Hi

Ciao Presidente!

 

This week was pretty good. We started off with a scambio in Sassari, this past Thursday and Friday. Me and Anziano Woolsey got to talk a bit and give our thoughts about our scambi with the other cities, and it sounds like the Anziani in Olbia are doing great. But for the scambio in Sassari, I went with Anziano Eads, and Anziano Woolsey took my companion. There doing good in Sassari, and the work is plugging along. And they work really well together, I'm impressed.

 

In Cagliari, we've been working on trying to briefly see members and really help them boost their faith in their own personal missionary work. That's one idea that we've gotten from 12 Weeks, making sure that in our visits, we're helping them with their missionary work. It's something a little hard, because they seem to expect us to only come over to eat with them. We definitely want to work closer with them, because our doing finding in this time of year is yielding little fruit. But we're still doing it, whenever we can.

 

Thanks President!

Anziano Walker

 

 

Hey Mom and Dad!

 

I am so sorry that I hurt you guys from that letter. That was written right at the end of that rough time, and that was tough. I really really really don't like when I get down, and the only way I've seen to get out of it is to acknowledge it to someone, and explain exactly how I'm feeling. It's funny, each time I've written one of those kinds of letters, or emails, my day or week picks up really quickly. I'm just sorry that it comes with that kind of cost. But I'm thankful for parents who try super hard to make me feel better, even though we're several continents and oceans away. Thank you so much. But this week has been great. I don't know how, but I've really been doing good with attitude and everything. I think exercising every day is really helping. I'm working on being more and more consistent with that. Now just to work on how to look outward... I'll let you know how that goes. But I just want to be sure that you both know that as tough as those hard times are on me, especially that weekend, I have been loving the past week and a half, and that has been kind of the pattern I've seen for me on the mission.

 

I'm betting you can guess that that paragraph probably doesn't need to go on the blog. :)

 

Man, this week seems to have both flown by AND gone pretty slow. Weird. Sunday, we had a lunch at a member's house, to which he also invited a family over who has been in Cagliari for 5 weeks, but they're heading back to America on Thursday. Apparently the wife was baptized in this branch, and then got married and moved to Missouri. They come back every summer. They were super nice, and the dad gave us some good ideas to work with members a bit more. Mainly, we're thinking geneology. Asking people if we can do a bit for them, take their names to the Center here, and then bring them back about 4 generations. We're meeting with a guy tonight to see if he would be cool with that, and how exactly we'd do it. I'm psyched!

 

Let's see, not much else to say. We got transfer calls this past Saturday, and me and Anziano Loertscher are staying here together. I'm staying in a city for more than 3 months! Yay! We're helping out a lot with transfers, though, and hopefully it finishes up smoother than last time. There are 3 people coming in, even though only 1 left the island (another one also left, but they were in 3, so we're not getting them a replacement). There are gonna be 2 new Anziani in Sassari, and I'm psyched 'cause one of them is Anziano Birberg, a Swedish missionary I met in the Rome Zone. He's tight!

 

But yeah, that's kind of all that's new right now. Oh, since I didn't get transferred, feel free to write letters to the Cagliari address on the letter, but only for the next 5 weeks, at most. I miss getting mail in my own mailbox. But you know, however y'all would like.

 

Ciao ciao, and have fun!

Anziano Walker