Aug 25, 2016

This week was so good. "B" entered the waters of baptism Saturday! That was such a fun experience. I love seeing people's lives change and see the light in their countenance grow. It's so beautiful. That was probably the highlight of the week. 

On Monday as a zone we played capture the flag in a forest. Don't worry my legs didn't get cut up I was wearing pink leggings. On Wednesday I went to the dentist and got five cavities filled! hahaha I swear I brush my teeth twice a day idk how it happened. Later that day we had interviews with our mission president. He took us out to dinner after. 

We had a great week as a zone. My testimony of goal setting has grown a ton. We can not reach our goals without accessing grace. If it was not for The Atonement of Jesus Christ we would have nothing. We hit or exceeded all our goals and so now they get to throw pie in my face. I don't care I'm so happy. I know that Christ lives and I know that He strengthens us to go farther than we can go on our own. Love you! 

Elder Verdoni

Apr 18, 2016

I'm doing good. I'm healthy and safe! We are doing great. We have some baptisms coming up too.

We had stake reports on Thursday. It is where the Zl's and Stls' from both zones in the stake and get together and report to our stake President and mission president. It is pretty intimidating. But it went really well. Our Stake President is so cool. 

The weather is warming up real good here. It's starting to feel nice. We did a lot of service outside. The zone is doing great and "B" is being baptized this weekend!

Love you!

Apr 11, 2016

Snow! in april?

For some reason it snowed the other day. Only in Cincinnati would it be in the 60's and 70's in January and snow in April. I am ready for the summer. 

This week was real good. Heavenly Father is truly hastening His work We are seeing a lot of miracles here. From one women calling and saying that shes ready to be baptized to small random tender mercies. We are seeing a lot of progress with the people we have been working with. The work is being Hastened. 

I love being out here and having the opportunity to testify of Christ to everyone all day everyday. It is tiring but I love it. I know that this Church is true.I know That Jesus Christ lives.

Elder Verdoni

Letter Mom

Anyway this week flew by. Like real fast. It got cold for some reason. As soon as suit season ended the temperature dropped. It snowed the other day. Snow. haha I am so confused. So this week we had 3 exchanges. I was wiped haha. I went with Elder Bluth Tuesday and Elder Ethington Wednesday.  Elder Hulet, one of the AP's trio'd with us on Friday. I had a cool experience Sunday night. So it was 15 minutes before we were supposed to go in and do numbers. I really didn't want to go in yet. So we went through the potentials sheet and found these people. So we went and knocked on their door but they were not there. We started knocking on some doors around them to see if they knew them. We ran into this guy "T" who actually used to be taught a while back. We had a good conversation with him. I asked him questions that were put into my mind. And we were able to bear testimony of The Restored Gospel, Joseph Smith, The Book of Mormon, and Jesus Christ. We left him knowing that we knew. It was a really nice experience. I love being able to testify to others of Christ.

Oh and guess what? I am teaching this woman from Ghana! (His older brother was in Ghana for a year) She loves the gospel and is on date to be baptized the end of this month! We are also teaching another woman who is on date for the 23rd! And Saturday our bishop called us and said that a man in the ward called him. This man has a non member wife that has taken the discussions many times and comes to Church a lot. She said that she is ready to be baptized! So our bishop called us and wants it done as soon as possible! its so exciting. The work is hastening! Love you!

Apr 4, 2016

Hey everyone! sorry I don't have a lot of time this week. But this week was really good. We had a lot of stuff going on. Tuesday we had leadership council. I loved it. I loved seeing all the other elders and sisters. Received a lot of revelation. Thursday we had zone meeting and that went great. Our zone is becoming a lot more unified, for a small zone we are doing pretty good. There is some things we need to improve on though, but they are the best!

Conference was awesome though! I loved every bit of it. It was really powerful. My favorite one was President Monson's Sunday morning. It may have been short, but to me, it was powerful. I too have been thinking a lot about choices recently and how the choices we make now will determine our future and how every choice will influence a generation. And I just loved his talk. But they were all great. We watched the Sunday sessions at a members house. They actually used to live back in Arizona.so that was fun too. I hope everyone enjoyed conference!

Elder Verdoni

Mar 28, 2016

New Transfer new comp new area

This week was awesome. So I got Transferred to Montgomery with Elder Lemieux (la-moe). He is from Queen Creek, AZ! He is so funny. He has been out for 20 months, so way longer than me. lol. He is a really great missionary. I've had such a great time so far. I love this area a lot too. The work is going great. We have someone on date for baptism for the 23rd and I'm way pumped about that. We put her on date on Saturday. And the ward is amazing! I love it so much. I feel at home here it's so great. Not that I didn't in my last areas because I did. It's just awesome and I love where I am. The zone is great too. We have fantastic missionaries. They lost an area right when I came in. So now we have more Sisters than Elders in our zone. We call it the Relief Society. hahaha.

I am doing so good. Easter was a lot of fun. Church was filled with tons of music. A lot of people showed up. We average over 200 people a week so big change from Maysville. A returned missionary from Romania gave her homecoming talk and bore really amazing testimony about the Gospel. It was a great day for investigators to come. 

And don't worry. I was taken care of on Easter. A family had us over for dinner. It is their tradition to have the missionaries over on Easter. And it's a big family. 7 kids. all under 14. Young big family. And cousins were there too. They gave us Easter baskets and we went on an Easter egg hunt with the kids haha. I felt like I was at home. It was great. Then some neighbor kids from the ward TP'd our car haha.

I am loving life right now. We have a lot of things to change though. A lot. We are tightening up on little things. Many good things are to come. Love you!

Love

Elder Verdoni

Mar 21, 2016

Transfers

This week was great! It was way fast. It was awesome though. On Thursday we had a workshop in Montgomery. That was fun! really good. We went down to the basics. I really needed that. I think I've been over complicating things. It was very needed. Friday was fun too. We did some good work. The sisters were supposed to have a baptism the next day so the district leader and his companion got dropped off at the church and were just going to stay the night at our place. So we get to the church around 8:30 pm to pick them up. He still isn't done with one of the interviews. The wife however was extremely sick. very sick. We actually had to give her a blessing. In the women's bathroom. It was an interesting experience. But very cool. After I gave the blessing she looked a lot better and was more coherent. My testimony of the power of the priesthood increased a lot right there.

Saturday though was awesome. The whole entire mission went to Montgomery to hear Elder Anderson! There was 6 total Elders in our truck lol. It was crammed. It was so fun seeing the mission. I love it so much. We first heard from Bishop Waddell the presiding Bishop of the church. My testimony of Joseph Smith and The First Vision increased a ton. I am here, and we have had all our blessings because Joseph had a vision. So powerful. Then Elder Garret Gong of the presidency of the 70 spoke. I learned to love others and see them as Heavenly Father does. He then had us all sing happy birthday to sister Porter. Elder St Clair of the 70 was there as well. And then we heard from Elder Anderson. He is so darn funny. He was cracking jokes the whole time. I really loved hearing him speak. Being at the feet of an Apostle of the Lord was humbling and an honor. Hearing His witness of The Savior was so powerful. So powerful. He is such an amazing man. 

I am leaving Maysville. I am sad but happy. I'm way nervous. I've had such an amazing time here. Elder Broderick has been an amazing companion. We have both grown a lot. I will never forget this transfer. But I am always open to new opportunities.

Also, I am going to be a Zone Leader.

Love Elder Verdoni

Mar 14, 2016

Fun week

If I had to describe this week in one word, it would be Fun. I had a great week. We got so much work done and we were ourselves. I think sometimes I can get caught up in being "that missionary" you know like a robot, but when I am myself, I enjoy life a lot more. 

This was one of the greatest weeks I've had, like a lot of work got done. 

I got a new camera, that has a screen on the front for selfies. So that was like the best thing ever. But I have just been super happy lately. I know for a surety That Heavenly Father created us and that He loves us. We are His children. We have our personalities and we are all different and that is who we are supposed to be. Ourselves. We do not have to be like anyone else. We are to strive to be like our Savior. No one else. I am Elder Verdoni, not a robot. I'm awkward and weird and sometimes that makes people laugh. I love everyone. I really do. Making people smile is like my favorite thing to do. Know yourself. Trust me it will be an awesome moment when you realize that you can love who you are and be happy. I know that Jesus Christ is my Savior, He has become a very close friend. I know He loves me.

Elder Verdoni

Also Transfers are next week!! :D

Letter to Mom
Thank you for the package! I loved it. The camera is so cool!!! It has a front screen and detects when I'm smiling and will just take the pic. It's soo much fun. I loved all the sweets and clovers! They are so much fun too. 

This week was really good. On Monday we drove up to Cherrygrove (where the zone leaders are, it right outside of Cincy) to have a zone sports day. We all chilled at the Eastgate Sisters' backyard and played sports and had a pot luck! I made grandma's chicken enchilada. It was gone in seconds. Anyway but that was way fun. I really love this transfer. I cant believe it's almost over. 

We went on exchanges with the zone leaders right after. I went with Elder Bluth in Cherrygrove. It was the best exchange I've ever been on. We got a lot of work done, I learned so much, and I haven't laughed as much as I did on that exchange than I have for the past three months. It was great. Elder Broderick had an amazing exchange too! So we love our zone leaders. 

We went on splits with the young men on Wednesday and that was really cool. Friday we had district meeting and we went on another exchange with the district leader. That was really fun. And Saturday we found a lot of new people to teach. Sunday we had Branch conference. There was 110 people there! If we keep that up we will be a ward in no time. We had a linger longer afterwards where everyone made food and we ate it! there was tons of food. I love this Branch!

Elder Cromar

with Elder Broderick

St Patrick's Day package