21/02/07

Hey everybody, Well I just got your letters yesterday night from the weekend, it was presidents day Monday so everything was closed. What did you speak on at the singles ward dad? Yea I’ve gained quite a bit of wait since I got here, I weighed in yesterday at 175 which is up like 18 I think from when I first entered the MTC. But I work out everyday, I started lifting with some of the ex BYU football players a while back, and I still run & school these kids at basketball everyday. So I’m not getting fat, just eating a lot. I can’t believe how cold it is there, we barely need jackets most days, all the snow had melted and then we got down poured Monday. And it’s all slowly melting so it looks like spring in February. I can’t believe this is my second last PDAY in the MTC, the times gone by so fast. I didn’t get a chance to write you all Sunday like I usually do because we had a few problems happen this week with people in the District, so as zone leaders we were in a few meetings, and then checking up on companionships, so by the time we were done our personal study time was over and it was dinner. One of the sisters in my district has a hernia in her stomach so she had to leave on Tuesday and I had to approve it and then get it approved by the president. And so she’s in and out of here everyday. One of the sisters hustled me in 2 litres of coke...a cola :D so that made my dad yesterday. OOOOOOOOO yea I had talked to me Branch Pres about getting my Patriarchal Blessing a few weeks ago. I had it done yesterday by Patriarch Jenkins. It was amazing. The first 10 seconds of it hit me like a brick wall because I really felt like this pertained to me. I’ll send it or a copy home when I get it, and probably shouldn’t write it in an email. But yea it’s done so that’s good. Sorry I haven’t mentioned anything about my car, thanks you all for everything to get it sold, I appreciate it. If you’re busy you’re not homesick, so I try not to think about it. Well Mom I’m glad to hear you have a new calling, I just did a talk on Sunday about callings. So what exactly are you doing? Are you still dads assistant and still employment specialist? We all have to do our part to build up the kingdom so just work hard in those callings. Well this past week has been pretty uneventful, we taught the 3rd lesson in Italian which went REALLY well. The conjugations were better, we answered questions better. Somebody has an Andreas Bocelli album and I was listening to it. I can actually understand a lot of it which was pretty cool. The songs aren’t as good when you understand them ahaha Italian is a beautiful language, and I’m looking forward to eating some good food. Well hopefully everything else is going good there, thanks for all the letters they make nights here more fun. Keep the faith work hard, I love you all and I will talk to you later on, oh yeah I get my flight plans Friday, and like I said I will be able to call. So March 5 in the Am, if you have any questions email them to me this week and I will get back to you with the email next week, and then I’m off to Italy. OK TAKE CARE LOVE ANZIANO COSTA