Where in the world in Anziano Bolnick?

Welcome to the new life! Man this is going to be a crazy transfer! First off, my new p-days are on Saturdays now so I will no longer be writing on Wed. Second of all, we live right next to the office, so if anyone is sending letters or whatever you can just send it to the mission home address!

So first off I'll explain a little bit about what I'll be doing! My companion (Anziano Duersch) and I, will be traveling around the mission teaching and training missionary companionships. We have our schedule planned out and we're seeing everything from Ancona to Lugano-- it is going to be way cool! We will be getting a car here shortly, too, so it's going to be weird driving again!

So now we live in Opera (where the mission home is), and when we have time (which we probably won't), we work in Lodi-- which is right outside of Milano (about a half hour away from us). But we're leaving Sunday nights and coming back on Friday nights for p day Saturday, and then church and office meetings and stuff on Sunday. Then we take off again so we're rarely at home here. But when we are at home it's SICK because we have an awesome apartment! We have 2 bathrooms, a sweet stereo system, a drier, a huge balcony with a pretty view, and a bench and exercise equipment, as well as a grill! It's so cool! In fact yesterday we grilled up some hamburgers in celebration of 4th of July. It was so nice.

We live with the other 2 assistants, Anziano Gray (who was with me in Bergamo) and Anziano Maughan -and it's way fun being in four again too! So I've been super nervous lately, but I'm excited. We have a huge responsibility, and it's going to be tough but i know I'm going to learn so much at the same time. I've already been learning a lot and I've been here for 3 days! Thursday night we got to sit in with the departing missionaries. It was incredible. First we all had a really good dinner that Sorella Wolfgramm made, and then after we had a testimony meeting of everyone in the room. the group that went home consisted of missionaries that I got to know pretty well so it was hard seeing them at the final moments, but it was so powerful. I wish you guys could have the experiences that I've had. You have no idea how great some of the things we see and experiences we have. It is absolutely amazing. Their testimonies, as well as everyone else's, were just so strong.

It's so weird to see these people that have served so hard and have finally just come to an abrupt halt. It was way weird to be there too because my time isn't too far behind and it really scared me. My mission means so much to me and it's just slipping away so fast, and there is nothing I can do about it. Thursday before we got there we had to go to the Milano chapel for the trainer's meeting and that was a hassle! It was sooo hot! We each had our 3 huge bags to lug around and they all weighed as much as a horse, so it was a super epic journey.Yesterday we just planned and did some errand's and what not. We have some big things we're going to pull off with the cities we're going to, and I'm excited about it! I'm happy that I get to serve other missionaries, it's going to be really fun helping everyone else.

Tomorrow we have church and then maybe a meeting or so, and then it's off to the start! This week we should be in Piacenza and Modena (where I get to see Anziano Neff again haha) and then we should be back by Friday. It's going to be epic! Anyway, that's the update of what's going on! It's going to be tough, but I know I'm going to love it! Well, I hope you all have a great week! Take care!
Until Saturday, Anziano Bolnick

Pictures:
1. The office crew
2. Our epic packing in the van of everyone's luggage
3. Goodbye with anziano anderson

On the road...again

Good bye Verona...........................

Well, it looks like my time in Verona has already come to an abrupt end... sadly! I am going to be an assistant and travel the mission helping and training missionaries, so that'll be fun. I'll hit you up with an update when I know about it later on. I'm pretty sure my p-day will change to Saturday now tho so yeah. I'll let you know more next week!

I'm sad I'm going to be leaving Verona already! I really love this city and we were just getting some good work started! We got to see a baptism the other day of a family, they are really cool! The dad didn't get baptized because he didn't think he was ready, but it totally is! Hopefully soon he should be getting in! We had some cool miracles in church this last week too! This member brought his girlfriend and she wants to take the discussions, and this other member brought this other lady that wants to be baptized! So that is sweet! I think we can help with that :) I'm sad I'm going to be leaving this all behind!

So Monday was crazy: we had to go to the questura to renew my permesso so I can be legal ha, we got there at 830-ish and finished at 1:30. Yeah that's right, 5 hours of waiting ha. That wasn't too fun! Then we stopped by Alessandro, the crazy bed and breakfast guy and then President called us for transfers. Then we got home and I packed a little and we headed to the arena to go see the Divine Comedy! It was way cool!! It got started an hour late so it kinda killed us over with time, but it was so cool to see! Operas aren't actually that bad haha.

So then we woke up early Tuesday morning and deep cleaned the whole house and it was so hot!! But it looks a lot better now so it's all good and worth it! Then we had to go after lunch to help a member move some things which was super hot and tiring too! We had to take down tons of cabinets and sinks and all the good stuff. I was dead afterward hah. But we got to go teach Barbara (girlfriend of guy in church) and we had a really good lesson, so that was cool! I'm super tired today though, but it was a great day!

It has been so dang hot here lately! I really hate humidity-- you're always sticky. We have three fans in our room at night because it's impossible to sleep. And of course Italians are scared of air conditioning, so no one has it! At least we get a little breeze when we ride our bikes --thats nice.

Our zone did really well this last week too! We had a total of 8 baptisms! That's so sweet! That's more than we got all of last transfer. It was awesome news! There should have been more tho but some things happened, its ok tho because most of the dates are just moved to this week so it's all good!

Well I better get going, I still have to pack and do tons of other stuff, and a nap would be nice! Hope you all have a great week!

Ciao Ciao!