I LOVE MANTOVA!!!!!

hey!!

 

So I'm here in Mantova and it's sooooo beautiful. I really love it. I don't think it's hit me that I've been in Italy till now. Not that I don't love Collegno because I do. Collegno will always be in my heart but being in Mantova it really feels likes I'm in Italy. I've already taken like 100 pictures and I'm going to wait another week or so before I mail pictures but just so you know that Montova is just such a beautiful place :) 

 

My companion is Anziano Reynoso I don't know if I talked about him last week or not. But he is from California. He is my first non Utah companion :) :) :) haha He is such a great kid, I really love him. He is on his second transfer and he just really wants to work and do the will of the Lord. I'm really grateful for him and his willingness to learn, he is such a stud.

 

my week...

 

THURSDAY-we went to the train station it was weird to leave Collegno but at the same time I needed to. haha When we got to the train station and I saw all my missionary friends it was great.  Then I met my companion and took a train to Mantova, it was about 2 hours. Just like it would take from Milan to Collegno.  When we got there we had time to shop for some food and all that fun stuff. Then we had an appointment with this guy named Alessandro. He believes that the his church and our church are right and that there are 2 true churches anyways. I'm pretty sure we will drop him after trying to teach him maybe 2 more times.

Anyways then we went to this Brazilians home (in Mantova there are many emigrants, most of them from Brazil) anyways so they are members and they moved here 2 months ago. They don't know Italian that well. So we go over 2 times a week to help them with Italian, so that the father can get a better job. I really love them, they are so great. It was a good first day in Mantova.

 

FRIDAY- pretty much did weekly planning and we have a bunch of investigators which is awesome. We are just going to go and visit these people and baptize them this transfer. We made our vision and we have a goal to baptize 5 people. I really think we can do it and I know that the Lord will help us achieve our goal.  Later on we were riding our biking to the Brazilian family and I got a flat tire.How it works in Mantova is that all or most of the members live outside the city so we were like stuck on the highway. So we locked my bike up and we rode one bike together to this members home haha. It was not the funniest thing in the world especially because I was in the back haha. anyways we get there and explain the situation and he agrees to drive us to the other bike that we locked up after. So I got to ride on this guys scooter and my comp had to bike like 40 kms/hour hahah It was so funny anyways we were able to get a tire and fix it the next day.When we got to the bike we just walked home it was like 10 mins not too bad hahaha so a little bit of bike trouble but nothing too big haha.

 

SATURDAY-  we had English class at 10:30. I got on the bike and it wasn't working like there was this grinding sound so we had to double all the way to church which is like a 20 min ride haha. It was pretty painful and people we even taking pictures of us in Centro hahahaha. Anyways in our English class we have this older woman named Carla and she is way awesome. The missionaries have never tried inviting her to learn more, but she just recently started coming to church and she asked if she could come to our stake conference which was the next day so that was awesome. After English class we were leaving and there was this Muslim guy that I stopped on the street and invited him in the church so that we could teach him. He agreed and was very open but wasn't interested. It was cool that he was so open. We met this way cool less active who isn't really less active. she is because she doesn't or actually can't come to church because she takes care of her husband's sister who has cancer. Her name is Margharita, and she is just so awesome and fun to talk to. We talked to her about Christ and that through Him we can over come all our trials. It was a really good day.

 

SUNDAY- so we went to Verona which is where Romeo and Juliet was taken place, so that was cool. We met Carla at the train station and she came with us to stake conference it was way sweet.Carla said she liked it a lot and that she agreed on many of the principles. Anyways little did we know there was a train strike and so there were no trains going back to Mantova and so we took this other train to the city over and from there took a bus that went to Mantova. But the bus only left at 5:30 and we got there at like 2 haha so we had like a few hours to chill and it was way hot and I was way hungry but it was Sunday so I couldn't buy anything haha. Anyways I was surprised because Carla asked about the restoration, she hadn't heard it, she had been coming to English class for 2 years and no one told her. So I explained it to her and she took it very well, she wants to continue to come to church and we will try to continue to teach her. Anyways by the time we got home all the time we had was to go to our apartment and eat something because I had no energy because I hadn't eaten anything all day and so we spent the whole day with Carla talking about the church it was awesome and also there was this dog show thing in the park at this city of dogs doing tricks and saving people so we just watched that too it was pretty sweet.

 

MONDAY-  my first district meet, it went really well I presented the district vision which was 4 principles which were faith, obedience, worthiness, and unity. I delegated people to talk about those things, it was really awesome and spiritual and I promised our district that if they did these things they would see there vision come to pass it was awesome. So for my first district meeting i think it went well :) Then we did scambio, and Anziano Bolnick from my district's last transfer came to Mantova and something really sweet happened. We were walking in Centro talking to people and then we decided to leave and we headed to the bikes and then once we were there we decided to take our scambi picture. When we were leaving this woman came and ran up to us and asked us if we were missionaries. We said yes and asked her where she knew us, she began to talk about how her and her boyfriend in Rome got lessons from the missionaries. And how they love reading the book of Mormon and said she moved to Mantova and didn't know there were missionaries. Her boyfriend is still in Rome but she lives in Mantova so we will baptize her. It was way awesome! Also that night Anziano Lesa and Portolano from Siena came to Mantova because Anziano Lesa needs to re-new his permesso so they slept over that night.

 

TUESDAY-  we re-scambied pretty early in the morning and then Anziano Reynoso and I went to teach a lesson but the person wasn't there so we went and did a pass by to some one else who was there. We got in and taught a lesson about the book of Mormon. One problem, he was from Brazil and didn't speak  anything Italian so it was way hard to teach him. We will bring members next time. Anyways after lunch we did a scambi and I went with Anziano Lesa to his appointment for his permesso. We just had such a fun time. He is such a great person and he is way good at singing, like way way good and we just talked about our lives. He is such a good missionary too. Anyways that night I went to fratello Campo's house another Brazilian family he is the ward mission leader. He is way awesome and I asked him to teach me Portuguese, so I'm going to take this opportunity to learn Portuguese. Obviously I will still practice Italian, I will get an Italian/Portuguese dictionary and learn Portuguese from Italian. There are so many Brazilian here that I need to learn and fratell Campos said he will teach me....aren't you so excited :) so pretty much the Campos family is sweet and the mothers name is Fatima just like another person I know :)

 

Anyways I love Mantova it's so sweet and I know that miracles will happen here. Thanks for all your love and support and thank you for all you do, I love you all so much and I'm so excited to do the Lords work.

 

Love Anziano Glowa

 

if there are any questions just write me and ask me :)

 

some other little stuff is that Mantova is a branch of about 30 people and yeah anything else oh also I ride a bike and its way fun! I LOVE MANTOVA!!!!!

Montova Here I Come!!

Ciao!

Alright, so I got the transfer call but I don’t know if you really want to know what happened. I mean it’s not that important as long as I’m serving the Lord right? So I think I’ll just tell you next phone call or something like that. Haha just kidding!! I’ll tell you about transfers, so as you know I have been in Collegno for about 6 months, so I was pretty sure that I was getting transferred, but not everything is what we think it is...except for this because I did get transferred! :P Haha I’m going to...drum roll please...MONTOVA! Hahaha and President has called me to be district leader there. I don't really know much about Montova other that its one of the oldest cities in north Italy and there is a road that actually leads to Rome (reference from all roads lead to Rome). Anyways so there will be lots of picture opportunities. :) But yeah I’m pretty excited, I mean Collegno is like home for me but I need to get out and stretch my wings a little bit, but I’m so excited. I’m almost done packing and I leave tomorrow morning. Since last week, I’ve taken a bunch of pictures. I went to members’ houses here in Collegno to get a family picture with them so you can see what they look like, but this computer is being dumb and so you need to wait till next week to get more pictures.

Now with the week...

THURSDAY- I was sick, so I slept most of the day and I’m glad I did because by the afternoon I felt a lot better and so I didn’t waste any other time. We had English class that evening and because it was my last one in Collegno, we had a party. Everyone brought food and we talked (in English) and ate and just had a really good time. I think they're really going to miss me.  Anyway it was a fun evening, but nothing else really happened.

FRIDAY- We did weekly planning and that went well and then after it was one of those 6 hours of casa days. It wasn’t bad. We didn’t get in but I had fun doing the Lords work, I can feel myself growing every day. Also one of the apartments we went to had carpet in the entrance. NO WHERE in Italy is there carpet; I had not seen carpet for 6 months! So I took a picture of myself laying down on the carpet, it felt good, haha it was a hard day but a good day. Even if we didn’t get in, I just feel good knowing that we are doing what the Lord wants us to do and I just feel good about myself. And plus tomorrow is another day to find someone. :)

SATURDAY- We were doing casa and we got let in but this lady was CRAZY!!!!! She believed she could heal people and she had a patient there and she put her hand on his knee and was just like mumbling to herself. It was really creepy but kind of funny to see. After she "healed" this guy, she began to explain about how the Bible has been translated wrong and she told me how she gets revelation from God and she is re-writing the whole Bible. She then took out a bunch of papers all stacked up and showed me that she had done the whole Old Testament already and then she showed me what she was working on, and she was half way done the new testament...CRAZY!! And then she told me when she’s done she’s going to give a copy to every church, one for the Catholics and one to the Mormons and one to everyone. It was so weird haha so anyway I tried getting out of there as soon as possible because there was no point in being there and we got out of there in like 10 or 15 minutes. So I did pretty good especially since she just kept talking forever!!!!! And then we took the bus home and on the bus I saw Titus! I had not seen him for 6 weeks and he had stopped answering our phone calls. He came up to me and gave me a big hug and told me he had been in Sicily and that he was leaving for another week the next day. I told him I was leaving and that I missed him and when he comes back that the missionaries should go to his house again and he agreed. That night we went to Vanessa’s house and on the way I saw Gabriella Serra (the vegetarian) and so I told her I was leaving too and we got to talk a little bit. Despite everything that happened, we are still good friends. Anyway so this was just a weird day, with meeting people and seeing crazy people hahaha but it was a good day.

SUNDAY- We had church and Anziano Taggart gave his first talk. It was really good! I’m really proud of him. Then after church we went to a baptism in Torino 1 with Vanessa and Samantha to show Samantha what a baptism is like. It was really well. When we came back, we were walking in an area deciding where to do casa and this guy comes up and starts talking to us so we began to walk and talk and then I asked if we could go to his house one time and talk more about this and he said yeah right now, we are at my house come in.  So we went in. It wasn’t what I imagined haha he lived in a group home with like a bunch of rather odd people haha but they invited us to eat with them so we did. While eating we talked about the gospel. It was hard to feel the spirit because there was this one Atheist who kept saying I was lying and he would just cut me off. Anyways so we told him we can do the next lesson at church and that we would call him this week. It was just a cool miracle and we got to eat and it was good. :) Steak and pasta can’t be beat! :)

MONDAY- Monday morning was soooooo annoying. Anziano Taggart needed to change his American money for Euros so we went to the bank and waited in line for only 15 minutes. Then we asked if we could change money there she told us we had to go to the other cashier guy so we had to wait back in line and then talk to hi. This guy was UNBELIEVABLE! Anziano Taggart had two 20s, one 10 and one 5 and the guy was examining the 10 but more he was examining the 5 and telling us it was fake and asking how long we have had it. Finally we just passed it and decided that maybe it was fake....who checks to see if the $5 is fake? Who does that?? Anyway then he wanted a document, but the one we had wasn’t good enough; he needed a passport. So we went all the way home, got the passport and came back. He did the exact same thing and then told us after all of this that he couldn’t switch our money because we need some other Italian resident cards which we don’t have because we aren’t Italian. Haha so anyway it was this whole mess for nothing....it was pretty annoying but I’ll remember this forever! Hahaha after that we did casa and then went to this members house, the Cavallis (I took a picture with them) and we made tiramisu together (without coffee and alcohol :P) hahahaha and then we ate crepes. It was good; first we had some with ham and cheese and then we had desert crepes, so good! :) Another cheese that I like is called Fontina. :)

TUESDAY- I got the call from president that morning at like 9. He called and had thought he called the wrong number so I thought that I was staying because I thought he didn’t mean to call me, but really he did (hope that made sense). Anyways he didn’t really say a lot just like I was going to Montova and that he wanted me to be district leader and that in my district I have the zone leaders and 2 sisters. So we are 6; it should be fun. Later I was talking to my district leader here, Anziano Bolnick, and he got transferred to Verona as a zone leader and those are the zone leaders in my district! So we are going to be in the same district again! Haha so awesome! It was so weird like 1 in 100 that we would be in the same district! Haha anyway after the call and studies we went to church to teach that family that we got in doing casa like last week and we gave them a baptismal date for the 11th of June, and they accepted. So that’s awesome! It was a really good lesson and they seem really eager to learn more. I hope all goes well with them and that they get baptized. Then we went to the Caruso’s to share a message and take a picture and also we went to the bishop’s house to do the same. It was nice and I’m really going to miss everyone. Collegno is my home but I told them that I will come back with my family someday. :) They are all excited for me and sad for me also. Haha like I said Collegno is like my home and they are like my family haha but we must all move on. :)

All in all this was a good week! :) I don’t know the address for Montova yet but I will tell you next week.  Alright everyone have a great week, and I can’t wait to tell you about Montova next week! I love you all and I pray for you always. Your fast really helped me a lot thank you so much. :)

Love you all,
Anziano Glowa

Wonderful Call Home

Hey!!

So how is everyone?? It was really great to talk to all of you I really enjoyed it, sorry I kind of broke down at the end, I think its just because I'm tired ALL THE TIME haha and the mission just changes you. I cant really explain it, but I really did enjoy talking to all of you and even showing you how much Italian I can speak now. Haha I still have a long way to go but it’s cool that now I can express myself which I was worried I wouldn't really be able to do before the mission so that's awesome. It was really weird seeing the house, like the living room behind you guys and just thinking like that I haven’t been there for almost 8 months haha and that that's where I used to watch TV with my family and such haha. But it was so nice to see you and see all your faces. I'm glad I was able to talk to you and bear testimony of this church and the work I'm doing here, I'm really grateful for the trials I've faced and the person that I'm becoming. Have I changed at all since I've been here??

Anyways I'll start on the week...

THURSDAY- I talked to this girl and gave her a book of Mormon; I really love giving that book away and telling people it’s free and how it has blessed my life. Then we had lunch with a member her name is Dina. I think I may have talked about her before, anyway she is from China and married an Italian here and then she found the church and got baptized. She has 2 children and she’s the only one that’s a member. Her husband and children aren’t really interested, which is too bad. When we were there, we taught the restoration and the husband didn’t even stay for the lesson; he got up and was doing some stuff around the house and getting ready to go to work. But the food was really good, she made really good pasta, and we had some really good steak too! :) We ended up teaching Vanessa and we did another practice for Anziano Taggart. He taught the plan of salvation and it was really good. Then we had English class and I told them all that the next English class is probably going to be my last one. So they all decided that next class everyone is going to bring food and we are going to have like this little party thing. It should be fun, haha I didn’t think they were really going to miss me but I've made a few really good friends in this English class. Haha and I guess I have been here for almost 6 months haha crazy! That’s all that happened.

FRIDAY- We did weekly planning. We had more people to plan for because of a scambio Anziano Taggart did last week. He found a few people, which was awesome. Then we had an appointment with fratello Matranga, he’s the father of our ward mission leader. Anyways I don’t know if I've explained what a power lesson is, but ill do it again. It’s when we go to a members house and teach a short but powerful lesson that brings in the spirit and then we ask the member to pray for a street we should go do casa at, so we did and the member told us to go to Via Croce and also Via Allegri. It was a good lesson and we were excited to go work on those streets. For that day we had planned to do casa at another destination so we did that and planned to go to Via Allegri on Saturday.

SATURDAY- We started by doing casa near by because there was this lesson we had with this guy named Fabio. He was a cool and I’d say he was in his mid-20's. We taught the restoration and everything went super smooth, but then at the end he started talking about how we even know there is a Christ and how it’s not like Buddha or some other God and then I said “well we believe that God is our Father in heaven and we are all His children and Christ his son and also our brother who came to earth and atoned for our sins.” Then I explained how I found this out through study and pray and that’s what we believe in. He wasn’t convinced. It’s hard in situations like that when people just want a vision and they don’t believe in faith. I promised him that if he just tried and prayed that he would feel the truth of this message but he didn’t even want to try. He said he needed evidence... then I showed him the book of Mormon and bore testimony about how when we read this book and pray we can know the truth of 3 things: that Jesus is the Christ, that Joseph Smith was a prophet and that the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is the true church on the earth. Anyways I told him that that was the evidence that God has given his children and then he still didn’t want to even read that to find out. Pretty much I did all I could do get him to ask for himself because that’s the only way that he'll gain a testimony of these things, but in the end he said he wasn’t interested. It was too bad but everyone has his or her free agency. Then we were walking around talking to people and I found 20 euros on the ground! Haha it was just super lucky so for lunch I took my companion to McDonalds and paid of the both of us it was pretty sweet! :) Then after we did some referral contacting. We contacted 1 person who said she wasn’t interested and the other people weren’t home so we will have to continue another time. Then we went to Via Allegri where fratello Matranga told us to go to. So we did the first apartment building and nothing and then the second one and we got in!!! :) It was this awesome family; a husband and wife and a little baby girl that was like 1 year old. Anyway we talked about the family and how it can be something for eternity and they got really interested and started asking like a bunch of questions so we got their number and we will set up another appointment with them. So this day was really good. :) They are totally going to get baptized! :)

SUNDAY-  Sunday was an AWESOME DAY!!! We had church and I got to teach today, yeah! The lesson was on missionary work and I taught it with the ward mission leader. It went really well and I hope we were able to make an impact to help people just share the gospel more. Anyways after church I went to Andreas’ house, a member who served in Georgia so he speaks English. I made my phone call home and it was sooooooo awesome! I spoke to and saw you guys and it was sooo awesome. It was weird to think that it had been 5 months since I hadn’t seen you guys and the next time is 7 months from now, haha and that Jason will be home and ill get to see him! :) After I made my phone call, Anziano Taggart made his phone call and then by the time we both finished and got driven back home. The day was over so we didn’t get to work that much but we only get to talk to our families twice a year. Anyways it was really nice to talk to you my family. I love you oh so much and I'm so grateful for your examples.

MONDAY- Nothing really happened. We did casa in the morning and didn’t get in and then we had lunch but when we headed out after lunch, I got this knife-like feeling in my stomach so I went back inside to lay down. So we didn’t work for the rest of the day, which was weird and I felt bad but I couldn’t get up because of this stomach ache. I just popped some pills and went to sleep and then when I woke up I felt much, much better so that’s good. :)

TUESDAY- I woke up feeling much better I was in a little bit of pain but we went to district meeting and it was awesome as usual. We spoke about miracles and problems and about conversion and faith. It’s just so awesome to go to district meeting and to feel the spirit. Anyway we did that and then Torino 1 came to Collegno to blitz the area so Anziano Taggart went with Anziano Bolnick and I went with Anziano Wilkins. It was a good blitz but we didn’t really find anyone. Anziano Wilkins and I when to institute with Sam and Vanessa and the other 2 stayed in Collegno and worked. Anyways it was fun nonetheless. And that night we just stayed up and talked it was really fun.

Anyway that was my week. I love you all and I'm so glad that you are all doing great and that you all have such strong testimonies. I love you and just know that I know that this church is true and that Jesus is the Christ and I know that we are faced with challenges to learn and grow. I love you all have a nice week! :)

Love Anziano Glowa :)

Anziano Glowa: Master Chef

HEY!!!!

So this week was pretty crazy! We did a lot of scambis and also we did a blitz. I don't know if I've explained what a blitz is but its pretty much when another companionship comes into your area and helps you do finding work so there are double the missionaries blitzing the area, its pretty awesome. I’ll explain the week.

THURSDAY- The night before, we had the district leader come over and we blitzed Collegno and then they slept over so today we did pday together.  So we emailed you guys and then we went to the YSA building and played fooseball and ping pong and I owned everyone obviously haha! And then we watched the Joseph Smith movie and I showed everyone where I am in the movie and where mom is so that was fun. :) We didn't really do much else, just English class and that was it.

FRIDAY- I went to Torino uno with Anziano Bolnick my district leader. We did a scambi and it was way fun!!! It has been a while since I was with a companion that could understand and speak Italian, so when we taught lessons they were so powerful it was amazing! We just taught and bore testimony back and forth it was awesome! In less then 24 hours we set 3 baptismal dates and 1 of the lessons we didn’t even plan, we just followed each other. The other one we planned but we switched lessons and just followed each other’s lead; it was so much fun. Don’t get me wrong I love training, I'm learning a lot but it was just fun to switch it up for a day. It was awesome how much unity Anziano Bolnick and I have. We are pretty much brothers! I don’t know if I mentioned this but Anziano Bolnick knows Sister Fletcher, Courtney knows her. :) Anyways on our scambi we stayed up talking till like 3 in the morning haha! We just talked about everything it was awesome. I hope I get to serve with him that would be so much fun. :) Anyways it was such a good scambio and I learned a lot from him.

SATURDAY- I spent most of the day with Anziano Bolnick in Torino because we had other lessons and that and couldn’t re-scambi till later that day but I totally hugged another old guy, I love playing this old man game. They are so happy when I ask for a hug. :) We ended up re-scambing at 6 and then when we got back to Collegno, we weekly planned, its kind of a weird period because we don’t really have any solid people. Sam can’t get baptized right now but we are working on that and Eddy has stopped answering our calls. So its understandable; like we don’t really have any investigators but we are working super hard. I should be really frustrated but I'm just not, like when I kneel by my bed at night and talk with my Father in Heaven, I can’t feel anything but joy just knowing that I'm doing all I know that is expected of me. It’s such an amazing feel to feel so good even if you aren’t teaching a lot of people, its true what preach my gospel says about a successful mission. It’s measured in my commitment to FIND, TEACH AND BAPTIZE and right now I'm doing all I can to find. It was just weird to know that I should be frustrated but I just can’t feel like that, I just feel so content with life and being here doing all I can to show my love to me Father in Heaven. I really love the mission. It’s really turning me into a better man.

SUNDAY- We had church, which was awesome!!!! Hahaha it wasn’t anything different than usually. I just love church in Italian; it’s weird to think that I haven’t had English church for 5 months haha! Kind of weird but way awesome. After church we taught Vanessa the restoration but Anziano Taggart taught most of the lesson. We did it to help him teach more and get more comfortable. I still taught and helped out when he got stuck but he’s really improving. I'm really proud of him. I REALLY love speaking in Italian and especially teaching I love Italian. It’s so weird when I talk Italian. I think in my mind, how are these words coming out of my mouth, haha its so awesome. I can’t wait to speak to you all in Italian and show you how much I've improved. I can now talk about other stuff than the gospel; my vocabulary is improving. :) If you thought I knew Italian before just get ready for this Sunday haha and then by next Christmas I'm 100% sure that I'll be fluent. :) It’s so weird how when I talk I actually think of the plurals and masculin and all that, where as for French for 19 years I never even thought about that once. It’s so weird how in 7 months of Italian I'm pretty much better than 19 years of French haha. It’s so awesome! I'm truly blessed to be learning another language. Then after we just did casa and didn’t find anyone but we are trying and we will find people soon! :)

MONDAY- ANZIANO JENSON IS SOOOOOOOO AWESOME!!!!! Today we did a scambio; he’s my zone leader. He is the same age (mission age) as my father Anziano Meszaros. So he came here to Collegno. It was so much fun. Again kind of like the other scambio; it was just fun to be with someone that could understand and bear testimony on what I was saying, not that Anziano Taggart doesn’t, it’s just he doesn’t always understand what’s going on. It is just as it was for my first transfer. Anyways so with Anziano Jenson we did a lot of strata and got a bunch of people’s phone numbers and gave 2 Book of Mormons away and got in doing casa. No one became a new investigator but we worked so hard. Like it was one of those days where I looked back and I knew I gave 120%. Most of my days are like that but there is always someone I think of like...dang I should have talked to that person but with Anziano Jenson we literally destroyed Collegno. It was just way fun. We didn’t teach any lessons. We just went and worked soooo hard but it was so fun. Some people wouldn’t like that but it was for real really fun, I just love talking with people. I learned a lot from Anziano Jenson, just on how to do things better. I was doing them well but I'm still young so he helped me make everything better. :) Oh yeah and I totally got another old guy, I hugged him and he was soooo happy! :)

TUESDAY- We re-scambied after I learned some missionary changing things from my good friend Anziano Jenson. It was really what I needed, I love scambio.  We re-scambied and then we did casa. We didn’t get in though, but we are working hard and we will see blessings. :) Then we did some referral hunting but the guy we went to go see wasn’t there. For lunch I made my first tiramisu! It was really good; the cream was sooooo good. I’ll explain how I made it: I dipped the cracker stuff in hot chocolate instead of the coffee substitute to make it sweater but I made a mistake and poured a little hot chocolate on each level I made, which made the whole thing rise and then the underneath was full of liquid. It still tasted really good but next time I won’t do that and it will be perfect.  Then we taught Sam the restoration and I made Anziano Taggart teach again to improve his teaching. He is getting so good; I'm so proud of him. I'm really grateful for his desire to serve the Lord it makes missionary work so much more fun. Then we went to institute with Sam and Vanessa to encourage them to go because they don’t go but if we go with them they'll go and if we go together then they will meet new people and slowly we won’t have to go anymore. But they talked about D&C 127-128 it was really good. I love studying from the student manual it just blows your mind. Then we slept at the capi house and that brings us to now. :)

I love you all so much and I want you to know that no matter how hard this work may seem, it’s not because I have my Savior with me always. I love this work and I love the people and I will continue to serve forever even after my mission. I love you all soooo much!

Love Anziano Glowa

P.S I love you all SOOOOOOOOOOOO much! You are the force that drives me thank you for your example and all that you do and your prayers I know that is where I get my strength I LOVE YOU!