Never mess with a Sicilian when death is on the line!!! HAHA

Ciao tutti!!!!!

Can i just tell you all how much God loves his children..... God loves us. Punto.

This week we had a mission tour with Elder Kearon from the 70 (Justin and I got to meet him in the same week haha) Anyway lets start off with the beginning of this week. Tuesday we went down to Bari to do a switch with the Sorelle up there because Sorella Stephens (the other Sister Training Leader) were going to Catania and the other two were going to Rome (for the conference). So Tuesday we do the switch and that night we had English course in Bari and we taught this CRAZY guy named Steve… Anyway, then the next day we DROVE TO SICILIA!!!!!! IT WAS SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO GREAT!!!!! it was me, Sorella Stephens, Anziano Wolzl and Anziano Perry (the zone leaders). So we got to drive down through Puglia and into CALABRIA!!! I was literally dying!! Calabria was soooo beautiful. Ahh. I just felt like crying!! We drove through Cosenza which I've been dying to see since I found out I was going to Italy.... well since I found out that's where our family is from. hahah. It's in the mountains and just to die for beautiful!!! ahh. I'm still just dying that I got to drive through it!!! As we drove through we had Les Miserables and Tangled (in German thanks to Anziano Wolzl) playing in the car so that was sweet!!!!!!!!!! We dove for about six hours nella machina and then we got to the sea where we took a ferry across to Sicily. It was just sooo beautiful!!! Sicily is such a pretty island soo zoo so so pretty!!! All the flowers were blooming and the sun was shining!!! We drove past the city where the God Father was filmed. It got dark and we were still driving and suddenly  BAMM there is Mt. Etna!!!!!!! (It's a very active volcano in the middle of Sicily) It had gone off during the day so as we drove past it there was all this lava all over the mountain. Since it was dark it looked SO COOL!!! So then we got to CATANIA.

Catania was awesome!! We got to the church that night and waited for other missionaries to arrive (the missionaries from Sicily and then all the Sister Training Leaders and Zone Leaders in the mission) It was the best night of my WHOLE mission. First off Sorella Panchieri shoes up (served with her in Roma) then SORELLA MIKESELL!!!! We just ran to each other and cried!!! ahhh it was so great!!!! Aorella Andersen showed up LOVED it!! and then best moment... When we got to the hotel we were staying at, SORELLA ROSSELL showed up!!!!!! and the cute thing is that it was on our one year anniversary of being on the mission!!!!! Sorella Mikesell, and Sorella Rossell and I just sat on the couch and hugged until it was time to go to bed!!! GOD LOVES US!! 

So the next day we had the conference and it was gooood!!! That man is just filled with the spirit!!!! Then that night I went finding with Sorella Stephens and Sorella Mistura (Italian from sardegna that I served with over there) and we met this really nice couple who bought us Sicilian Dolci!!!! So that was an unforgettable experience!!

The next day we went to Capi conference (for the zone leaders and sister training leaders) and that was way good!!! then after that I kissed Sorella Mikesell goodbye and we headed back to the Continent (what we call italy if your on a island) 

This week was really good for me.. I really needed to just get away and have a really uplifting spiritual week with the people I just LOVE!!! So that is why I know god loves us! He ALWAYS answers our prayers!!!!!

Anyways, I don't have much time today. Not a lot happened with our work since we didn't get home until late Saturday night. LOVE YOU ALL!!!

Sorella Felice 

 pics all sorts of fun with these cool cats

For all of you wondering… this is Sorella Stephens, not Paula. I know… it is a total Paula face. We all thought it was Paula until we noticed the badge. 

These are all students from Olympus High, all the way across the world. There is even one more but he is serving in Milan

Paula most favorite!!! 

Fish are always scary… 

I'm Exhausted!!

Ciao tutti!!!

Well this week might have been the hardest week ever!!!! We worked our butts off and everything just seemed to go down the drain!! First off last Monday we had a appointment set up and right when we got there we got a no show. So then we had all night to figure out what to do... So we went and found a less active member in her store. We went in and she just yelled at us in front of all the people there. So we quickly left then we went to a grill/bar because we had to use a restroom and it was the closest place. Anyway we get in and we decide to get a hot chocolate. so we sat down and we are drinking our hot chocolate and some of our members walk in and order drinks and coffee..... It was so awkward when they turned around and saw us there. Ahhhh I was just devastated. These were ACTIVE MEMBERS! blah!

We had a WAY cool lesson with our 13 year old investigator. She needs to get permission from her Dad to get baptized and she had been putting it off for weeks now! So we did a lesson about Queen Esther and how she risked her life to go talk to the King to save her people. Then we compared it to her situation and told her that her Dad wasn't going to kill her and that she needed to have courage! So that was a way cool lesson. She asked her dad this Saturday but unfortunately he said no no no. So we are having to just trust in the lord that everything will work out.

Also we have this investigator who is just AWESOME! Her name is Concetta. She just wants to be baptized soooooooooo bad!! We did the law of chastity with her this week and she was like "oh no, what do i do. Roberto and I live together we have a daughter and we aren't married!!! I need to get married to Roberto before the 31st so I can be baptized!" Talk about faith! So she is awesome!! However she talked/proposed to Roberto and he said "no" that he wasn't ready. So she can't get baptized on the 31st anymore. We are teaching him though too. He actually has been coming to church longer then she has. We found him before Concetta. Anyway so hopefully everything goes well.

SO BIGGEST MIRACLE!!! This whole transfer i've been sleeping on a broken bed and every morning I wake up (if i even sleep at all) and I feel like someone has beaten me with a bat! So i've been having tons of back problems. Plus not sleeping and running around like crazy! I've just been literally EXHAUSTED!!!!!!!! Well, this week the assistants called us and they were like "hey we are going to IKEA and we wanted to know if you needed any furniture for your apartment like desks, mattresses...etc." I almost broke into tears. All I could think was how much God loved me and the one thing that would help me get through this week was getting a new bed!!! I'm just soooo happy!!

Well anyway thats about all for this week. I love you all so much and miss you like crazy!! thanks everyone for writing me all the time. It means so much to me. Remember how much God loves each and everyone of us!!!!

Sorella Felice 

pics

me and the daughter of concetta (simp) 

young womens!!! learning how to do modest makeup!! (lets be honest italians dont know how to do "modest makeup") the YW president put on hot pink eye shawdow. 

this is a meat shop hahaah 

and then we were doing casa and casa and we found one of these and i decided to take a pic. they are everywhere but it says "jehovas witnesses dont ring our door bell WE ARE CATHOLIC" Hahah we rang it. howver they werent home

FESTA DELLA DONNA

Ciao tutti!!!

Well this week was good. We had zone conference so we went down to Bari for that. It was way cool... at the end we were all singing the mission hymn (we sing it at the end of every zone conference. Best song ever) (It's about finishing the work that Paul started when he came to Rome!). At the end of the song, some guy knocks on the door. We answered and he said "hey I saw the church was open and I just would like to learn more about it!!!" hahah, he walked into a room of 20 missionaries and said that!! 

We had a carnivale party at church that was really fun and super crazy!!!! (Carnivale isnt just a day its like a season!!!) Everyone dresses up. So Sorella Baker and I dressed up as the Anziani!! hahah

I need to tell you all about Concetta!!!! She is one of our investigators!! We just barley started teaching her when I got here. My first lesson with her was the plan of salvation and it went well but this week we taught the Gospel of Jesus Christ and it was SO GOOD!!!! We asked her to be baptized and she was SOOOOO EXCITED!!! she was was so excited that she got to choose her own date!!! So she picked a date and asked how she gets baptized and if she needs to bring anythinig....etc!!! It was SOOOOO CUTE!!! She has a little girl and she told us the other night she had a ear ache and she asked if her if they could pray to Heavenly Father to make it better. Then she told us how she was so happy and how she felt like such a great mom for taking her daughter for church!!! Then on Sunday she shows up and was says "WHERE IS THE BAPTISM FONT? I WANT TO SEE THE FONT!!!! So that was just soooo exciting!!! Plus, she told her boyfriend and he was said "I WANT TO GET BAPTIZED TOO!!!" So now we are teaching the both of them!!!!! 

lets see what else happend... We did  A LOT OF FINDING this week.

Sorella Baker and I this week made this thing called the Bari Bomba (bomb of bari) and for district meeting and it was SOOO yummy!!! It's like cookies,nutella and cream!! hahah I didn't eat that much but it was LITERALLY THE BOMB!!!  

OHHHH this week was LA FESTA DELLA DONNA!!!! which means the "Women's Day"!!! haha So they have Fathers Day and Mothers Day and then they have Women's Day! It was great!! Everyone kept telling us congrats all day for being women. Then when we got home one of our members had come and dropped off roses for us for being women! hahah LOVED IT!! We should have Women's Day in America!!!! 

Oh they have the BEST pizza here by the way!

 

Sunday was good! We had ward conference. However for ward conference the bishop didn't want our investigators in the meeting because it was only for members. So we went into the archive and watched the Joseph Smith movie with Concetta, and her boyfriend Roberto. At the end we asked Roberto to pray about it and he was willing! He said a prayer right there and asked if this was the right church and if Joseph Smith was a true prophet?! it was the most beautiful prayer i've ever heard!!! (plus it was in Italian so obviously it was good). Then we went to a members after for pranzo which was nice because we were fasting for one of our other investigators for her Dad to give permission for her to get baptized!! So we ate the BEST PASTA in the WORLD!!!! Then we had salad and meatballs and then fruit and dessert!!! So good!!! We did weekly planning, then after we had a CES fireside that we went to. That was our Sunday!!! But it was awesome because we had 3 investigators at church!!!!

Well thats about all I think... love you all so much!!! you're the best and I miss you all so much!!! Remember to be awesome member missionaries!!!! MWAHAHA

Sorella Felice 

  

me and my friend christian at carnivale... he shot me

anziano rassumsen almost getting hit instead of the pinyota.. (how the crap do you spell that word)

me and my simp miriana 

all the missionaries at carnivale 

me and sorella stevens 

bari bomba

I FOUND THE BASEBALL FIELD 

Me learning how to tie a tie

me on festa della donna 

I Spy With My Little Eye……. a Nun

Ciao tutti!!!!!!!!

Before I forget, so my last week in Sassari I got purposed to and forgot to write about it!!! hahah. So,  this guy comes up to me and he is like "hello beautiful...complements to you!!" and I was like "oh no" and we were walking to the church and he was walking the same direction... so we couldn't get rid of him and then he said "have I told you, you just have the most beautiful eyes!!" and Sorella Knudsen is standing behind me laughing and then he reaches over and touches my cheek and is like "your blushing!!" SO DISGUSTING!!!!! ( not to mention this guy is wearing pink genie pants with a bun on top of his head!!! Awesome) So then we keep walking and he stops me and is like  "si sposerà franco..... sono franco" (will you marry franco... i am franco!) hahah so funny! I just kindly said no and then a bus came right in time!!!!! anyway that's my first story for you

My second is that two days ago I got kissed!!! ahhhhhhh MAN PROBLEMS!!! We were finding and I stopped and ask this homeless man how he was doing and he was telling me all his problems. I said "can I read you a scripture about the atonement" and he said "yes.. lets walk and talk cause its cold" (by the way we were in some gardens for a castle... yeah that's just where I'm serving my mission) So then we get up to walk with him and he grabs my arm like he is escorting me and he is holding on TIGHT!!!! So I said to Sorella Baker "we need to get out of this!!!" Then he reaches over and grabs my face and goes for it!! So, I'm like "crap" and I just drop to the ground to get out of it and he goes down with ma! hahah but in the end he only got the top of my head.. haha ( i think he kissed one of my bumps on my head hahah) so I'm not talking to men anymore....

Lets see... So in my new area we go to this little city a lot called Lucera so we are on trains a lot but this little city reminds me just of Sassari so i LOVE IT!!! (however that is where the homeless guy tried to kiss me) There used to be a branch there but they all went inactive so it closed. But, they want us to go there often and try to get the missionaries back in the city! 

oh so another story... while we were in Lucera we went to a birthday party for one of the young women (she got baptized two weeks ago). We were walking up the stairs and I had a thing of biscottis and I tripped and fell down the stairs.... so crushed cookies and a bruised Sorella Felice is what arrived at the party :( 

Another story... yesterday after church there was this huge noise on the street and we went out and a Ferrari had been trying race someone and he hit a dumpster. Sad part is there was an old man in front of the dumpster that he hit and when we came out there was blood all over the street. He was already being taken to the hospital) The Ferrari had hit the middle section and then flew across the street!!!!!! So, some idiot crashed his Ferrari and hit an old sweet man :( So sad! 

Last night we went over to a members house and she was talking about how there are angels all around us. She told us this story about how she was getting ready for church and how she couldn't find her teeth and she was in a panic because her ride was there. She couldn't find her teeth and she kept praying and she searched and searched and then she prayed that an angel would find her teeth. Then she found them on her bed where she had looked before… anyways I thought it was a cool story but inside was just dying because all I could imagine was this old lady running around her house looking for her teeth for church!!! hahah loved it!!!!  I LOVE ITALIANS!!!!!!!!!  Tomorrow she is having us over to learn how to make parmigiano so I'm way excited for that!!!!!!!! 

ummm well that's about all.... sorry its all stories and not any spiritual stuff.... I'm still getting to know all my investigators and the area... anyway I love the mission so much and I wouldn't trade it for anything!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love you all so much!!!!! 

mwahhhh

Sorella Felice

the pics are me at a castle 

a sign that says ask me if im happy....

and us eating real nap town pizza... pizza from napoli (where pizza was invented) 

Fuggi Da Foggia

Ciao tutti!!! 

So… I'm in foggia!! It's very different from Sassari and I miss Sassari A TON!!!!! Im just going to square my shoulders and work my butt off here in Foggia though!!! Also I got it wrong, Foggia is on the adriatic sea and its like the ankle, not the heel. hahah. So first, on Wednesday morning our district distretto dropped us off at the train station and we said goodbye to everyone then Elder Birberg his companion and Sister Knudsen and I traveled four hours down to Cagliari where Elder Birberg took a boat and all my luggage to Rome and the next day I took a plane... BY MYSELF!!! It was so weird being all alone!!! Then I got to rome and saw all the new kids going up to Sassai!!! So jealous!!! Then I went with the assistants to the mission office... This is just an apostate day all around so be prepared... so first off flew by myself.. did a tj scambi with the assistants .... when you do a scambi with an elder or sister.. then after the office they sent me and Birberg down to Foggia on a train so we were companions for the whole day?? hahahah! We had lots of fun though…we did origami and played games... Then we got to Foggia. My new companion is Sorella Baker. She is from Idaho Falls, she has a really cute family. We are the same age in the mission and we are also both 20. Ummm... she is awesome. 

Foggia is huge. Twice as big or even three times as big as Sassari. It doesn't really look like Italy because during world war 2 Foggia was actually bombed and so it destroyed the oldness of the city. So everything is like from the 40s. Our apartment is HUGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! like GINORMOUS!!!!! Seriously though, it's HUGE!!! we have a bedroom, a kitchen, a study room, a hall way and a nice little entrance room. On top of that we have this HUGE spare bedroom and it has balconies... its just huge!!! However it is SUPER old!!! There are ugly chandeliers and gross wallpaper.. oh and cockroaches. Also they didn't have any sheets and I left mine in Sassari so.... I'm really hoping to go to a chinese store and get some. 

The ward is awesome and huge!!! The work seems to be really good here. I already love some of the members and investigators, but its hard knowing that the same thing is going to happen to me like Sassari and one day i'll just have to say goodbye to all the people I love.... ma la missione cosi. Thats the mission though. 

Our bishop is awesome!!! He met his wife and she converted him... they are in there early 30s i'd guess.. super young and super cute, way awesome. 

Also mom I got the Valentines package you sent and I was soooooooo happy!!!!! I love the pictures!!!! Thats probably the best package ever!! Just to get a bunch of pics!!! Also, I finally finished off all the turkish delight you sent me!! Elder Birberg and I ate it on our train. 

well thats about it.... I'm still super sad, this week has definitely been filled with tears and I'm still trying to move on. 

I love you all so much and I want you all to know how much I love our Lord Gesu Christ. I'm so thankful for everything he has done for us so that we can overcome anything in this life. I'm thankful for his example of love so that we can learn how to love others. I'm just.... AHHH SO THANKFUL!!! I'm sorry I can never really express myself well. All I can say is... I LOVE JESUS and THE CHURCH IS TRUE!!! 

con tutto il mio cuore 

Sorella Felice 

photos 

last district photo

me at the airport saying good bye to knudsen... oh by the way we got there and the airport didnt have my ticket bookes so i had to buy my ticket with my own money and then after i did that they found it!!! but they gave me my money back which was good.

and then me and sorella baker and a member 

Sassari Sta Fiorendo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ciao tutti!!!

Well first off I got transferred. All I can say is that I'm devastated!!! This week has been harder then any week on my mission. I have cried almost every night. My heart feels like it has literally been ripped in half. I just really can't say goodbye to these people here, I love them SOOOOOOOO much!!!! My new city is called Foggia, it is in Puglia... the only way to describe where it is is to imagine if a lady was wearing high heels and she walked into a cemetery... My city is the part of her stilettos that sinks into the dirt as she walks :) hahah I'm at the very bottom of the heel. I've heard that they eat very well there (as in they eat A LOT) I'm nervous!! I know that they eat a lot of fried food like they fry cal-zones and stuff..... oh boy! I'm just so sad... when President called me, he said “listen its time you have to go” and I was like “NOOOOO” hahah but I'll go anywhere and I'm happy to go if the Lord wants me to. The city was opened when I was in my third transfer... so right before I came to Sassari... and Sorella Rossell (my MTC comp) opened the city! My companion is Sorella Baker (we were in the same MTC district) so its going to be weird having a comp the same age as me… also, I'm going to be the STL which is the zone leader for the sisters, my STL comp is Sorella Stevens. We went to Jr. High  and High school together. She is awesome so I'm excited.. also if I were to have stayed in Sassari, there would be four missionaries from Olympus!! hahah but I'm leaving so there is only 3 (I still think it's awesome though that this tiny little island that is half way around the world has 3 Olympus students on it haha). So now for the crazy news about transfers... they are bringing in a new set of sorelle here!!!!!! THERE WILL BE FOUR SISTERS IN SASSARI!!!!! Knudsen is staying and her companion is someone that she has already served with! CRAZY! Then they are bringing in a Sorella from Cagliari and a Greeny!!! So we are super busy this week trying to turn our apartment into a four person apartment, and trying to pack all my stuff up. Anyway, that is transfers. (OH also Anziano Birberg is coming with me to Foggia to be the district leader).

So this week was CRAZY!!!! PROPRIO PAZZA!!!!! First off we had zone conference and it was awesome!!! Best zone conference in my life!! I cried like three times and I just felt the spirit so strong!!! We also went and saw tons of flamingos since it was p-day. And that was fun!

Valentines day was awesome. We went around like normal for the first part of the day and then we got a bidone after lunch (no show) so we did finding and we decided to buy flowers for each other for valentines day. So we get to all these flower stands and one rose was 8 EURO!!!!!!!! That's ten dollars!!! So we then are going back home and we stop at Fratello Marras flower shop (he is a member and THE BEST MEMBER IN THE WHOLE WORLD) and he sees us and he is like "SORELLE I have something for you". He came back with a HUGE BEAUTIFUL ROSE for us!!!!!! It was so nice!!! He is just the best!! Then after that we went to a Relief Society party (for all the single women hahah) and we ate a lot of donuts!!!!!

Ok, so the end of this week was just crazy!!!!! It feels like its been three weeks, first off Saturday (transfer call day) We are over at our simps house, her name is Lucia and she is sooooooo cute!!! and we got our call when we were there... so then she proceeded to tell me all about foggia and puglia. Then our time ran out and we didn't have time to teach our lesson so we left her with a couple of things to watch on lds.org and a pamphlet. She promised she would come to church!! Then that night we went to our other simps house named Lucia (different Lucia) and we had the best lesson with her!!!! We taught the gospel and she really liked it!! Then we asked her about how her prayer went and she got all shy and timid (I could tell she totally received an answer!!! plus I prayed so hard this week for her to receive an answer!!!) So she goes in to telling us how she isn't sure yet and she needs to pray more. Then we asked her if when she gets her answer if she would be baptized!!! and she DIDN'T SAY NO!!! She was really quite and we sat there in silence. I just know the spirit was eating her up!!! Then Sorella Knudsen bore her testimony about how this gospel has blessed her life and she started crying and told us how the spirit can change hearts and AHHH it was just such a great lesson!!! Then we committed her to come to church too!!

So then comes Sunday!!!! DAY OF MIRACLES!!!!!! It was so crazy!! I've worked so hard here in Sassari and I've given my whole heart to this city and to this work. In one day all of the blessings came and I could finally see the fruits of our work! First off LUCIA came to church FOR ALL THREE MEETINGS!!!! All the sisters LOVED her!!!!! Then during sacrament we had 3 SIMPS (investigators) COME!!!!!!!!! I haven't seen a simp come to church since I've been here so it's truly a miracle that we had 3!!!!! Then I had to give a talk and I started bawling of course! All the members and simps started crying too and then that made me cry more. The SPIRIT WAS SOOOOO STRONG!! After my talk Anziano Birberg goes up and gives his testimony (I actually had a real talk and then I had to give my goodbye testimony) and I sit down and all my simps come and sit by me and hold my hands!! SO CUTE!!!! Then for pranzo we went to a members house and they made brick oven pizza, so that was yummy!! Put some more pounds on :) and then our simp Sandra (who came to church too) Came and picked us up and took us to the beach to go on a walk and it was so Bellissima!!!!! We just talked and walked down the beach! After we had a lesson and showed her a bunch of Mormon messages and she loved them!!!! We showed her the one about Stephanie Nielsen and she was bawling!!! Then she asked to watch one about the temple and it talked about baptisms for the dead and she LOVED IT!!! She loves her Dad who has passed away and we talked about how in the temple we can feel love from our loved ones on the other side. So she really wants to go to the temple but she knows she has to be baptized first. So we are excited that maybe that triggered her want to be baptized!!!!!!!

Know for one of the biggest MIRACLES!!! Three weeks ago Sorella Knudsen and I were finding and I felt like doing bus finding.. So we hopped on a bus and just started talking to people. I sat down next to this kid named Andrea and we talked a bunch (he plays the flute so we talked about that hahah). I asked him if he would come to English course and explained how we were missionaries for our church and how we do it as a service to the community. Well the next day HE CAME!! We talked to him and then let the Anziani take him (he was 20 years old so obviously he goes to them) So we asked him to take the lessons and he said yes! and now the Anziani are teaching him!!! NOW FOR THE MIRACLE!!!! HE HAS A BAP DATE FOR MARCH 15!!!!!! I can't believe it!!!!!!!! He has also invited all of his friends to English course!!! He was so cute yesterday at church, he came in a suit and a new tie and had his little book of Mormon!! All the members were like “are you sure he isn't a member already!!” ahhhh I'M JUST SO HAPPY!!!!!!!!!!!

Anyway that was my week! OH.. I forgot one of the members came up to me and said the sweetest thing!! She told me that the reason they are bringing in two more sisters to Sassari is because they need all four sisters to do the work that I did... isn't that so sweet!!! Sassari is really just growing!! This city is going to filled with saints one day! I know it!! It's really just a special city!! The church building here is huge!!! and we have no members to fill it up, we now have 8 missionaries in this tiny city and I know that Sassari is going to see the Hand of God!!!! I'm just devastated still... I feel like I'm really leaving my home. Anyway I don't know my travel plans yet but we might take a boat this time to get to Rome.... so that could be interesting.

Well I love you all so much I'm sorry this email is SOOOO long!!! My fault!! I love you all and can only think of one other place besides this city that is my home. I cant believe how the time is flying by and I cant wait to see all of your smiling faces!!! However, I really don't want to leave my mission AT ALL!!!) I love you!!! Remember to always be happy!!! And to do something good in the world!!

con il mio cuore

Sorella Felice!!

(update) Hey, so I just got my travel plans. I don't leave until Thursday and I go in a airplane while all the Anziani are going on a boat (the boat takes 24 hours and I'm the only sister so they would rather have me fly alone for an hour then be on a boat with a buch of anziani for a whole day. But good new is that the boat lets you take as much luggage as you want so they can take all my luggage for free!!! Wahoo! I don't have to take anything!!! hahah! love you all 

flamingos in calgiari

flowers from fratello marras (also he has like an ancient cave/kitchen thing under his negozio so we went with one of the new converts down there to check it out and it was creepy!! plus maruizio looks like golum hahahah my little cave creature 

a really fresh egg

courso students (dad the at the end that is darker reminds me of you!! he is awesome!!!) 

and a random pic my simp took of me 

me saying good bye to members and friends on sunday 

one pic is the missionaries and all of our simps that came to church 

hahah can you find waldo!!! hint he is making pizza 

lucia riding home from church on her motercycle 

all of us in the car going to the beach 

me and the presidente of the branch 

me in porto torres (small city) we liked the wild flowers 

me three simps that came to church 

ANDREA AND HIS FRIEND!!!! THEY LOVE THE BOOK OF MORMOM)

and me at the beach yesterday (we need to teach our simps about keeping the sabbath day holy hahh) 

Wouldn't It Be Nice

Ciao Tutti!!!

Well this is probably going to be a short email because I can't think of anything that happened this week! hahah The weeks seem to be just shooting by! It's crazy!

This week we had a scambio with the Sorelle from Cagliari (like always cause they are the only sisters we can do exchanges with without taking a boat or a plane hahaha) (actually interesting fact. the closest sisters to us serve in the french mission! hahah! they are only an hour away from Sassari... weird no) (on a different island though) Anyway, the sisters came up to Sassari this time which was SUPER exciting because we have never done scambis up here before. The other sorelle found us a family!!!! We are super excited to start working with them.

So this last fast sunday the President asked us to fast for his grand daughter Emily. This is the update from this week. It's so cool!!!

"Finally, Sister Waddoups and I want to thank you all for the faith and prayers that were offered on behalf of our granddaughter Emily.
Our eleven year old granddaughter has leukemia. It was a tough decision to leave her and come to Italy, but President Eyring told us our family would experience miracles as we served. We believed him.
Last week our daughter called and said the doctors were concerned because Emily’s blood count was extremely low and continued to drop. The concern was this could be an indication the cancer was coming back and she might need a bone marrow transplant if it didn’t improve.
We made a decision to call family members and ask them to fast for Emily on Sunday. This is when we asked all of you to include her in your prayers and your fasting.
Three days later Emily went to the hospital for the determining blood test. For this stage of her cancer, the doctors try to keep the ANC count (the ability to fight off infection) at a minimum of 500-1500. The test results were astounding. Her ANC count had jumped from 100 the week before to 4,800--AN ABSOLUTE MIRACLE."

Cool huh?? What a miracle! 

Lets see this week we went to a Mexican restaurant that we found..... Sorella Knudsen and I have made  a rule that we will never order anything at a restaurant unless it's italian food. The italians make good Italian food and thats the end of it....

ummmmm... Oh this week one of our simps (investigators) invited us over for a dinner appointment. She made us SARD GNOCCI!!! My absolute favorite!! Everyone here knows it's my favorite so now they always make it for us! I'm going to be sad when I can't have it anymore. Sorry this letter stinks!

Not much else has happened. Sorella Knudsen and I work like crazy and the weeks are just flying by. This has been one of my best transfers so far! We are just loving all the work. We are working with the members a lot!

Right now we are actually in Cagliari. Zone Conference is tomorrow and we have interviews today so we had to come down yesterday. This time we took a bus instead of a train and we saw A LOT OF SHEEP.

ok, I'm sorry this letter is horrible... I just really can't think of anything that has happened this week. hahah! Love you guys!!! if I get transfered I probably wont be writing next week because I'll be traveling to get off this island (that i love with all my heart)

I love all of you so much! and i'm so thankful for all of you in my life. con tutto il mio cuore

Sorella felice

(ps this internet place is playing the beatles and beach boys. Love it!! hahah)

pics

some new friends in cagliari (one of them has a SLC, utah shirt that he found here????

um the best pic with a cat in the back ground (thats why its the best pic)