2/7/2013 - Montesilvano, Italy

"Me and my passion that not even the mission can stop!!  Found the guitar randomly in the apartment. Can only play on P-day"

2/6/2013 - Montesilvano, Italy

Ciao a tutti,

       So we had transfers this week. Looks like I'm finishing in Pescara. I am opening another companionship here at Pescara. My companion Anziano Whitfield arrives tomorrow. We were in Roma this morning and last night to get Anziano Alessandro's new companion Anziano Fossa (he's a greenie). All 4 of us will be here at Pescara. Anziano Whitfield is only one transfer younger than me in the mission so after I leave he will have little time in the mission left. I'm starting from scratch here in Pescara now because I decided to give all the work to the other companionship. Since Alessandro is training I figured it would be better for them to have a bunch of stuff to do so the new missionary doesn't get discouraged right off the bat. I hope Anziano Whitfield doesn't mind. It will be a rough last transfer but I can deal with it. Six weeks of breaking my back makes the race all the more worth it. 
       We had an interesting experience yesterday. There is a family that we found last week going door to door and we had our 2nd lesson with them yesterday. Before we left the husband said he wanted to ask a question, looked at his wife, and then turned back to us and said that they had the strangest sensation the last time we were at their house and that after we left they felt a strange sort of inner peace and all their worries went away for a little bit. They wanted to know what it was. I whipped open Galatians chapter 5 immediately and asked them if they felt any of the sensations listed under the "Fruits of the Spirit". After responding "yes" it was time to lay down some invites to pray and read the Book of Mormon  We left Alma 32 (it gets them every time) and we can expect baptismal invites the next lesson. =) BOOM!! man do I love missionary work!!! The Spirit does it all. You just gotta have some faith and preparation and he does the rest. 
       Our baptism got postponed but its no big deal. There were some "minor technical difficulties". So we will have to move it back a couple of weeks. Maria Luisa is still awesome and still totally wants to be baptized, so no worries. She is the daughter of the Bishop of another city in Sicily and step sister of our ward mission leader so she has many links. We have a general authority coming to speak to us next week in Roma too, Elder Kent F. Richards of the 70. It's gonna be exciting.  I love when we get training's form the general authorities. 
       Well I gotta go. I love and miss you all. Hope you have a great week Vi voglio bene.
     
 Con amore, Anziano Kyle Hill

1/30/2013 - Montesilvano, Italy

Ciao Tutti,

        Now you have a whole bunch of fotos to update my blog and facebook so I hope you are happy =) I wasted a ton of time uploading all these photos and sending them that I actually am left with very little time to write you. I wrote Mike a nice long email though about his mission call. I'm super stoked for him. He is gonna love England  I have met so many R.M.s from England here in Italy and all they say are really good things about the people there. Mike won't have to worry about starving to death in branches of 10 people in little tiny towns. He will eat a lot of potatoes, roast and fish. haha, not quite lasagna, pizza, and exquisite pastas but still good anyways. 

          I'm sorry I'm sending you such a short email. Not much has happened this week anyways other than Maria Luisa will be baptized on Saturday if everything goes to plan. I'll try and get some more pictures next week of members and stuff here in Pescara, also of the baptism.

        I hope grandma was okay with me waking her up at 2 in the morning, I send my apologies. It was nice to have 4 minutes to talk to her though. (he had to call about college applications & I didn't hear the phone ringing so he called his grandma Carolyn) I miss all of you so much. I don't want to leave though at the same time. I'm gonna miss Italy. It's so beautiful here and the people are awesome. I love everything about it and it will be really REALLY REALLY hard to leave. My visa and documents don't expire until April 2014 so I can leave and enter Italy and even work here as much as I want for another whole year. Maybe I'll take my wife or someone back here one day. If I can manage to get married before April haha. 

         Well that's about it for now have a great week and I love and miss you all a TON! Vi voglio bene.

          

         Con amore,   Anziano Kyle Hill  

1/25/2013 - Rexburg, Idaho

KYLE'S BROTHER MIKE RECEIVED HIS MISSION CALL TO

LEEDS, ENGLAND!!!  

HE REPORTS TO THE LONDON ENGLAND MTC ON MAY 30TH. =)

1/23/2013 - Montesilvano

Ciao Tutti,

     

      Well this week I'm writing you all from Roma. We had another Zone Conference this week. I got to do my last interview with president until my last day and renew my temple recommend. President told me that for my last transfer it's very likely that I'll be training an Italian which means I'd lose a lot more English and come home sounding like super Mario. haha =) At the conference I also had to bear my parting testimony to everyone, how close I am to the end. My group being so huge, we had about 12 missionaries who had to do it here in Roma. It took about an hour. Usually there's only one or 2 who have to do it. President was able to do a baptismal interview this week also for Maria Luisa who will be baptized on the 2nd of Feb. It's a good week for missionary work.

      I think it's really interesting that the missionaries shared the story about John Tanner with you because we shared the same story last Sunday night with a family. But we have a movie of the story too that we use, I don't know if the missionaries back home used it. It's really good. Something interesting too about that is that my ex-companion Anziano Bradshaw is a decedent of John Tanner. Cool stuff huh? Tell dad that when people assume that missionary work in Italy is hard they're right. However we are hard workers so in the end there's a lot of fruit. In fact most missionaries here will see at least 5 or 6 baptisms their whole time here; some as much as 18 or 20. We are a baptizing mission. Elder Jeffery R. Holland told me himself that at the airport when I came here.  He said that they don't send just any missionary to the Rome mission. The apostles know it’s not easy and they want only the best. Pres. Eyring said the same thing to our Mission President when he came here. Hard mission but hard workers, so in the end it equals out. 

      I forgot to send a whole bunch of Birthday wishes out last week =( please forgive me. SO HAPPY BIRTHDAY to the 2 Kristins and mom. =) Aunt Kristin sent me an email this week. Tell her not to worry and that it's not the end of the world when Obama gets elected. The President of Italy is a billionaire 80 year old guy who has a 30 year old trophy wife and cheats on her with 14 year old prostitutes. At least we haven't come this low in America. We'll get everything back in shape and if not Jesus will come down in the 2nd coming and fix everything himself. 

    Okay I love and miss you all and I gotta go. Have a great week and be excellent to each other. I hope the car thing gets worked out. I'm on Scott's side. Vi voglio bene. 

         Con amore

                       Anziano Kyle Hill

1/16/2013 - Montesilvano

Ciao Todos amigos mios,

           I don't think Mike will have his call already. That’s way too fast. It took me like 3-4 weeks if I remember correctly. Anyways I will make a prediction. I have a strong feeling he would do really well in the Russia Novasiberisk mission. Siberia is a beautiful place and I hear that Russian is one of the most beautiful languages in the world. Okay my companion says he’s coming here to Roma and that he will train him. There are two other missionaries here too. Anziano Esplin says Japan and Anziano Bird says Germany. We'll see what happens. I have some pictures I want to send you this week but we are at a weird ghetto internet point and I’m writing you on an IBM from like 20 years ago that doesn't even have USB ports but if I figure something out I'll try and get them to you. I hope you win some money mom on your game show, I don't remember that show at all but if you can make some cash an Audi R8 shouldn't be too out of our budget right? I saw a black one this morning! =) 
           No baptisms this week =( but they are coming don't worry. People just need a little more time than we thought. No need to worry. We will reschedule the baptismal dates by the end of this week and toward the end of January, start of February we should have quite a few. I did an exchange last week with a newer missionary Anziano Jones. We went to a members house and had dinner and a lesson. He's super timid, poor kid and said maybe 5 words the whole 3 hours we were there. So I had to do everything, in the end though it wasn't too bad because I got super tight with the whole family and they love me. They have two 16 year old twins who look like Anakin Skywalker and an inactive daughter who I was able to help a lot. The members here are starting to like me, especially the young adults and youth. A member told me last Sunday that I was the most "simpatico" (not sure how to translate that word, it means many things nice, funny, likable, attractive personality) missionary they've ever had here. I told them that it’s just because I'm Californian and we are more fun than the average Utah missionaries, haha. Italians think we are all crazy that we go to the ocean in California because they are CONVINCED it's full of sharks haha. I have to explain to EVERYONE that there aren't any sharks and it only happens every 20 years or so someone gets attacked in California. They think Jaws was a documentary instead of a film haha. 
           Well I'm gonna scapare here. Let me know SUBITO if Mike gets his call. Me and Anziano Alessandro are having a most excellent time here in Pescara. I miss and love you all. Vi voglio bene,
                   Con Amore, 
                             Anziano Hill