10/02/2007

Sorry everybody the LDS mail was down Wednesday, so I couldn’t email anybody and I sat in front of the computer waiting for it to load for like 30 minutes. Anyways this week has been good. The district that came in before us is leaving Tuesday so our Branch Pres had to call new zone leaders for the Italy missions in the MTC....so myself and Elder Tilini were called to be the new zone leaders for everybody. Were getting about 10 elders and sisters on Wednesday which means we will be orientation them…which will be our first shot at the job. Zone leaders basically look after all the districts, The district leaders write us letters on how their elders and sisters are doing and we need to comment on how they can improve, etc. We also are basically responsible for everybody, and organizing sacrament meetings (who’s praying, blessing sacrament, hymns, etc). So I guess that is the biggest news this week. I got the study journals which were in perfect timing, I just finished the last page of my old study journal the day I got it. So thanks mom for sending them. I appreciate that. I am really happy to hear that you’re all being more diligent in studying. The Lord will bless you, continue to work and he will eagerly bless you daily. I’m really proud of you all, keep working keep studying keep learning. We taught the first lesson in Italian on Monday to 3 investigators to, that was intense...teaching the gospel in a whole new language. We didn’t have perfect conjugations but our teacher said it was molto bene per la prema lezzione. Everything else is good to. About 23.5 more days until I’m off to Italy. I’ll let you all know now that I’m allowed to buy a phone card here for long distance. So I can call home when I’m in the Airport. I can get a long distance phone card for like 7$. So I get to the airport at 5am…and It would be between 8-10am you time that I would call. If I called from Utah, but there’s a few weeks till then so We can figure things out in the next few weeks. I got a really good email from Germain this week, that definitely put some things into perspective, and definitely helped me out. Thanks you all for the dear elders and all the support, I appreciate it. Keep y’all heads up and work hard. Voi in Italian means Y’all so ..I can use it in English :P. Love you all take care Anziano Costa