Elder Jantsen Thorpe August 2017-2019: "It's gonna be a great transfer!"

Hey gang! This week on #whatsmysnack we have a classic mozzarella and basil home made pizza and a traditional Columbian meal. The Linares family has some relatives from Columbia staying with them and they speak absolutely 0 English but they made us some really good food. For the pizza brother Linares made the dough and also grows basil it was tasty.

First week of the transfer was solid. Like probably one of the best weeks of my mission. Picked up my new companion on Tuesday. Elder Bonvissuto is a stud. He is from Italy and has been learning English for the past 9 weeks in the mtc and he is picking up English pretty well. I've realized this past week that I don't know how to speak English lol Nebo School District didn't do me too good. But I do the best I can. English is hard. He is teaching me some Italian which is sick. We say E' stato un parto after we do anything hard. It means something like "oh what a child birth" lol. We get along super well and have some real good laughs and 75% of the time we can't understand each other haha it's awesome!

We saw a lot of success from our hard work this week. The Lord is definitely blessing us for our hard work. We found 7 new people to teach which was awesome. 3 of which are an African American family that we taught on Wednesday. We taught a solid restoration and elder Bonvissuto invited them all to be baptized and they all said Yes! Pretty hyped. It's a mom, Fara, and her two kids London and Braylin.

We also had a dang good member referral from sister Bayne who is one of the best members. She totally followed promptings of the spirit and helped a summer sales guy on his path to get closer to Jesus Christ. His name is Tyler and he is one of the coolest people I've met on my mission. Mid 20s and he is from new York and he has started his own solar panel summer sales business. He worked for Vivint before and knows lots of members of the church. We taught him a restoration in the Baynes home and he was way into it. He accepted to be baptized. Sister Bayne called him last night to talk about the lesson and he told her that he loved it and has been reading the Book of Mormon since he got home and was 15 pages in and he "can't put the book down". We are super excited for him. It's gonna be a great transfer!

Love y'all, have a great week!