I definitely had my favorites talks of conference though. On Sunday we watched the Priesthood session, Saturday afternoon session and Sunday morning session. They don't show the last session because it would be too late. Anyways, Sunday was a really fun day. Anziano Poulson and his companion were having a baptism for this 10 year old girl, during the breaks between conference. Since Anziano Poulson forgot to put a program together, me and my companion had the luxury of giving talks. I was a little annoyed but I put myself aside and threw together a 2 minute talk about the blessings and importance of the Holy Ghost. Conference on this day was very very exciting though. I also really loved President Ucthdorf's talk on living above our calling. The "do it" switch analogy was pretty sweet huh?.
Elder Oaks talk about having righteous desires was pretty awesome. Unfortunately I forgot to bring all my notes to expound a little more on all the talks I liked, oops. The talk given about Christ-centered families was also one that really hit me hard. Doing all we can to continue family traditions such as prayer, scripture study and FHM. I liked how he explained that we don't always remember what we learned in the scriptures or what was taught during FHM but that we remember that we had it. I think that was awesome because it's so true. I could honestly never remember what we read during the week, or what was taught for FHM. Obviously we should try to remember and apply those lessons into our lives but remembering we are together and united as a family is what is important. So thank you Mom and Dad for always pushing us to do those family activities.
Elder Bednar's talk about receiving revelation answered a question I had previous to conference. Something the assistants have been teaching in the mission is to have questions. Have a question that we want answered written down before conference, church or any spiritual setting and it will be answered. It honestly works and I encourage you guys to do it as well for church or any other church type event. Finally, President Monson's talk on marriage was pretty sweet. haha I feel kinda helpless though as a missionary. We were all joking with Anziaino Poulson about it because he is going home Thursday. It was a sweet talk though and I thought it was cool how many of the speakers mentioned temple marriages and getting married. I bet Andy is feeling pretty happy with himself now.
We got transfer calls the other day and I am staying in Pavia. Anziano Bolnick is going to Torino 2 and reopening my copia (companionship) from when I was with Anziano Poulson. He will be training this transfer as well. I will be with Anziano Marino, an Italian missionary!...pretty sweet huh? He is about on his 7th or 8th transfer and is fluent in Italian (haha). He is like 25 years old so that should be interesting and is from our mission. I think he is from Pisa. It will be super sweet though, I'm totally gonna be fluent in Italian. Helen's grandson was baptized a week or two ago I think. The weather here has been pretty nice the last couple weeks. It has been really warm and I can tell this summer is gonna be super hot. We have to continue wearing our jackets until the 15th of this month though haha and it kinda sucks.
More about our area though. Domingo is set for his baptism this week! He originally wanted Anziano Bolnick to baptize him but he won't be here so I will be baptizing him. We are super duper excited for him. Our bishop was very hesitant for him to be baptized because not a lot of the ward knows him yet and he has only come to church once. It kinda sucked having conference last week because it is far away and we didn't have church. We feel that he is ready now though so we are going forward and being guided by the spirit. Our bishop said as long as we feel he is ready then he is fine with it.
Lourdes is continuing to read and pray. We were able to do our fast with her last week and it was awesome to see the blessings from it. She hasn't been able to come since she works so much but she just got her new schedule and she has the next 3 Sundays off from work. Pretty cool huh? We really feel that by coming to church it will really push her off the edge and really want to be baptized. Gerard is still just trudging along. We are really trying to increase his desire with everything. We call him every night and give him scriptures to read so we can maintain contact since we can only see him once a week. We have been doing lots of casa (tracting) lately and not had much luck. haha We haven't found a whole lot of people the last few weeks to teach but its ok. We have been blessed tremendously this transfer with everyone we have right now.
Gianluca will get the priesthood this week and get called as the Assistant to the Secretary of the bishopric haha. I'm wondering if they made that calling up. haha oh well.
Gianluca's Baptism (last week)
Thanks again for your updates; it is awesome to see how you are all doing and all the things going on in your lives. Dad, it is definitely a good thing that the Jazz suck for now. My desire to hear about them has dropped significantly, maybe it will be like that with the Cardinals as well. We will just have to see. Ute football? I don't think that will change much haha. We will see.
Love you all so much,
Tuck
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