Week 3

Hello family!  I will try and not repeat myself too much because all the days start to blend together in here! haha But this P-day has been awesome, and will continue to be awesome if I can find some time to take a nap!  We were studying earlier today and some fellow Ansiani came into our room with thier hands full of ties yelling "there are free ties at the garment center".  So we ran as fast as we could to the garment center and got our share of some sweet ties!  I took pictures so ya'll can see in a little while.  I have been trying to be good about taking pictures and will try to continue to be good.  Its kind of strange to realize this opportunity only comes once as so you have to enjoy every second and make the most of every opportunity!  I did find out an interesting tid bit of news this week.  The older Ansiani and Sorelle got thier travels itinoraries and turns out you can call your family when you are in the airports!  And our flight should be like thiers so we will go from SLC, to Chicago, to London, to Rome I believe, and I think we have about 2 hours in each airport!  So I will call ya'll when I get to London and it is like 3 a.m. :)   Days are still going great, and someone said in a devotional recently, that if you ever start to have a bad day, just think off all the people praying for you, not just your family, but everyone in the temples, and almost every other church member! So then you don't feel like its that rough.  The email time in here goes really fast so for the time I am in the MTC it my be easier to dear elder me and then I can answer questions and respond in emails.  Packages are welcome!  Probly the best thing that happened to me this week was I found a fan in our room that a previous Ansiano had left so now I have a fan right next to my head and have been in heaven ever since!  I am very curious about how the Olympics went, and no one of course in here knows.  I would also like everyone to know I have yet to gain wieght so that is also good.  It is still a little sureal that in a little over 6 weeks I will be in Italy!  I am so excited and blessed to be going there, and have a feeling that I won't want to come home.  I can not wait to talk to ya'll in a couple weeks and maybe be able to send some pictures home then too so we can get my blog started.  I love you all so much, and I know its only been a couple weeks but I miss ya like crazy!  But at the same time there is no place I would rather be.  We are now teaching 2 "progressing investigators' a day (in Italian) with no notes, so they say these are the weeks the language really comes.  I love you all so much.

 

Love,

 

            Ansiano Bird

             Jared Bird