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Wow, IT’S P-DAY again! So
this week flew by...JUST like the first month of my mission. It is lots and
lots of work, but I like that cause it keeps things going fast and makes me
work hard. Thank goodness, because if I were not working hard I would totally
not be improving. AND trust me when I say...I am improving in leaps and
bounds...not only in the language but also spiritually.
I will start off with my
language progress. So, last Friday I went a whole day speaking Italian. I am
pretty terrible. BUT, what matters is it was fun! I learned a lot of things to
focus on when I am studying the language, and learned that, yes, I can speak
enough that I can get simple things across to people. After that day I was like
brain dead...it took a lot of stress on my brain to do it, so I am doing it a lot
more now. On Wednesday I did it again, and I am doing it again on Friday.
While I am talking about
language - we did our first Skype TRC this week. We talked to a woman named
Sorella Lufgreen. She actually lives in Arizona now. But it was HARD...dat
accent. But I learned so much from it and can’t wait to do it again next week. I
don’t like Skype much though...it makes it hard for me to show the needed
facial expressions and gestures to get my point across.
NEXT WEEK WE GET NEW ITALIANS!
So we get 5 new people: 3 Elders and 2 sisters. I can’t wait till that
happens...it will make it super interesting for the last bit we are here in the
MTC.
Genarro and Alessia, our
investigators, both have baptismal dates and are working toward it. That’s
super cool. I am getting pumped this week because I get to teach the Law of
Chastity; and of course all the other commandments, but that one will be most
interesting. Oh funny thing... Anziano Boscan and I sang to our investigator. I
think it took away the Spirit...hahah not really, but it was funny. Lessons
were learned. We also have been SO much better at preparing lessons inspired by
the Spirit and to the investigators’ needs. Yay investigators.
Also, this week was
amazingly spiritual. Last Sunday was Fast and Testimony meeting. I had the
amazing opportunity to share my testimony at church. Thank goodness it was in
English, because I can’t mess that language up too much. I bore my testimony on
repentance, and it was a super awesome Sunday. Repentance is like the best
thing here in the MTC. There is so much change I have been going through and it
is only possible through the Atonement. The MTC may be kinda repetitive, BUT it
is so amazing if you just work your 100% all the time.
Our devotional on Tuesday
was from Bishop Waddell of the Presiding Bishopric. He did awesome. He spoke on
how to look through the eyes of Christ and see all the people the Lord puts in
our way to help. All in all this week was simply awesome with all the personal
revelation I received.
Ok, I will put one actually
interesting thing in this email. Italians have a love for tongue twisters.
The title is inspired from this weird one.
“Sopra
la panca la crapra campa. Sotto la panca la capra crepa.”
It literally means, “On the
bench the goat lives. Under the bench the goat dies.” So yeah - pretty cool.
Love all of you!
Anziano Ridd
PS - Here is an amazing talk:
Remember to be like Jesus
and Turn Out.
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