Monday, September 11, 2017
September 11, 2017
Ok, just like I have read with other missionaries, we too are
expanding our resource pool and recieving the ability to use facebook. I
thought we would be using our wierd area specific emails for this, but we will
be using our old Facebook accounts so that'll be interesting for sure. They
asked us to send this out so that if you ever end up seeing that I am on Facebook
or messenger I'm not being a scemo missionary, I should actually be doing good missionary things (I don't
really know what yet, since we havent had our training yet, but you'll see.
Ok a cool experience we had during the week was seeing two times
we were guided to do certain things or extend certain invites. For example one
time during a lesson we brought out the talk to investigators and friends of
the church or something like that and in it it referenced a scripture Alma 42
that must have hit this person we were shoeing the video to since she asked for
my Book of Mormon and searched it up and read most of the chapter right then
and there then asked some great some great thoughts showing she had had her own
learning experience in that moment.
Also during that lesson we gave them two chapters to read since
we didn't know which to give them in that moment, but when we saw them the next
day she asked a question near the end of the lesson and expressed doubt in her
faith in Christ and we taked for a little and gently led her back to one of the
invite scriptures Mormon 9 which addresses this specifially, so I hope she can
once again have her own experience and grow her testimony on the things that
she has learned personally through the spirit.
There was also a grand festa in our little city called Santa
Maria, this city is usually dead as a doornail but for these last three days it
was the place to be. There were games, food, rides, a roller coaster, and a
concert stage. There were preformances like a talent showing singing thing the
first night, modern dance the second, and a band came and played the third
night. These were especially crazy since each of these events went for more
than 3-4 hours each. We don't know exactly how long they went but the last
night we were awaken by one of the loudest firework shows ever at almost 1 in
the morning.
Oh yah transfer calls were this week, I stayed in Catanzaro with
Anziano Haws. yeah let's gooo!!
September 4, 2017
So, basically at the
beginning of the week I went on a split with one of the Anziani from Cosenza,
Anziano Youngblood, and we were able to go around through the parks and do a
bunch of finding. Because there weren't very many people out we talked to just
as many people as we could to try to make it worth it. It was a great Scambio
and although not much came of it, we were able to get to know each other a
little better at very least.
Also this week we went
to look for a less active member and so we looked up the address and found the
street, now we just need to find the number. So we walk down the street and
then it turns into a hill and just keeps going up. Since the number system was
made before some of the these house we thought we were almost to 106 when we
saw 108 but the next house was 108 B and this continued for too many letters
and then we were left with at least 4 houses of 106 A-D so we searched and
found nothing but on the way back met a person who at least somewhat interested
in the English group we do here so eh we'll see.
In fine, we were able
to meet with the Gelato family people quite often, which was really nice
because there are always many many questions to answer or to show how to find
the answer at very least. We are excited to see where this goes so I'll let you
know.
I was also able to
meet an investagator that has been talked about for my whole transfer here as
incredible and all this stuff and after 6 weeks I finally met her for only a
few minutes but now I'm excited for her to return so that we can finish
teaching here and give the chance to act on the faith she has been finding even
while she has been away.
Today are transfers so
I might be shuffled or maybe nothing changes at all, who knows but whatever
happens it will be the right thing!
I wish you all the
best week ever and for those that start school good luck.
-Anziano Hansen
Friday, September 1, 2017
August 15, 2017
At the beginning of the week
we totally cleaned our house sooo well and took everything out of the closets
and laid it all out, we literally had a small department store in our house it
was great! We went through it chucking all the un salvageable items and and
snagging a tie or something but that was about it and another Anziano came in
and snagged a full suit from it.
Then there was a whole
lot of not much
then we went to
Cosenza on the way to Zone conference and we tried to get in there church to get
our stuff and the garage like portone broke itself so our stuff was stuck in
there until 630 the next day when the branch Pres. dropped off a key at the
church in the middle of the night so we could get it the next morning and then
we left to Taranto which is an epic place and we played Foosball and I bought a
new jacket and it was just nice.
I love you all so much
and I know everything will work our for the best!!
the force is granted
to those near this monument
looking professional
until they pan out and see your shorts
beautifully taunting
ocean
Oh also I gave a talk
and a member took this and made me promise to send it to ya'll.
August 21, 2017
OK, so I started this week out with a zone conference at
Taranto, we were able to learn a whole lot about how to be better missionaries
ovviamente and more specifically how we can be more creative when finding and
they laid down some numbers that really put everything into perspective, like
how much time we actually have to help these people is short so we have to make
it worth it.
Just as a small thing
we saw a Calcio game between Crotone and Milano so that was pretty cool.
Crotone (a city near my city) lost but there were so many people there it was
absolutely insane with all the chants and cheers. I mean it was awesome even
though we were a mile away five floors up looking between buildings but I'm
sure it was amazing!
We also found two
people here that work at a gelateria that are super curious about everything
and are asking all the right questions and truly have a desire to act on what
they want to know, we shared what the book of Mormon is and she asked instantly
how she can read it, and when we told her that we have church, she just almost
yelled "Federica dobbiamo andare alla chiesa dei Mormon!"
We are super excited
to keep working with them and answer all their questions, so great!
We also came to
Crotone and bought 17 calzoni for all of us so we ate well today, we will
probably just play Foosball the rest of the day whooo! it's so much fun just
because it's Italy and it's just more exciting that way.
Hope you all have a
great week!
August 7 2017
So after I spent 4 days in
Crotone for Pday, DDM, and a Scambio I finally came back to my area
Catanzaro and we did some finding along the lungo mare (street next to the
beach) and practically no one is there since they are on the beach or on
vacation because ferragosto (the holiday that lasts a month). We did talk to
some really cool people and we did ukulele finding where we just walk around
playing a few chords or song we know and talk to the people who stare at us or
who are just youth in general.
We were able to meet
with a young couple, like sixteen years old young, and met with them again this
week and taught them a little more about our beliefs and tried to understand
why one didn't believe in God and the other did but not fully. At very least I
hope we helped bring them closer to their Father in heaven.
Also about half way
through the week we got a call from Salt Lake from a daughter of a member, who
is on a mission there, who wanted us to get in touch with her friend here and
teach her the gospel. This wasn't a problem in fact it was a delight. The
problem was we didn't know that the call came from Salt Lake because all we
heard the first time was Sorella Ranieri which is also her mom's title for us
so we assumed it was her (she called us back later and it was fine) but before
that when we tried to call her back and no one answered our phone went ka-poot
and we went on a long journey to try to add credit back on our phone when it
turns out you just go to your everyday tabaccheria and buy more credit there,
the more you know.
We were also called by
the spirit yesterday to go to the upper part of the city for who knows what
reason and we met a lot of people and found people that were both interested in
the gospel and others in English course, so even though the family we had
planned to go find wasn't there it was more than worth it trip for us to go all
the way up there.
This week we went to a
cool park with a bunch or artwork and took a picture on the mare and I did a
drawing based on the picture on the book "All my friends are dead"
just for fun, enjoy!
July 31, 2017
So
transfers came at the beginning of this last week and I got transfered down the
bottom of the foot of Italy in the area of Calabria, the name of my city is
Catanzaro hence "cat city". This place is actually really cool and it
has some of the best stuff like a great apartment and friends at a pizzeria and
stuff it is a little harder work but the harder the work the more satisfying it
is for us here, also the bases are completely unreliable but it works our
patience.
I have been enjoying
this area and my new companion (yet another) Anziano Haws except this one is
from Utah. He is great and also one transfer younger than me, so this is my
first time being the senior comp. it really doesn't mean anything especially
since he is only one behind me so its just fun because we are basically on the
same level in most things.
Also my mother in the
mission died, Sorella Calió, she was the oldest Sorella in my district when I
was "born" in the mission so yeah she is cool.
Before I left I got to
say good bye to a bunch of members and it was really nice to be able to see all
of them and sad I'm leaving but I'll see most of them again probably.
We had a good first
week in this city doing finding and waiting for busses and we found some cool
young people we hope to meet with again this next Thursday so we are super
excited!
For P-day we went over to Crotone, a nearby city, and saw a
castle over there which was pretty neat. There was a tunnel that just kept
going in complete darkness and it was just so awesome! We also toured a few of
the churches here just because when your in Italy and you want to see something
interesting there is a church on most corners. District photo and others
of the castle
July 10 2017
So at the beginning of this week was the 4th of July so obviously
we had to do something celebrate. We didn't really have anything planned but an
amazing member family, of whom the wife is American (idahoan
specifically), and the husband is Italian and their adopted child is English,
took us to this very American-like place in the mall called old western and it
was closer to being American than every other place that I have treid like
it.
Then for English
course we talked about the history of the 4th and some of the events leading up
to it, they then took us out to pizza to celebrate our independence day with
us.
We also had a board
game activity and that was fun. We had a few members come but that was about
it, we had tried to contact several people but nothing pulled through. It was
still super fun to eat food and play some good'ole Monopoly and uno and even
darts.
Then. this
Sunday before church we met with an potential investagator who had been coming
to church for several weeks we could just never meet with him during the week.
During this lesson we could really feel the spirit and a member came in
randomly and shared his conversion story then left (it was unexpected but still
good). Now I don't know how it works in America but here you usually don't
invite people to be baptized in the first lesson because they get scared easily
and don't like to make commitments but for the first time ever we did a
baptismal invite in the first lesson and it was awesome!! He was telling us
that he was already reading the Book of Mormon and loves it and through his friendship
with a member he was able to learn even when we weren't teaching him and he
already knew that the Book is true and the word of God and that Joseph Smith
was a prophet that restored the gospel again on the earth.
I was a little too
into the lesson and gave him a baptismal date for two weeks from now which
would be fine since he has been to church enough times, but we have to teach
him all the lessons this week before the interview which I don't know if it is
possible but we will try. With this he accepted on the condition that the water
must be warm since he has some heart issues,. I am super excited to guide him
farther along this path and help him to find the thing at church that takes
away his "sentimento vuoto".
We just got back from
Positano which is a beautiful city on the Amalfi Coast and it was absolutely
gorgeous!! We walked around saw the amazing city and went on the dock (not in
the water although we wanted to really bad) and the water was sooo clear and
blue, it was just amazing. If anyone ever wants to go to Italy, go to this
coast it is beautiful also I've heard Positano is more pretty than Amalfi but I
don't know for sure, at very least they are on the same coastline so Yah.
I hope you all had an
amazing week! I am super thankful for all the support you guys give to me,
don't forget to be awesome!
July 3 2017 Zone Conference
OK, so this week we were able
to meet with this family that came to church last week, and we were able to
talk about the restauration and the blessings of unity and peace that can come
from following the gospel.
Next up is zone
conference!!! We had really awesome addestramenti (lessons) by President and
Sorella Pickerd about how to better study the scriptures and how we, both
personally and as a group must recognize the plateaus we may be stuck on in the
language or the work and really drive ourselves to burst forth out of our
comfort zone and just be better.
We also talked about
how we must use and study Preach my Gospel in the best way possible so that we
can know and understand the message enough to explain it simply and also to be
confident in the message of joy we bring, and to have no fear and put it all
our there!
We got to meet the
family of one of our members who is here to recognize her Italy citizenship
(she is from Brazil) (She speaks Portuguese e Spanish e English e is learning
Italian) . So her family is here for a while and when we had a pranzo
appointment with them there was also some more friends there from Chile. So we
are there with those that speak all these different languages and there isn't one
language that everyone speaks so for the most part they spoke Spanish and it
was actually quite easy to understand it although I still have no idea how to
speak it.
Also the referral that
we got from the Caserta Sorelle lived out in the middle of nowhere so we got
dropped off and called this lady and eventually found it. We had a really good
lesson and we can tell that she is searching and really has a desire to find
the truth, we are excited to continue to teach her.
Sunday we had a family
and a Milano missionary who finished his mission 2 weeks ago, Anziano George,
from California. He gave us some good scoops on a few of our friends up north
and it was cool to see another missionary literally just after his
mission.
That's my week in a
wrap, Good Luck with Life! and remember to be Happy!! (:
June 26 2017 Pompeii
Although nothing super
interesting really happened this week there were some cool miracles that got
tossed in near the end of the week, so I'm happy! (:
First was that we got
to contact a referral from the Battipaglia Anziani and he lives in Pompei which
I had heard was a run down but as far as extremes go it is still a good city.
(This is the modern city of Pompeii, although that would be cool to teach an
ash statue some gospel.)
We met him and it was
a good encounter, he is into equestrian stuff and has traveled throughout
Europe for it and I'd just an interesting guy to be around.
He seems open to new
ideas about the gospel, and we hope we can help him find more joy.
Then a lot of finding
and not much of anything then at church a potential came to church again and we
are super excited to finally be able to meet with him this week.
Also a family in the
ward just brought another non member family just because and we taught them
during second hour and will be seeing them again tomorrow so we hope good on
that one.
Then to finish off the
day we got a referral from the Caserta Sorelle about a quote "bomb
family" that live in Castellammare and are "looking for truth"
so we are excited to be able to share with them our message and to lay before
them the perfect plan created for all of us here on the earth.
For P-day we are doing
some emailing and then going shopping so I'll send ya'll a picture if I end up
buying anything but for now this is what I got.
-The main square in
the modern city of Pompeii
June 17, 2017 Stone caskets
So for the most part
of the week we were inside since my companion got food poisoning or some kind
of inflammation of the stomach or intestines.
We did get some great
help from a couple of amazing members so we are super thankful for them and
their help.
Funny story I starting
telling people he was poisoned by food since I don't know how to say food
poisoning so I just translated it directly, which sometimes works but in this
case, it just did not.
You are actually
supposed to say (the English equivalent) intoxication by feeding.
Luckily he was feeling
well enough by Sunday to do the Musical number we had been preparing and it was
soo much fun and everyone loved so we were happy.
Today we just went to
the national archeological museum in Napoli so that was super fun and then we
went to go see 50 pizzerie on the coast but when we got there, it was closed so
we were disappointed since we had wa
key for an hour but we
still ate pizza and did emails and we were with friends so that makes the best
kind of Pdays anyways!
You are all awesome!!
Tell me about the updates in your lives, because I probably haven't heard about
it.
Vi voglio bene!!
- Anziano Hansen
PS you think they
could start a stone casket collection like these ones?
Friday, June 16, 2017
June 13, 2017
Happy Birthday to both of
you, I just want to tell you how thankful I am for you and everything you all
have done for me!! You have been an amazing support for and example for me when
i was growing up and I have learned about life in general but also how to be
the best parents ever!
I want you to know how
absolutely proud I am to be your son and the blessing it is to have been able
to be raised by you!
I love you guys and
hope I can grow up to be like you! (:
OK, I will start off with
something sort of disappointing. We have been practicing with a member who
plays the piano to do a singing musical number, my comp. and I, so we have been
practicing a little to get Credo in te Gesú (i believe in Christ) to sound
really good then before church her baby got sick so we couldn't do it and
transfers are today so if we are transfered I'll do it with my next comp or
something or vice versa or something, chi ne sach.
One of our
simpatezzanti Alessandro, we have met with him like three times in three
weeks (that's probably terrible for an American missionary but va boh) but
he has come to church 3 times and has made great friends with the members so we
are excited for him whether we get to continue teaching him or another set of
Anziani come in.
We have this really
cool member family here and for a lunch appointment with them, they took us up
to a mountain and we had a barbecue and it was just super fun to spend time
with their family.
Ok miracle time, when
we were walking to church (we were running late, so it was happenstance) and
this guy pulls close to us then pulls directly in front of us and blocks our
path and says out the window siete mormoni (you are Mormons?) so we talk with
him he has a friend from church that he had talked to and he wanted a book of
Mormon, he has one now, and he said he couldn't come to church this week but he
will next week so we hope good on this one. Also named Alessandro so that'll be
fun to try to differentiate them when speaking.
Lastly, for Pday
I went with a group to Mount Vesuvius, you know that one volcano that blew up
and destroyed a bunch of cities and all that good stuff.
We took a train then a
bus then walked for about 30 minutes and it was one of the best views of the
cities I have ever seen, We can practicaly see every city in the zone almost.
The volcano was more just a mountain with a valley in it but that view was
totally worth it and now I can say I did it at very least.
You are all awesome I
hope you great weeks!!
Tuesday, May 23, 2017
May 17, 2017
Our week was great we
got to meet with a part member family and play basketball on a patio thing that
I could touch both walls at the same time and I could touch the ceiling senza
jumping so it was hard but it worked with the younger kids there, also he has a
music room and I got to play the bass, and the piano, and the drum set that was
in there and that was just fun, then we gave a good spiritual thought and we
were able to just talk about the book of Mormon and such for a while which was
really nice, especially with the younger ones in this case too.
After DDM we had the
awesome opportunity to eat with Sorella Francom (one mt teachers at the MTC)
and a few of her friends that are here for a while. We ate and talked and
shared stories, it was really cool for us (everyone here that she has taught)
and I hope it was cool for all of them too.
So, we also had on
Sunday a huge surprise, we are used to about 20ish people in church maybe a few
tourists, but when we walked in it was packed, we set up extra chairs and all
this stuff.
What happened that
caused this great crowd you may ask, BYU study abroad students, about 20 of
them not including professors. It was actually really cool to talk to a bunch
of Americans again and see there take on Italy as tourists. And lo and behold
another surprise, I actually went to school with, one Sara Summerhays who
was there and I got see her again. Shout out to Elder Morrell for also being in
both of those classes too.
I got to talk to my
family over Skype which was, as always, awesome
Then was Zone
conference which as always is great, we talked about being excited for the work
but not being overly anxious about any problem or about how long we have left
and to just lower our stress levels to a comfortable zone and do our best to
stay like that.
Today for Pday we went
to a castle of Saint Elmo and got to see some great views off of that and Yah
that was about it.
You are all awesome
have the most amazing weeks!!
Wednesday, May 10, 2017
May 8, 2017
OK so I can't remember much
that happened before Thursday besides a lot of hype for transfers and
stuff getting things in order and whatnot, but we still got work down so it was
good.
I got transferred to a
city called Castellammare which is a really beautiful city just south of Napoli
(Naples ) and on the coast, next to Vesuvius, and Pompeii. We are going to have
some great times and I'll probably have a lot of really cool pictures.
At Castellammare and
just the Napoli area in general you can't drink the water out of the tap but
they have random spickets of drinking water randomly around town so it's
cool.
I got to meet the
branch on Sunday and that was really fun, they have some really cool
members here and I can't wait to get to know them better it will be
great!! Also at an appointment one of the kids asked me to draw with him
and I asked him what to draw and he said Goku, so I did my best.
This Pday we were able
to go to Napoli and I got to see Anziani Wiggins and Daniels, and bunch of
other Anziani I haven't seen for a while that are serving here right now, so
that was super fun. We went to this place called Sotterranea which is this
underground city aqueduct thing that was also used as a bomb shelter and all
this stuff, for a part of the way we used candles to light the way so it just
made it that much cooler. We went through some tunnels that were only about
50cm wide with ceilings 7 meters high to only a meter and a half, it was crazy!
We also ate at one of
the best places in the world to get pizza, Sorbillo, it was one of the most
liquid pizzas ever but it was amazing, just like all the stories and legends I
heard while I was up north.
Lastly I just want to
say something small about the light of Christ. This is an influence that
affects everyone and if we let our light shine we can help others to see the
way and also help them to find their own light and make the world just a better
place for everyone.
You are all awesome!!
If anything crazy in your lives happen just let me know!
Monday, April 17, 2017
April 17, 2017
So
this week was actually pretty interesting, we had a visit from one for the
senior couples to come check on our apartment and since our apartment is also
the church, I mean it has to be clean so, non fa niente, We just have to
fix our doors (a past missionary broke them) we'll figure it out.
We had an opportunity
to help out an old Scotsman in our ward with his compagnia (garden but bigger)
and we put in some work with him and he told his stories of being in Saudi
Arabia for years and almost being killed the classic, Scotsman living in
Italy, life. He taught us how to play backgammon (so epic would
recommend) and we ate lasagna with his neighbor (the German) who spoke great
English and he brought non-alcoholic beer, so you know never drinking that
again, it was so bad. But he was pretty curious and now has a Das Buch Mormon
so we hope he reads it.
And then there was
Easter, so after church which slowly dwindled from high singles to low singles
since half our ward was gone and others couldn't stay for various
reasons.
But afterwards we ate
waaaay too much Romanian food with a bunch of members it was a cool and it was
really good food and they made more than we as 8 people couldn't finish it. It
was a broth with small meat ball things in it and egg roll type things soaked
in something and filled with rice and meats. They also had super good mashed
potatoes and breaded chicken I think. All of this paired with the Italian
standard drink that isn't frizzante water, Coca-Cola.
really cool views in
Ascoli
Oh and we bought a
giant 8kg chocolate egg for 9 people you'll see that next week. (oh and there
is apparently a giant surprise inside!?
Monday, April 10, 2017
April 10, 2017 Chocolate Salami on a stick!?
OK so not much happened for
like half of the week but the last half was literally filled to the brim!
We had zone conference
this week, and because of scheduling problems we had to do both West and East
Rome zones at the same time (along with the 4 Malta anziani) which was super
cool to see about 50 missionaries all at once. I met a lot of cool people I didn't
know before, so that'll be cool to see what happens soon. We got to watch the
video of the Moroni statue being put on the temple, that was cool! We had a
good destramento about the Book of Mormon and the importance there of along
with the power by which the spirit can testify of its teachings.
Also in Rome we did a
scambio and we were able to, meet like 7 College students and had a picnic with
them eating bread, pork, chocolate salami(a chocolate stick with cookie in it
that only looks like salami) deliciousness, and they offered us some Sicilian
wine (apparently its really good) but we politely declined and spent quite a
while with them and if we see them again we will definitely be friends.
We also saw another
car show this Sunday just parked in the middle of centro so we did a little
gyro contacted some people then on the way back took a bunch of pictures of the
cool ones.
We also found a cave
in a bridge and took awesome pictures and threw rocks in a river and got
stabbed several thousand times by weeds.
Monday, April 3, 2017
What came first the chicken or the chocolate egg?
So this week was just packed with a bunch of stuff, in Ascoli
everything is much closer together than in Pescara so I feel like we were able
to get a ton of things gs done this week including finding this awesome guy,
Matteo the works a couple bars here and after talking with him and two slightly
drunk people we were able to come by and see him again and he said he was
really interested in our message so we gave him a Libro di Mormon and a few
days later he had read the testimonies and the introduction and a couple
chapters we had asked him to read. We will be meeting his family for dinner tomorrow over
some sheep, so we will see how that goes.
We also met a lady
that works at a government building where a different investagator works and we
went looking for him found here and now we can go there and talk to either of
them, so that'll be fun.
Then that weekend we
had Conferenza Generale and since we have a small group here that is
technically part of a larger ward in Pescara we have church in our house, but
most people watched it at their houses so it was us and a new convert sitting
on our couch watching the conference in Italian... I understood quite a bit and
feel really bad for the greenies that just got here but I will be watching them
again in English later. It is really taxing to translate in your head for hours
at a time, like getting smacked with an Italian cricket bat, hopefully I get
better and that doesn't happen later.
Also in between two of
the sessions we went to a car show that was up here so there will be a lot of
pictures of Italian rally cars and a couple formula 1 cars and other random
stuff.
Also they sell
chocolate eggs here that are bigger than your head (400g) for ten euro with a
little prize in them. We bought one and it was cool and it was a lot of
chocolate and a little ascoli piceno soccer symbol thing so it was worth it
over all.
me and a section of
the egg (what came first the chicken or the chocolate egg)
Sunday, April 2, 2017
March 27, 2017
OK transfer calls came in and I have been transfered to
Ascoli with Anz. Parkinson! For those of you not in the mission that probably
sounds super cool, but it is literally the least distance I could have been
transfered. I have nothing against Ascoli it will probably actually be a really
cool city and it is super old and has some pretty cool stuff, but since Ascoli
is not a big ward yet, it is technically a part of the Pescara ward which is
were I was before so that's fun.
Before actual
transfers we got to visit with some of our investigators and to say good bye
and when we were with Michele and Lucrezia Delle Foglie after a great lesson
and after we bore our testimonies they were just crying and there was a lot of
emotion in those last few moments with them. This 80 year old couple and us had
just gotten so close through the sharing of the gospel I just hope to be able
to see them again and since I am only in Ascoli I might be able to see them
during a Scambio, ma vediamo.
Then during
actual transfers on Thursday Anz. Bohn and I went down to Ascoli to be with
Anz. Parkinson while his old comp left stayed there for two hours and went to
L'aquila to see off Anzi. Daniels and Bohn. So that Anz. Whited wouldn't be
alone and after that we came back to Ascoli for 6 hours then went up to Pescara
for a ward conference the next day and stayed there for Pday and we are now
heading back. All this means that since I was transfered to Ascoli on Thursday
I have been there for less than 9 hours in 5 days so yah.
It was actually really
cool to do an awesome Giro and see everyone before they ship off and then to
meet all the new anziani e sorelle
I also got to say
goodbye to some of the cool members in Pescara and got to help out Carlos,
the coolest Italian blind guy I have ever met, one more time.
That Sunday night
we did a gesso with the sorelle since the anziani of Pescara had to teach a
lesson. It was really cool we asked people what they did for Easter (Italians
don't really do much is what we found) but we met some cool people the have
some potential I think. We also met this super super fancy guy with a
blue suit and a red flower and a red tie and pocket square and gold bracelets
and a Rolex and this ring the was just covered in diamonds and a big jewelry I
the center. It would have been cool but he totally just flirted hard with one
of the sisters and asked if he could have a kiss and all this random stuff and
the sister obviously said no and then he eventually just went away. To make all
of this even better this guy is like 80 so we were all just laughing as he was
talking. (also imagine all of this but in Italian, it just makes it
better)
Then for Pday we went
to the beach for the last time (since we can't go to the beach between April
and October conferences as a general rule) and we played some cool games and
tried to have a picnic but we forgot a blanket so we ate over the sand and the
wind just blew it into all the food so we all had sand covered sandwiches and
juice. Also all morning Anz Parkinson and I had on roller skates from the
Pescara house and rolled everywhere. It was not only more fun and we never fell
down but it was also a great finding tool we got a couple of cool conversations
out of it.
Sunday, March 19, 2017
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