Anziano Dallin Harrison: San Remo?! Forte

12/27/2017

So I found out I'm going to San Remo for 2 weeks before transfers happen cause my trainer is finishing his mission early. I'll explain later in the email.

This week has been super crazy.

Thursday morning we woke up and got on a train to head to Genova again but this time for scambio (exchanges) with the Capi (zone leaders) it was really fun right now our Capi are Anz Johnson and Anz Johnson which is super weird but they are in fact two different people! I was with Anz Johnson (lol they both are Johnson) but I was with the one who has been ZL for the least amount of time, we went that night to go and visit the less active Ward Mission Leader who is super nice loves the missionaries just doesn't want to live in Italy

he wants to move back to Ecuador (i think is where he's from) went back to the apartment and did studies, then played "bang" (the card game) before going to bed

Friday we woke up had pancakes and then left for a lesson with a potential investigator that the Capi have who is very interested in religion in general and has studied a lot of other religions but has never heard of the "Mormons" we went in going to teach about the gospel of Jesus Christ but ended up teaching about modern day prophets and tithing lol was quite weird

we then jumped on a train after lunch and came back to Alessandria and got ready to go to a birthday party we were invited to! The party was for twins names Chris and Grace, they are Phillipino both very nice girls, it was their 18th birthday party! Exciting!

Saturday morning we went over to our old Ward Mission Leaders house and had a pancake breakfast again (but his were better) I had 2 with syrup and 4 with just Nutella ahhhhh I love Nutella.

After that we had to run back to the church because we had Zone Conference and it was at our building and we were a little late

it was a really good conference they taught a lot about the importance of planning well and having good English classes! Oh and we also had another party for Pietro as a farewell party it was good!

Sunday we had church it was only an hour but it was super good! Anziano Younce bore his testimony in Italian for everyone first then Sorella Walker gave a talk about Christmas, and after her Pietro Campini gave his farewell talk he leaves Friday for the Preston MTC for 2 years he is serving in the London, England mission (I'm going to be honest I will miss him because I've grown really close to him as a friend) he will do great as a missionary in England! And then the second counselor closed the meeting with a talk twas very good! Around 3 we went to go visit Nonna and sing some hymns to her, we then left there to go to the Dioquino's house (Grace and Chris' parents house) where all of the Phillipini were and we had this huge feast of Phillipino food and it was sooooo good! The best part of the night though was the Karaoke. I can't express how great Phillipino Karaoke is!!!

Monday was Christmas!! I got to speak to all 4 of my parents and my siblings! I even got to talk to my sister who is on her mission in Oregon!! Which was super cool for me cause it's 9 hours time difference from here to there. Before all that though our district got invited to go to the Campini's house for Christmas lunch (lunch is the big meal here no matter what) we stayed they for a few hours then ran to the church and all called our families. After that we started the one movie we could watch for Christmas. We watched the new Beauty and the Beast because 2 of us hadn't seen it before (I was not one of them) it's a great movie if you havent seen it I would suggest it! Then we went home and that was Christmas! I wanna stop for a second and talk about the importance of Christmas those of you who have read this far are in for a treat. What is the meaning of Christmas? Like the real meaning? For all who do not know Christ is. CHRIST-MAS literally means more Christ. Just think what the world would be like if we didn't have Christ in our lives, we wouldn't have the Bible or the Book of Mormon we wouldn't have Christmas to remember the sacrifice Jesus made for us. This world we live in would be for nothing, but that's not what happened. Christ came he was born some two thousand years ago and lived for us and died for each and everyone of us so we could return to our Father in Heaven! I love you all and hope that someone will be able to learn something from what I explained!

Tuesday was pretty normal day besides the call from President Allen explaining that because my companion is going home early as in tomorrow, I will be spending the next 2 weeks in San Remo which is a smaller city on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea on the western side of Italy near France. After the 2 weeks are over he said I will be returning to Alessandria so no worries there! The only problem is that Cletus our progressing investigator has a baptismal date on the 6th of January... So we will see what ends up happening there once I get to San Remo. Besides that exciting news we had English class yesterday it was really good we talked about past tense and English is so difficult lol explaining it is so hard but I will get better at it eventually

Finally today we haven't been doing much mostly packing Anziano Younce because he is going home tomorrow, but I've been packing too. We are going to do a little shopping today as well but don't know if I'll get anything cause I'm waiting for Saldi in January (everything is like 50-80 % off for almost a whole month)

Well that's all for this week I'll let you all know next week how San Remo is and about Cletus' baptismal date. I love you all and hope the New Year greets you kindly! Set goals and make plans to come closer to Christ! That's my challenge to everyone!

Sinceramente,

Anziano Harrison

Don't run faster than your guardian angels can fly!

Pictures-

1. The twins birthday party