Buongiorno!!!!!! Buon Natale!!! Auguri!!!!!!
I figured I have a little time and today is technically P-Day so I would update you a little about the week! It was so fun!!!! It was super awkward to go finding because it's Christmas and everyone is in fretta and Christmas shopping... but it's okay. We had a super cool appointment with (I think it was this week) a couple we met while petting their dog. He is African and she is Italian (which doesn't happen here... He is from Cameroon) and she is atheist and he is searching kind of.. but I mention this because it was all the things and questions that we can answer with our knowledge of the restored gospel. So cool. He was hyped about the book of Mormon. And she kind of has made up her own ideas about God but that's okay. And we got to talk in English which was awesome!!! Incredible because you can say whatever you want but also difficult because you can say whatever you want. So there is my lesson of the week. My memory of this week is gone because CHRISTMAS!!!! We had Christmas Eve dinner with E's family which is a huge deal because that's their big meal. And it was INCREDIBLE. Nine different kinds of seafood. And it was so funny and everyone was laughing and there was an argument or two but it was so fun! And so real!! And the food was incredible! And we got permission to stay out later and we got home later, like 11 pm, and we hadn't even gotten to the dessert course yet. Can you BELIEVE IT?!
Last thing -- I'll keep it short -- we've been asked to invite our families and friends to GO ON FACEBOOK and like the page "la Chiesa di Gesù Cristo dei Santi degli Ultimi Giorni" (the Italian page) so that we can get more press and media coverage for the temple! So everyone do that!
Love you all and Buon Natale!
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(This is Brie's Mom) -- We were able to talk with Brie over Facebook Messenger and she looked and sounded SO good. She is so happy and she just sparkles and glows. She is doing great. It was rough at the end when it was to end...there were tears...but it was so good to see her and talk to her.
A service project at the bishop's house...
Our video chat with Brie on Christmas Day
More pictures of the service project
Pictures from zone conference with the mission president and his wife
They acted out the nativity as a zone. Brie was a wise man.
I learned how to make ragu (sauce) and it was SO GOOD -- I am a master!
LOVE!
More pictures of the service project with the Trimbles (the bishop and his wife). She came up and gave me an extra hug in church. Basically they are African packages and it was INCREDIBLE.
We had pranzo with the church family on Sunday and they are so cool and an Italian Grandma (the rock of our ward) joined us.
We went caroling and the anziani bought a miniature Christmas tree.
A fun vlog of Napoli on Christmas Eve when we tried to go finding.
Christmas Eve dinner. Course 1 was raw oysters...
So much excitement!
Raw oysters are gross.
A pizza on the left with a shrimp antipasto, octopus below, and in the shell was INCREDIBLE, like a seafood with potatoes and cooked in this shell.
Mussells, I think.
Pasta course.
Lobster
More frutto di mare
More again -- a different course.
With the fam
You guys literally wrecked me. Like literally I cried so hard. I love it.
Just a silly pic with the stack...
The Caserta sorrelle came over and we made them breakfast and then made the gingerbread houses.
Our Christmas village. I LOVE the tree Oma made and sent!
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