Hello! Happy New Year!!!! I hope
everyone had a FABULOUS Christmas!! This Christmas was sooooo
much fun! So first of all, Christmas Eve was super fun! We went to a member's
house for lunch and it was yummy yummy!
Then we visited a couple people and everyone is just so happy during the
Christmas season so it was just so great :) That night Sorella
Yost and I slept under the "Christmas tree" and in the morning we had
pancakes and green smoothies and Starbucks hot chocolate and it was sooo
great. And then we opened our little presents :) We got gypsie
pants! WOO! Then we passed by a woman we teach while she was at work (she's a bedante,
which is basically a nanny for old people) and the woman she works for is sooooo
cute and sooo
sweet! She asked us to come back for New Year!! Then we stopped
at a
part-member family's house for lunch and it was sooo
good. They're from El Salvador and it was super simple and super delicious.
Then we brought more cookies to another family and sang to them and then we
went to member's home for dinner and I got to Skype
my
wonderful family and it was sooo
fabulous. Best 40 minutes ever.
The next
day we had lunch with another member family and I ate raw salmon on bread (by
choice!) and duck innards. Mmmm......
They really didn't taste like anything but yeah... They wouldn't tell us what
it was until after we had eaten it. Then we taught our progressing investigator
and gave him a fake practice interview and he did sooo
well! He already knows who he wants to baptize him and give talks and such.
GAH! HE'S SO BRAVO! Anywho. Then we went to a part-member
family's house for dinner and it was sooo
yummy! And this family is soo
awesome. It's a husband, wife and 15 year old daughter and only the husband is
a member. They're all soo sweet and the husband has such a
great testimony. We're hoping to get the daughter to come to some youth
activities and make some friends with the youth in the ward, we think they'd
get along super well!
The week then went on pretty much
normally. We got through a lot of meal appointments and they were all super
yummy and I got super chubby. (still am. It's fine.)
Sunday we had lunch at a
member's and for the spiritual thought we were going to do 2 Nephi 25:26 and
talk about how although Christmas is over, the true Spirit and meaning of
Christmas (The gift of Christ) is still here throughout the year. And Sorella
Yost had me start it, but I wasn't sure how to. So I paused, trying to figure
out the words, and said "Allora........
Natale....non
è qua... più.
.......é vero?"
(Okay.... Christmas is not here any more. It's true?) A few seconds of
silence... and then EVERYONE BURST INTO LAUGHTER. It was really embarrassing.
But we're super tight with this family so it's fine. Then they gave us this
thing of hazelnut chocolate spread that's better than Nutella. I said it. That
means it's for real. Apparently Nutella is only 25% hazelnut while this stuff
is 45% hazelnut. So yeah. It's real good. And it was super nice of them to give
it to us!!
Anywho,
the rest of the week has been pretty normal. OH! IT SNOWED!!!! OUR FIRST
SNOWFALL OF OUR BELOVED BUSTO!!!! It only snowed for a few hours and it didn't
really stick, but STILL!!! It was soo
exciting. :) Hopefully it snows more :) Everything's been going super well! We
have to be in by 5 tonight because it's too dangerous to be out and about on
New Year's Eve here in Italy, so I get to catch up on my journaling! WOOO!!!
Finally. Oh, and we got roasted chestnuts! Sorry, I just saw the title and was
like "oh yeahhhh. I
should probably explain that." So yeah. We got roasted chestnuts in centro.
It was cool. They're kinda weird. But we did it! And now we
can say
we've
had roasted chestnuts, That's all that matters :) So yeah!
We went to Como today! I'll
probably send pictures next week because I have a lot this week... But yeah,
It's been super crazy and hectic but soooo fun.
It'll be kinda
weird getting back into the swing of things now that the holiday hurrah is
coming to an end. But it'll be nice, people will hopefully be a bit more
free!
Anywho,
thank you all for your prayers and support! I love you all so much! You're in
my prayers and I think of ya'll
always! Have the happiest of New Years! Remember who you are and Who you stand
for!! I love you!!!
Love, Sorella
Hawks :)
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