Zone Conference in Rome

Tracking in Rome

The new temple being built

The Rome Temple

Best Pizza ever

My Zone

Exchanges with Sorella Fuller and Gelato

Ciao Famiglia!

Come va? Ah this week has been so good! We have made such great progress with our investigators and I am so excited for them! It's so sad when appointments get cancelled, but it is so great when you get to see their faith grow. We have a few investigators that have accepted to be baptized (although no dates yet due to some problems). I'll tell you more about that in my next letter though. So this week is Zone Conference...in ROME!! We left Pescara on Monday morning, had interviews with the Mission President, then did some exchanges with the sisters from Rome 2. This week is our first week with the new Mission President, President Waddoups! E troppo bravo (he is really great) and I'm excited for him to be our President. It was fun doing tracting in Rome, although to me it looks just like Pescara, and learning new ways to contact. While we were tracking, the Rome 2 sisters led us down this empty street...to see the Rome temple!! Yay I finally got to see it! It looks great, but it still has a long way to go. Actually there has been some speculation that it won't be done till 2015, but I'm praying that it's not true so I can see it! After we got some delicious pizzas and slept over at Rome 2. 

Yesterday (Tuesday) we had zone conference! I really like zone conference because you learn a lot, meet a lot of new missionaries, and see some you already know. Also, guess what! So I'm with two fluent speakers of Italian (one native) and I feel like I'm always making mistakes and failing at Italian. Well I think all that suffering has paid off a bit, because I was complimented so many times on how good my Italian is already. I'm definitely not the best, but I'm doing better than most people at this time! I think the difference is just that I've studied Italian longer, we only speak Italian in my companionship (while other Greenies speak some English), and of course I have a native speaker as my companion. A couple people said they were surprised to find out I was a Greenie and even the President told me he was impressed. Yay for not failing! Oh funny story...one of the Elders was trying to pull a joke on me by saying (in Italian) that he could say whatever he wanted about me and I wouldn't understand what he was saying because he spoke so fast...except somehow I totally understood! Ha in that Elder's face! 

After zone conference, we got to do another exchange and sleepover, but this time with the sisters from Ladispoli! I went with Sorella Fuller (who also happens to be the cousin of my Italian teacher at BYU and I'm friends with her brother) and we did corso d'inglese (English class) and a little finding. Then we went back to their apartment and has a big sleepover. So right now I am in Ladispoli writing you this letter and then we are going to ROME for P-day!! There's not too much to do in Pescara for P-days (besides go to the beach) so I'm excited for today. Last night I asked Sorella Spicq what we were going to do in Rome and she said, very casually, "I think maybe just see the Basilica or something." Then I died of excitement. So I'm sorry to tell you this...but I'm just about to go see The BASILICA!! Non che credo!! 

Well I love you guys a lot!!! Vi voglio bene! I'm so happy to be here and I love being a missionary! My faith has grown so much everyday and I love everything that I am learning. This church is definitely true peeps! haha. 

Vi voglio bene!

Sorella Knudsen