One Year!

Long week! There was a lot of cool things that happened this week! So first off, we got to set another baptismal date with Lisette. Her date now is for march 20th. Hopefully she can get everything cleared up in time for that! We also found this way cool family, they have a daughter that's a year old and they lived in America for a while so they speak English and everything! Were really hoping to get something going with them! We have our first real appointment with them tomorrow! Hopefully everything goes well!


So this Saturday we got to take a culture day because its Anziano Wiederholt's last transfer, and we went to Verona! It was SO cool! Its such a sweet city! It's where Romeo and Juliet takes place, So we got to see the real balcony thing, which is pretty cool,and Juliet's house which has tons of antique stuff inside and a statue of her that apparently if you touch her in a certain spot, it's good luck -haha. And there are walls and tons of things where little lovers and can write their names and all that good stuff. There's also the tomb of Juliet - which we didn't get to see, so there's a lot from the story. I had no idea that there was that much stuff before we got there. There's also a Colosseum like the one in Rome, which was way cool too. There was a school group or something with an English-speaking teacher and he was explaining all about it and the gladiators and stuff so we snuck over and listened in- haha. He said within the first couple weeks of it opening, they had like 30,000 gladiators fight and 10,000 of them died. And tons of other cool stuff, like they would sometimes fill the arena with water and have ship battles and alligators and all sorts of stuff.I guess it's a good thing that entertainment has changed a little bit- haha. Then there was a tower you could go to that looks over the whole city. which was really cool. There were parts of an ancient theatre, as well, that we saw, too. I took some really cool pics from there. The entire day I took about 275 photos ha, there was so much to take pictures of! So it was us and the Anziani from Milano 3, Anziano Poulsen, and Balzo who's Italian. Then Brendan Foley came with us as well- since we got permission which was way cool too! We had to wake up at 4:15 in the morning, walk for a half hour to the train station because there was no bus, and then we got home at about midnight- I was DEAD at the end of the night. But it was way fun. It was cool, too, because I had been praying that we would have a nice day and not crappy weather, and it was so nice that I was walking around in a short sleeve shirt! It was great!

So we got transfer calls the other day! Anziano Wiederholt is going home, obviously, and Anziano Neff is coming into Pavia. I don't know who he is though. He's apparently pretty young in the mission. I'll get more info next time tho! It's weird to have a companion going home. And I cant believe I hit my year mark next week! Time is going by so fast! The last year is even faster too, it still feels like there's so much to do and I love being here so much I don't want to go home ha!

This last Sunday we had a really cool thing happen. This random guy just showed up in church. We talked to him and i guess he had stopped by the church some months ago to grab a book of Mormon because he heard we have them here to give out. He went home, read the whole thing, and actually followed what Moroni asks in the end about praying to know the truth, and did so and said that he feels like he received an answer. So he came to church. He had been searching through different religions, the last one he tried following krishna like the Indian kinda stuff, but he couldn't do it and felt it wasn't right so he went on the internet to look around and found our church! He knows like everything about it haha- it's way cool. We set a baptismal date with him yesterday as well for the 20th, so we know have 4 dates set! Simona, Gerard, Lisette, and now Gianluca! I'm way stoked! Its amazing the miracles you see here on the mission. And I know that I wouldn't be able to see anything even close to it if I wasn't here, because I know that this is the work of the Lord and that I'm helping His children. I know that this is the most important thing that any of these people will ever hear and I'm so glad I get to help in bringing it to them. Through the gospel, these people can be together with their families, not only for a lifetime, but forever. I'm soo grateful for the restoration of the church and i know with all my heart it's true, there's absolutely no way it cant be, it's just too perfect! And that's because is guided by Christ :) The mission is soo cool!

Well that's about it for this week, We have transfers tomorrow so I go pick up my new guy and get him shown to Pavia! I'll let you know whats going on for this next week! Hope your all doing well!

Statemi bene! Vi voglio un mondo di bene!

a doppo

Anziano Bolnick