Best Week

Vi Voglio Bene 

This week was so good.  Best week of the mission. 

My baby girl Carmen got baptized & it was so so good.  She was so cute & so so happy. 

cleaning the baptismal font

Carmen with the sorelle

& then right after we got to watch Women's Conference & Saturday Morning Session & the elders brought us gelato.

Then we went home & went to bed.

We woke up on Sunday & got to do allllll our studies. Then Mariuxi (one of the anziani's investigators) drove us to church & we ate lunch with all the South Americans and the elders & then we watched Saturday Afternoon Session. 

The Italians made us stand outside on the soccer court and get more sun because we're all still too white until Sunday Morning Session started.. 

The elders brought blood oranges and beef jerkey from America. hahah. It was just a good weekend.

gelato plus

Then on Monday we went to stop by and see our good pal Leo who owns the gelateria and he gave us free gelato.  We just sat at the bar and chit chatted about sweet nothings while he kept putting scoops of gelato in our cups and adding whipped cream (so much better & so much worse for you) and chocolate syrup on top.. we felt sooooo sick after hahah but also so happy. 

happy testimony
We saw Carmen yesterday and she wrote out her testimony and asked me to read it in sacrament meeting so everyone could know how happy she is without anyone knowing how bad her Italian is. hahaha.  She speaks well, she just has a heavy accent.. & it's not like I speak Italian well hahahah.

Baby Holland is so beautiful.  I pray for her every day.

sisters
Oh we had zone conference on Monday and I got to see Sorella Stevens, who also has a sister serving in the Rome mission (Bari), and Kaitlin slept over at their house the other week. cute huh?

Vi Voglio Bene,

Pajina

(Email Sent - April 9, 2014)