Hey Family!!!
Yeah- Next month I am coming home! At this point I don’t
really feel like it’s real. I feel like for sure I will be released but the
whole going back to America thing hasn’t really occurred to me yet. Hahaha I
just feel like I am about to get kicked out of the club. :( But other than that
I feel all good about life. I don’t have any regrets ... yet? Hahahaha
Uhhh so yeah it’s freaking hot and I am going to die. I wake
up pretty much on the dot every morning at like 2:36 just sweating and I have
to go shower -___- I think we are at a rate of 3 showers a day? Yeah.
Hahahaha Then yesterday it POURED rain. POUURRED And we had an appointment that
is about a 35 minute bike right so we were sooo muddy and socked when we got
there- as soon as we started the lesson- rain stopped- the SECOND we started to
leave- it poured. -___- Grrrr. But whatever. It’s either mud or sweat so
gross either way.
WE HAD A BAPTISM and it went sooo good! I think the best
part is we kinda just thought there would only be like 6 people there but
actually a tonnnnn of people came and we were sooo happy that our members came
to support us! Now when I say a ton I mean like... 25 which is FREAKING GREAT
for us. YES we did wear our African Dresses but we didn’t wear the headpieces
in the chapel cause we figured it was a little irreverent hahaha But it was
awesome- I will send pictures!!!
I got to sing at the baptism How Great Thou Art- a little in
English and a little in Italian and it was sooo fun. I freaking loved it. I
miss singing so much! FUN FACT I have become totally obsessed with song writing
and Drawing on my mission. Weird right?? I like draw stuff and then frame it..
and then like... give it to people... So that’s a new random thing I do...
Hahaha And the whole song writing thing- I have like an albums worth of stuff I
need to get recorded when I get home. YAY! It’s really fun. Who would have
thought?
I am glad everyone has fully dived into summer!! On the
fourth of July I made my Poor German Companion suffer though me sing every
American song I could think of from all 4 verses of the anthem- to "Proud
to be an American" - to Surfing USA Hahaha It was really fun- Then that
day we went to this place called "Porta Aperta" and we gave food to
everybody who didn’t have money to buy it and it was soooooo fun! Although I
will say I found some very appalling things as well. There was a huge bin of
baby food and I found canned "Cavallo e Coniglio" Which means Horse
and Rabbit..... Don’t you worry. I took a picture. Kendra and Jenna- please
don’t ever ever ever feed your babies these things. It’s wrong.
This week has also been a week of FABULOUS food. I ate
Papawankaina Which is Peruvian food= FREAKING BOMB. It’s just a yellow sauce
you put over potatoes and its spicy and creamy it’s to die for- and then we
tried this Italian trend to Wrap Cantaloupe in Raw ham- Yeah. SUPER YUMMY.
Hahahaha The texture is weird at first but the after taste is seriously sooo
good. I could eat it all day. Not to mention my popcorn addiction is back in
full force. Like errrrydayyyyy Hahaha
One of the Anziani here put on my flash drive the
"Living Scriptures" And My companion and I are OBSESSED hahaha We
watch one a day at least right before bed- its our new favorite series.... aka
We have a problem hahaha We are both Reading the Book of Mormon and the New
Testament (I am reading in Italian) so we watch the matching films. IT’S GREAT.
Hahaha
Ok also- Sacrament meet aka Fast and Testimony meeting was
freaking HILARIOUS this week. We have this lady who gets up about 15 minutes
from the end of every sacrament meeting and stands under the pulpit and waves
goodbye to everyone, and that’s usually pretty great anyway but this week we
also had just hilarious stories told over the pulpit- it was probably the most
awkward meeting ever. Confessions GALOR! hahaha Gotta love it.
Anyway I love you guys so much and I am so excited to see
yall SO SOON!!!!! Not that I am counting down- But I totally am :) LOVE YOU!!!
-Sorella Holloway
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