Wake up!! Everyone's fast asleep at like 4 in the morning, that's funny.. Tanner's timing worked out perfect.. Anyway.. How is everyone?? I see everything is going fine because nobody e'mailed me this week!! Haha all is well.. Thanks for the e'mail Dad.. What a week!! Wow it's so crazy here.. I have no clue what's going on 24/7.. Okay maybe not that much, I love teaching.. And no matter when we are in a lesson I can understand everything, but other than that this world is just crazy.. So anyway, this week was awesome.. I'm sending you a couple of pictures from the last couple weeks.. I'm still trying to figure out the best way of doing everything.. It's hard being a greenie cause everyone else sorta forgets the little things that I have no clue about so I ask a lot of questions.. As to mail, I have a couple letters being sent home today I think.. But I'm still trying to figure that out, too.. My companion is teaching me to work hard, we're doing great and the work is rolling forward but there is just no time for anything!! We teach nonstop, go nonstop, walk nonstop, and pray nonstop.. It's the best!! But yeah, still learning the ins and outs of everything, mail, laundry, packages, pictures, etc.. But sooner or later we'll have it down.. Like I said before.. E-mail me and I can write you if it's not family, if it is family then I can e-mail you all.. At least that's how I think it is.. Chalk that up to being a greenie I guess!! Okay so this week.... WAS AWESOME!! Wow.. Okay we set our first baptismal date with a lady named Antonella.. She's wonderful and it's going to happen.. I was so excited, she was so excited, ahh it was all just wonderful.. It's a big hill to climb now, but a week in to have a date set, I think it's a miracle.. We weren't even teaching her when I first got here, she's doing great.. Yesterday we had a lunch appt with a less-active member and he made the most amazing pasta.. Ahh it doesn't get much better than that.. We taught a lesson yesterday to a man named Alan.. It was at the park by our house which is right next to the old stadium for the Napoli soccer team and it has a basketball court right outside of it that is just awesome.. I'll send pictures cause really it is the coolest thing in the world.. It is so unbelievably hot here!! I never stop sweating, and Agosto is the worst.. People are barely wearing clothes and we're walking around in white shirts, slacks, and ties.. They must think we're insane.. I love it.. Haha really wish I would have got another e-mail or something so I could answer questions because I wanna know what you want to know!! The work is going forward like crazy, our investigators are progressing and we barely have time to do anything else besides appointments, I couldn't be more happy about that.. So we went to Pompei last week, that was soo cool.. I'm sending you a picture of that and it was so unreal.. It is like a huge city! So awesome.. The stadium and everything was so cool.. Today we are going to Napoli Underground..Apparently there is an ancient city that is built under the city.. I don't know a lot about it but maybe you can look it up online and check it out.. It's supposed to be pretty awesome.. So August is the month where everyone leaves, I told you that, but it's also the month when everything is on sale and wow the places are going nuts.. Everyone we talk to on the street has like four or five bags of new clothes.. Anyway, tomorrow is Zone Conference down in Pozzuoli.. Pozzuoli is right next to us and it's where Paul landed on Italy.. Pretty cool.. I'm excited for that.. Anziano Grigg and Anziano McCallister are our Zone Leaders and we're working with the Assistants today.. I'm learning so much but yet I have so far to go.. Every single day is a marathon, it's hot, it's far, it's confusing, but yet I've never been more happy in my life.. Anziano Grigg is helping me with everything, like the little details.. My Babo is the absolute man and is teaching me so much.. I told you that he dies in about 4 weeks so we're sprinting to the finish for sure.. I love him.. Anyway, I still don't have everyone's e-mail addresses and hope you can at least write me with your e-mail so that I can write you every once in awhile! That's okay though, we have nothing but time.. I read a talk today by President Uchtdorf last General Conference.. I've read it before but this time something stuck out to me.. It's on patience and the importance of such.. For FHE this week try and get everyone together and read through that talk and talk about it.. It's incredible.. It can help you in every aspect of every part of your life.. With others, at work, at school, football field, with me.. All of it.. I wanna know what each one of you think and how you think that talk can help me or help you because patience is definitely something I need right now.. Anyway, the pictures are of us at the house, the one of Napoli is amazing,buildings just stacked on each other.. It's so cool.. The other one is of me and Anziano Grigg at Pompei, I have more and forgot to get them off of the camera so yeah some other time.. And then the picture at the temple site which is pretty cool.. It's absolutely amazing there, 40% bigger than Temple Square's acreage.. The other pictures of me opening up my Golden Transfer at the Villa.. Haha they're pretty sweet.. Anway, my time is growing short.. We have alot to do today.. I love you all and am so thankful for each and everyone of you.. I'm working as hard as I can and I promise to do so for two years.. The Lord is with us in all that we do, trust Him, pray to Him.. What matters to you, matters to Him, He loves us that much.. Remember.. "We should never be so busy to not be able to contemplate each decision with a prayer" I love you all and I'll talk to you again next week.. Below is my address, too..I LOVE YOU!!
Anziano Gatchell
Jacob 6:12 "Oh be wise, what need I say more?"
Anziano Gatchell
Via G Iannelli 23
80128 Napoli, NA
ITALY
(Cool huh, it has my name in it;))
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