Battaglia, Campania, Italy

Amazing Food, Snow and Finally some Pictures!

These are taken from our apartment window

Just outside our apartment.

I think I brought some of Utah with me to Italy! It snowed here in Brindisi, which is not normal at all. One of our investigators told us the last time it snowed like this was 7 yeasts ago. Haha it was good to see it, but all of the Italians freaked out because they haven't seen snow in a long time. Which made it hard to find people. The language is crazy! Everyone speaks so fast! I feel bad because my trainer has to teach most of the lessons and has to answer all of the questions. The Italian will come though, it'll just take time!!

Hot Chocolate

I try new food here every day, and it just keeps getting better. Their hot chocolate is a lot different then ours too, but it's soo good!!

I'm lucky to have gotten such a hard
working Comp. Elder Vrska.

I went with one of the zone leaders in Bari for a day and did some work over there and that was fun. Bari is a pretty big city compared to Brindisi, but I love Brindisi. It rained a ton this week again. I am starting to wonder if I am in Italy or England lol. I am also learning how to cook some way good pasta! They say that if the sauce doesn't cook longer then 4 hours then it's not a good red sauce! Crazy right?! Then on Wednesday we were walking home to go eat lunch and we hear this old lady yell "America!" so we turned around and started talking to her. Haha, so we told her why we were here and what we were doing and she agreed to meet with us. It was awesome! Then one of our less actives was asking if he could get an arabic Book of Mormon. We thought it was kind of weird, but we got him one anyways and invited him to come to church. Unfortunately he didn't show up. I also forgot to mention I had a talk last week! It went pretty well. The branch is really small so this probably won't be the only time!

On Thursday we invited one of our investigators to church, and of course, with the spirit telling him he needed to go to church, he agreed! So on Friday we decided to call him to see how he was doing. But his phone went straight to voice mail. We just thought his phone was off or something like that. So we continued to call him throughout the next couple of days. Still no luck. We thought he dropped us, we were so sad. He was making so much progress, so we couldn't figure out why he would just stop meeting with us. Then, 15 minutes into church, HE WALKS IN!!! I almost went crazy, in the middle of sacrament. He stayed the whole time and enjoyed church. It was so cool to see him there!

Then of course we got fritta on Friday for "Fritta Friday". Friday was a long day so a Fritta was just the thing to raise our spirits!! On sunday we got invited over for a lunch appointment! We had some awesome pasta, with a rague sauce. And then the classic potatoes and meet after. I was so full, I think they had to roll me put off there!

Bari Zone Soccer!

Then the zone got a little soccer game going on p-day! Oh my days, it was so crazy! I don't think I realize how much I really missed it until we started playing! It felt good to get out and play again! Thank you guys for all support! Love ya!!

PS Thanks to my mom's friend Nikki that lives in Bari, I was able to get the necessary connector to down load some pictures from my camera!