4/23/2012 Mt. Vernon

Hello Family!  Glad to hear from people every week!  Work was a little slow this week.  Not very high numbers and it was kind of depressing.  We did however meet a few potentials that we could teach.  Other then that it was slow.  We do have this guy moving in to the branch this week that has been taking lessons from the missionaries in Florida.  They have been saying that this guy is golden and is so ready to be baptized.  Should be fun talking with this guy sometime soon.  Mt.  Vernon is preparing for this event called Chalk the Walk at the beginning of May.  It is an event where people from everywhere come and use chalk to draw on the ground.  Some of the pictures I have seen are just amazing.  We will be helping with the organization of it and am way excited.
Love you all,      Elder Ariotti

Week 6 from Mt. Vernon

Dear Family:

 

Just to start off I am alright.  The weather did get a little scary up here.  Saturday night we had some wild wind and the biggest rain drops ever.  Nothing to extreme.  We are having exchanges this week for the mission.  Out of all the district I am in there is only one change.  It is this missionary that has been out for 21 months and is getting this last opportunity to train someone new.  Everyone in the district is staying for one more transfer. 

 

Last week was kind of a boring week.  We only had one good lesson with that small family I have been talking about.  The lesson went good.  The whole time we were teaching there was something different.  I could not quite place it but it overall felt more peacefull then all the other times we have taught them.  We set a date for this guys son to be baptized.

Hope all is well back at home.  Give everyone a hug for me.  Dont worry about me.  I will just be partying it up in Mt. Vernon!

 

Sincerely;

Elder Spencer Ariotti

Week 5 from Mt. Vernon

 How is everyone doing?  Hope everyone is doing well.  Hope easter was fun.  You guys had snow?  All we get in Iowa is rain and sun.  Did quite a bit of walking in the rain on friday.  We needed to be careful with our miles with the car so we took a day to do walking.  I did not get sick but it just wore me out.  We have been getting quite a few gifts from the Branch members this week.  Got a months supply of easy to make food stuff.  We also got a lot of easter candy.  Gonna gain a few pounds after this month is over.  Well for P-day today we are doing stuff with our district members.  We are going in town to visit a zoo.  Should be fun to do something different.  You all would love my district.  They are all fun loving and absolute party animals.  But they also have a lot of success with people.  They all connect well with those they teach and are just amazing people.  Sounds like we will be losing some elders with transfers being next week.  I get to keep my companion for 6 more weeks then I get someone to replace him and "break" me of my old habits that my trainer gave me.  I love the slang of being a missionary.


Spencer

Week 4 from Mt. Vernon

Dear Family:

 

Hey!  Conference was great!  Watched it at the church with other members.  Had an investigator at the last session.  She is a christian that comes from a family that is really religious.  She has said that if her family was not the way it is she would be mormon.  She is really interested about what we teach and really liked conference.  We visited Allen last night and had a long talk with him.  He is still very interested with us but is just really confused with life.  Said he was chatting with a childhood sweetheart that kind of ended with her saying "that is kind of creepy..."  She left the chat room quickly and he has been confused with that for the past 5 days.    The worst part is that he just barrels through it all.  But he does say that we are the only reason he has not yet commited suicide.  I hope we can really help this guy.

 

So everything is going well with the rest of the family?  Planting a garden?  Hope it is still alive.  Katherine is expecting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I did not hear anything about that.  Hope it is a girl.  But if it is a boy I will love him just the same.  The weather here is just weird.  The humidity is getting worst by the day and it makes it hot.  I am still alive and well and I hope I stay that way.  Thanks for the emails and everything else!

 

Sincerely;

Elder Spencer Ariotti