My last week has been
pretty crazy, well I haven't emailed in about 10-11 days because I'm now
in Italy!! Everything over here is great I'm in a little town called
Alessandria, and when I say little it's only little cause all the other
cities around in Italy are huge. My trainers name is Anziano Younce he's
really cool, He is from Raleigh, North Carolina has been on his mission
for 22ish months so he is dying (a missionary term used when someone is
finishing their mission) with me. In my district there are only 4
missionaries, my comp and I and a set of sisters who are dying
(referring to them going home) this transfer. The work here in
Alessandria is coming along great! We had 7 of our investigators come to
church on Sunday, granted most of our work here is African refugees we
did have one of our three Italian investigators come to church though!!
He's awesome, his name is Carmello we have another lesson with him on
Thursday, so tomorrow lol. Emmanuel one of our Africans has a baptismal
date but we have to drop it cause he's only come to the 1 of the last 5
Sundays.... We are starting to do a Book of Mormon reading class
Wednesday nights to help some of our Africans out cause only really 2 of
them know how to read so we're doing it so we can teach them and get
some gospel topics in there while reading! We have English class every
Tuesday and Thursday, Tuesdays the Anziani teach (that's us lol) and
Thursdays the Sorelle teach. It's super fun cause it's actually
something I can help with! XD We also have this Italian class on
Thursdays before English class which is for mostly our Africans so they
can learn Italian and get better about communicating with the Italians,
super cool! For me the language is coming slowly but surely, I got up in
sacrament meeting on Sunday and bore my testimony in Italian and I
think it went pretty well, no one has thrown me out of there ward yet
lol so that's good! Besides all that I've already had fresh bread, real
chocolate and I'm getting real pizza and gelato this week at some point
my trainer said lol. I haven't gotten to see much of Italy yet but from
what I've seen this place is gorgeous! We went to Genova for a special
district meeting which combined 2 districts so that the zone leaders and
sister train leaders didn't have to travel all over the place. They
talked about our mission goal it's 3, 2, 1, (insert word here) they are
still working on it but I'm hoping that we can all come up with ideas
for the insert word but 3 represents 300 baptisms we want to have as a
mission and 2 is making 2 new wards (which about 150 members make up a
ward) and then 1 temple (obviously not one in Milan right now) the Rome
temple. So our focus is going to be on trying to get these 300 new
converts ready to enter the temple when it is finally open!! Some of you
have probably already noticed but I am allowed to use Facebook on my
mission and I had to create a new one, so if you could go and add me
that would be great! Full name is: Dallin David Harrison. For those of
you in the US time zones, if you are sending me personal emails I would
suggest sending them to me Monday nights your time cause by that time
it's basically Tuesday morning here and it just makes it easier for me
to respond if I know what I'm responding to one day in advance! Thanks!
I'm going to try an include a bunch of pictures cause alot of stuff has
happened in the last week and a half. I don't think there is much else
to talk about. I just want to let everyone know that I know that my
Redeemer lives and that He loves each and everyone of us, Heavenly
Father wants to help us and hear from us but he won't do it without
first us asking. I challenge each and everyone of you to atleast try to
communicate with Heavenly Father, I promise that if you will do this He
will hear you and help you. I love you all can't wait to hear from
you!!
Ti voglio bene e anche ti amo
Arrivederci!
Remember who you are and what God wants you to become!
Become as He is!
Love, Anziano Harrison
Where is Alessandria? I was wondering the same thing!
It's about an hour and a half train ride south west of Milano!
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