Week 17 -- Baptism Dates!

Hello!!!!! Happy New year and happy (late) anniversary to my beautiful parents! xoxoxox love you 

For this P-Day we are having a zone Napoli P-Day Christmas so we have a few hours to go shopping this morning so hopefully I will get pants!!!! 

This week we had a few lessons with E. and it is so incredible to see how much she has progressed. 

Also we got another baptism date for M. this week! 

We did a scambioso (exchanges).  I went to Caserta with Sorella Sullivan and we taught a lesson kind of with this girl named C. and she had a lot of questions (but like doubty questions) and I was able to shut some down.  It was fun and I was able to try to resolve some of her concerns like why do we need the Book of Mormon.  And then she gave us some froyo.  We are buds. One thing that is super important that I explained to her is that if we want questions we will have questions but if we actually want answers we will find them. 

Also we ran into these funny women on the street and they taught us like four swear words in Napolitano, lol. We are going to go teach them the restoration this week. 

Festa is finally over! Technically it was over on Sunday because it was the bufana -- I am not exactly sure what that is -- it's like a witch or something who comes and does stockings. But everyone went back to work and school today. I am glad you are feeling better, Mom -- I have been praying a lot for you to feel better. Also you and Daddy say a few of the same things in your emails.  It is cute.  If you join a gym I'll get more serious about my exercise time.

Cute that you are going to Georgia. How is Christopher doing? Do you think he reads my emails? I like the idea of all of your family doing Come Follow Me together -- that's cute. 

I am about in Jacob in my studies -- I'm glad to be out of the Isaiah chapters. I'm trying to read in Italian and it's a disaster to read Isaiah in Italian. 

I don't need anything here.... we tried to find pants but I don't know if I will end up wearing them because my butt is huge and they are all too short. We will see. I've gained a bit of weight so I have no idea what size I would be so don't worry buying some and sending them to me. We've been given money to buy them here so I might just have to go get them tailored.  But that's something I'll have to try on all the times so I am good.

 

Questions -- 

1.  How was church?  How did people seem to like the two hour schedule?

Good! I think that people like it. I'm excited about studying Come Follow Me.  It was cute because both E. and M. were in church and both of them wrote down the assignments for next week. 

2.  How does the change to two hour church change Sundays for you?

We get a bit more time to study in the mornings and get a bit more time in the afternoon... I think it will be easier to get people in church maybe.

3.  What was your happiest moment this week?

Solidifying 2 baptism dates.

4.  What was the funnest/funniest thing that happened this week?

Today as a zone we did a zone Christmas and got secret Santa names and then a few hours to shop and then came back, had pizza and did the gift swap, and are watching a movie now.

5.  Do you know how much I love you?
Yes

6.  What was the most interesting thing you ate this week?  Anything new?
Nope. We only had one meal appointment and it was with an American.

7.  What did you do for P-Day this week?
See above

8.  What stood out to you in your studies this week?

All I can say is I'm very glad to not be studying Isaiah in Italian anymore. Also I read the talk that Andrew put in the binder for me a lot- Slow to Anger from 1971.. and there is a quote I have been thinking about a lot lately that says "Frustrations often offer us the means of progression, for by overcoming them harmoniously, we grow and become more Christlike."  And I've been thinking a lot about that especially as I've been setting goals for the new year... of course it's not easy to change, of course it's frustrating but something that is helpful is thinking of the person I want to be in a year, the person I want to be when I come home. And who I want to be in 10-15 years. And keeping that in mind somehow helps me act in the moment in that way.

9.  How has someone shown kindness/love to you this week?
I've been noticing how incredible my companion is just at doing the little things. Like making me breakfast and cleaning up the little messes, and if it wasn't something I have been trying to work on my self I wouldn't notice.

10.  What are you looking forward to the most this coming week?
We should have the interview for E. this weekend!

11.  What can we pray for for you and for your investigators?
That they will have a stronger desire to come unto Christ!!!!!

12.  Is there anything that you need that we can send to you?
No!!!

AND THAT'S HOW IT IS HERE IN POZZUOLI!

 

xoxoxoxo

We got these incredible sfogliatella (I don't know how to spell) and they we filled with chocolate and then a Genovese sauce and a pomodoro and mozzarella one..... they are usually filled with something that tastes like Christmas.  They were so good.

We had a lesson in a bar and had hot chocolate and the owners gave us a TON of free cornetti and then E. picked up a tag when we were leaving and put it on cute.