Happy Italian Day Light Savings!     3-31-14


It finally came!! haha

Hope everyone is doing well this week.  This will be brief, got a bad keyboard today.  Got transferred, I will go to Ladispoli, and I am blow in training a greenie from Italy!  So I will finally have an Italian comp again!  I am really sad to leave Pozzuoli, and yesturday in church was really hard with all the members and investigators.  It is going to be very very hard to leave Italy!

Today Sor. Trimble took us to Paestom for pday where there are some old Greek temples, so that was super cool.  We met some super cool people this week and in this next month they will have 4 baptisms here in Pozzuoli!  It has been a good run, besides being assistant it is my longest run in a city, so needless to say there are a lot of people to see in the next two days!!  Love y'all and for mail you can just send it to the mission office again because I will go there every week for district meeting.  Love y'all a ton!!! Have a great week!!

Love,

          Anziano Bird

3-24-14


Good Morning!

    Just a quick email today, but everything is super great!  This week was really crazy, mostly because I spent 3 days out of Pozzuoli!  Monday night we ate at Rita's house, and they have the coolest family ever, and we have been trying to teach the husband and son.  Tuesday night we had our meeting in Castelvolturno and we had a turnout of about 7 Africans so that was super fun as always.

    Wednesday morning we caught the train down to Catania and arrived about 9:30 that night.  Slept in an apartment with about 20 other missionaries... didn't miss doing that at all! haha  But Thursday we had our conference with Elder Kearon, it was incredible!!  The spirit was so strong the whole time and he taught some really cool stuff!  The next day we had our leadership conference in Catania and it gave us all a good chance to ask questions and get more time to talk about the work.

     We were supposed to come back Saturday, but I really didn't like being gone that long so we got permission to try and switch our tickets, and after a while we were able to!  We switched them to the night train!  So it was Anziano Cremonesi and myself, and the 2 sisters, and when we got on the train, we found out they had put us in the same cabin even though we had made that very clear! haha  So we had to fight for a while longer but finally got separate cabins! And I slept so good!  We got back to Napoli at about 7:30 and got a whole other day of work we did not anticipate.

     Today we met an American family here in Napoli that bought us lunch and had a daughter that just got off her mission and was in the MTC the same time as me!  Weird!  Well this week is transfer week, pray that I will stay here or go somewhere awesome!  Have a great week!

Love,

Anziano Bird

Pompeii

Here are some pics from that guy we found with all the cars! cant wait to take that jeep out for a spin!  Funny thing is he hates the Ferrari...

                                             Sor. Viazzo, Henson, Alfredo, Me, Anz. Kemple
                                                             
                                                                Alfredo's Baptism

                                                                 Alex's Baptism

                                                            Anz. Kemple, Alex, Me                       

                                                                Alex's Baptism
                                                  Evans, Alex, Roselyn, Brother Bonner

3-17-14   St Patrick's Day


Hello everybody!!

     So first we will run through the week really fast!  Monday we had to cut p-day way short to visit a couple we are teaching, Robert and Shirley!  Because he leaves every month and travels to the north for work!  They are about the coolest people on the planet, she is an angel, just like another Shirley I know!  We set a baptismal date for April 5th for them and they can't even hardly wait that long!  We have gotten so many member referrals in the past month we have slowly been able to see many of them and this week we were able to meet with Yaw!  He is a really cool guy!

     We were able to meet with several less active families this week, and the coolest thing is many of them came to church on Sunday.  It was super cool to see the chapel full and for them to see people that they hadn't seen in a while.  We headed down to Battipaglia this week for scambi.  Met probably the coolest guy ever there! He owns a gas station in town and he was a race car driver an he has all these metals of crazy things he did, and so he is a huge hero there.  He loves Americans so he showed us his collection!  He had 5 beautifully restored Fiat 500s, 2 Porsche's, 2 Jeeps from the war, and to top it off, a Ferrari of course!  And he loved us so much he said on p-day we could take out the jeep to the mountains and tear around!!  I will have to take him up on that after the mission!

     There has been a lot of planning for our conference we will have next week with Elder Kearns who is coming, it will be tough because we leave Wednesday morning, and get back Saturday evening..... love transportation in Italy! haha.  We saw our Vito and Julia this week, they are going to New York next month and wants to know if we know any LDS people there who could be his tour guide, and he said they could name their price!  So if y'all know anybody, let me know!  We also saw the Calahan family, and they made us bacon cheese burgers!!!!  WOW!  They were very good!  Saturday we spent almost all day up in Mondragone seeing people up there because we only make it up there about once a month, because it takes about 2 hours to get there!  

     Things really couldn't be better here!  Now I just hope I can stay here to see all these great things happen!  Love y'all a ton!!

Anziano Bird

     

Fake Daylight Savings      3-10-14


  So I forgot that the whole world didn't follow America when we changed the daylight savings time! haha  So we will have round 2 in a couple of weeks!  But this week was about a fantastic as it gets!  We were able to find 4 new investigators this week and just teach a ton!  We ended up teaching 20 lessons this week!  We have 2 baptismal dates right now and soon to be many many more.  We are teaching  some super awesome people! 

     There is one guy, Vito, who in the 80's lived in Louisiana for about 6 months!  So we get along real great!  And we have so many Africans that we need to teach that we have started doing group lessons where we will teach 7 or more at a time!  So it is really just a lot of fun right now!  Really hope I don't leave after next transfer!

     So we have been running around like crazy just trying to fit everything in!  I cant remember if I told y'all about that American family that was here for a month that was from Ucon, and so they left this week but took all my info so they could come to my homecoming! haha  I hear y'all got the emails from the mission about them starting to get travel and everything, so where am I going to fly into?  Food for thought!  I love y'all a ton, if you have any questions I am happy to respond!  Have a great week!

Love,

Anziano Bird

 Ciao Tutti!!                             3-3-2014



  Hows everything going?  Things are really good here!!  I will start with the work which is just incredible!!  We set a baptismal date this week and will set 2 more this next week with a couple who asked us to hurry up and come teach and baptize them because we were taking too long to get around to them because we found so many other people first!!  And the way things might turn out we might have one of those baptism days that makes it into the conference edition of the Liahona where 20 people get baptized on conference day!  So we are very happy here!!  Really starting to see all the fruits from the last couple of months, so anybody who thought we don't baptize in Italy, your wrong!!! haha

     Super cool thing happened this week, we got to go to Rome for a day because Elder Allen stopped by the mission and had a conference with the missionaries.  He had lots of cool updates on the temple and other things with the church here.  It was awesome because he tells it to ya strait and laid down the law, but he did it all through teaching doctrine and the spirit was so strong!  

     Everything about our work is super cool right now because the branch temple trip is coming up in a couple of months so we are helping our new converts get family names ready to take and we know that when the members get that spirit it is only going to help the branch and help our work, not to mention all those on the other side!  I am so grateful I have gotten to serve here, this area has changed my life, these people are incredible and it is a hard thing to explain how fast it happens, but when you truly seek to serve as Christ would, you build the strongest relationships. 

     Homework!  D&C 100, but focus on verses 3 and 4 (I think) I want to here about what yall think the "effectual door" is!  Love yall!!

Vi voglio bene!

Anziano Bird