Something from Elder Russo 1/23/2012

Hi mom!

..Yeah I know I got a good deal, I'm waiting for a sister from the church to hem it for me i should get it back Thursday...and I bought some shoes today for 8 euros, i got them so my feet wouldn't freeze in the rain until you send me new ones, did you read my last email?but anyways i had a pretty good week, things are going good, still no baptisms but here are some people who i think will be ready soon for it, it's a hard mission, these French people don't care about anything!but soon they will all change, I went to Lyon France on Wednesday and Thursday with the zone leader and that was pretty fun, it's a huge city!! French is getting better still hard but i can communicate just fine, i just can't express as well as i can in English, i can hardly teach in English too, lol i speak Franglish!! health wise I'm doing good too, I've learned how to cut my hair by my self too haha I'm still looking for a good missionary hair cut but i don't want the comb over haha but we will see. hows home going??everyone staying out of trouble??send me a email back and read the email about the ipod! love you!
Elder Russo



From: Randolph Russo
To: Stella Russo
Sent: Monday, January 16, 2012 11:25 AM
Subject: Re: hello

Hey mom!Yeah i know we have been working like crazy and finally we are getting good people!!one guy says he want's to be baptized but he want's to wait till he goes back to Africa to be baptized with his friends and family!but maybe we can work something out!and yeah i didn't like the last one too much it was very depressing there some times, ok cool i cant wait for the shoes!! i bought a suite for 40 euros today!!!what a steal! its a suit french suite too!!and i can have ipods but not ipod touch , but the ipod mini that is touch screen is allowed and its cheaper so if you could i would love that one :) i have music on my sd camera cards and im running out of space so an ipod would be better, and also you can just go online and buy and ipod(ipod nano touch) on the internet and they can send it straight to me without you having to pay to ship it to me for free so if you want, im glad your doing the program you can get a huge tv for your room after haha, and i saw the
pictures of gabi i wish i could of been there for the baptism, and conors feet may be big but hes not as big as me i still workout every day lol, and i eat somewhat good hopefully better than dad lol, email me back i still have time!!love you!

Something New From RJ 12/06/2011

Elder Russo is doing really well on his mission, some of the pictures show how hard he is working there...lol.....He really likes his new companion and the new area.He said, finally he is not being chased by little muslin kids, not sure what he meant about that.
The weather is changing and getting very cold. RJ is learning so much about life, people, the Gospel and most of all Heavenly Father and Service.
He doesn't write much, you can tell. We chat for 15 minutes on Mondays....via email.
I will be mailing Elder Russo a package for Christmas Wednesday, December 7th. If you like to write him, please email me teterusso@yahoo.com and I will print it out and include your letter in the box.
Thank you for your support.
Love
Stella Russo

View from RJ's window in Grenoble, France

Some News from our Elder Russo 11/21/2011

Dear Friends
I am so sorry for the Delay. I did not have my computer for a while. For that reason, I did not post much information about our son .
Elder Russo is doing great but very very busy, he just arrived today in Grenoble France, very close to Italy. He has a lot to do tonight, umpacking and meeting his new companion Elder Winslow.
Has has moved twice in the last 3 weeks.
If you are interest to write him, he loves letters.
Address:
Les Missionnaires
Att: Elder Russo
90c cours de la Liberation et du genral de Gaulle
f-38100 Grenoble
France

New Letter from my baby...10/03/2011

Hello Friends,
Well this week was rough! No one talked to us and no one wanted to listen or anything, but on the bright side we had these English speaking couple who didn't want to be converted but wanted to hear our message, they respected us enough to even feed us, which was awesome, I really hope they read the book of Mormon, he doesn't believe in God! Anyways and also general conference was great!! I really think the lord is breaking down on us priesthood holders and for us to fulfill our duties to God,and also I thought the talk about daughters was interesting to me....but I didn't get to watch the Sunday afternoon session because of the time difference here in France so we weren't allowed, but im going to try and watch it today if I can!
we have a baptism coming up on the 29 of October , I am very excited.I fell that one is a yes, but transfers are coming up and it's about time for me to leave, because I've been here for about 3 transfers, four months, and also my six month mark is on this Thursday!! It feels weird, i don't feel like I've been here for that long at all and that I just left a few weeks ago.
I hope all of you are well and do good and stay out of harms way!!
love you all!!
Elder Russo

9/26/2011----doing great...moving soon!!

Hello mom and dad!!
Thank you for the package!!I miss American stuff so bad!!now all you have to do is figure a way to get taco bell here haha , and another thing how was the challenge i gave you all last week??did you do it??fill me in!this week went good nothing too knew some of the members fed us this week which was awesome! and today we are moving into our new apartment!! finally!i cant wait but unfortunately transfer's are in two weeks and i wont get to enjoy it fully, because there is a good chance that i might be leaving!but hey! my new address is
49 Rue Marceau
Perrutel 11000 Carcassonne
France
So yeah! It might change again so I will let you all know.
ha they deliver sushi in France!That's my ham and cheese omelet i made and the other is serge, the one I gave the flag to! hes such an awesome person who has had a very hard life you should of saw how happy he was to get it! on his birthday!!

New Letter from Elder Russo/New Pictures too...9/12/2011

Hey dad!
... and yeah the heat here has broken too and its been around 70 ish maybe lower which makes it so much better here, considering we wear black pants sock shoes a tie and button up shirt so it gets pretty hot here!im waiting for winter patiently!!thank you for the happy birthday, i had a pretty good birthday, we had district meeting that day and went a little farther down south to the city of Perpingnan and the sisters made me a big cake for my birthday and after that we missed our train to stay with the sisters because they cant be alone with an male investigator so when we were coming home (after miissing our orignal train) our train stops in a city called narbone then it continuies to carcassonne but because we missed our original train there wasn't any trains leaving for 2 hours so we got to go contacting around narbon and saw a bunch of sites which i will attach to this email. and the package is in geneva right now i told mom to send it to my apartment address but oh well, so i will get it once the president comes down to the south of France or something or zone conference im not too sure but i will look forward to it!oh and after we got back from narbone an investagator named thierry who is hilarious took me and elder smith to a Chinese restaurant and i ate for free since it was my birthday!and it was a nice one too!!and a buffet!annd i will be sure to check the package to see if it was packed right lol and if its possible can i get a total amount of whats in my account so i can convert it into euros and keep better track??i hope all is well at home i pray for you all as well as you pray for me!oh and just to keep things clear our member logged into facebook for me and liked all my birthday wishes and updated my status so it wasn't me :) I love you dad tell me about your new job?!
Love
Elder Russo!

Elder Russo Still being spoiled by all the woman around him! Such a ladies men!!LOL