Reggiano!

Ciao! Hello Everyone! This week was a bit crazy. But the way it ended is that we fixed a baptismal date with a man who will be baptized this week! We are very excited. Roberto, our baptismal date, has made so much progress and he is so happy to be baptized. He has been n investigator for a long time but is finally there! We have that going on. We are working with another kid named Puochner, He is from Haiti. He is so cool. He is our age as well! He loves coming to church, and loves the Book of Mormon. We saw him yesterday an we established a date for his baptism! He was excited. Other than that we are still working hard to find more people. It is still raining. It has been doing this for a long time! I'm really tired of it but that's ok I guess. I finally got new shoes last week! I sent picture so that you all could see the new shoes I got. They were only 45 euro which was decent. They feel really nice and they don't have holes! Its great!!!!!!! Yesterday, we met an African lady who has been in Virginia!!!!!!!!!! It was funny because once she said she had been in Virginia, I threw my arms in the air and screamed yes. I was with another missionary and he just started laughing really hard. She turned out to be really cool. She lives in Parma so it will be hard for us to visit her often but vediamo. I cant believe that this transfer is almost already over!!!!!! I just got here. We start week number 5 next week. Crazy. I keep forgetting that my birthday is this week. I have refused to tell people. some know, but most no. haha. Anyways love you all!

Snow time.....

Buongiorno a tutti! Allora, this has been a good one. We are very busy all of the time. Which is nice. unfortunately it is snowing right now, which makes it difficult to get around places. So one of our investigators is making tons of progress. It's really awesome. He met with the missionaries almost 8 months ago, which is a long time. He wasn't really making tons of progress and it seemed like he wasn't interested. Now, he has changed his life so much and he is so excited to get baptized. We don't have a date for his baptism but we will get one soon. Its really cool to how much his life has changed ever since he decided to live the commandments of god.He is so much happier now than he has ever been. So its been really tiring. Its been awhile since I have had so much to do, so it gets me really tired. Its nice though, because it makes it easier to fall asleep at night. We should have two baptisms at the end of this month on the 26th of January, which would be really cool. Its really awesome, the ward is helping us out so much. Especially the Bishop. He has met with all of our investigators and has been willing to come to lessons with us. It is so awesome. The work is going so much easier with all of this support from the members. Help out the missionaries in everything! They need it. Its much easier with all of your help. We just had a conference were we went over all the basics of missionary work. Our leaders are getting everyone ready for the income of new missionaries, we should have a total of 200 missionaries by the end of June. right now there are 138 missionaries.... that's a lot of missionaries! Well I'm running out of time. I love you guys! Read the Book of Mormon! It will change your life!

Week 2...let the games begin!

Hello! I am doing very well here in Reggio Emilia. Last week, the sister missionaries had a baptism and that was really awesome. We were able to bring some of our investigators. It was really cool. Also, this past week the sisters gave us a lot of their investigators(all masculine) to avoid any problems..so our work is cut out for us now. We actually dont have enough time to see everyone we need to see. Its great! We also have found some new people and we are excited. Its really awesome to be so busy like. Its definately a change of pace for me which is nice. Its also awesome because the ward here just got a new bishop and he is pushing hard core for more missionary work and he is helping is out so much. He asked for the emails of our parents so that he could email you all. He is awesome! The ward is helping us out so much. There are going to be tons of missionaries that are going to be coming in our mission in the next few months. In one group of missionaries there will be something like 50 some missionaries. THATS A LOT OF PEOPLE! I might have to train again, vediamo. Anziano Day and I are getting along really well. He is a pretty good cook as well. He was very excited to be with some one who had an Italian comp because he wants to improve his italian. I will some more pictures next week because I forgot to bring a chord to hook up my camera to the computer. Today I went looking to buy new shoes but I couldnt find any shoes for anything under 50 euro so I held out and I will keep looking. I refuse to pay so much for shoes. I got some new pants and 2 new ties. We spent most of our day in parma today. Tomorrow we will go to milano for a training, so that will be fun! I hope that you are all well! Love, Anziano Collins

Reggio Emilia!

Well I am in my new area. It's crazy to be in a different are. Here is my new address. Viale IV Novembre, 8 Reggio Nell'Emilia 42121 Italia MY new comp is really cool. We get along and we are doing some good work. For new years we had to stay inside almost all day so that was cool. We did some cleaning and chilled. Its been weird because here there are tons of foreigners and the city is less clean and there are no mountains. But that is okay I really like it. The work is going really well here. We have the sisters in our ward as well so I am excited about that. They are having a baptism and I get to give a talk this weekend so that will be awesome. We have tons of investigators here so that is nice. The people here are crazy open. I was so shocked the first time I talked with some people on the street. It was funny. The other day in church I met tons of members and I met some people from Moldavia(I will give anyone a euro if they know where that is on the top of their heads) and so I asked them how to say how are you in Moldavian. I learned it and then a few days later I ran into from Moldavia and I was able to ask him how he was in Moldavia. It made my day. My district is made up of fairly young missionaries. Its weird. I dislike changing areas because there are tons of missionaries there that you don't know but that's ok. Today we went to the Ferrari factory. It was really cool. I saw lots of fast cars. Christmas day we ended up watching parts of Kung Fu panda 2. We didn't have enough time to watch it all unfortunately but I didn't care. I had lots of fun just hanging out with La famiglia Tagliavia. I'm doing well. Sorry I didn't have time for email last week, we were really busy saying goodbye to everyone. I hope you are all good! Love you!