Jun15
June 13th, 2016 // #24 of 2016
Hi Everyone.
Here we are again. I love you all! We have officially hit 18 months.
I thought that I would have died of old age before I hit this point of
my mission, but now everything is starting to become real. There is so
much I want to do, but now time is working against me. I love this
country. I love these people. All is well, for the most part.
Unfortunately we are having some wifi problems at our church, and we
have had them ever since I arrived here in Cosenza. We have tried
really hard to get some of the ward members to help us out with this
problem, but we aren't getting a lot of help. SO...I will have to
postpone my Skype call from this Saturday June 18, to the following
Saturday on June 25th. I will be calling from Italy, my time at 7pm,
and so that would make it 11 am for you all back home. I will be
calling down to Elwood and to make sure that there is enough space for
everyone...I was thinking that we could do it outside on the front
lawn. Let me know if you have any questions or any suggestions or if
you cannot make it and we will see what we can do. SO EVERYONE PLAN on
Saturday June 25th at 11am. I cannot wait!!!
We have had one wild week. It started off last Monday morning when
we woke up at 3:45 in the morning to catch a bus that was heading to a
city called Taranto. Taranto is where we hold our zone conferences.
Monday Morning we played soccer and had a good time. That evening
Anziano Stanley and I, along with our Sister that is over the sisters
in our zone, prepared for the conference on Tuesday. Tuesday as you
can probably imagine, we held our zone conference. It was a
bitter-sweet. Sweet because we were able to be lifted and strengthened
spiritually and Bitter because it was the last conference that we will
have with President Waddoups. He and Sister Waddoups will finish their
mission here in about two weeks and our new Mission President will
arrive at the end of this month. I have really grown to love our
Mission President. He is a powerful guy and would give you the shirt
off of his back. The conference went well and we have a good time.
Also at the conference we received our mail and I got a big ole
birthday package as well as some birthday cards. I would like to say
thank you for all of the birthday wishes, prayers, cards, letters and
everything else. I have felt so much love from home these past few
weeks and I am grateful for that. I love you all.
Anziano Stanely is the MAN. I love the kid to death. We have clicked
so well right from the beginning and it has been the biggest blessing.
We both work in the same way and we have been on the same page from
day one. He comes from Kamas, Utah and I played football with a few
kids that he went to school with. He is a champ and I am lucky to be
serving with him.
As for our work, things are going a little bit rough at the moment.
We have our investigator named Eugenio who is doing alright. He is a
good kid, just doesn't have a lot of desire at the moment. We are
going to be hitting the streets, knocking on some doors and working
with our members. We need to find ourselves some new people to teach
and some new people to work with. At the moment we are working a lot
with some less actives and trying to get them back into the groove of
things. I will give a better update on that next week.
This week we will have District Meeting in Crotone, which means that
I will be able to see The Bullocks one last time before they finish
their mission. They arrived in Crotone when I arrived in Crotone and
they quickly became another set of grandparents for me. We served in
Crotone for 3 transfers together and we have kept in touch ever since.
Also we will be going on Exchanges with the Elders, so I will have the
chance to see lots of the people that I used to work with back when I
started my mission. I am pretty excited.
In closing, I would like to share my testimony of the unfailing and
unwavering love that our Savior has for each and every one of us. It
has always struck me that a Man without sin, without blemish of any
kind, would voluntarily take upon Himself the heavy burden of all of
our weaknesses, pains and sins. There is a line from a Hymn that I
love and it says...
"Never can I repay thee, Lord,
But I can love thee.."
We love Him, because first He loved us and He loved us enough to walk
out into a garden alone, suffer for our sins, fall upon His face and
bleed from every pore. He loved us enough to take a beating across His
back, to carry His own cross until He no longer could, and He allowed
nails to be driven through His hands, wrists and feet. We will never
be able to fully repay Him for that infinite and atoning sacrifice,
but as the hymn says...We can love Him. We can become like Him. That
is the purpose of this life, to become like Him; to love like Him; to
live as He lived. I love Him and I am grateful for His perfection. He
is my King, my Savior and my Friend. I often think about what it will
be like to one day stand before the Redeemer of all Mankind. In that
moment, I believe that we will be surprised at just how great and deep
His love truly is for each and everyone one of us. Let us Love the
Lord and strive to become more like Him, for with Him and only because
of Him and His unfailing love...we shall be eternally happy.
I love you all!! I am grateful for you all and I would like to wish
you a great week. Remember, Saturday June 25th at 11am. It's going to
be a blast. I love you!
--
Anziano JarDee Nessen
Italy Rome Mission
Romans 8:35-39
Here we are again. I love you all! We have officially hit 18 months.
I thought that I would have died of old age before I hit this point of
my mission, but now everything is starting to become real. There is so
much I want to do, but now time is working against me. I love this
country. I love these people. All is well, for the most part.
Unfortunately we are having some wifi problems at our church, and we
have had them ever since I arrived here in Cosenza. We have tried
really hard to get some of the ward members to help us out with this
problem, but we aren't getting a lot of help. SO...I will have to
postpone my Skype call from this Saturday June 18, to the following
Saturday on June 25th. I will be calling from Italy, my time at 7pm,
and so that would make it 11 am for you all back home. I will be
calling down to Elwood and to make sure that there is enough space for
everyone...I was thinking that we could do it outside on the front
lawn. Let me know if you have any questions or any suggestions or if
you cannot make it and we will see what we can do. SO EVERYONE PLAN on
Saturday June 25th at 11am. I cannot wait!!!
We have had one wild week. It started off last Monday morning when
we woke up at 3:45 in the morning to catch a bus that was heading to a
city called Taranto. Taranto is where we hold our zone conferences.
Monday Morning we played soccer and had a good time. That evening
Anziano Stanley and I, along with our Sister that is over the sisters
in our zone, prepared for the conference on Tuesday. Tuesday as you
can probably imagine, we held our zone conference. It was a
bitter-sweet. Sweet because we were able to be lifted and strengthened
spiritually and Bitter because it was the last conference that we will
have with President Waddoups. He and Sister Waddoups will finish their
mission here in about two weeks and our new Mission President will
arrive at the end of this month. I have really grown to love our
Mission President. He is a powerful guy and would give you the shirt
off of his back. The conference went well and we have a good time.
Also at the conference we received our mail and I got a big ole
birthday package as well as some birthday cards. I would like to say
thank you for all of the birthday wishes, prayers, cards, letters and
everything else. I have felt so much love from home these past few
weeks and I am grateful for that. I love you all.
Anziano Stanely is the MAN. I love the kid to death. We have clicked
so well right from the beginning and it has been the biggest blessing.
We both work in the same way and we have been on the same page from
day one. He comes from Kamas, Utah and I played football with a few
kids that he went to school with. He is a champ and I am lucky to be
serving with him.
As for our work, things are going a little bit rough at the moment.
We have our investigator named Eugenio who is doing alright. He is a
good kid, just doesn't have a lot of desire at the moment. We are
going to be hitting the streets, knocking on some doors and working
with our members. We need to find ourselves some new people to teach
and some new people to work with. At the moment we are working a lot
with some less actives and trying to get them back into the groove of
things. I will give a better update on that next week.
This week we will have District Meeting in Crotone, which means that
I will be able to see The Bullocks one last time before they finish
their mission. They arrived in Crotone when I arrived in Crotone and
they quickly became another set of grandparents for me. We served in
Crotone for 3 transfers together and we have kept in touch ever since.
Also we will be going on Exchanges with the Elders, so I will have the
chance to see lots of the people that I used to work with back when I
started my mission. I am pretty excited.
In closing, I would like to share my testimony of the unfailing and
unwavering love that our Savior has for each and every one of us. It
has always struck me that a Man without sin, without blemish of any
kind, would voluntarily take upon Himself the heavy burden of all of
our weaknesses, pains and sins. There is a line from a Hymn that I
love and it says...
"Never can I repay thee, Lord,
But I can love thee.."
We love Him, because first He loved us and He loved us enough to walk
out into a garden alone, suffer for our sins, fall upon His face and
bleed from every pore. He loved us enough to take a beating across His
back, to carry His own cross until He no longer could, and He allowed
nails to be driven through His hands, wrists and feet. We will never
be able to fully repay Him for that infinite and atoning sacrifice,
but as the hymn says...We can love Him. We can become like Him. That
is the purpose of this life, to become like Him; to love like Him; to
live as He lived. I love Him and I am grateful for His perfection. He
is my King, my Savior and my Friend. I often think about what it will
be like to one day stand before the Redeemer of all Mankind. In that
moment, I believe that we will be surprised at just how great and deep
His love truly is for each and everyone one of us. Let us Love the
Lord and strive to become more like Him, for with Him and only because
of Him and His unfailing love...we shall be eternally happy.
I love you all!! I am grateful for you all and I would like to wish
you a great week. Remember, Saturday June 25th at 11am. It's going to
be a blast. I love you!
--
Anziano JarDee Nessen
Italy Rome Mission
Romans 8:35-39
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