She is really excited and so are we! She has made incredible progress! It is awesome!!
We haven’t been able to meet with Tuni yet darn it! It’s really hard for him to get a ride recently from the camp...but he is reading every day and knows that it’s true! We have an appointment with him tomorrow so we want to challenge him! The thing is that he will be leaving soon since he got his documents and is no longer allowed to live in the camp so unless he finds a job here he will have to move. So we just want to prepare him for baptism so that wherever he goes he will be ready, unless he stays...we just don’t know......it’s all good though the Lord will provide!
Oh man! It’s totally legit now, we are moving to Okinawa!!! Wow! That is so crazy!! But WAY awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can’t believe it!!! Good luck with telling all the friends and family! The Lord will help you!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoo HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO we are goin to OKI!!! Wow good luck with all the moving stuff!! Sorry that I'm not there to help! The Lord will bless you as you do His will though!
That is such a sweet tender mercy that the Lord led you to those comforting songs! I love that He will communicate with us in the exact way we need! He knew at that moment that you would be receptive to music and would be comforted by it! Man I love it! I love the Lord, and I love YOU!!
Oh yeah for the Christmas packages that is perfect! It is actually recommended by the mission that they are sent earlier so that (because Italian mail is crazy, and transfers are right before Christmas) packages are sure to get there for us before the giant rush!
Thanks for the awesome pictures! It is so fun for me to see everything that is going on!
Oh yeah guess what I saw.........WAVES!!!!!!! Oh man it was so cool! Because of the recent storms a huge sand bar was created and the waves were awesome! We walked out on the pier and took pictures! It did my soul good!!
After email last time we just went back out and did some work!
Oh yeah we are working on these CRAZY translations for this lady, they are nuts!!! I have translated 11 pages so far and that is about half of the booklet! lol! and the topic is really boring too, its about obvious stuff! Over training in exercise. If you work out to hard with out good enough rest then you will hurt, its tons of pages about this just over and over but hopefully something will come of that! We hope to start teaching her soon!
So lets see what else....I have been saving this tidbit.....MAGDA IS GETTING BAPTIZED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The crazy thing is that Pres. Toronto is coming! Which he never does so we are pretty nervous but excited at the same time! I will be great! She is so ready! It is awesome! So awesome!
Sorry there isn’t much to tell this week since it’s been so short that we have written!
I taught English course last night by myself for the first time and that was kind of scary but it worked out really well! It was fun!
Also there is a little puppy at the bottom of our hill that we named puppy, he is a little black Labrador, he is so cute! We went and got some food for him (he is without family) and gave it to him and he loves us now! He is a great dog!
Happy October too! Can you believe that!? Wow already it’s October! I hit my five months on the mission this month, and now in October I will have been on my mission for 6 months! That is half a year!!! Man it is going by so fast!
We finally had district meeting this week, (last week we missed the train lol :) and that was great! We did it in Crotone this week since Anz. Pelfry our district leader had to interview Magda for baptism!
Man things have been going great! I love life! I am happy healthy and well! All is good! The sun shines, the sky is blue, I live in Italy! Life is great! My comp is fantastic! We get along really well!!
There have been some changes in the mission too, we no longer hand write president letters we now do them with email and there are no more pct's which is just weird, but we will follow pres. any direction! We are excited to see next week at ZC what the changes are all about!
Good luck with everything! I can’t wait for next week!!! I will talk to you then!!! Have a great day!! and week!
Love,
Anziano Nielsen!!
I will tell you all about the baptism next week! And I will try and send pics!
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