Benvenuti alla Chiesa di GESÙ CRISTO!

Ciao tutti!!!

OK, so this week was WAY FUN!! First off some GREAT news!!! last district meeting we had a discorso on numbers, well goals. and we talked about how the missions baptism goal was 20 a month and we finally reached it like my first transfer but now we are only getting like 9 or 7 baptisms a month. Anyway we had this interesting lesson on how in order to get one baptism you have to teach lesson 4 three times, and in order to do that you had to teach lesson 3 six times...... anyway it comes down to you have to talk to over 400 people a month to have a baptism every month, so as a mission we set new goals! EVERY MISSIONARY IS SUPPOSED TO HAVE ONE BAPTISM A MONTH! So, 40 baptisms min for the mission and the set goal is 95 i think!!! I'M SO EXCITED!!!!!!! This week we were on fire!!!!! We taught so many lessons and we have sooooo many new potentials, and it was are whole district!! We have like over doubled are numbers and I know that this is going to bring more baptisms, It was such inspiration to have the goal changed, ITALIA WILL FLOURISH!!! 

Anyway, so this week we had a lesson with one of our investigators and before this, we were in this big piazza where all these raggazzi (teens) hang out in. We were teaching and suddenly like ten feet from us a fist fight broke out!!! so fun!!! OK then later we went to dinner with her (the investigator) and all the Anziani to HONG KONG! ha it is a chinese buffet called Hong Kong... I still don't really like Chinese food. We did have fun with the chopsticks though!! Then after dinner we had to RUN home or else we were going to be late (and the presidente is being really strict about obedience, so we ran as fast as we could!) We were running and right as we hit one of the bus stops the bus came so we run and barley make the bus, while we are on the bus some raggazzi (teens) are trying to talk with us in English "what is your name? can we have our number?" (they weren't the best at speaking English, but they were trying hard) and then they got really bad (like naughty) so we got off the bus and right as I stepped off I was just suddenly in the arms of some man????? like my foot hits the ground and then there is just stinky man everywhere!!! LIKE BAM!! I'm just like "what just happened and is happening to me" and this guy is hugging me and then he says "come with me!!!" so then I start freaking out thinking I'm getting kidnapped and trying to find Sorella Kippen! Then I realize these two guys were just out running (like exercising) and I stepped off the bus and he ran into me but then he just was creepy about it! Sorella Kippen is just running home.... hahah So I catch up to her and the running men are following us then they literally start running circles around us! So, we are like "well now were going to have to get rid of them before we go home so they don't know where we live..." we did get asked out on a date though in the process... Italian men! AHHHHH so annoying! 

I guess we just met some pretty crazy people this week... non important.

The members here in Sassari are so nice I love them to pieces"!!! This week they told us to come to the church and they bought birthday cake for me and anziano woolsey because his birthday was this week too! So we feasted on birthday cake this week! YUM

Last night we got asked out to dinner again! but also we taught three lessons on the street on the way home so that was a miracle!!! I'm telling you!! Italy is going to boom!! 

Anyway that is all I can think of that happened this week. Thanks for all the letters! I love you all so much, you mean the world to me!!!! I'll see you in eleven or ten months... ahhhh weird!! love you!!!!!!!!! 

Sorella Felice

The pics are one of a church, one is a really clean street we found, and one with the chopsticks! 

Monday P-day!

Ciao tutti!! 

Well, not that much that has happened since last Wednesday... so this is probs going to be a little short!!! 

Anyway WE GOT TRANSFER CALLS!!! and EVERYONE IS SASSARI IS STAYING!! so me and Kippy will be together for another transfer here in the beautiful island of Sardegna! hahah!!!

So one thing that happened this week is that probably twice a week one of our next door neighbors who is really old will knock on our door and talk to us for a while. So this week we are doing planning and she knocks on our door and I answer it since I was ready. Sorella Kippen runs out to put a cardigan on and I'm talking to Vincenza and Sorella Kippen comes back and she is wearing my white cardigan and my name tag was still on it!!! hahah so she comes over and Vinceza says "YOUR BOTH SORELLA FELICE!!" you must both be happy today hahah 

At church yesterday one of our members gave me and Kippy two bags of food!!!!!!!!! It was awesome!!! There were fresh grapes in the bag and we ate all of them before we even got home! It was the best!!!!!!!!! she brought us like all these veggies and sausage.... oh the Italians and their sausage! Tonight, we are going to a Chinese restaurant!! Which should be interesting.... we are going with one of our Simps, and all the missionaries. She wanted all of us to come!! umm... that is pretty much it. We have done like a butt load of finding this week but really not a lot of stories! OH, except the ugly spider I sent a picture of last week now has a huge thing with all of its babies in it!!! we are going to have to find out how to kill that thing! It freaking terrifies me!!!!! Anyway love you all tons!!!!!!!!! mwahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh 

Sorella Felice

Birthdays, Chilli, and Pumpkin Pie!!

Ciao tutii!!!

GENERAL CONFERENCE WAS SOOOOOOOO GOOOOOOD!!!! seriously it was so amazing, Alex said this in his letter but its really true! "missionaries are more excited for general conference, then for christmas as a child!!" Anyways, I loved every second of it!! This was super funny, we were planning on friday morning and are zone leader called us and said "so Presidente and Sorella Waddoups are coming to SASSARI!!!" so we watched general conference with the Mission President!!! It was really cool!! and they would have really good insights! Also did you guys just love Elder Edward Dube's talk? He reminds me of my investigators in Rome! I LOVED how he said that missionary work is like cattle and how if only the one cow is moving (the full time missionaries) we won't move, we need ALL of the members ,missionary or not (all members are misisonaries though) need to move!! The Lord is hastening this work and I KNOW that what the apostles talked about this weekend is vitally important! Take head to their words! I promise you that you will find no greater joy in this life (besides in the family) then sharing the gospel to those you love! Please please pray for missionary opportunities!!! Remember 1 person before christmas in each ward (if we do that we will have 30,000 new members!!!!! Also I loved Uchtdorfs talk(s)!! (President let us watch priesthood with all the anziani and Sorella Waddoups (it was SOO WEIRD)) Uchtdorfs talks were so good though!! especially the "join with us!" one. One of the companionships had an investigator there and so it was the bomb!!! I love President Uchtdorf so much!!! Also President Monsons talk broke my heart! I was just bawling all the way through it!!! Especially that his anniversary was on my birthday.  That is all I could think about, please pray for him!

So my birthday was super funny. We had General Conference Saturday night and then all day Sunday (we had to watch them out of order because of the time difference). We were going to watch the last sunday evening session today, but monday we packed and went down to Caglieri! The sisteres there had to make food for Zone Conference. So we spent time making Chilli and 7 layer Mexican bean dip (I seriously don't know how the sisters found ingredients for that). Then we made eggplant and corn bread and tirmasu!! It was sooooo yummy, and I got chilli for my Birthday which was the best!!!!! Tuesday was Zone Conference all day. So we got the the church at 8 and left at 4 and didn't get back to Sassari until almost ten!!! We will probably have to take the train again to Caglieri for transfers... hahah. Lets just say I'm officially out of money from buying so many train tickets!! hahah. Anyway we didn't really have that big of a week since we had Zone Conference and then General Conference.

OH, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO KATIE HOOPS! AND EDEN COPE!

So I do have some pretty crazy news from the mission P-DAY IS NOW ON MONDAY!!! CRAZY!!!! So this week we kind of get two p-days!! Weird huh!!

So nothing else really happened this week! Thanks for the boots Mom (by the way) I LOVE THEM! I just want to say how much I love my mission and how much I LOVE SASSARI!! I kind of want to stay here the rest of my mission! HA! That won't happen but I just really love it!! (by the way I saw 2 flamingos this week!!!!) the people are so funny and it's just the best place in the world. It feels like home!!! Ahhhhhh and seriously I am troppo felice that I had the opportunity to go on a mission!!! I have never been so happy in my entire life!!! I'm so glad that my name means happy in Italian because there is no better way to tell you how I feel!!!! I LOVE THIS GOSPEL AND MY MISSION AND THE CHURCH AND THE PROPHET AND THE APOSTLES!!!! THIS IS REAL!! THE CHURCH IS TRUE! I LOVE MY FAMILY!

anyway ciao ciao love you all loads!!!!

com mia tutto cuore

Sorella felice

by the way the pics are one of us at general conference, we made taco salad and then the members brought us TONS of food they are the bomb.com! one is me with the old italian men playing checkers in the park (too classy to not send) and then dad you asked if we ever ate hamburgers, yes yes we do! however we do not have mexican food we found some taco seasoning in caglieri but other than that there is nothing close to mexican food here! also im out of hot sauce :(

ok so the first one is the spider we found on our church! i was so scared its like the size of a tennis ball! i didnt think there were spiders here till this week hahah

the other is the only pics i took on my birthday, they are both in caglieri when we were walking to the sister house from the train station

Breakfast at Tiffany's

Ciao Tutti

So I don't have a lot of time today so i might not be able to email any of you sorry!! I will try to write as many letters today as possible!!

Ok first off THERE WAS A BAPTISM THIS WEEK!!! we have a student in our English course whose name is marrizio and he has disabilities and we showed up early one day and he was there so we taught him the first lesson. He was SUPER hard to understand though with our limited Italian. So the Anziani (elders) taught him the rest of the lessons and he was baptized on Sunday!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was soooooooooooo amazing you could see a light in him, he is always smiling and he asked if he could bear his testimony in church (which he was going to anyway). He is just so amazing, he is so close to God and I just don't even know how to describe how much he has changed since being baptized. The branch here just adores him!!!! ahhh THE CHURCH IS TRUE!!!!!!!!!!

Anyway this week was pretty awesome! we ran out of money and food for the last week... so on Sunday we were like "what the heck are we going to eat" haha so we made what we call "Italian gulash" hah we put spaghetti, lasagna and ravioli in a pan then put mozzarella and parmesan then we had ricotta in the ravioli.  We put some tomato paste with onion garlic and peppers and then just threw it in one big dish and cooked it. haha! It was SOOOOO good though! We thought it would taste awful but it actually was pretty amazing!

So this week we had a miracle!! on Sunday we had nothing to do but finding for 7 hours so we went out and we met this CRAZY (pauzza), man on the street and he was talking about Obama and we didnt quite understand him, and this kid named Lorenzo came up to us and was like "do you need some help translating??" so he helped us for a while and then Lorenzo invited us over for Sunday dinner with his parents!!! It was sooooo awesome!!! We ate the WORLDS BEST FIGS!!!! I probably ate like half a bowl of figs, they were soooo yummy!! But we hope that we can teach this family!! Then after that we went to try to find a less active but (this is a long story) we started to get followed by some Muslim ladies for over half an hour. So we called the zone leader and he told us to get on the first bus we see. So we hopped on a bus which then took us to an area that we aren't supposed to be in after dark so we decided to hop off the bus (this is like 830 at night) and by this time it's pouring rain!!! So we are sitting at this bus stop in the pouring rain and all of a sudden i just start singing "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and my companion joins in. hahah weird moment but I thought it was worth sharing!

Yesterday we were finding and this guy comes up to me and he is a mime and he is wearing a big clown nose and he just graps one of the billitini (fliers for English course) I was holding and then mimes a thank you and walked a way... it was a pretty weird week!

Also, in case you were wondering, we can see the sea from our church building!!! It's super pretty!!

Ok, I seriously have no time, but I love you all so much! You are all the best! miss you with mia tutto cuore! Thanks for all the birthday wishes you guys all rock! I promise I send some more pics next week (thanks for the card reader dad! you are the best)

Sorella Felice!

The pics are of sassari and then one of me picking grapes at a members house! (september is grape and fig season so you guys better be excited to try real grapes in one year!!!)

We have a message.... and CAKE!

Ciao tutti!

So this week was awesome! i just love my little island so much!!!! So i start off with the story that is on the title!!this week sorella kippen and i went laughing (less active finding hahah) anyway sometimes we bring treats too and we went to go visit this one guy and we rang the citof (door bell for the front door of the apartment then they buzz the door open) anyway so the less active is like who is it! and we were like the sorelle missionarie!.... no answer so then we say we have a message that we would like to share with you today!..... no answer then i say we have cake!!!...... buzzzzzzz hahah it was the funniest thing but then we taught him a really good lesson on prayer! also another time we were finding meno attivi a little later at night it was like pitch black outside and we couldn't find the one we wanted to see and no one had let us in that day so we had carried these snicker doodles that sorella kippen made around all day!!! anyway then we walk past these kids playing like four square and she goes up to them and was like hey children do you want some American dolci! hahah I'm pretty sure they have stranger danger here because it was the funniest moment ever!!!! she was walking back and she kept saying im such a creeper!!! hahha we laughed all the way home

So earlier this week we were with the elders and we get on this bus that is PACKED!! i guess school had just gotten out but there were TONS of raggazi (teens) on the bus and anziano robison asks me to give him all my English course billitini which is our english course info attached to a pass along card (its pretty sneaky hahah) anyway we is super tall and he just starts yelling about our English course to the whole bus!!!!!! hahah it was awesome we passed out like over 100 pass along cards!! our district here is super funny!

This week we went over to a members house with the anziani and did service and they have a bigger piece of land so they had like vineyards and tons of different trees and fratello carboni handed me a bag and said to pick what we wanted!! so we got a TON of grapes and figs and cactus fruit (except i think i got a cactus thorn stuck in my tongue and i really hurts) anyway YOU HAVE NEVER TASTED GRAPES UNTIL YOU HAVE TRIED THE GRAPES OF ITALY!!! they are soooo amazing they dont even taste like grapes! also we got some figs!!  so the anziani were like hauling logs to this brick oven thing and they were burning like all the dead plants and stuff and after we cleaned out the oven and had PIZZA!!! we made everything from things they had in their yard and then we just stuck it in this old brick oven IT WAS SOOOOOO GOOD!!! HAVE I EVER SAID HOW MUCH I LOVE ITALY!

Oh also this week was like an art week so there have been these little bands playing everywhere and sardo festivals and it is the funnest thing ever!!!! they play like mandolins violins a tambourine and a accordion hahah i love Italians so much!!!!!

UGHHHH this week i had to give a talk in church about hope and i had a really good scripture and i guess i wrote the scripture down wrong and i guess i read a scripture in sacrament about the lamenites all starving to death and after all i said was e questo a buon esempio di speranza.... it was soooooooooo embarrassing!!! I'm surprised no one laughed!! (oh that means this is a good example of hope.) anyway at least i know they ll never trust me to give another talk!!!

last night was props one of the scariest nights on my mission!!! i was sleeping and i heard this loud noise in the kitchen and i woke up and i was like what is my comp doing and i look over and she is in her bed looking at me saying shhhhhh SOMETHING OR SOMEONE WAS IN OUR HOUSE!!! so we are both sitting there terrified! sorella kippen finally got up and we both went into the kitchen and there WAS A CAT EATING OUR COOKIES!!!! Hahah we both just started laughing"!! anyway I'm so thankful to be here i love it so much and i still can not believe that i was able to go on a mission im just so thankful i can be here! its changed my whole life i feel like i know the savior so much better (by the way i just finished reading Jesus the Christ and it is the best book i have ever read EVERYONE should read it!) thank you everyone i love you all so much!! oh Jill I'm so sorry to hear about your dad ill remember your family in my prayers and i love you! i love all of you and I pray for all of you every night and morning! thanks for always being there for me!LOVE YOU

con amore

Sorella Felice