sweet is the work : Hello Genova!

THIS WEEK HAS BEEN SO LONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!

First off, I'm starting to forget English. not good. bear with me.

train spotting
So I got to ride on the train with Sorella Pearce back to Milan, which was cute and sentimental because that's how we came to Pordenone.. aww.

waving goodbye at the Pordenone train station

I forgot to tell you she got transferred to Milan with.. SORELLA LOFLEY hahaha---that's who trained Sorella Astel. Interesting, huh?

Then we all met in the Milan train station, found our travel companions, got lunch and left for GENOVA..

Genova is soooo beautiful, Mom. seriously. There are probably a ton of pictures on the internet, whatever, I promise they don't do it justice.

straight to work
When I got there, we set down our luggage and went straight to an appointment. It was kinda late at night in a kinda sketchy area, so we had to walk realllyy fast and you'll never guess what Sorella Lemos did...

She grabbed my hand.

At that moment, I started to repent for all the times I made fun of you for your companions linking arms with you (she did that to me too).

living la vida argentina
So we teach in Spanish anche (also), so I'm learning a little Spanish! I had a moment this week where I was just like,

"Whheerree am I and what am I doinnggg?!"

We were in the house of a less active and she packed a huge bowl of mate with the silver bowl and weird metal straw and we were just passing it around, sipping mate and teaching the gospel in Italian/Spanish. It was soooo weiirrdddd

you had me at "hello"
I miss English so much! I almost cried when Anz. Memmott and Gibbons called the other night just because they said "hello."

Dad: yes, he's from Utah, but I don't remember where. I'll ask.

There are 3 copie of missionaries in our WARD! and we have two wards in Genova. It's so fun running into other missionaries. We are the only sorelle and then Capi Zona and two other missionari who were in the MTC con me.

kiss kiss
Also another weird thing: when we baci other people, I have to know if they are from South America or Italy because Italians baci the right cheek and South Americans the left..

We went to an appointment this week and this person lives on the mara (ocean) and I wanted to cryyyy. I closed my eyes and imagined I was at the beach house..

Oh, Sorella Lemos is from CORDOBA (gasp from Mom). She lives in actual city of Cordoba and said we can come visit her there. (Paige's mom served in Cordoba, Argentina mission)

pajama time

She is so cuutteeeee. and super spunky hahah she knows literally like not a lot of English except,
"I'm going to kill you." and
"Do you want to die? Because I can help you."

It's suppeerrrr endearing..

Hey Mom, yeah, you could send me some mate, but the real stuff-- Sorella Lemos has a cup and straw.

Also I was really bad at budgeting for transfers, so I have no more money on my mission card. Sooooo I was really good and spent 12 euro on food for the week. Also, I lied; don't take out my birthday money on my card because Genova has reallllyyyy good shopping. like reallly good.

I can see Christopher Columbus' castle outside the church window.