I CANT BELIEVE JENNA ALREADY HAS HER BELLE DRESS I NEED PICTURE IMMEDIANTLY!!!!!!!! Hahahahahaha That Totally just made my day ohhh mannnn if there a video of when  you told her??? Anything???? EEEPP

Jenna- I will DEFINATLY plan on coming to utah every Halloween from now on because I need more chances to wear the dress. MANNNNN You have to wear it at Kates first brithday and then I will be there for birthday number 2. BOOM. Poor Kate.... she has no choice but to love princesses... she aint got a chance.

 Its so fun to hear about Mothers day weekend- sooo wish I could be there those weekends where everyone was around are the best. Glad to hear that Sams farewell went good!! Ya he will be an awesome missionary- how weird that everyone is going on missions... I think its weird to hear about because usually I would be the one saying I wanna go to their farewell but now... I am serving a mission... SO WEIRD. Rewind 6 months ago and I was still set on Disney. Madness. whaaaa. Anyway I love hearing where/ when everyone is going- and I am super glad you got to see Olivia. She is the coolest person in the entire world Haha

Ok!!! A Brief review of kinda what I already told you guys over skype but just for records sake I will re-live some things hahaha Hopefully I appreciate them later. maybe... probably not... Ok so last friday was kind of a downer day because our investigators were dropping us like nobodies business... literally we went from 8 to 3...... -___- Dumb. But we were still really busy with rushing to appointments since we teach A LOT of meno-active and A TON of new converts.. so we were running around like crazy people and as we are heading to the subway I look up at a balcony on the socond floor and this man is leaning over the edge just glaring at us. He saw the tags we were wearing and was completely digusted by us. So obviously we just keep walking and right as we walk under him, he ever so nicely spits on me. And like a good-luck spit like in movies, but a nice from the throat-loogie spit. Joy. Landed right on my shirt slid all the way down until I preceeded to flick it off. Holy Nasty. I could'nt even do anything becasue we were late so I just kept walking with my companion and waited for her to get off the phone so I could be disgusted with her.. So she finally gets off the phone and I explain what happened and she saw NOTHING: GAAAA hahaha So we head down into the subway  and I am standing there still in awe at what just happened and suddenly my skirt get very loose. very very loose. So I grab it and I tell Sorella DUrfee on no! I this one of my saftey pins snapped! Now- this skirt was big to begin with so I had like 4 saftey pins to take it in an extra inch or two- so I start taking the saftery pins out and all 4 were there so I am super super confused and now the skirt is like SUPER big and I can't figure it out! So I reach back to the zipper and IT WAS COMPLETELY DOWN. Now this is not a zipper that can come undone by itself.... but in fact someone had come and unzipped all 8 inches of my zipper in the middle of the mezzi. So OF COURSE at this exact moment when I discover this the mezzi comes and I am forced to get on the train with a SWARM of people holding my skirt up with one hand. I finally zip it up in the back in a panic but the skirt is still too big cause I took the saftey pins out so I trying to NOT get my bag stolen and trying to NOT have my skirt fall off AHHHHHHH It was a disaster. hahaha.

So THAT was fun. Not really. Alma 26: 16ishhhh maybe..... There is a perfect scripture for that... talks about getting spit on. Havent found a realatable scripture for the skirt thing yet though.... Let me know if you find one.

On the bright side!!!! We were at a bus stop on Monday trying to talk to anyone who would listen and this lady came up to us and asked "Do you speak English?" EEEP!! Most beautiful thing someone has ever said to me. OH HECK YES I SPEAK ENGLISH. Haha I was a little excited. So She was talking to us about her life in general and then she ASKED US if she could meet  with us again... ummmmm YES. So she gave us her phone number and SHE called US today and asked us when church was and how she could get a Book of Mormon.... WHAT?? So cool and we have two lessons set up with her this week. SO COOL! We also have two babtisms coming up that we are really excited for :)))) One is this month and the second is next month and actually we are asking three other people this week if they are wanting to get babtised... and by that I mean we ask them if they will be babtized on a spacific date hahaha so hopefully those all follow through.

Yesterday we had a new misisonary training and I got to see four other people from my MTC District!!!! So I saw Haslem (my MTC Companion), Ervin, Winky/Bowlwinkle, and Lemmo!!!! WAY too much fun, I am not gunna lie I almost cried when I saw them Hahaha I miss them so much cause we really got super close in the MTC.. well duh cause we were with each other 24-7.... But anyway I REALLY am praying I get to see them all again really soon. EEP.

Uhhh this morning for breakfast I had pizza...... I dont know if thats ok hahaha but we are poor and were out of food so we had leftovers..... and by "out of food" I really mean we were out of Nutella.... Hahaha totally kidding. We don't eat with members hardly ever so we go through a lot of food.

Also this monday was my first time having Gelato. All the rumors are true. Its amazing.  Will DEFINATLY not be buying that for myself cause I would just eat the whole thing with a spoon in 5 seconds flat.

I hope everybody has a great week!!!  I miss America but being a missionary is pretty awesome everyday. ALSO can I get pictures of my Cinderella dress with Jenna pictures? Ok great. LOVE YOU ALL!!!!! Miss you way too much.

 

Alright- Buckle up cause here is that email that is just explodinnggggg with too much information. Hahaha And also I realize my spelling is horrible but keyboards here are different so just suck it up. I wasn't good at spelling to begin with!

 

Ok so I am in Italy.. Kinda a big deal. I have a killer apartment that looks like it was cut out of a iKea magazine including ever single appliance. I live there with 3 other Sorelle including my companion and two sister training leaders. CRAYCRAY. It's awesome. My companion is sent from heaven. Her name is Sorella Durfee and she is the most genuine, kind, patient person I have ever met haha I LOVE HER and we have a lot of fun attempting to understand Italian.. Luckily she is good at it!

Ok So the first day I got here... welll I guess first off, the flight was ridiculous. I mean I was awake for a solid 48 hours- and I know you are thinking I should have slept on the plane but ECCO I sat next to people who were not LDS and they asked about my tag and lo and behold I  talked about religion for  the next 8 hours.... and the next 2 flights as well. Out of the 24 missionaries going to Milan, Itlay- I was the one of the like... 4 missionaries that was sitting by non-missionaries haha

the first flight was cool, I sat next to this super nice lady who grew up in Utah and she was SUPER anti-lds. So a little awkward that she was sitting next to a representative of the church? Yes. But she started talking about why and I just apologized on behalf of the church and said the people are not the church and that it was the people that caused her frustration not the church. Then all of a sudden she did a total 180 degree turn and was like oh yeah its a great church, sure there are a ton of great things about it!!! -___- ok what? Haha So then I told her she should go to church sometime and gave her a pass along card and she was all sad cause she thought she could'nt go to church with tattoos and I said she could- man you should have seen her face hahah She was like I CAN???? Hahaha Sooooooooo which ever missionaries snatch her up will have fun explaining THAT one. Although I must say the full size tattoo of her children on her back was quite the sight, I just might have to do that for my future babies.... -___-

Then on the next flight I sat next to this German Man who wanted to talk literally for 8 hours about beliefs which was very cool. Much less success with him but he did agree with almost everything we believed in. He was way nice and said he was thankful for the "enlightenment"... yikes. If he was enlighttend by a 19 year old girl- shoot. somebudy gotta get dat man a Book er Mormon.

 

OK so when I finally got off the plane 100 year later we grabbed all of our stuff looking like idiots 1) we all look dead 2) we keep getting distracted by all the italian writing 3) we have three bags of luggage EACH- it was just s disaster in general. Hahaha But We walked out the glass doors and met our mission president and his wife and they are both SO AWESOME. Sorella Wolfgramm is A TON like Mom so I felt right at home, unfortuantly her hugs are no comparison, nor her laugh... and she doesnt make popcorn.... :) man I miss popcorn. ANYWAY then they took us to the mission home and we basically had class for a while and learned some rules that changed and suddenly we were on a bus again. Haha We got onto the... subway? idk whatever that is in english I am gunna call it a Subway and as soon as we got off we walked up the stairs and there was the DUOMO. HOLY COW ITS AMAZING. I had seen pictures but pictures don't even touch the size of that thing. INCREDIBLE. You would think we would go inside right? I mean we just flew for howevr long and had been up since 2am on tuesday and its wednesday now and still no sleep BUT NO!! They hand us a Book of Mormon and tell us to go talk to someone about  the church THAT'S FUNNY cause I DONT SPEAK ITALIAN. GA. Whatever- me and my collega did it and then we got to go to the Duomo. We literally just stopped someone and talked to them. I have the weirdest job in the world.

 

The rest of the week is pretty steriotypical missionary work except 100 times cooler cause I am in Italy... suuuuuuuuuuu no big deal. We wake up in the mornings and go running in Italy cause I live in Itlay and then we go talk to some Italians and eat Italian food and then come home to our Italian apartment acting all Italian--ish and eating a jar of nutella like nobodies business. Haha

 

Ya know what else is great? The ward. Its awesome. Ya know that sound the TV makes when you fast forward something?.... ya. Just imagine 3 hours of that... Haha  Kidding I actually understand way more then I thought I would. The members just LOVE talking to me so I can respond in my horribly broken Italian hahaha and then during sacrament meeting which is the last hour, the bishop was suddenly saying my name.... uh panic- its hard to recognize my name here cause the letter h doesn't have a sound and the w sounds like a v- so he calls for Sorella Ollovay and I look right at him and want to DIE hahaha so the two training sisters who are BOTH in their LAST transfer aka are bomb-diggity at Italian go up and give this beautifully elequent testimony and then I go up.... awkward. I basically said "I Sorella Ollovay. This day 4 day me in Italia and talk in Italian. Me love Italia. Me love being here. Me love this ward. I know God has a plan for us. I know Jesus Christ Lives. I am thankful to a missionary for him. in the name of Jesus Christ Amen". Hahaha AWESOME first impression....  But then after everyone was like- wow that was great and pretended like I was just so great and had been speaking for years so at least they were nice about it haha Then after church this family that owns a bakery gave us this HUGE bag of bread just cause. Ummmm HEACK YEAH I'll eat that!!! then they did it again Tuesday night!! WHAT IS THIS??? Its incredible.

We teach about 3 lessons a day but not really to investigators, a lot of our time is to inactives there are a ton here and a lot of problems with smoking and such. We plan on getting that number up as soon as possible haha we are trying to get 6 lessons a day and still have time for tracking and stuff. The hard part is that my first area is in Milano... I dont know if I mentioned that... I AM IN MILANO AND ITS INCREDIBLE. I am in the New York of Italy hahaha AWESOME.  But because we are in the city there is a lot of travel time. I ride the Bus and the Subway at least 4 times a day. And you know how much I looovvvveeee public transportation... joy. Totally worth it. 100 percent.

I actually haven't been able to talk to many true Italians here. The Italians we do talk to usually talk to us about politics especially those over the age of 50.. but we talk a lot with peolpe from the Phillipins, Egypt, and a lot of Nigirians. uhhh Yeah. oh and a lot from Brazil. In fact we have a Brazialian investigator from Brazil who is getting babtised in 3 weeks HOLLA! She is 17 and is awesome through and through!

Hey remember that one time I sent a million things home and then forgot to send my straightener...and how my adaptors dont work.... and then I now have to throw my straightener and my adaptors away -____- COOL.

Overall I love life and I love being a misionary. In fact today is Day 50! YAY!!! Happy 50 day aniversary to me. I have nothing to complain about cause all is well!!!! Hope everyone is doing good over there in the good ol USA- I miss errrybody! I also miss walking out in Public and people not running away... haha I swear when people see the tag- they want to die, it has some kind of replelling force. we have to like find ways to hide it and then slyly uncover it mid conversation so we are already talking and they realize we aren't bible-bashers like all of the Jahovah Witnesses here -___- OR we catch people staring at the tag and we awkwardly catch them and be like Oh! Have you seen this before??? Lets Talk. hahaha Also I can't write anymore so its back to email for everybody- sorry for all the whiplash.

LOELOVELOVELOVELOVE ALL YALL

 

Sorella Holloway

 

Mom: HEYOOO!!!!!!!  Haha- no packages :( they gave us a good lecture about how Amazon.com/uk is the only way to actually get something or money on a card so it is now OFFICIALLY impossible to send/ recieve stuff

Tim: I am so sorry for your mouth- I had to have the Darth Vader rubber bands too they are beyond stupid. ALMOST DONE!!!! Cant wait to see pictures!!!! Yo Tim go hunt Katelyn down and give her a hug for me. It was her birthday and I couldn't email her suuuu lykeeeee do that. Or facebook her for me. ok? Ok great. ALSO Michelle. Her birthday is the 21st, go say hapy birthday to her for me  :( Per Favore!!!! GRAZIE! How is IB treating you? 1 more month and then FREEEDOOMMMMM summer time HOLLAA

 

This is Sarah's mom posting..........

Sarah arrived in Milan, Italy this morning!!!!  She will be staying in Milan for her 1st area - Yeah!  You can send letters to the mission home address in Milan or for FREE you can go to DearElder.com and send a letter by pouch mail to the Milan, Italy mission and they will deliver it at no cost to you (pretty cool!) 

We got to talk to Sarah yesterday while she was waiting for her plane to take off in Chicago.  She sounds happy and energetic and so excited!!  It was AWESOME to hear her voice!!  We are excited for her and look forward on our end for the next year and 5 months to fly by! 

Thanks everyone for your support of Sarah through good thoughts, prayers, and letters!!  She said to send everyone her love and appreciation!

HI FAMMILY!!!!

Disclaimer- Really i cant spell in english and the shift key on this keyboard is broken so i appologize for all the lowercases.....

ya the whole no gluten thing really sucks. Hahaha Last night I got rebellious and had some Pringles.... and by some I mean like half the can and I just feel GLORIOUS now hahaha but Yeah I have a lot of GlutenFree options here so its not bad at ALL jst the lack of flavor is kinda harsh... haha But I did find some fruit snacks in the vending machine that are gluten free so thats fabulous. :D haha Italy will be interesting for that- but I am pretty sure Heavenly Father will just take care of it. I only have so much control of what I have access to sooooooo YOLO.

Also I sent a box home with just some stuff I didnt need and I may or may not send another one. It only cost like $5 to send HOLLA so I will see what else I can spare to loose. They really really really want us to take as little as possible so they said anything we can afford to loose to just leave. They gave us the impression there was like a 60% chance of us loosing our bags- not on the plane but on the train so thats sketchy. joyyyy

I GOT THE PICTURES OF KATE!!!! Well... 6 of them, I dont know how much you sent but I love the ones I have!!!!!!!!!! I have absoulutly NO PICTURES so not I have a couple pictures to prove I really do have a family :D Man she is the most perfect baby I have even seen in my life- but I dont know Grandma says I was a pretty perfect baby so Kate has a lot to live up to. :D I also got the packages!!!!!! I have never read "Missionary Commission" holy cow... intense much??? Hahaha But thank you SO MUCH!!! My district and I attacked that stuff and I doubt ANY of the treats will see the plane hahaha The funny thing is, is that I was goign to ask you guys to send my a coloring book for the plane and then whatdoyaknow????? I get a tinkerbell activity book!!!! Haha My whole District literally thinks I am 12.... I dont know how they figured it out.

BYTHEWAY I met an elder here and he claims the his family has popcorn EVERYNIGHT- so every p-day we wollow in self-pity and have like 8 bags of microwave popcorn. Its really quite pathetic.

 

YAY SAM!!!!!! Thats so sad I am missing his farewell but how fun that everyone can be there for it!!!! I doubt it will be 11- 12:30 cause thats 9:00pm in Italy.... I bet you guys are going to have to wake up HOLY early but thats just a guess. I would assume they have us skype around 5. Lets be honest I have NO IDEA.

The MTC is so much fun! I got to be a host yesterday for new sisters and Elders and I felt so old. Its weird knowing I got a nice 18 hour flight coming next week. But every week we get 600 new missionaries and the MTC is continually swarming with people its so much fun. My district/ zone are already acting like a bunch of Italians, we cant NOT talk with our hands or Not be excited about everything its how I imagine an adult cheerleading team to be. Like during conference the one time they showed a picture a temple, it was of th Rome Temple and our whole district stood up and just cheered- all at once without even thinking- ITS SO FUN! Also Italy only had one original hymn and its kinda a power hymn so we learned it as holy cow do we sing that song. Waywaywaywayway fun.

On sunday we have relief society and they always ask the new sisters to stand and then the sister leaving this week to stand- I FINALLY GET TO STAND AHHHHHHHHHH YOU GUYS I AM MOVING TO ITALY!!!! How cool is missionary work??

Random story: I sleep on the top bunk and my collega sleeps below me  and we have all our suitcases just on the floor next to the bed (they dont fit underneath the bed... whos idea was THAT) so I am climbing down from my super safe and sturdy, moves like jello ladder so I can saftly reach the ground one night, and my collegas suitcase is right at the bottom of the stairs, natuarlly- where else?  so I attempt in my gracfullness to just skip that last step on my so faithful, reliable ladder and juts jump over the suitcase! Good idea right? Well i imagine the room to be much bigger then it is. So I jump off the ladder backwards and my elbow, RIGHT inbetween the funny bone and ... other elbow bone... the closet door just jams right inbetween those as I jump back with all my weight thus bouncing me to the ground hysterically laughing in excruciating pain. -____- This continues for a solid half hour but it hurt so bad that I couldnt stop laughing but I wanted to cry but I couldnt! I had TOTALLY dead arm, literally had no feeling in my left arm till the next morning. You can Imagine the climb BACK UP the ever-so-steady-and-reliable latter -____- Good times.... Good times....

Hopefully in Italy I will have more time to actually write but my time is up even though I still got some great stories, I will try to write them down for next time. Thanks for everyones support- I pray for yall everyday!! Like... 50 times!!!! Literally... we. pray. all. the. time. .... Ok Love you!!!!

-Sorella Holloway

HEY YALL!!!!! So much to tell everyone, but first off let me just tell you how homesick I am????? SHEESH i blame it on Kate I am super trunky!!!! I wish I could see her so bad so I can't wait for pics cause I am DYING. DYING PEOPLE.

Ok so I am just gunna start out with my SUPER AWKWARD story and I apologize to anyone who this offends.. suck it up. Alright since we are supposed to speak Italian pretty much all the time, we have to learn pretty quick and flash cards are just ridiculous cause you go through about 3 pads of 50 a day.... So one of the words me and my companion use a lot is excited. Why? Cause I am 19 years old and i actually am excited about pretty much everything. So my companion says Excited in class yesterday and my teacher informs us that there are 2 ways to say excited in Italian. So.... we were using the wrong one. In fact we were using the one that means "sexually aroused/excited" and NOT I am so excited to be here. SO That was fun to find out.
We have been saying this with our investigators and with real members for 2 weeks
aka
"we are so excited to be here"
"we are so excited you want to be babtised"
"we are so excited to meet you"
The list goes on and on..... You can imagine how awkward this was for us. YAY FOR TRYING TO LEARN ITALIAN BY OURSELVES!!!

On the bright side at least we learned this BEFORE italy. Fabulous

Another highlight of the week was that Richard G. Scott came to speak to us EEEPPPP!!!! It was so powerful and I was only a few rows back. He couldn't get over how many sisters and senior missionaries there were here. And he is right- girls are about 44% of the MTC so we just set a record! He was telling the elders how amazing it is that women come by choice, and that they need to respect us ahhhhhhhhh how cute is he?
Mary Edmonds also came this week and her talk was SO GREAT. Loved her too. I am so lucky to be here. In a way its like being in the temple allll the timeee. But more loud. and busy. and Hecka crowded.

Another great thing about yesterday was that I got to be a host for the new-bees coming in and yesterday we had 500 new missionaries. So I got to show 3 girls around and I felt so old cause I have been here for 4 weeks but it feels like 2 days. They weren't kidding when they said it flys by. Cause I cant believe i am flying out in less then 2 weeks?!! AHHHHHHH Ok I got my visa and no one here has had trouble getting their visa's to Italy. We got to go to the Italian Embassy so we could sign a million papers but yeah! I am good to go! I won't get my flight plans till a couple days before I think but I know I am at the airport April 30th. SO keep that day free :) I think the usual stops are in Chicago and Frankford, Germany and then Italy but I have no idea.
Ok for real I have NO TIME to email and it is actually making me really mad cause I feel like I am on my own little planet with no communication and that part SUCKS. But I love being here. I am getting everyones DearElders and I write back pretty quick so hopefully everyone is getting those even though they are lagged because of snail mail. I hope everyone is doing good- I miss everyone like CRAZY but i love my family here too. Look for my letters in the mail cause I send them out all the time.

Also can I get grandmas address? She put on her letter the Tacoma sticker which isnt exactly helpful for writing back Hahaha unless I missed something.... yikes.

I love you guys! Richard G. Scott told us that us being missionaries is the best thing we can do for our families so hopefully its working!!! hHahaha LOVE YOU!!!

Love Sorella Holloway <3

PS- I auditioned today to sing at a devotional for all 3000 misisonaries and it went really good :D!!!! More news coming in the mail

April 4th, 2013

Hey yall!! I have survived yet another week and am now 1/3 of the way done with my MTC experience. Also- I have written this email about 3 times now and it keeps deleting itself which is SUPER cool. Actually not at all.
Ok So I love my district!!- In case I have already been brainwashed with MTC jargon- a district is what they call the group of people I have class with for 6 hours a day along with an additional 4 hours of personal study/with a tutor or whatever. So Love them all and we are all really close which makes the days go by really quick :D My campanion is awesome and she never fails to crack me up. The other day the zipper broke in the back  of her skirt like BADDD and is by the funniest moment I have had in the MTC. Why? Cause we were about to walk into the caferteria.... There are over 3000  missionaries... Try to process that. Hahaha YAY MY CAMPANION.

Ok Mom you will appreciate this- Sherri Dew came to give a devotional here on Easter that was SO GOOD. She is incredable- also Presiding Bishop of the church President Cassue and his wife came to speak which was also incredable!!! On easter we had the sacrament ALL together so more then 3000 missionaries all taking the sacrament and it still didnt take more then 20 minutes!! But they had 3 differant buildings and 4 long tables with 100 missionaries all passing the sacrament. So cool. I also got to part of the MTC choir on Easter and at the devotional- MTC choir is better then ANYTHING. I rather go to choir then sleep or eat anyday haha I also am going to audition to sing a solo and with a qourtet to sing at a devotional. I dont know if I have ever sang in front of 3000+ people buttttttttt oh well! I will let ya know what happens.

But Yeah I need to send about a kajillion things home. Remeber that one time when they said to plan on having an additional 15 pounds? Ya. BULL. They really meant like 100. I have so many language books and stuff that I gotta take over to Italy. Soooo thats kinda fun.

hey if I have any friends reading this- SEND ME YOUR HOME ADDRESS! I can't email anybody back cause I dont have time!!!

Ya I would LOVE to get my nylons- I didnt realize exactly HOW white I was until I started living here...... yikes.... There is something not normal about this skin of mine. Also I love G-2 pens and stickers (perferably Disney) if ya find any of those to throw in.

Dad: I can't believe you called the cops on mom Haha Thats pretty AWESOME, but I am pretty sure the cops should be at house R's house 24-7 anyway, so it would have done nothing but good.

Mom: On behalf of me and my ENTIRE district- THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!  Carmel corn lasted for dayss and we ate it all through class. It was never-ending which was PERFECT! unless my stomach has shrunk..... I would be surprised.... food here is sketchy.

Hey can you send me stephens address??? I wanna write him!

Anyway I love it here!!1 Hope ya liked the pictures!!!! cant wait to head out, The language is coming along.

Funny story: I ran into a girl from Italy today...... She tried talking to me.... they are DEFIANTLY teaching me the wrong language... Not one word did I understand hahahaha

Is anyone getting my letters???? I feel like they arent getting sent... -___-
 Also my companion has a messed up back so 3 times a week we go see a chiropractor- so I get missionary opportunities all the time! Whats embarrassing is when someone asks me where I am going and I couldnt for the life of me figure out how they knew I was serving a mission. THE NAME TAG. Ya I am an idiot. But we get tons of high fives everywhere we go and then when they find out I got my call at 18 they are always like WOWWWWWW You are a baby!! So thats fun too- now that I am 19 I almost fit in but I still get the whole "wow you are insane" talk- I wouldnt wanna be anywhere else!!
I get to go to the temple once a week so that is fabulous as well anddddddd dad I hope you get thaat picture of "steak" we had here at the MTC.... I mean really that hardly qualified as meat period. Haha Love yall!!! I send ya my love!!

Seriously where is Kate. I can;t stop talking abut it. Am I an Aunt??? Is Jenna ok???? WHAT IS HAPPENING.

April 11th, 2013


Hey yall!!!!!!

I am having a blast here!!! Best decision I have made it my short 19 years Haha
Ok so something I just LOVE about the MTC is I meet people from EVERYWHERE. For example- I was walking into the bookstore and we met these 2 elders from Tonga and Brazil and they wanted a pic so we stopped these two other elders walking by, one from Canada (french-speaking) and the other from Tokyo. WEIRD. We proceeded to lunch and sat next to two other elders- one from New Zealand and one from Australia. WEIRD. Then after lunch we walk into the hall and there are MOBS of asians were coming in. Like at least 200 all from China and Tokyo and about half were girls. COOLEST THING EVER. Not only are missionaries being sent all over the earth but missionaries are coming from all over the earth. And it doesn't seem too weird cause everyone is talking in a different language anyway... so all accents you cant tell if they are real or not. Haha!
I don't know if this is how it worked when Stephen Jay and Jenna were out- But we have investigators here (all Italian) and TRC were we teach Italian members and share a thought with them. So its way fun and one of our investigators has agreed to be babtised!! Haha too bad its not real... but who cares its awesome! Haha Also- the very first investigator we had is named "Nico" and we thought he was real- so after about 8 lessons with him out teacher said we werent teaching him anymore! So of course I was heart-broken and was SUPER dissappointed cause our next lesson was going to be about babtism and then inviting him to be babtised. So yeah- super bummer. The next day guess who walks into the classroom..... Nico.... AS OUR TEACHER. So my life had been revolving around this investigator and wanting him to know the truth and I was praying for this investigator- going out of my mind when JUST KIDDING he already knows and now he is going to be teaching ME. I almost died/ passed out. -___- We also gave him a lesson the second day here so obviously my Italian was pathetic so I am so glad I get to be thouroughly embarrassed by my teachers who are ALSO my teachers. Whaaaaaaaa. (I am slowly realizing this is probably confusing)... TO be clear, very few people speak Italian, so Our investigators are our teachers pretending, and our Active Member lessons are RMs from Italy... Yeah.
Mom- I have soooo much to send him. Buckle up.
My district is awesome- we have wayyy too much fun which makes the MTC so much less stressful especially when I am English deprived. Yay.


Mom!!!! I am super jealous you get to be with Jenna and be shopping and eating popcorn and having fun WAHHHHHH I will be there for the next one! Also in regards to your last questions- I am generally healthy... The food here is Sketch. But I do occasionally have some Captin Crunch for breakfast in your honor so I get those vitamins at least twice a week. :) Haha uhhhh I sleep! Man I should send you a picture of the beds. They look how I imagine a bed in a jail too look like Hahaha Which is fine I still can fall asleep but OH MAN the would "comforter" does not exsist here. Its a nice tope-brownish sheet that I am sure has some purpose I just havent discovered it yet. Haha Also our schedual says we have 6:30- 7 am to get ready for our day..... So thats funny. Hahaha Like anyone in the world can do that... My Italian is good enough that I havent offended anyone yet? So thats a step I suppose. I will get around to it Hahaha I will try to get a video of me saying something so yall can see. Not that I have.. video... on my camera.... not that I already have videos.. cause that would be disobediant... O.o

Love you guys!!!!! The Church is true!!! Lets be honest- Why else would I be here cause its NOT like its a breeze.... in fact quite opposite. :) Talk to you next week!!! Smother Kate with Love for me on Monday!!