Sassari

Wow!  BECCA HAD HER BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My little nephew is so cute!!!!!!!! Aw dying. I might just spend my whole internet time looking at pictures. I kept thinking this week how any day he could be born. Ah. So happy. Congrats Brandon and Becca! Keep that baby small so I can hold him when I come home. And send me a million pictures!!! And is that another redhead? haha! Ah little Hayden!! Okay I'll stop now.

SASSARI!!!

 I am in Sassari !!!

Traveling to Sassari

  My thanksgiving: a three hour bus ride, an hour plane ride, and a four hour train ride. whoo!

 Wow it is so awesome to be in another city and I am completely in love with it here!!! In Pescara we were mostly in a modern city, but we had a ton of little, old towns that we could visit...well Sassari is just one huge old town. It is beautiful. There's more sheep on this island than people. Everything is so old and so perfectly Italian picturesque covered with cobble stones and there's a catholic church on every corner. Also, I think I got the nicest apartment in the mission besides the one in Pescara (I think I'll be fine living in an old apartment building, but for some reason I've been getting lucky?). It is huge! It was fun living with four girls, but I'm actually loving just having Sorella Felice and I (less mess :) ) and the apartment is so huge. I am so blessed. Also Sorella Felice? Awesome. I just love being her companion! Her name means Happy and that's pretty much how to describe her--we already have so much fun together and we get along so great so I'm a happy camper. Oh here's a little make-my-parents-proud-moment...so this island is excluded and expensive to go to (according to the missionaries here) President sends the best behaved and easiest to get along with missionaries here so he doesn't have to move them around much and change companions. Missionaries here usually stay here for a while with the same companion. So I'll probably be here for a while...with Sorella Felice...it'll be great!

Sorella Felice and I enjoying some Hot Chocolate

I'm in a very small branch...but with a real chapel! In Pescara we had a ward and we were in a garage so it's so weird to see a chapel like this...for only like twenty members. The members seem awesome though! Yesterday they asked me to bear my testimony and after I talked about Christ and the joy of sharing the gospel blah blah blah I mentioned how this is a beautiful chapel and there needs to be more people here to fill it up. Then all these members, including the Branch President went up and said how yeah we do need to fill this big chapel up. Sorella Felice said she has never heard so many testimonies about missionary work before in that ward. So that was cool and hopefully we can get these members more excited about missionary work! 

 

Okay I have a funny story! So yesterday we went looking for inactive members and we found this old lady named Giovanna. She's this old lady, she was baptized into the church, but when we went over--she told us how she's Jewish and will always be Jewish until the day she dies. Her house is covered with pictures of the Jewish star and the pope. Then she told us how she reads the bible every day and loves the stories of Jesus. I thought maybe we had the wrong lady when we brought up Joseph Smith and she then started talking about how she believes Joseph Smith saw God and Jesus Christ...but she already told us she didn't believe in Christ! So basically she is a Jewish, Catholic, Mormon. Hahaha I have never met someone so confused in my life...but to her it all makes sense. Our theory is that she was Jewish, but then became Mormon but now she is old and is going crazy and forgetting things. I don't know. Oh but the best part...She LOVES her dogs! Her walls are COVERED with pictures of her dogs and she spent more time talking to them than to us. I showed her a picture of Shasta and she went crazy over him. Oh great times in little old Italy. 

Well that's about it this time. I love Sassari and serving here with Sorella Felice! Basically all we've done is finding and I think this area will be harder than Pescara, but Sorella Felice and I work good together and keep each other going and talking to everyone so we're going to try our hardest here! Oh also, this week we got to witness a flash mob! We were in this square and then all these people in red shirts came out and started dancing and turns out it was something for special Olympics. After we went around and talked to everyone. It was great! 

 

 

Hey mom I haven't got your package yet, and I probably won't get it until the 20th when we have Zone conference (and that's if the Assistants are nice enough to bring it with them), but here's my address in Sassari which you can send me cards and packages and whatever! 

Corso Giovanni Pascoli 75

07100 Sassari Sardegna 

Italia