Last Thursday P Day

Hi family!

Alrighty, let's see if I can get everything down that I need to:

I'M SO EXCITED FOR CHANDLER AND NATHAN OH MY GOSH!!!!!! That's freakin' awesome that we're all gonna be on a mission at the same time! I can't wait!


Also, OH MY GOSH JEREMY'S GONNA BE A DAD!!!! HOLY COW THAT WAS ONE OF THE WEIRDEST SENTENCES I'VE EVER WRITTEN BUT THAT'S SO COOL!!! That dear Elder was really cool to read, I was really happy! :)

Alright, down to business: I did get my travel plans last week. That was an interesting thing: they didn't come with everyone elses. Turns out, the travel office forgot to print it off. Good thing I checked the next day! I was just happy that I was still going to Rome and not learning Italian for no purpose. But anyway, our flight from Salt Lake leaves at 11 something or other, so if I can I'll call you around 10. If not, we get to Chicago at around 3 (I don't know which time zone), so sometime in the afternoon. Then my next flight is to London, so if I can figure out if you're all awake and I missed the other two times, I'll call then. Then is my flight to Rome. I don't have my address in Rome yet, which is why I haven't said anything about it. Please let Kalyn know that somehow, she seems to be getting antsy about that.


Anyway, nice little week. The new districts are doing great now, it was just crazy the first week. All of them are really fun, and they make gym time a hoot! I've kinda stopped playing basketball because some people started taking it way too seriously, but the new districts pretty much play four-square, and they're so fun! So are the other people who play that. I can't understand why some of the elders in our district are so against it. Whatev. But yeah, that was my outside of class week in a nutshell.


Teaching our investigators this week was awesome! I can't wait to be able to teach actual people! There's this one teacher, Fratello Garvin, who for our companionship has the persona of "Fabio", a fantastic investigator he met on HIS mission to Rome, which he got back from a few months ago. But if everyone in Italy was like Fabio, the work will literally explode with new converts, it's so fantastic to have a great investigator like that! He reads the chapters we give him and a few more, he just about asked to be baptized, and he already made friends with people in the ward, and with the bishop. He even showed us a picture of his two kids on his phone, it was pretty cool. It kinda stinks when I remember it isn't quite real, but give it a week.


WHAT THE HECK, I'm gonna be in Italy in a WEEK! It's gonna be weird not being in the MTC anymore, and actually being in the thick of things. I'm gonna kinda miss having devotionals and firesides every week. And the temple. For over a year. Dang... But it's gonna be great! I'm so excited! That seems to be my theme word for this email, hahaha!


Anyway, I'm sorry that I'm so silly, but I forgot to take notes while reading emails. So.... I kinda forgot what Mom wrote. So I'll reply to Dad's! Let's see: that's an awesome insight into that parable, I've never really thought of it maybe being in the millenium. But where do the kingdoms come in that He was talking about before? And to tell you the truth, I kind of thought the same thing about D&C 130 after reading it a bit. Although, I couldn't have put it so eloquently, "brain dump" haha!


Oh yeah, one thing I remember from Mom's letter: about the letters, you're not sending ALL of them, are you? Cause especially that Conference one was a little personal. I know you have fantastic judgement, I just would like a little confirmation that privacy is being respected, haha! Oh, and thank you so much for the shirts! They may weigh a little much, especially with the ties, but thanks! I'll try to organize the suitcases as best as I can! And the Milk Duds were gone within a few hours, thanks!


Anyway, love you all!
Ci vediamo!
Anziano Walker