Well this week was quite an adventure.... we experienced the first cyclone to ever hit Italy/Sardegna! It was a really bad storm! A lot of people have died, its really sad, Olbia (part of my district) was destroyed! The rain came in so hard that they had seven feet of water everywhere! Luckly everyone has appartments so mostly all the people on the top floors were fine. We went to Olbia this week to help out with all the destruction. All the missionaries on the island came and all the members, plus they sent a HUGE group from Rome and some from Milan (the members) to come help also. We had a blast serving!! We went into these basement garage type things and just helped the people there clear them out and drain the water. They were below ground level so everything in the garages /storage places were just DESTROYED!! I felt like I was going down into the titanic to recover lost artifacts… hahah. The people there were awesome! None of them complained, we all just pulled together and worked for hours!!!! We found a lot of weird things in some of the garages. We found a whole set of Italian harry potter that was ruined (it was heart breaking) one of the garages that we opened had a BMW in it that was just destroyed. It was so sad!! however it was such and amazing experience for the church. People were asking a ton of questions because we were one of the biggest groups there. Half way through some guy was like "WE NEED THE SISTERS!!" And he led us to these two girls who were watching and he said "these are missionaries they left everything at home, they left their schooling, their families, everything to come here and preach the gospel. Will you let them teach you?" and they were like "yeah!!" so we taught them the about the restoration and it was such a spiritual experience! It was raining and Sorella Kippen and I were convered with mud and we just sat there telling them how much god loved them. It was probably one of the coolest/strongest moments on my mission. I LOVE SERVING!!! Oh yeah, and the day we were in Olbia was TRANSFER CALL DAY!! but we had no reception underground so we didn't know if they were calling us. When we went up to teach the lesson they called us like five times though!! So after the lesson we answered and Sorella Kippen is leaving me :( She is going to Pescara where I had my first scambi on the mission!! She will love it there!! I think it snows there in the winter. It's right on the Adriatic sea. So she is going from the furthest west you can get in our mission to the furthest east!! Im staying here and I'm getting SORELLA KNUDSEN!! She is in pescara right now and she is one transfer under me. Her trainer was french though so the only way for them to communicate was in italian. So I bet she is WAY good at the language and can teach me A LOT. Anyway thats kind of what we did this week!
Also we thought that Thanksgiving was this week so we already celebrated it. HA! It was the weirdest Thanksgiving I've ever had.... We had pasta for our first course (our english course students brought food also) then we had the regular stuffing (chicken cause we couldn't find turkey??) mashed potatoes, carrots and Sorella Kippen and I made an apple and pumpkin pie! It was super yummy!!! Anyways, I sat next to a man from Afghanistan, and we shared a wonderfull thanksgiving together! I learned all about the Muslim religion! He is a really nice guy and it was super cool!! My thanksgiving consisted of Italians, Swedish people (Anziano Birberg), an Afghanistan man and all the missionaries hahah!!
So this week one of our members gave us a cd and it was all spanish music?? hahah. All italians listen to is spanish music!!! we can't listen to the cd cause we have no idea what is being said!! But it should be fun for after the mission!!! The only song I knew was "la bamba" ahahha
This week we saw A TON of flamingos!! because they like water and everything is flooded. I still have yet to get a picture of one though!!!
So we were going less active finding (i call it laughing haha (get it?) Less Active Finding L,A finding... laughing!!! ) and some guy ran up to us and he looks at me and goes "tu sei MOLTO carrina" (you are VERY cute)!!! and runs away????? that was weird
Everyone keeps saying i need to tell nikki how awesome she is with the blog SO NIKKI THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ive heard youve done a really good blog!! you're the best!!!
Anyway that was about it for this week! I love you all so much and hope you have the best Thanksgiving!! remember all you have because a lot of people right now just lost everything!!! I love you all so much (again). I'm so lucky to have all of you in my life! words really can't describe how much I love all of you!!! I miss you all like crazy!! love you tons!
Con mio tutto cuore
Sorella Felice
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