Oh Pastore Perché Mai!!!!

Ciao tutti!!!

Ok well this week wasn't that exciting. We just did a lot of work (kinda what we are supposed to do, right?)! This week we got a bunch of street lessons in, it was awesome!!! One day we even got four numbers and had three return appointments for the next day! WOOT WOOT! It was AWESOME!!! MIRACLES! So that was kind of our week!

Sorella knudsen and I have started doing candle time (editors note: candle time is where you light a candle every night and as the candle burns the base of the candle is wider so it gets a little longer each night until Christmas. During this time you think about Christ, or sing a Christmas carol, or read a Christmas book, or make a Christmas treat. It is kinda like family home evening but it's every night and it's not as long) for Christmas!! It's seriously the best!!!! Our activities always involve food though... So we are really going to have to start a diet after Christmas! HAHAHA! We are also doing secret santa in our district so that should be super fun!!! I'm so excited!!! 

Ok, really nothing has happened this week. Ummm... we went to this store called "Auchan" that is just like walmart!?! We found mexican salsa and tortilla chips!!! So that was pretty awesome... this week we haven't spoken any english. That was interesting... I think i've improved a lot in one week but i still have a LONG way to go with this language!!!

Im sorry this is going to be such a short letter I honestly can't think of anything cool or exciting!!! OH NO, wait I CAN!! Yesterday we met this pazza (crazy) guy and we were talking to him. He was Athiest and we tried to tell him that his family is a gift from God because they make him happy.. Anyways, he was like "no they aren't a gift from God, they are a gift from me"?? Speriamo  (we hope) hahhahahah! All i could do was laugh he was so witty!!! Everything we tried to say he had the most witty come back so it was kind of fun talking to him. At the end we just bore our testimonies and walked away. but he sure was super funny.

Well, thats all I got! Love you all so much!!! I Hope you have the best christmas season!!!!! CON MIO TUTTO CUORE!!

Sorella Felice 

ps apparently "Felice" is a masculine name here.... thanks dad!

Cute Sorella Knudsen putting the star on our "poor mans" Christmas tree.

Our last district photo before Sorella Kippen left us :(

A cute less active member and her super fluffy kitty I just adore

Oh ya, remember how I live here. Isn't it gorgeous! 

We had a scavenger hunt in our english class. I was dying! So funny! 

Koala Bears and Princesses!

Ciao tutti 

ok, That was a random title for my email today. I'll explain… So, for transfers we buy these candy things that have toys in them and the toys explain our transfer predictions... I got a Koala bear and Sorella Knudsen when she came told me that hers was none other then THE PRINCESS RAPUNZEL!!! HA! So her prediction was that she would be with me (before we got put together) and mine was either Sorella Knudsen or Sorella Perkins (she is Australian) and we were both right!!! Anyways, super random!

This week not much went down. We went to Cagliari (really hard to get there vecause the train tracks were taken out in the storm last week) We took three buses, and two trains. And then we made it to the airport in time by the skin of our teeth. Sorella Kippen literally had 30 minutes to get on the plane when we arrived. After, I did a scambi with a Sorella in Cagliari. Her name is Sorella Mistura! She is from Verona Italia!!! (WHERE ROMEO MET JULIET!!!) She is awesome and she is so cute and we did some less active finding!!! 

Then we went to the airport again to pick up my new companion Sorella Knudsen! We came back to Sassari and got settled in. Sorella knudsen is awesome!! She talks to everyone and she bares her testimony to EVERY person!! she is amazing!! Such a good example to me. I just love her! We set all these transfer goals and I feel like we are going to see a lot of miracles this month. Also This month the island (as in the missionary's on the island decided to give up english as a christmas gift to Christ. So this whole month I'll be speaking solo Italiano!!!! I'm so excited! Yesterday went great and I'm excited to learn even more!! The language has probably been my hardest trial so far.. So I'm super excited for this new goal!!! Plus Sorella Knudsen is beyond fluent she is sooo great!!!! She is from utah. She lives in Highland/Alpine area. She went to lone peak.... She is just awesome. I am so excited to be with her this transfer. 

This week was also really hard though. We went to go visit one of our investigators, and we went in and she told us how she was finished with us and The Book of Mormon and how she will not change and she doesn't want to see us anymore. I was devastated. We tried to follow the spirit as best as we could to try and and get her to keep seeing us but it just wasn't right. When we went out of the apartment we got in the elevator and I had a little break down. I felt so bad that our first appointment together went sooo bad. I just broke down in front of Sorella Knudsen and I was so sad for Sophia. I love her so much and it really just tore my heart out. Then this morning I was studying my scriptures and I found this beautiful scripture that helped me a lot. I got super sick this week too, and all our members were afraid to talk to me yesterday at church so i sat by myself :( oh and then yesterday another investigator said she didnt want to see us anymore! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH So me and Sorella Knudsen are going to be finding A LOT! 

Ok, I have fallen in love! HOT CHOCOLATE!! They make it super different here! It's thick and you have to eat it with a spoon!! The best part is… Sorella Knudsen knows how to make it!!!!! So we have been feasting on Italian hot chocolate this week!!! SO YUMMY!!! Well that is about it not to much else happened this week. I love you all so much and I pray for you ogni giorno! I hope you all have the spirit of the season and enjoy this beautiful month!!! LOVE YOU SO MUCH!!!! 

Love Sorella Felice

Finding in a CYCLONE!!!

Ciao tutti!!!

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