Wednesday, February 2, 2011
February 2, 2011
February 2, 2011
This is a message for Fertello Silva you can Read it He wanted to know where I went and just something’s so I thought I would write him a short message was a huge impact on me in the MTC he is an amazing man so hope you are ok with this short message because I already wrote it :)
So I will make this short but just for your information I did not forget about you everything is well I am in Battipaglia and I am loving it here. Everyone is strong here in the church we have 15 members in the church and we are looking for more of course... just a cool experience about what you wrote me in my black book was you told me to ask for everything so I did and at first I was not asking for new investigators because I thought it was weird and more or less my job I read your thing and I prayed for a person to contact us who is strong and willing... we got a referral 2 days later we called him and he lived forever far away.. But we went and saw him. He already believed in three personages eternal family and marriage... tutto he had been studding the church for two years online.. I did not know enough Italian to teach him anything new anyways he is being baptized on the 6th of March. The reason it is so late is because he can only go to church every other week until June basically this man has been prepared by God. Thank you for how much you have done for me and my district
TVB
- What is your companion's name? Where is he from?
My companions name is Anziano Hansen he is from California... he is really tall and he is pretty cool... he is a great companion we work really well together... we are giving it our all as well
- How big is the area your companionship covers?
Our companionship has a huge area... I don’t know how big it is but we have a really big area... all know is it goes from Salerno to Potenza but it could be bigger
- What do you both do for exercise?
My companion is fat but not fat enough to run every morning so we started with push ups then I decided ( we decided) it was a waste of time... so we started running everyday
- Is there a place in Battapaglia to get a pizza? Do they accept VISA?
There are a ton ... a ton of pizza places everywhere in Italy... so yes there is one and yes they accept VISA but I do not know if you can do it through internet... I am the fourth floor by the way not the 2nd
- Where is the church? How big is the building?
the church is down the street from were we live it is big for an Italian building but not big for you its probably a little smaller then the Brey’s house its on Via Moncharmont if you want to see it
- You said you have 15 members that come to church; how many should be coming to church?
Well everyone normally comes to church.. its not the problem getting people to go to church we probably have 20 to 25 people there every week the problem is getting people into the water... for example there is a lady who has been investigating the church for a long time and when i say a long time it has been from before Lexi has been born. We have records from 1998... She says she will be baptized in May I have faith in her.
- Is it a branch or a ward?
The building I go to is a Branch it is a big Building for a Branch but one day there will be a lot of people... everyone in Italy is way nice but when it comes to religion people are a little bitter.
Everyone here would invite you into their home and eat with you talk with you... but yah when it comes to there religion... its a little different.. Everyone is Catholic but nobody practices.. there is a church right down the street from ours and lets just say its sad to see how many people have fallen away from Christ... but that’s why i am here!!! So I am glad they are giving me a job..
- What is the branch president/bishop like?
The Branch President is amazing he speaks a little bit of English so I can speak with him in Italian. Because he knows the words that I do not know in Italian... soooo it helps a ton.
- Is it hot or warm there right now? How cold does it get?
Ii do not know the Fahrenheit for how hot\cold it gets.. it is 5 to 15 degrees C
- Have you had many dinner appointments?
Yes we have had a couple with members but only one with investigators. We have one at MCDONALDS weekly... hahaha it is hilarious... her name is Marilou and she is awesome she speaks very little English but she is from the Philippines and between English and Italian we speak to her but we will order at MCDONALDS and you will order a meal. I think that you will be good but then Marilou Orders more for you.. every time haha she is so awesome but she is working in Italy and is trying to earn money for her family in the Philippines she will go home in 1 year to see them for three months and then she will come back to work for another 5
We ate at the Mondellis once the Branch Presidents, and we have meet with Donato... basically a golden investigator. His family made us lunch... he is fantastic that’s all I can say about this man he is 27 and amazing and totally normal not weird... just a normal guy looking for the truth... he is amazing
- How many times have you taught investigators?
I have taught investigators about 15 times so far between return appointments and just other people
- Who of your investigators do we need to include in our prayers?
well for now we have Carrie who is an American who is an Italian teacher and she has been investigating the church for 2 years now she is amazing the only problem is that her husband doesn’t really care about what is being taught he is catholic and has some really old bibles that are... ancient.... they are so cool but he clams to be catholic but in all reality he just doesn’t care he only clams to be catholic because his wife wants to raise a kid in a religious background.. So he just clams to be catholic.. Anyways you can pray for his heart to be softened because I believe Carrie would have been baptized a year ago if her family was supportive.
You can pray for them because they just had a similar problem with a company as we did back home. the father is an accountant and what basically happened was he was doing his accounting for his...( i don’t know something but it was not his taxes) the government came to the man that was not doing the taxes and told the government that Masimo ( the husband of Carries) was doing it for him and gave all the money to him to do... but there is no proof on either side so basically this guy has Wieseled his way through with a bunch a crap he made up and over the years has built up this crazy case... so keep them in your hearts and prayers... another family that you can pray for is the DeMartinoes... they are the family with the three girls that go to church believe in the church but do not want to be baptized.. They are amazing but they need some help...
Good luck in Denver tomorrow
LOVE YOU
ci vediamo
Anziano Miller
HI Mamma I wrote to DAD this week so I hope that was Ok if it was not I am very sorry and it will never happen again.. :)
I love hearing about friends back home they are so cool I am so proud to know so many great people... I am glad everyone wants to go to my mission because I do not think you know how cool it is to be here... on the castle note I have not gone to it yet... yikes that first p day we were so tired from travel we slept for four hours which you can do on p day the other one we played games and just cleaned our house and hooked up some headphones for a women in our church.. this p day we are going to play soccer in castlamare but one day I will go :) promise..
I hope I can write Dallan something soon it would be nice I didn’t ever write him back because the address was always from our house and I didn’t know if I wanted to send another pass along note to Dallan.... so I just waited I will try to write him this week.
I am sorry to hear about Kaitlyn she sound like she is actually sick... that does not happen to much anymore.. ps you never let that happen with me I remember I threw up in the middle of the night once and you made me go to school the next day... just sayin
please let me know where Cache is going it will be interesting to know I guess state side some where that can to relate to Louisiana or Alabama somewhere hickish... hahha spero di si
ps on a funny note I do not know the language and I hope to learn sometime in my mission.....
I think Trevor’s little thing is pretty cool that he did with all his friends leaving
I do not know if the file I attached is the one that I was supposed to attach but I hope it is I think I will use it to tell you about my week an then that’s all next time it will be longer
You can send me pizza whenever it doesn’t have to be just on P day
It’s not a rule to only eat pizza on Wednesday :)
Let me know how Jake is doing I hope he is still trying to go on a mission.
Love you it was long again because my companion has cool things to do on the computer for referrals and stuff to communicate to the people in Rome so I got to write you a little longer letter.
So let me know how you like the pictures I try so hard to take pictures for you mom an you don’t even tell me what you think :\
So in the pictures there is one of Guido he is the man that cant walk ... he is amazing he puts everyone in there place when they all get off track.. The other old person is the branch pres mother in law
And of course the other two are the branch president and his wife... man I love these people.... you would too..
Love you so much
ci vediamo
Anziano Miller
This is a message for Fertello Silva you can Read it He wanted to know where I went and just something’s so I thought I would write him a short message was a huge impact on me in the MTC he is an amazing man so hope you are ok with this short message because I already wrote it :)
So I will make this short but just for your information I did not forget about you everything is well I am in Battipaglia and I am loving it here. Everyone is strong here in the church we have 15 members in the church and we are looking for more of course... just a cool experience about what you wrote me in my black book was you told me to ask for everything so I did and at first I was not asking for new investigators because I thought it was weird and more or less my job I read your thing and I prayed for a person to contact us who is strong and willing... we got a referral 2 days later we called him and he lived forever far away.. But we went and saw him. He already believed in three personages eternal family and marriage... tutto he had been studding the church for two years online.. I did not know enough Italian to teach him anything new anyways he is being baptized on the 6th of March. The reason it is so late is because he can only go to church every other week until June basically this man has been prepared by God. Thank you for how much you have done for me and my district
TVB
- What is your companion's name? Where is he from?
My companions name is Anziano Hansen he is from California... he is really tall and he is pretty cool... he is a great companion we work really well together... we are giving it our all as well
- How big is the area your companionship covers?
Our companionship has a huge area... I don’t know how big it is but we have a really big area... all know is it goes from Salerno to Potenza but it could be bigger
- What do you both do for exercise?
My companion is fat but not fat enough to run every morning so we started with push ups then I decided ( we decided) it was a waste of time... so we started running everyday
- Is there a place in Battapaglia to get a pizza? Do they accept VISA?
There are a ton ... a ton of pizza places everywhere in Italy... so yes there is one and yes they accept VISA but I do not know if you can do it through internet... I am the fourth floor by the way not the 2nd
- Where is the church? How big is the building?
the church is down the street from were we live it is big for an Italian building but not big for you its probably a little smaller then the Brey’s house its on Via Moncharmont if you want to see it
- You said you have 15 members that come to church; how many should be coming to church?
Well everyone normally comes to church.. its not the problem getting people to go to church we probably have 20 to 25 people there every week the problem is getting people into the water... for example there is a lady who has been investigating the church for a long time and when i say a long time it has been from before Lexi has been born. We have records from 1998... She says she will be baptized in May I have faith in her.
- Is it a branch or a ward?
The building I go to is a Branch it is a big Building for a Branch but one day there will be a lot of people... everyone in Italy is way nice but when it comes to religion people are a little bitter.
Everyone here would invite you into their home and eat with you talk with you... but yah when it comes to there religion... its a little different.. Everyone is Catholic but nobody practices.. there is a church right down the street from ours and lets just say its sad to see how many people have fallen away from Christ... but that’s why i am here!!! So I am glad they are giving me a job..
- What is the branch president/bishop like?
The Branch President is amazing he speaks a little bit of English so I can speak with him in Italian. Because he knows the words that I do not know in Italian... soooo it helps a ton.
- Is it hot or warm there right now? How cold does it get?
Ii do not know the Fahrenheit for how hot\cold it gets.. it is 5 to 15 degrees C
- Have you had many dinner appointments?
Yes we have had a couple with members but only one with investigators. We have one at MCDONALDS weekly... hahaha it is hilarious... her name is Marilou and she is awesome she speaks very little English but she is from the Philippines and between English and Italian we speak to her but we will order at MCDONALDS and you will order a meal. I think that you will be good but then Marilou Orders more for you.. every time haha she is so awesome but she is working in Italy and is trying to earn money for her family in the Philippines she will go home in 1 year to see them for three months and then she will come back to work for another 5
We ate at the Mondellis once the Branch Presidents, and we have meet with Donato... basically a golden investigator. His family made us lunch... he is fantastic that’s all I can say about this man he is 27 and amazing and totally normal not weird... just a normal guy looking for the truth... he is amazing
- How many times have you taught investigators?
I have taught investigators about 15 times so far between return appointments and just other people
- Who of your investigators do we need to include in our prayers?
well for now we have Carrie who is an American who is an Italian teacher and she has been investigating the church for 2 years now she is amazing the only problem is that her husband doesn’t really care about what is being taught he is catholic and has some really old bibles that are... ancient.... they are so cool but he clams to be catholic but in all reality he just doesn’t care he only clams to be catholic because his wife wants to raise a kid in a religious background.. So he just clams to be catholic.. Anyways you can pray for his heart to be softened because I believe Carrie would have been baptized a year ago if her family was supportive.
You can pray for them because they just had a similar problem with a company as we did back home. the father is an accountant and what basically happened was he was doing his accounting for his...( i don’t know something but it was not his taxes) the government came to the man that was not doing the taxes and told the government that Masimo ( the husband of Carries) was doing it for him and gave all the money to him to do... but there is no proof on either side so basically this guy has Wieseled his way through with a bunch a crap he made up and over the years has built up this crazy case... so keep them in your hearts and prayers... another family that you can pray for is the DeMartinoes... they are the family with the three girls that go to church believe in the church but do not want to be baptized.. They are amazing but they need some help...
Good luck in Denver tomorrow
LOVE YOU
ci vediamo
Anziano Miller
HI Mamma I wrote to DAD this week so I hope that was Ok if it was not I am very sorry and it will never happen again.. :)
I love hearing about friends back home they are so cool I am so proud to know so many great people... I am glad everyone wants to go to my mission because I do not think you know how cool it is to be here... on the castle note I have not gone to it yet... yikes that first p day we were so tired from travel we slept for four hours which you can do on p day the other one we played games and just cleaned our house and hooked up some headphones for a women in our church.. this p day we are going to play soccer in castlamare but one day I will go :) promise..
I hope I can write Dallan something soon it would be nice I didn’t ever write him back because the address was always from our house and I didn’t know if I wanted to send another pass along note to Dallan.... so I just waited I will try to write him this week.
I am sorry to hear about Kaitlyn she sound like she is actually sick... that does not happen to much anymore.. ps you never let that happen with me I remember I threw up in the middle of the night once and you made me go to school the next day... just sayin
please let me know where Cache is going it will be interesting to know I guess state side some where that can to relate to Louisiana or Alabama somewhere hickish... hahha spero di si
ps on a funny note I do not know the language and I hope to learn sometime in my mission.....
I think Trevor’s little thing is pretty cool that he did with all his friends leaving
I do not know if the file I attached is the one that I was supposed to attach but I hope it is I think I will use it to tell you about my week an then that’s all next time it will be longer
You can send me pizza whenever it doesn’t have to be just on P day
It’s not a rule to only eat pizza on Wednesday :)
Let me know how Jake is doing I hope he is still trying to go on a mission.
Love you it was long again because my companion has cool things to do on the computer for referrals and stuff to communicate to the people in Rome so I got to write you a little longer letter.
So let me know how you like the pictures I try so hard to take pictures for you mom an you don’t even tell me what you think :\
So in the pictures there is one of Guido he is the man that cant walk ... he is amazing he puts everyone in there place when they all get off track.. The other old person is the branch pres mother in law
And of course the other two are the branch president and his wife... man I love these people.... you would too..
Love you so much
ci vediamo
Anziano Miller
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
January 26, 2011
The work here has been going well we have had some really good experiences to many for me to write them all down. I will try to send the voice recorder thingy in a different email because it stinks trying to put all off these files on here at the same time and I don’t want to do it again. As for Landon and his little brother it is pretty funny ahaha Paker is a smart alek he yah he is one of a kind. This week for me has been quite large we have had a lot of lessons one with Carrie she is an American and she is very spiritual she is an eternal investigator she is always looking for the truth ... she is different from any other investigator because her husband is catholic and same with her son if this was not a problem for her she would have been a member a long time ago but she is struggling through that trail in her life. We have Maria who is older I am not quite sure how old she is but she is younger then grandpa.. so yah but she has come a long way with the other missionaries she was baptized and she understands the gospel she loves hearing what we have to say and she loves to respond we want to get her family that lives with her to come to church but it will be difficult to do so the family has quite a bit of problems... lets just leave it at that... but something we did this week for Maria is ... we hooked up headphones to the speakers so she can hear.. We just striped the wire and put them in a speaker. She can not hear unless you yell. It’s a lot worse then grandpa. When I pray I have to yell and that is funny by itself. We also have the Demartino family they are fun to see... and kind of hard to judge. They have been going to church for who knows how long the dad is a member and he doesn’t want to receive the priesthood. We don’t know why but they are one of the funniest families I have met here.
On Tuesdays we have English course so I love Tuesday nights because I talk to about three or four people in English for about an hour and I ask them really ridiculous questions like what would you do with a million euro.. Things like that.
This Monday we went to family home evening with the Mondellis and they are very fun ( the family with a girl going on a mission) and it was just a good time they are very strong in the church. I am blessed with a companion who knows how to cook. He had a professional Italian cook for his previous companion and lets just say he learned a lot of really good pasta recipes.
We are also doing a lot of finding in this area and it is really hard for me to understand people in this area just because some people speak a different dyalect ( I don’t think that is spelled correctly) but they speak napilitono and it is like slang but not slang it is a whole other language so the most I can say is things that I can say for gospel subjects.. My companion says just to wait it out and he says that I have really good spirit for not knowing a language so hopefully he is right :)
something really funny in Italy that is different in America is that if you want to cross the street just start walking across the street if you wait for your turn or wait when there are no cars you will never get across so everyone just starts walking and cars always stop... its really scary at first but you get used to it after you do it a couple of times. They drive like maniacs here they are so fun. You can be going forty and then 5 miles an hour in just a few seconds and in that picture that is my companion Elder Hansen and our car.. and that is normally how fast they park to each other... it is funny I love it here when they talk to you they get really close to you and in your face and when they do that they are not mad at you they are just talking to you.. Italians also love to talk anyone will talk to you for hours but a lot of the times they really don’t care for a religion.
I do not know what is on these so I hope they are good and appropriate ha and this week I will talk into it a bit more when I get the time. I am so tired by the end of the day I go to bed at 9 30 or something but I try to do my best with the whole keeping up it the journal, I have not missed a day yet... I also keep a study journal so I will try to talk in to this thing a bit more. Oh there is something I forgot here they have latte and its milk that taste nothing like milk. It is very very different from America. they also have this amazing cheese here ooooh my goodness its called mazorella di buffala and it is cheese from a buffalo, they milk from a buffalo but it is amazing and expensive but its really good we also ate a cannolo and that is made with a taco shell and a wonderful cheese that taste like candy they are really good as well. Something that helps here in Battipaglia, they do not know who we are, they do not know we are missionaries and so we get offered wine and alcohol and it is just funny and weird.. we also ate another pizza last night and they are just to fantastic to try to exclaim.. Dad would really like the stuff called bitter her and it just tastes like pure gasoline but a lot of people like it here and its a really popular soda. hahah its weird..
One of these recordings has a story from elder Anderson hahaha the story reminds me of mom I hope you enjoy it is wonderful and totally something mom would do. Mom you will like it too. I promise.
Another thing about my companion is that he is from California he is going home in May and he already wants to meet you and tell...but only if you want to hahah i told him to go say hi...he goes to BYU and is a student. I hope he is not married when I get back :)
One other thing is that there should be an Italian girl who is going to add you on face book I told her to try and ad you and see if you wanted to send a couple of messages back and forth only if you want her last name is Demartino I forget her first name she speaks English so you can write her in English just don’t use huge words hahah she is fifteen I think so Kaitlyn can talk to her to if you want I have no idea if you care or not but she is awesome and will probably be baptized while I am here.
ok well sorry I was all over the place my companion was doing cool signore companion stuff so got to type a bit more and so I thought I would add a couple of things hope you have wonderful week love your
Favorite person in the world Anziono Miller
On Tuesdays we have English course so I love Tuesday nights because I talk to about three or four people in English for about an hour and I ask them really ridiculous questions like what would you do with a million euro.. Things like that.
This Monday we went to family home evening with the Mondellis and they are very fun ( the family with a girl going on a mission) and it was just a good time they are very strong in the church. I am blessed with a companion who knows how to cook. He had a professional Italian cook for his previous companion and lets just say he learned a lot of really good pasta recipes.
We are also doing a lot of finding in this area and it is really hard for me to understand people in this area just because some people speak a different dyalect ( I don’t think that is spelled correctly) but they speak napilitono and it is like slang but not slang it is a whole other language so the most I can say is things that I can say for gospel subjects.. My companion says just to wait it out and he says that I have really good spirit for not knowing a language so hopefully he is right :)
something really funny in Italy that is different in America is that if you want to cross the street just start walking across the street if you wait for your turn or wait when there are no cars you will never get across so everyone just starts walking and cars always stop... its really scary at first but you get used to it after you do it a couple of times. They drive like maniacs here they are so fun. You can be going forty and then 5 miles an hour in just a few seconds and in that picture that is my companion Elder Hansen and our car.. and that is normally how fast they park to each other... it is funny I love it here when they talk to you they get really close to you and in your face and when they do that they are not mad at you they are just talking to you.. Italians also love to talk anyone will talk to you for hours but a lot of the times they really don’t care for a religion.
I do not know what is on these so I hope they are good and appropriate ha and this week I will talk into it a bit more when I get the time. I am so tired by the end of the day I go to bed at 9 30 or something but I try to do my best with the whole keeping up it the journal, I have not missed a day yet... I also keep a study journal so I will try to talk in to this thing a bit more. Oh there is something I forgot here they have latte and its milk that taste nothing like milk. It is very very different from America. they also have this amazing cheese here ooooh my goodness its called mazorella di buffala and it is cheese from a buffalo, they milk from a buffalo but it is amazing and expensive but its really good we also ate a cannolo and that is made with a taco shell and a wonderful cheese that taste like candy they are really good as well. Something that helps here in Battipaglia, they do not know who we are, they do not know we are missionaries and so we get offered wine and alcohol and it is just funny and weird.. we also ate another pizza last night and they are just to fantastic to try to exclaim.. Dad would really like the stuff called bitter her and it just tastes like pure gasoline but a lot of people like it here and its a really popular soda. hahah its weird..
One of these recordings has a story from elder Anderson hahaha the story reminds me of mom I hope you enjoy it is wonderful and totally something mom would do. Mom you will like it too. I promise.
Another thing about my companion is that he is from California he is going home in May and he already wants to meet you and tell...but only if you want to hahah i told him to go say hi...he goes to BYU and is a student. I hope he is not married when I get back :)
One other thing is that there should be an Italian girl who is going to add you on face book I told her to try and ad you and see if you wanted to send a couple of messages back and forth only if you want her last name is Demartino I forget her first name she speaks English so you can write her in English just don’t use huge words hahah she is fifteen I think so Kaitlyn can talk to her to if you want I have no idea if you care or not but she is awesome and will probably be baptized while I am here.
ok well sorry I was all over the place my companion was doing cool signore companion stuff so got to type a bit more and so I thought I would add a couple of things hope you have wonderful week love your
Favorite person in the world Anziono Miller
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
January 19, 2011
Hello Family,
It has been an exciting couple of days... first of all I will tell you my amazing experience when I first got here... we got to the mission home and I had to go to the bathroom.. numero due allora... I then used the bathroom and after going I realized there was no toilet paper. I looked to the left and there was one of those things that clean you but its called a bidet and it is weird you sit on it turn on a tap and well yah maybe you already know but all I know is that it is weird... any ways I will ask answer you questions...
My apartment is way sweet it is one of the nicer ones in the mission. I would send you pictures but guess who forgot his camera. Next wee I will remember mi dispiace.... but I am going to go to the castle at four today. So I will have to tell you all about it next week. I can not see the beach from my apartment they have a lot of roads and apartments in the way but it is pretty from my balconies. Tell Dallan I love him and I am sorry I did not write him back I am a bad friend. also I know where everyone went it is pretty interesting where everyone was going most everyone went to Sicily except for the two sisters and Anziano Anderson and myself so it was pretty cool I got called here. The people are way nice here. its almost ridiculous how nice they are here I really love them already... oh ps I have gone to the Mediterranean sea it is in my zone in Salerno so we go there often and walk on the coast and talk to everyone... it is a really big hang out spot.. For everyone, it is a really big thing here to go on walks with people. And that is were they walk. They drive from places to go on walks somewhere else. It’s kind of different. But something I really would enjoy in America. I do not know if carol is right because this is the only place I have been. I want to know more about this volcano... sounds interesting. There is also a volcano where I am at I don’t know much about it I just know where it is at on the mountain line.. But I am south I am very south and Anziano Anderson is north I am almost at the toe of the boot...
Anyways no I will tell you about my week this starting the first day. I was fed Italian food it was amazing gelato is good... I don’t love it as much as some but gelato is good. That night we learned where we were going and went to bed we were all very tired even though I had slept all the way from Dallas to London. Thank Wendy for the Nyquil. :) I sat next to an Italian fellow on the way to Italy spoke to him a little bit in Italian but I was not very good at all. we talked about why I was here where I was going and the food in Italy. I bore him my testimony and that was all he was very nice and seemed like he enjoyed my brief message after I we were done talking I slept for another hour and a half.. On the plane I was the only one who slept. All the other Anziani had been awake for all three flights and airports... I was very lucky ... my first day was really fun we road a train from Rome to Napoli and then drove in our car from there to Battipaglia. It was pretty fun the train ride was interesting there was a women who was rather large and a man ... her father? anyways we had 4 greenies and them so you can imagine how that went down... like a group of seagulls after one crumb of bread :) naaahhh but they listened to our message the man was not very receptive but the woman loved it and took a b.o.m and then they went to sleep it was good we got here unpacked and went to work.. We met a family. The Demartino family half of them are baptized the other half are not... but yah they are way cool we are stressing to them the importance of the temple and how much there is in the temple... then we will ask them to be baptized but we are not sure when that is yet they hold a lot of English courses with us.. The daughter is in charge of them. after that we returned home and went to bed the next morning I realized there is a ton of graffiti a ton and its not the kind of graffiti you get in America where everything on the wall says you hate something or ... a gang but it is love graffiti.... oh my heavens the Italians have so much love graffiti its not even funny.. I see it as reminder to love everyone. It’s a sign for me :) but yah there is seriously a lot there is almost no wall without graffiti...
The second day we proselyte... we have not got any new investigators but I am hoping we will soon. the other missionaries left us with quite a handful so we are trying to do our best with them we meet with carry an American tomorrow... it will be nice to teach in my own language... I am hoping for the best :)
We met the modeli family the father is the branch mission leader. His daughter Sarah is going on a mission to Illinois Chicago. In just a month so we are excited for her. She helps us teach investigators every chance she gets...
Sunday was the best experience of my life we went to church and the branch president is awesome he is a strong man in the church... when I got there was an old man who told me he was 87 he can not walk without his cane and another person on the other side of him... he is amazing.. he is one of the priesthood holders in the church here in battipaglia... he goes upstairs still it is really slow but he goes up and down stairs by his self... he will not let you help him.. It’s like grandpa going us stairs but a million times sloppier and slower. The man does anything to get to church. Anyways we had class and I had no idea what anyone said the whole time but after we had sacrament and I got to pass the sacrament. Something really funny is that they sing really loud... there are only fifteen people in the church and they sing way loud. I would compare it to our sacrament meeting... they are so grateful for the sacrament... if we had a tiny particle of faith compared to there faith we would be unmovable in the church. these Italians are amazing... well I am out of time I will try to tell you the rest next time but all I can say is that Italian food is very good I have had two pizzas and they are simply amazing :)
Love you with all my heart
Love your eternal son, brother, and friend
Anziano Miller
It has been an exciting couple of days... first of all I will tell you my amazing experience when I first got here... we got to the mission home and I had to go to the bathroom.. numero due allora... I then used the bathroom and after going I realized there was no toilet paper. I looked to the left and there was one of those things that clean you but its called a bidet and it is weird you sit on it turn on a tap and well yah maybe you already know but all I know is that it is weird... any ways I will ask answer you questions...
My apartment is way sweet it is one of the nicer ones in the mission. I would send you pictures but guess who forgot his camera. Next wee I will remember mi dispiace.... but I am going to go to the castle at four today. So I will have to tell you all about it next week. I can not see the beach from my apartment they have a lot of roads and apartments in the way but it is pretty from my balconies. Tell Dallan I love him and I am sorry I did not write him back I am a bad friend. also I know where everyone went it is pretty interesting where everyone was going most everyone went to Sicily except for the two sisters and Anziano Anderson and myself so it was pretty cool I got called here. The people are way nice here. its almost ridiculous how nice they are here I really love them already... oh ps I have gone to the Mediterranean sea it is in my zone in Salerno so we go there often and walk on the coast and talk to everyone... it is a really big hang out spot.. For everyone, it is a really big thing here to go on walks with people. And that is were they walk. They drive from places to go on walks somewhere else. It’s kind of different. But something I really would enjoy in America. I do not know if carol is right because this is the only place I have been. I want to know more about this volcano... sounds interesting. There is also a volcano where I am at I don’t know much about it I just know where it is at on the mountain line.. But I am south I am very south and Anziano Anderson is north I am almost at the toe of the boot...
Anyways no I will tell you about my week this starting the first day. I was fed Italian food it was amazing gelato is good... I don’t love it as much as some but gelato is good. That night we learned where we were going and went to bed we were all very tired even though I had slept all the way from Dallas to London. Thank Wendy for the Nyquil. :) I sat next to an Italian fellow on the way to Italy spoke to him a little bit in Italian but I was not very good at all. we talked about why I was here where I was going and the food in Italy. I bore him my testimony and that was all he was very nice and seemed like he enjoyed my brief message after I we were done talking I slept for another hour and a half.. On the plane I was the only one who slept. All the other Anziani had been awake for all three flights and airports... I was very lucky ... my first day was really fun we road a train from Rome to Napoli and then drove in our car from there to Battipaglia. It was pretty fun the train ride was interesting there was a women who was rather large and a man ... her father? anyways we had 4 greenies and them so you can imagine how that went down... like a group of seagulls after one crumb of bread :) naaahhh but they listened to our message the man was not very receptive but the woman loved it and took a b.o.m and then they went to sleep it was good we got here unpacked and went to work.. We met a family. The Demartino family half of them are baptized the other half are not... but yah they are way cool we are stressing to them the importance of the temple and how much there is in the temple... then we will ask them to be baptized but we are not sure when that is yet they hold a lot of English courses with us.. The daughter is in charge of them. after that we returned home and went to bed the next morning I realized there is a ton of graffiti a ton and its not the kind of graffiti you get in America where everything on the wall says you hate something or ... a gang but it is love graffiti.... oh my heavens the Italians have so much love graffiti its not even funny.. I see it as reminder to love everyone. It’s a sign for me :) but yah there is seriously a lot there is almost no wall without graffiti...
The second day we proselyte... we have not got any new investigators but I am hoping we will soon. the other missionaries left us with quite a handful so we are trying to do our best with them we meet with carry an American tomorrow... it will be nice to teach in my own language... I am hoping for the best :)
We met the modeli family the father is the branch mission leader. His daughter Sarah is going on a mission to Illinois Chicago. In just a month so we are excited for her. She helps us teach investigators every chance she gets...
Sunday was the best experience of my life we went to church and the branch president is awesome he is a strong man in the church... when I got there was an old man who told me he was 87 he can not walk without his cane and another person on the other side of him... he is amazing.. he is one of the priesthood holders in the church here in battipaglia... he goes upstairs still it is really slow but he goes up and down stairs by his self... he will not let you help him.. It’s like grandpa going us stairs but a million times sloppier and slower. The man does anything to get to church. Anyways we had class and I had no idea what anyone said the whole time but after we had sacrament and I got to pass the sacrament. Something really funny is that they sing really loud... there are only fifteen people in the church and they sing way loud. I would compare it to our sacrament meeting... they are so grateful for the sacrament... if we had a tiny particle of faith compared to there faith we would be unmovable in the church. these Italians are amazing... well I am out of time I will try to tell you the rest next time but all I can say is that Italian food is very good I have had two pizzas and they are simply amazing :)
Love you with all my heart
Love your eternal son, brother, and friend
Anziano Miller
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
January 4, 2011
So this whole week has been absolutely wonderful we have had a more enjoyable time then ever... I received the package from the Derek Miller family i love it
I had it for probably one hour and had six recordings on it within the hour..:) we are so ready to be flying off to Rome and having such a marvelous adventure. something that we will be able to share throughout our life time. there is a Anziano Shcourn here he is from Gilbert and i was wondering if the Derek miller family he says he lives not to faraway from them... less then a mile. so maybe they do know him..
um as for the Dan Devries subject i would love to see Dan before I went it would be such a neat thing to see him before i go the only thing i would want from home before i left would be my watch so that would be the only thing that i would like I am so glad he is so willing to help see me off... I have no idea where you are talking about where I could meet him... I have never heard of such a place.. remember i have been to the airport like six times total so if I was going to meet him it would have to explain where I had to go
SO for the most exciting news of the day.. I will be leave in the SLC airport at 820 the flight leave at that time i will get to Dallas Texas about 1210 without daylight savings time ... so i will be calling home about 12:00 Jan 11 because we have a five hour lay over... we leave Dallas at 455 and get to London at 7:35 am Jan 12 we leave there at 10:40am and we go on our way to Rome and arrive in Rome at 205 we are so exited its not even funny:)... ps i am riding American airlines to Dallas and British airways to London and Rome.
I will be sending a whole bunch of things home... mostly everything i do not need... such as that way cool sweeter ... there will be a shirt in there that is for mom for 22 months until I get back... then it can be mine again :) its mostly for what the shirt says.. but I will send a bunch of stuff home that is way interesting ... such as my journal from the MTC.. the journal from the MTC is not very cool at all I do not have a whole bunch of stuff in it.. but i did my best..
There has been two times that I have been really close to crying here in the mtc one of them was when dad got his job and sent me that dear elder.. the second one was yesterday when you sent me the thing about Jake... if he only knew.... i have prayed for him every night.... and i have put him in the prayer roll every time in the temple.. it was more then music to my ears when i heard about it i just can not wait to see what happens..even if he doesn't go i know i have done my best to support him and if it is possible please support him family.:)
As for teej... Elder Hartman.. I saw him the first day I always look for the new missionaries when they come in mostly because they stick out like a soar thumb with their cute little orange dots on there name badge and looking around. lost like a chicken with his head cut off.
There was a little quote I thought I would share with you,... it was something along the lines of " why are we so disappointing when we go to the temple for our first time... i read that online it was by Dallan H Oaks.. I went to the temple today and just had a whole new perspective on it the temple blows my mind.. ps dad I am writing you that letter tonight about those chapters unfortunately I am not as smart as you so I only found things that where different between our church and other churches.. but just know that is on the way...
oh I forgot I need 250$ on my card for travel... just in case of emergency they have asked us to put it on there so we will be ok while traveling
So I have a funny story for you I bore my testimony this week in Italian.. and basically.. I got up said some of my testimony and i said sono grato per mio collega deleto and that just means I am great full for my beloved companion.. and any who everyone started laughing which caught me off gaurd.. so i tryied to keep bearing my testimony but i just couldn't i just had to say questa chiesa e vera ... I just had to sit down after because my mind went blank.. so ya just thought I would try to add some humor in your life... even though its not as funny when i tell it through a computer ... i can not wait to talk to you in just a couple of days... less then 8 days soooo :)))))))
I love you eternal family...
Anziano Miller
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 4:04 PM, Brayden Miller
I had it for probably one hour and had six recordings on it within the hour..:) we are so ready to be flying off to Rome and having such a marvelous adventure. something that we will be able to share throughout our life time. there is a Anziano Shcourn here he is from Gilbert and i was wondering if the Derek miller family he says he lives not to faraway from them... less then a mile. so maybe they do know him..
um as for the Dan Devries subject i would love to see Dan before I went it would be such a neat thing to see him before i go the only thing i would want from home before i left would be my watch so that would be the only thing that i would like I am so glad he is so willing to help see me off... I have no idea where you are talking about where I could meet him... I have never heard of such a place.. remember i have been to the airport like six times total so if I was going to meet him it would have to explain where I had to go
SO for the most exciting news of the day.. I will be leave in the SLC airport at 820 the flight leave at that time i will get to Dallas Texas about 1210 without daylight savings time ... so i will be calling home about 12:00 Jan 11 because we have a five hour lay over... we leave Dallas at 455 and get to London at 7:35 am Jan 12 we leave there at 10:40am and we go on our way to Rome and arrive in Rome at 205 we are so exited its not even funny:)... ps i am riding American airlines to Dallas and British airways to London and Rome.
I will be sending a whole bunch of things home... mostly everything i do not need... such as that way cool sweeter ... there will be a shirt in there that is for mom for 22 months until I get back... then it can be mine again :) its mostly for what the shirt says.. but I will send a bunch of stuff home that is way interesting ... such as my journal from the MTC.. the journal from the MTC is not very cool at all I do not have a whole bunch of stuff in it.. but i did my best..
There has been two times that I have been really close to crying here in the mtc one of them was when dad got his job and sent me that dear elder.. the second one was yesterday when you sent me the thing about Jake... if he only knew.... i have prayed for him every night.... and i have put him in the prayer roll every time in the temple.. it was more then music to my ears when i heard about it i just can not wait to see what happens..even if he doesn't go i know i have done my best to support him and if it is possible please support him family.:)
As for teej... Elder Hartman.. I saw him the first day I always look for the new missionaries when they come in mostly because they stick out like a soar thumb with their cute little orange dots on there name badge and looking around. lost like a chicken with his head cut off.
There was a little quote I thought I would share with you,... it was something along the lines of " why are we so disappointing when we go to the temple for our first time... i read that online it was by Dallan H Oaks.. I went to the temple today and just had a whole new perspective on it the temple blows my mind.. ps dad I am writing you that letter tonight about those chapters unfortunately I am not as smart as you so I only found things that where different between our church and other churches.. but just know that is on the way...
oh I forgot I need 250$ on my card for travel... just in case of emergency they have asked us to put it on there so we will be ok while traveling
So I have a funny story for you I bore my testimony this week in Italian.. and basically.. I got up said some of my testimony and i said sono grato per mio collega deleto and that just means I am great full for my beloved companion.. and any who everyone started laughing which caught me off gaurd.. so i tryied to keep bearing my testimony but i just couldn't i just had to say questa chiesa e vera ... I just had to sit down after because my mind went blank.. so ya just thought I would try to add some humor in your life... even though its not as funny when i tell it through a computer ... i can not wait to talk to you in just a couple of days... less then 8 days soooo :)))))))
I love you eternal family...
Anziano Miller
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 4:04 PM, Brayden Miller
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