Firenze round 4, Christensen round 3!

Well we found out about transfers on Monday! I am staying in Firenze and I'm doing a third transfer with Anziano Christensen...crazy huh? So I will most likely leave in 6 weeks. I'm excited to stay. We are getting along really well, I love this city, and are work is going really well. I feel like this transfer we will get a lot of great stuff done. Our investigator Kreat is doing really well. He is close to baptism! However because of people going on vacation and what not, his baptism may not happen until September....when I most likely will leave....that stinks but that's OK. As long as he gets baptized! Its starting to get unbearably hot now. I woke up in the middle of the night last night because it was so hot. I eventually went on the floor and slept there because it was cooler and even then it was hard. Its going to be a long summer! I will spend all of it here in Firenze!(One of the hottest if not THE HOTTEST city in our mission). But that is okay I don't mind living here longer! I cant remember what happened last week. I just remember that it was very busy and that everything is going well. Honestly, I feel like pday was yesterday but here we are on another pday. I think this is the part I love most about being a Zone Leader. You are busy. We got more missionaries in our zone, they opened up 2 more companionships, one more in Prato, and one more in Pisa. We now have 24 missionaries in our zone that we take of. Its crazy to see how much our zone has grown since I have been here. Our zone used to be the smallest in the mission now it is tied for the biggest!!!!!!! Anyways, enough of that. Everything is good and I hope you guys have a great week! Ci si sente!

Crazy eights..........

So last week was sick!! We have seen tons of cool stuff happen! Mainly with all of the youth we are working with! The coolest thing that happened, happened last night. There is a man named Bruno, hes about 20 years old. He is a less active member of the church. The past 4 and half months we have been going to his house and teaching him, as well as teaching him English. Apparently our visits went a lot farther than we though. Last night we went over because they asked us to pick up some cake that they made. When we got there, we saw his girlfriend(also a member of the church) balling her eyes. She was crying so much and we were so confused. Her sister then came and told us what happened. Apparently they both were trying to get a job on a cruise ship with their mom, but Bruno kept getting denied. Then he finally decided that if he got denied one more time he would go on a mission. Yesterday he found out that got denied again and is now planning to go on a mission. It was so cool to hear that. His sister, afterwards, told us that our visits with him really touched him. She said we were a lot different than the missionaries in the past who went to him and asked him why he wasn't on a mission, he really liked the friendship that we made with him and slowly a desire to go on a mission grew. We also have another 18 year old named Bruno who was really far from the church and is now starting to come back to church because of what my comp and I are doing! Its sooo sick. Our investigators are doing really well! I don't want to leave Firenze right now, everything is going reallllllllllly well right now. I will find out next week if I go.....That makes me sad! Love you guys!

Its a bit warm....

Hello! SO I'm not sure if you all know but they changed missionary grooming standards recently. We are no longer allowed to wear backpacks because they don't want us to look like college students anymore. So they are having us wear satchels, we can wear khakis, and lighter color suits. We went into the market here and bargained with people and we got some good side bags for a good price. It was crazy to bargain! Crazy stuff. Also, all missionary companionships will have a tablet to use for missionary work in the next 6 months. I will most likely be done before it gets put into place but that is OK. The work is going pretty well. We have been able to meet with tons of new people who are awesome. Two of our new people are Andy and Eduardo. We really weren't sure how far along they would go with us but they are progressing really well which makes us really excited! One of our investigators, Franco...we found out something that kept him from be baptizing..meaning he was just scared of change...and it was great because we talked to him more and he will get be baptized. We just don't know when We had interviews with our new mission president, it was crazy. We went to Gli Uffizi today for p-day. It is one of the most famous museum here in Firenze. It was cool. There was a lot of art! Anyways I hope you have a great week!

New pres. in town

We were able to meet our new mission president yesterday. It was weird. He is really cool, just old school. He is going to be a really good mission president. He will help this mission a lot with our coordination with members in the work. He is a lot different than Pres. Wolfgramm. I think it felt weird to have a new president because everything is going to change, the ways things are done and what not. With a new president I could stay longer here in Firenze. I have no idea how he is going to do transfers, so honestly I have no idea whats going to happen. Our work is going reallly well. We found 3 more people this week and we are teaching a lot. Our zone is doing really well as well. All the missionary work in the Firenze zone is BLOWING up. It is really cool to see all of the success that is happening. I think that is my favorite part about being a zone leader. I really want to stay as one as well. It has really helped me be a better missionary as well as be more focused, there is not enough time for us to be able to be unfocused and I really love it. I heard that missionary work is going to be changing like crazy in the next few months. I have heard that they announced some crazy stuff in the broadcast, and they also have changed the grooming standards. I guess we will eventually find out all they have changed soon. Other than that all is going well. Its crazy to hear about everyone going out on missions. This is a crazy time to be a missionary because of all the changes that have happened in our mission as well as missionary work around the whole world. Its really cool being on the "front lines" to see the dramatic changes that have happened and all of the positive influences it is has had. Well you all have a great week!