Elder Hymas' Italian Mission

The trio is so fun!  Okay story time, I ain't gonna do it justice, but I'll tell y'all the story.  It was a dark cold Italian night. We were getting back a little late from this ysa activity. And we got to the bus stop and there were 2 Africans there, we started talking to them a little bit, unfortunately I am unable to recall was exactly, but nevertheless while were were talking to them a bus came around this corner and the short African ( he had a fun little face, like not ugly, but fun, it is hard to explain) and he was like "that's our bus. We gotta go." In the most serious voice ever. And they just take off sprinting to a different stop to beat that bus, luckily that was our bus too, so we just take off with them running though some crowds and such. After we hopped on the bus with then it was the classic who are you guys, why are you here. Got em. Anyway that was the story more or less, one of then seemed more interested and he invited us to a thing t...

I am no longer in Alessandria, I am in Torino or Turin in English. They closed Alessandria for the Anziani because there is a shortage of Anziani in the mission. It is really sad to leave them... but now I am in a trio in Torino with Anziano Szvoboda (who was in the MTV with me ) and Anziano DeBeikas but spelt right lol. This will be fun. They are both cool fun guys. Anziano Szvoboda is from Switzerland and is like 22 the other is from California like 19. I am excited to meet new people and use this as an opportunity to keep changing, my language is not very good yet, but with these two I hope to continue  to improve. I will upload pictures some point dab. Anyway, it was cool yesterday we had a meeting with Daniele in person, the first time since we met him, it was so awesome, he has such strong faith in Christ, such a desire and he is very funny and a little weird, but weird is normal. We gave him a baptism date for the 14th of December. He is going to continue reading and prayi...

Okay this week was good. Had fufu and did things. It is cool seeing members help the recent converts victor and Betty. Betty gave a talk last week too, we helped write it with her. Being kind is the way to go, help others minister. Be selfless. Okay bye Vi amo Anziano Hymas  

So on sunday afternoon my Companion didn't feel well, but we had a lunch appointment, so we went and ate, some chicken ribs lasagna potatoes, you know. The  after that appointment we went back to the house for Anziano Taylor to lay down, because he wasn't feeling well at all.  he layed down for a couple hours I just cleaned the whole house. Then I started studying,  and I heard him throw up (I got him a throw up bowl though) so after he was down throwing up I went into the room to check on him, because usually you feel better after you throw up ya know? But not this time he just turned to me a was like "I can't move my hands" and his hands were stuck in like the special needs position, and he was in a lot of pain and he said he could feel it moving up, and it wasn't stopping and the pain was a lot and we didn't know what was going on so he told me to call President. President effectively said he will call us back once the talk to the mission doctor. ...

This week we did missionary work. Today we saw some cool places, this big cave in Italy or somewhere. What did you guys all think of general conference? I liked it a ton, I listened in English for all of them, but for some there was ALSO Italian, like I had a earbud in for English but the ward was watching in Italian. I liked when the Italian translatior said Hobbit. I liked Anziano Boom's talk and name. He said something that I liked, something along the lines of create a atmosphere of love so change can happen and wants to happen, you don't need to criticize and remind people of what they can do better all the time, they know. I also like what President Hinckley say about love and criticism and stuff, like sometimes criticism is needed, but you need to do so in such a loving Christ Like way.  I hope all of my pictures I ever post make you jealous, that is why they are there lolololol jk. Bye

6 weeks down in Italy, a few more to go lolololol. This week was really good, we had transfers, the greenie sister that was here with me, is now training here so we will be getting another brand new missionary. We met with Victor a recent convert, but he hasn't come to Church for a while,  cause he was working in the tomato place, but he is awesome,  he really loves his family,  and God, and the gospel. We should meet with Daniele soon. I am still getting absolutely eviscerated by the language but whatever. It was cool reading this week in Alma about the Anti Christ. It is really cool to see that his arguments against religion and Christ are they exact same ones people use now, like the exact same. It really just shows that God is real and knows what he is doing because then a high priest  and Alam respond to those accusations and questions. Also here is one of my favorite Scripture stories.  It is about the servant of Helaman... Kishkumen wanted to kill t...

This week was good, we had exchanges this week. I was with Anziano Hibbard, he is great he bought me a Pizza and apparently he doesn't buy anyone anything so. We had a missionary training yesterday in Millan and I saw some MTC missionaries. We had another lesson with Daniele, he is so awesome, he doesn't yet have a testimony of something's, but he really has a desire and knows what it takes. I got chocolate milk today  yummy, I love everyone so much a love being able to learn and grow I love Jesus Christ. I love the Gospel.  What else happened, I don't know. I forget. A missionary who came in like 75 visited for the first time sense they opened Italy up, it is awesome seeing their joy when they see the ward, cause when they were here there was no one. But we got to visit a very inactive member with him who was baptized right before he came so cool, she was soooooo happy to see him.