Hello my friends! This past week has treated me well. We have had a lot of succes this week. My companion has been sick on and off but despite that we have 5 investigators who we teach weekly which is awesome. We havent had anytime to do any finding work because We have been teaching a lot which is always a good thing. Almost all of our investigators have accepted the invitation to be baptized which is pretty awesome!! We are pretty excited for them. The miracle for this week is that we are still alive. We happened to have investigators who live far away and thus we travel all over the city pretty much. There are 3 areas in Milano and ours happens to be the biggest...and it truly is HUGE. The other day we tons of food at our investigator EVas house. We then taught a lesson and then we had to book it to catch our train. My companion almost threw up, it was pretty funny. We run to cacth trains a lot......
IT never ceases to amaze me how many people are actually in this city.....its ridiculous...definately a big change from Missouri. I recently had a zone conference with some zones in ITaly and we learned a lot on how to do our missionary work better. We also learned how we can better budget our money, but the lesson we learned applies to almost everything we do in life. We need to plan out what we want to do, do whaat we want to do, then monitor to see how we are doing. As missionaries, we do this almost every hour of the day. We set goals of what we want to accomplish and how we are doing on the goals. It was a great meeting!
Last p-day we visited one of the oldest aquariums. It was pretty awesome. It was free so of course so it wasnt much but I really enjoyed it! Other exciting news, I cut my own hair on sunday...that was pretty scary. Its not very even in some spots because it was hard to see but for the most part its pretty good. We have become pretty well with the aquaintanted with the youth here. They are really bravo! I hope everyone is doing well! The work is going pretty good here, so we are pretty excited about that!
I have attacthed some pitures of things I have taken. The plate of pasta is food I made by myself!! Im finally learning how to cook!
CIAO
Anziano Collins
Tutti che possono leggere questo, Io so che ci sono errori, ma voglio dirvi che sono felice che potete comprendere questo!
Vi voglio bene!
Monday, March 26, 2012
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Non voglio correre più......
We also got a letter in the mail today from Scott. He is LOVING the food. Okay well the pasta, pizza, and calzone type things. He doesn't like the water and the cereal. He's also afraid to drink the milk. He's also a big fan of the gelatto. Half of his letter was about food. He's enjoying the work though!
Salve from the Italia! This past week has been a good one. My companion has faced some bad health and the past couple of days we have spent inside because he was sick so that was fun...Anyways so I would like to say to everyone that I'm afraid to go to any appointments at night time because the people assume that we need to be fed....it was bad in the states...its worse here. Italians bring eating to a whole new level......at some of our appointments, I almost didn't make it. So our main Investigator right now is Eva. She is Bulgarian. She is dating another member in our ward here. She is pretty awesome! Every time we go to their house they feed us a plethura food...its awful. She is going to get baptized April 14! Her wedding will be the week before that so we are pretty excited about that!
I experienced my first real sunday as a missionary....it was crazy. We had 3 investigators there, 5 people who needed translation because they didnt understand Italian...and last but not least...I was not sure exactly what was going on most of the time. Our ward has a lot of hispanics and so they speak half italian half spanish really fast...and its very hard to understand. So I was a bit ruffled up.
We spend most of our time on the metro and one night I went to bed and felt like I was moving. Missionary work here is a lot different than it was in missuori. We talk to people on the metro, we go to parks and go talk to people. Going to peoples houses is a little difficult because everyone lives in aparment complexes and the only way to get to them is through the citofono which is kind of like the a buzzer and they can unlock the door for you. But since we live in a rich city most places have doornen and they dont like us too much so thats awlays fun. I have some pictures I will try to send that I took last pday. I hope everyone is doing well!
Salve from the Italia! This past week has been a good one. My companion has faced some bad health and the past couple of days we have spent inside because he was sick so that was fun...Anyways so I would like to say to everyone that I'm afraid to go to any appointments at night time because the people assume that we need to be fed....it was bad in the states...its worse here. Italians bring eating to a whole new level......at some of our appointments, I almost didn't make it. So our main Investigator right now is Eva. She is Bulgarian. She is dating another member in our ward here. She is pretty awesome! Every time we go to their house they feed us a plethura food...its awful. She is going to get baptized April 14! Her wedding will be the week before that so we are pretty excited about that!
I experienced my first real sunday as a missionary....it was crazy. We had 3 investigators there, 5 people who needed translation because they didnt understand Italian...and last but not least...I was not sure exactly what was going on most of the time. Our ward has a lot of hispanics and so they speak half italian half spanish really fast...and its very hard to understand. So I was a bit ruffled up.
We spend most of our time on the metro and one night I went to bed and felt like I was moving. Missionary work here is a lot different than it was in missuori. We talk to people on the metro, we go to parks and go talk to people. Going to peoples houses is a little difficult because everyone lives in aparment complexes and the only way to get to them is through the citofono which is kind of like the a buzzer and they can unlock the door for you. But since we live in a rich city most places have doornen and they dont like us too much so thats awlays fun. I have some pictures I will try to send that I took last pday. I hope everyone is doing well!
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Salve from Italia!!
CIAO! Come STATE?? Allora..I am finally here in Italia! IS everyone ready to find out where I am serving in................................................MILANO! I am in there area of Milano 2. There are 3 areas in the city of milano and ours happens to be the biggest! We have what is called the duomo in our area and if you all get a chance to check out photos of this....do it. It is AWESOME! I love this city. Its like living in New york but in all Italian. The culture is way different here. Our ward here is awesome. We have tons of people to come. we have tons of peruvians so elder corbett and I are serving the same people! Anyways, I would like to let you all know that I have eaten a lot of pasta since I have been here. Yesterday, we had a "small meal" with an investigator...and I almost died...on the bright side we had a Great lesson with Eva(the investigator). She wanted to get baptized sooner than what we had on calender which kind of suprised us! Before her baptism she is getting married and sooo we are going to have a marriage in milano 2...which Im pretty excited about because we will get to go!!!! So lets hope that all pulls through eh....We got out of the appointment late and were running through a small city right outside of millano after eating tons of pasta, all in the rain, to catch a train but missed it. We got home around 10 45 it was crazy!
So Im not in a bike area thank goodness...I get to ride the metro all the time. Its crazy. We also ride buses. There arae tons of cultures here I cant believe it! The people are also very fashionable here go figure huh? I understand alot of whats going and whats said to me but when people start talking about food, I get a little lost but thats ok.
I got sick on the way here and had to stay inside all day friday and rest because I felt terrible but I feel tons better now!!!! Its a different life here but I realllly enjoy. Its great being a missionary. Except right now I have to pay a lot of attention to what people say because they say is very fast.. I cant understand children or old people...they talk crazy! I hope everyone is doing very well!!! HEre is my address
Send letters to the mission office
Anziano Scott Collins
Italy Millan Mission Office
Via Gramisci 13/4
20090 Opera MI Italy
Here is my address but If i leave and missionaries arent dilligent at getting to the offive I wont get it.
Anziano Scott Collins
Viale Monza 169
20127 milano Italia
So Im not in a bike area thank goodness...I get to ride the metro all the time. Its crazy. We also ride buses. There arae tons of cultures here I cant believe it! The people are also very fashionable here go figure huh? I understand alot of whats going and whats said to me but when people start talking about food, I get a little lost but thats ok.
I got sick on the way here and had to stay inside all day friday and rest because I felt terrible but I feel tons better now!!!! Its a different life here but I realllly enjoy. Its great being a missionary. Except right now I have to pay a lot of attention to what people say because they say is very fast.. I cant understand children or old people...they talk crazy! I hope everyone is doing very well!!! HEre is my address
Send letters to the mission office
Anziano Scott Collins
Italy Millan Mission Office
Via Gramisci 13/4
20090 Opera MI Italy
Here is my address but If i leave and missionaries arent dilligent at getting to the offive I wont get it.
Anziano Scott Collins
Viale Monza 169
20127 milano Italia
Sunday, March 4, 2012
1-Transfer=Over
Hello Everyone!! My first transfer is over!!!!! Its pretty crazy to think that 6 weeks have gone by already!! So this week was pretty good. I taught my first lesson in the sense that I was the dominant person teaching so that was pretty crazy!! It went really well. This week has not been so good in the sense of finding new people to teach. Luckily no appointments fell through though :D.
So the other day when we were walking down to the south end of our area we saw some police breaking up a fight between tons of people....other than my first lesson that was the most exciting thing that has happened this week. I have been doing well. Alright so with transfers lots of crazy stuff goes down! So I know I will be transfered out of Saint Joseph with is pretty sad, I dont know where my next area will be and I dont know who my companion will be, but I do know that I WILL BEEEE INNNN ITALY!!!! After 35 weeks of waiting I finally got my visa! I found out this past wednesday and have been dying to let people know but I can only Email on mondays so thats a bummer. SO anyone that has written me recently, if the I dont get the letter by today I wont get it. So Ill have my companion send it back to you. I leave Tomorrow at 10:30am. the assistants are coming to pick me up. From what I have been told This is my flight schedule: Kansas City 1:20 to Chicago. 5:30 Chicago to London, 9:30am 2/29/12. Im pretty excited to head out! I am pretty sad about leaving the area, I really liked the people in the ward. But It is also exciting to go to the mission I was called to :D Other than that Im not sure what else to email about. Im doing really well. I have some work to do to get packed but Im pretty ready to head out. What's really cool is that I will meet up with the missionaries that came in at the MTC when I was there, I will meet with them when I am in Chicago. Im really excited about that.
I love being a missionary, its a different life and it definately changes you. Its pretty hard but its fun to do. I hope everyone is doing well! If you sent me a letter and I dont get it and it gets sent back to you, Im sorry but I will put my Italy Address here so everyone can have it :D
Elder Scott Andrew Collins
Italy Millan Mission
Via Antonio Gramsci 13/2
20090 Opera MI Italy
I hope everyone is well!
Sinceramente,
Anziano Collins
So the other day when we were walking down to the south end of our area we saw some police breaking up a fight between tons of people....other than my first lesson that was the most exciting thing that has happened this week. I have been doing well. Alright so with transfers lots of crazy stuff goes down! So I know I will be transfered out of Saint Joseph with is pretty sad, I dont know where my next area will be and I dont know who my companion will be, but I do know that I WILL BEEEE INNNN ITALY!!!! After 35 weeks of waiting I finally got my visa! I found out this past wednesday and have been dying to let people know but I can only Email on mondays so thats a bummer. SO anyone that has written me recently, if the I dont get the letter by today I wont get it. So Ill have my companion send it back to you. I leave Tomorrow at 10:30am. the assistants are coming to pick me up. From what I have been told This is my flight schedule: Kansas City 1:20 to Chicago. 5:30 Chicago to London, 9:30am 2/29/12. Im pretty excited to head out! I am pretty sad about leaving the area, I really liked the people in the ward. But It is also exciting to go to the mission I was called to :D Other than that Im not sure what else to email about. Im doing really well. I have some work to do to get packed but Im pretty ready to head out. What's really cool is that I will meet up with the missionaries that came in at the MTC when I was there, I will meet with them when I am in Chicago. Im really excited about that.
I love being a missionary, its a different life and it definately changes you. Its pretty hard but its fun to do. I hope everyone is doing well! If you sent me a letter and I dont get it and it gets sent back to you, Im sorry but I will put my Italy Address here so everyone can have it :D
Elder Scott Andrew Collins
Italy Millan Mission
Via Antonio Gramsci 13/2
20090 Opera MI Italy
I hope everyone is well!
Sinceramente,
Anziano Collins
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