Third transfer! New Years!

Ciao!

     Happy New Years!  2013 has come!  Well I will start back at the day after I talked to y'all.  It was great, lots of fun to see y'all!  Then Wednesday and Thursday we were trying to get everything all ready for Anziano Fiala to leave, he got transferred to Siracusa, Sicilia.  I am pretty jealous! haha  So he got all packed up and and on Friday we headed to Rome for transfer day!  We got to the train station were everybody leaves from and comes in on at about 9.  Then missionaries just start slowly showing up.  Met an Anziano who went to Hillcrest and graduated the year ahead of me.

     Anziano Fiala headed out about 10:20 and it was strange but I am looking forward to changes, keeps life interesting!  My new comp. Anziano Esplin didn't get in until about 12:30 so just hung out with a bunch of missionaries which is always fun.  Anziano Esplin is from  Pocatello and is a really good guy.  We decided to take a train home and it took FOREVER!  When we got home is was later so we ate and he unpacked.  Saturday  we did weekly planning and he was sick so we were in the house almost all day which was terrible! haha So Sunday was Sunday and we were doing house and found a lady who investigated the  church for a year and a half...... 20 years ago!  Monday we had district meeting and that is always fun cause our district is really cool.  

     After we had a lesson with our golden investigator, Mirela, and it went terribly..... he husband has really talked her out of it, and she knows its all true so it was pretty sad to see, so she dropped us.  So, back to finding!  News years eve we had to be back in the house by 6 for safety........ I thought "ha, L'Aquila is safe" until we were doing house and we were ringing the intercom thing outside and someone started chucking m80's at us!  It was interesting! haha  So that night was boring, but got a lot of studying done.  Then Tuesday is a "deep cleaning" day, they have them 3 times a year when you just clean the house...... all day.....haha  it was also slightly boring, but our house is super super clean!

    Then today we were going to do  P-day in Rome, because my comp is a zone leader and he has a meeting on Thursday, but he has to go to a baptismal interview at 4 in Terni, but I am still excited because I have never been there.  Then we are still going to Rome tonight and might see some stuff.  And in a couple of weeks we might get to go to Napoli also because that's where my comp came from and he has an investigator that wants him to baptize her, so that would be sick!  Hope everyone had an awesome holiday season, and have a great year!!!

love,

              Anziano Bird