Hello
This is my weekly e-mail
to you. =) aren't you all so excited to see what kinda crazy awesome things
happened to me this week?!?!?! Oh the suspense!!! Well to start off I'd like to
tell you I've been hit by another car. I got hit last night while crossing the
street. It is kinda funny because I was crossing in front of a
stopped car but the man decided to start driving right as I was in front of him
and totally hit me. I was okay though he didn't get me too bad. As I walked by
the first thing he says to me (just so you can kinda get an idea of the Italian
way of thinking) is "non si passa qua!" which means "one doesn't
cross here!" haha instead of asking if I was okay. That's so typical
Italian though, to always blame someone else even if you hit them with your
car. It's like… excuse me IM WALKIN HERE! Yeah so as for mega interesting
things, that kinda top's off the week =) I'm okay though no injury whatsoever
other than a nice bruise on my leg.
So the
conference in Roma was awesome. Elder Texiera gave us excellent training. What
amazed me though is when he concluded he didn't talk so much about the mission
but how the mission is preparing us for life. He made sure that we understood
that after the mission there is no going back to the same life you had before
and if you think you are, or even have the desire to, the mission is not having
the effect on you it is designed to and it will all be in vain no matter how
many souls you saved or people you baptized as long as you don't change yourself.
I have noticed a lot recently that the church has really been cracking down on
R.M.'s(returned missionaries) too. I'm guessing there are a lot of guys today
who are coming home from their missions and still kinda of just putting off
things like marriage and a career. Elder Texiera told us that we
should get married as soon as the opportunity is presented and just start
life, career and a family right after the mission. A little intense but I think
it was necessary. There are too many guys who come home from their missions and
become inactive members or just sit around not doing anything. I promise you
guys that won't be me after the mission. Anziano Texiera set me right. He told
us that there are so many blessings waiting for us in a family and a career why
wait to receive them if they are made available to us. So yeah that was about
the gist of his talk. He talked a lot about missionary work too though and
about finding more investigators and stuff like that. He gave us some really
good encouragement to get the work moving along here. Italy is not doing too
well when it comes to the growth of the church as you guys may be aware of so
we needed Elder Texiera to come and tell us that we aren't doing a good enough
job and need to kick it up a notch.
Other than
the conference nothing to crazy happened this week. I'm excited for Mike getting
into byu I!! He gets to hang out with all my old friends. I will be sure to
make them aware that he's coming. They
will take good care of him. Haha he might be happy to have a bunch of 21 year
old girls to take care of him. =) Remember mom what I wrote you a couple months
ago about asking questions in your emails? You have forgotten so I will remind you again,
if you have questions just list them off at the bottom of your email instead of
scattering them all over the place in there or I have to keep going back and
forth between emails and it's just a pain in the behind because sometimes these
internet point computers aren't the most reliable or fastest things. So as for
your questions. Yes, I traveled 4 hours on a train to Cagliari to arrive at the
airport that takes me to Roma. The plane was great, it only took maybe 45 min to
fly there. As for my clothing. It is all doing fine. I have bought some new
stuff here. Italian suits and stuff are way better than American ones. And ALOT
cheaper. I bought some really nice slacks last week for 5 euro a pop. We'll see
how they hold up but I'm not too worried. I sent a letter to Kristin exactly 2
weeks ago so let me know when she gets it okay. I'm getting everyone’s mail I’m
pretty sure so don't let anyone worry. I miss you all have a great week.
Con amore
Anziano Kyle Hill
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