5 Months in Italy

Hello there everyone!

 

I hit my 7 month mark in the mission this last sunday.  Boy does it fly by!  I still feel like I'm in my 1st transfer...  Although, I think back to how much italian I spoke in May and it kind of makes me laugh.  It'd be great to get the voice recorder back from you all so that I could record on it. 

 

Going to the Kraegels for Thanksgiving sounds like a lot of fun.  It's fun celebrating holidays on the mission because you kind of have to find your own way to celebrate them.  It's the beginning of our own holiday traditions!

 

As for all of the questions you were asked, Mom:  There are only us two, my companion Anziano Wilkins and me, in Piacenza and we live in an apartment building.  For the most part we cook for ourselves because 1) most of the members live a pretty good distance away and 2) in the Milano Mission we don't have an hour set apart in the evening for dinner like other missions do.  For Christmas calls, a majority of missionaries video chat on Skype instead of using calling cards.  If you want you could set up a Skype account for me so that we can do it that way on Christmas.

 

This last week was a little bit of a challenge, but blessing at the same time.  There were a couple days that were just plain difficult.  Between less-than-spiritual encounters with people on the street and a few no-shows by investigators, it was hard to see the blessings.  As we saw a couple of our best investigators drop off the map, it was a little discouraging.  But the Lord has blessed us immensly(?).  As of this moment, 2 of our investigators are making solid progress towards their baptism on November 5th.  Their names are Chris and Victor and they both come from Nigeria.  It's super exciting to see them change their lives in a way that will bring them so much happiness.

 

Anyways, I included 3 photos with this email.  One of them is me with Anziano Gray; the other is Anziano Wilkins and I with Marco, our Gelataio friend ("gelataio" means "ice cream man") and the last is us getting fat, eating pizza :)

 

Love you all lots!

 

-Anziano Proctor

 

P.S. Mom, tell Cash he needs to write me, will ya?  Thanks!