Bye Ancona...Hello Milan

So the cool and exciting thing I want to tell you about this week is we Elder Texiera of the seventy come to our mission and do a mission tour, which meant he did like 3 or 4 conferences around the mission where the missionaries got to go and listen to him talk and teach us. It was a really cool experience! We had the biggest one here in Milan, there were about 130 missionaries which is like half the mission so it was super exciting to see everyone I haven’t seen in a while. There were a couple sisters from my district in the MTC that I had not seen since my first day in Italy so I was really excited to see them and just talk to them! But the conference was really great and really inspiring! He gave a great training on how we are set apart to be missionaries so we need to be missionaries not anything else. He compared it to this awesome Mormon message about this farmer who cut down this current bush when it was tall and healthy because it wasn’t growing any fruit. But the Gardner did it because he knew what the bush could and had the potential to be. And more important this bush was a current bush but had no fruit, so was not doing what he was supposed to. He compared that to us and how we need know who we are and what we are supposed to be. So for me that means I need to know the doctrine of Jesus Christ better! The gospel is really our message and our purpose as a missionary, I teach and preach it so I also have to learn and live it! It really inspired me to want to work harder and just be a missionary. We all have a responsibility in life, but it all depends on what we are going to do with that responsibility. I have a responsibility to teach this gospel to Italy, so I want to do that. He also said that every companionship should teach 21 lessons a week. In Ancona i could do that cause I had a lot of new converts and less actives and I knew the city well to keep me busy. So far here in Milan we have got around 6-8 a week. So me and my comp commit ourselves to strive to get it! Already this week we have 7! So we are on track to get it but it will still take a lot of work. I know that with through obedience and hard work we can do it! I love this gospel! i love this opportunity to be a missionary! I know that this work is important and am humbled to do my part! 

These are all of Elder Miller's new converts from Ancona. He is saying goodbye to them on his last day. 

If this is the "kinda bald guy" Ty tried to explain. This is the ward mission leader in Ancona, Fratello Guiglarelli. He is great!

This is a less active member Ty helped  come back in Ancona. 

This is Augustus. One of the brothers he baptized and his "favorite." They still talk a lot! 

A good friend of Ty's he met at the MTC, Anziano Osterergar. He's also from California!

Duomo in Milan

This is a statue in front of the stock market (wall street kind of) in Milan. Ty says it is "ironic"

(I hope I am getting these captions right) This is Ty in front of Big Porta in Milan

Ty and his companion at "como"??

Switzerland!