Hey guys, i got some crazy news. On thursday, we had zone conference and i had my interview with President Kelly and the first thing that he said to me was, well Anziano, you did exactly what i wanted you to do in Caserta. I feel like it's time that we go back to 2 missionaries there. I think it's best that you leave Caserta and go to finish your mission somewhere else.

Saturday evening, the phone rang, and it was guess who, Anziano Packer. He said that i'll be transfered to Rome to be zone leader.
I was stoked. Its going to be so cool to be serving in the capital of Italy, and even sweeter to be serving in the city of Paul.
Its like a bitter sweet. Im upset that i have to leave all of the sucess that we've been having here, above all, the baptisms of Forster and Rosaria, but, as long as they happen, thats what's important.

It's nice to know that it'll be my last city too. I'll be living with the assistants, but, unfortunately, Anziano Packer is not one of them anymore, he got discharged and is actually coming to the Napoli zone, so, thats a bummer, i thought we'd be living together again, but, i guess not.

Well, enough about that, like last week, i gotta go and get some stuff done. i gotta finish packing. But, i did want to talk about the p-day activity we did today. It was sweet. We went to the Reggia (the palace) you should look it up online, but, we did a lot of walking in it and in the backyard of it.

love you guys!

I'll get you my adress next week, but, you can send stuff to the Piazza Carnaro 20 adress. That's actually my new church too.

I dont have much time on the computer for today. So, i'll try to get through the main points of the week, relatively quickly..
The work is going really well right now. Rosaria is doing well, we dont have a specific date for her baptism, but, it'll be in about 2 weeks, the only problem is her work schedule, and this is preventing us from setting a solid date, but, it'll happen in about 2 weeks. Also, yesterday, we met with Forster, our sweet investigator from Ghana, and he's doing great. He came to church on sunday and yesterday when we had our appointment, we taught him the plan of salvation and right after, we asked him if he would follow the example of Christ by being baptised, and his response was, "well, yeah, i alredy decided that i want to be baptized." It was sweet, we initially set the date for the 4th of February, but then he said he wanted to do it earlier, so, we set it for the week before that, so the 28th of January. And then when we got home, and we thought about it, that date is only a week and a half away. So, its probable he wont be baptized that day, because we still need to teach him at least 3 or 4 more lessons and we need to do his interview. So, it would be much more reasonable if we did the baptism on the original date, the 4th of February. But, we'll see.We also have about 4 or 5 other investigators who are making progress and the inactives that we're working with are doing great. Its cool, becasue for the most part, these inactives are the only members of their families and when we go, sometimes we end up teaching other family members. So the work is going really well and we're really excited about all of the potential we have here. There's not much else to add to that. Sorry about the short letter.
Love you tons,
Anz Lane

Work here is going good right now. This week we unfortunately lost some investigators, but,we found a few and some of our investigators are making some good progress. We have Rosaria, who should be getting baptized on the 1st of February and also there's Forster, a man from Ghana. He's a stud. We had an appointment with him this last week and we were super bold and he understood why he needs to be baptized again. It seems like with most of my African investigators in the past have had a problem with being baptized again. But, we got through with him and he came to church on Sunday for his first time. Then yestreday we saw him again and we taught him and his sister and her husband. It was a very memborable evening, not necessarily in a good way. So, we started off watching the restoration movie, and then after they started making us some foo foo african food. Bascially mashed potatoes and corn starch. Then, the african soup... chicken bones, legs, blood, organs, and cow intestense. All of this stuff mixed up together. I really wanted to throw up, but, i man'd up and threw it down my throat. But, the appointment was good and we all felt the spirit.

Our inactive work is progressing as well. We're having a good amount of sucess working with them and in the near future we should start seeing some people return to church. The assistants came by again yesterday to deliver all of my packages and letters that have been sitting in Crotone for the past month and so that made me happy. It stinks, the day i left crotone, 2 packages came and 5 letters. Then they got a few more.

Well, that's about it, im sorry my emails are getting more and more boring each week. I'll try to beef them up a little bit. So, thats it for this week. I know im forgetting some stuff, but, i hit toe big things. Love you guys,
Anziano Lane

Dear Sister Haberl and Sister Lane,

My name is Georgia Anderson. We were recently visiting some family near Amalfi, Italy, and we ran into you sweet sons while they were making a quick stop on their way back from doing some splits. We had a great visit with them, and I wanted to let you know how healthy they look, and how wonderfully happy their countenances are. It was especially great for me to run into such content looking missionaries, as we currently have a son serving in Toronto. I hope he is doing as well as they are!

You can be very proud!

All the best,

-Georgia Anderson
Cottonwood Heights, Utah

Hey guys,

We had another nice week here. We're having a lot of fun and the work is going descent. The end of last week was pretty sweet, we got to go and teach a family that comes to english class about the church and they loved it, but then we tried to set another appointment with them a few days ago, but they dont want to see us again. So that really stunk. And then we got to play some basketball on new years eve with a bunch of potential investigators and this saturday we're gunna try to set some appointments up with them. Then on sunday, we had 3 lunch/dinner appointments, so, we about died and in addition we had correlation and our branch mission leader is a stud. He's an american guy and he knows what he's doing. Its really the first time in my misison that i've had a branch mission leader on the ball like this dude. So, he's gunna help us out a lot i think. Then on monday we had our semi-annual cleaning day. We had to stay home in the morning to clean the house and it was nice and clean after. Then we went to battipaglia to do splits with the missionaries there. It was cool, I did splits with guess who? a missionary i've know for a long time, ever since i started, Anziano Urry. It was good seeing him again, and things went well. Then, yesterday, on the way back home, we went by the most beautiful place i've ever seen, a place called the Amalfi Coast. Apparantly in the movie cars 2, they drive along it, and it was sweet, and the pics that i sent home are from yesterdays trip. The thing is we took and extra 2 hours doing that yesterday, so today we've gotta cut our p-day a little short, so, we'll be done in a few minutes. But, I saw some of the most incredible stuff i've ever seen yesterday. This entire zone of Naples is sweet. It's definitely the sweetest part of Italy. Then, today, we came here to the base a little early and i had to get my pants hemmed and also we played some b-ball on some nice indoor courts. Then we had subway for lunch and we did shopping on the base, we got some good stuff! Im about out of stuff to talk about, so, i'll just finish the email here, love you guys, ciao ciao!
Anziano Lane


Anziano Landon wrote:

these are some sweet pics from the amalfi coast and from a place called caiazzo and of our Christmas party and then with the Lambo. Caserta is sweet!!
love you guys!

Hello! Our son, Anziano Justin Cox, just returned from serving his mission in the Rome, Italy Mission. We had the opportunity to go back with him for a few weeks to visit the different places he served and meet the wonderful people he had the opportunity to rub shoulders with. While we were in Crotone we ran into your sons and had such a nice visit with them! Justin served in Crotone two months before he finished his mission and LOVED the people there. That was one of the places he definitely wanted to show us while we were in Italy. We had the opportunity to attend the branch there and enjoyed visiting with your wonderful missionary sons! What great missionaries they are! Hope you enjoy the pictures!

Warmest regards:

Pat & Jennifer Ross/Boise, Idaho

Awesome week in Caserta. December 28th, 2011

this week was great. Last Thursday we found 2 new investigators and we'll hopefully see them tonight, and then Friday was way tight too. We did a ton of work and we got to teach a few lessons. then I had one of the most memorable Christmas Eve's ever. It was awesome. We had a party during the evening with the Reber's (the senior couple) and with a member family and another southern baptist american family. Both the member and the baptist dude are Chaplains in the Navy and We got to share a lot of cool experiences. We had an American Christmas dinner (which is way better than Italian Christmas dinner becuase i hate sea food and its tradition here to eat seafood for Eve and Christmas) Anyways, we ate and then we had a stroy time where each of us shared an experience of a Christmas that meant a lot to them in the past. It wsa really spiritual, and then i remembered the testimony meeting that we do every year as a family on the Eve and shared my gratitude for the 2 families and the Reber's for their military service and also to my companions for all they do. And then everyone else did it as well, and it was sweet. Then one of the members pulled out Luke 2 and read as we all listened. It was a really special experience. then Christmas was great, we had church at 9 for an hour, then we went to the Reber's house and played risk. it took up like 3 hours for just 1 game, then me and my comp went over to the Larson's house to do skype and it was sweet seeing the fam again. And then we went back home, and because President Kelly didnt want us to watch movies on Sunday, he gave us Monday to watch 2 movies, and we got to watch them at an American member's house on his big screen and we got to see Cool Runnings which is one of my favorites and Dispicable Me, which i've never seen before, but its hilarious, i was laughin through the whole thing. It was great. that day we also had an appointment with one of our investigators and we set a baptismal date with her for Feb 1st. Then yesterday was sweet, we did a lot of In-active work and it went well. Today we went to Napoli to get Armani suits. Unfortunately i didnt like the ones that they had, so, i got a different mark and its nice, i only payed 42 euro for it. And its a legit Italian suit, kinda like the one i got in Crotone, but that ones grey and this one's black pinstripe. Then we went to the base and ate Taco Bell. One thing blows, a few minutes ago we got a call from one of our investigators who has a date to be baptized in 2 weeks, and he said he doenst want to see us again, so that was upsetting, but, we'll do what we can, im sure that we'll be able to work something out. The adversary ticks me right off sometimes. This investigator was doing so good and he was so excited to be baptized. We'll do what we can for him. And now, we're still on the base doing email, and we're just about to leave. Love you guys,
Anziano Lane