Italy Milan Mission Anziano Jackson Puzey August 2022-July 2024

I t's another transfer day! Honestly one of the biggest plot twist of the mission so far. After one transfer in Prato I am now headed to Piacenza. I don't know much to tell about the city. All I know is I am back closer to Milan which is always a plus. I was super sad to leave this ward after just 1 transfer. The members really made me feel loved and I was looking forward to spending more time with them. I was also sad to leave the people we were teaching. But even Ashley said that she's positive that I'm needed in this new city. So if she can have that faith than I can too! The past few weeks have been good! Since my last email we had our lowest finding week right before our highest! It is quite amazing to think of just how many people we meet with and talk to are willing to meet again (although a lot of times they do fall through 😶). I think I've also learned to never make assumptions without all the information you need. We have one friend who we were about to g...

  Whatttttt an email? Yes, I'll try to write a bit about what's going on here in Prato! •Our friend Ashley chose a baptism date! I've never seen someone change so much! She went from not really believing in God to being so sure of His love for her. She also has such powerful experiences with the Book of Mormon. He holds it close to protect her and finds scriptures that help her with everything she has faced. •Our members are powerhouses at bringing the spirit and helping us! We've had lunches with members and friends or recent converts and the members bare such strong testimony. •Working with less actives has been a little focus here. We were able to visit a family with a member and it was great to hear them share their testimonies and be open about struggles. •We have some great missionaries in our district. I've had good exchanges. One took me to Siena. I felt like I was living in medieval time. They live in the city walls just around from a little piazza with a f...

Anziano Puzey did not write an email this week but did send pictures of an exchange he did in Siena Italy on Monday Jan 8-Tuesday Jan 9, 2024.  View from the Elders apartment that he stayed with for the exchange.

I have started and stopped this email many times through the transfer but seeing as it's over I thought I'd write a little something. Just as a reminder I was in Forlì, I just finished my second transfer with Anzaino Karren. This was the transfer with both Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years. Forlì is a little branch. We went between 9-20 people in church a week (yes the 9 was Christmas Eve). I was able to have many monday night dinners with our YSA (2 people) and made good friendships! Some of the best lessons were by people refering themselves (amazing). One of these lead us on a 20km round trip bike ride to a bascilica in the middle of farmland.  I had great experiences being with members for the holidays. And english class always left me laughing! We have some fun people.  I had many trips to Bologna. Honestly not my favorite but they have a nice Apple store. Oh and the train station is pretty cool.  For the new year I'm excited to restart the Book of Mormon. For th...

Well, we only have one more week of this transfer. It is only 5 weeks. We will find out if I get a new companion soon. Things are going pretty well! We have our 2 friends on date to be baptized. One just passed their baptismal interview this week. The other has been a little harder to contact🙁...I also have an old friend, from when I was back in Bressanone that lives in Trento, who has decided to be baptized! He is my best friend here in Italy and I am so happy to see how close to Christ he feels! We are praying that I will be allowed to go be there for his baptism.  While this transfer was short, it is still surprising how fast it has be end of next transfer is in 2024. How are we already so close to the end of the remember? Starting 2023 and realizing, it would be the full year that I would be here in Italy. And it felt like a very daunting task. But in the end it has been one of the best years and I can't believe how fast it's going. While I am close to where I trained the ...

Hello everyone! I know it has been awhile and for that I do apologize, but much has happened. For starters I left Como about 2 weeks ago. I was pretty sad... We had a good set-up in Como. I got along great with all the missionaries and I had to leave some of the first investigators that I had got to meet with on a pretty regular basis (they said they'd miss me btw). And we had to say goodbye to Sorella Watling as she went home to the Calabasas of England. Anyway I moved to Forlì. It's right next to Rimini where I was trained (our boarders touch but it's still like a 45 minute train ride). I was not the most excited about that but I did an exchange here once and met some members that I really enjoyed! And I wanted to go back to San Marino, so yay I guess! But I also had to remind myself it's really not about me anyone, it's where I'm needed. My comp and I are having a fun time while being here. We have never laughed so hard and have some constant pain for belly l...

We are coming towards the end of my 4th transfer here in Como! 2 more weeks, which is still a large chunk, but crazy nonetheless. Needless to say it has been a fast (almost) 6 months. We still have so many sweet people growing so much and showing excitement to learn even more! Not too many new people to talk about this time but many of the same as the past one!   We have also had some good p-day adventures the past few weeks as well! Seeing as I don't know where I will be moving to, I wanted to make sure that I really got my Milan p-day in so we finally had one with a lot of places I had been dying to see. We went to the biggest park in Milan with a castle (what!?!?!) We saw some Roman entry ways into the city (as Milan was the capital of the Roman empire for more than a decade). Went to Eataly (a big supermarket that is also in...Chicago:) )We went to the heart of Milan for fashion week. Which led to us seeing some random boy band and an old naked guy in the span of 2 minutes. And...