- Monday was my last family home evening in Cagliari. We played "do
you love your neighbor" for the game then talked about charity for our
spiritual thought. They got really into it and love it hahah.
- We had Pranzo appointments every day until I left so that was fun!
And none of them had it ready when we got there so we got to learn how
to make a bunch of food!
- I basically just spent the first part of the week saying bye to
people and getting the house ready for the new sisters. There will be
four again in Cagliari!
- English course was sad that Anziano Martin and I were leaving so
they asked if we could go next door to McDonald's and get gelato
together. It was super fun haha our English course students are so
crazy I love them.
- I got to do a TJ split for half the day Thursday. TJ=Jehovah's
witness and there's tons of them here but a lot of the time they do
companionships of men and women together. So basically I got to have
an Anziano as my companion for the day because we were the only ones
flying from Sardegna to Palermo.
- I tried a cannolo (you say cannoli in American but that just means
plural cannolo) and a bomba (it's basically a donut rolled in sugar
with Nutella inside.) I got a pizza with horse meat. It was
surprisingly really good. They weren't lying when they told me that
the food here is the best in the world. I also ate some bomb pistachio
gelato.
- I've met a lot of members already. They're all super nice. It seems
like everyone here is a lot more loving and friendly. They hug each
other all the time and it's super normal for the men to do baci (kiss
each other on the cheeks) here than it was in Cagliari.
- It's really really dirty here. Like there's just trash everywhere.
One of the problems is there aren't any garbage cans to throw your
trash in so people just throw it anywhere. So then when it's windy
like it has been for the past few days it's super dangerous because
your just be walking and then all of a sudden you'll have all this
garbage flying at you. I've gotten so many nasty things in my eyes the
past few days.
- Basically everyone smokes here so you just always smell smoke
everywhere you go. Even in the church because there's some kid of bar
thing right next door.
- We live in 4 with the Sorelle who cover Palermo 2 and 3 (I'm in
Palermo 1) and one of the sisters is Sorella Bellomo-she's Italian! We
did a trio with her my first few days here because her companion (our
STL) was in Rome for a leadership conference. Those days we spoke only
in Italian..it was so awesome I loved it!! By it was also absolutely
exhausting. I had to take a quick nap during lunch and my brain was
still super tired by the end of the day. But I love it so much. I feel
like my language has kind of hit a plateau the last transfer and so I
really wanted an Italian companion to help me to become fluent in this
language. To just correct me on every little mistake i make. And I was
blessed to share a house with Sorella Bellomo!! She has been helping
me so much. And she's also a super good cook and has promised to teach
us how to cook like an Italian. She's an answer to my prayers!!
- We live in a little attic but it's super cute..just super small and
hot. There's only 1 shower that we share with the four of us so that's
kind of hard but we make it work. My companion and Sorella Rogers
(Sorella bellomo's companion) are super awesome too so we all get
along super well!
- Our bishop is our landlord and he lives below us so if we ever need
anything he's always super nice and willing to help. Like for instance
we ran out of toilet paper yesterday so we went and asked for just one
and he was more than happy to give us 4 and some gelato too! Haha he's
great.
- Oh we did a gesso last night in centro. That was fun! Palermo is
really big and centro is super nice. They have tons of shopping there.
We did it with both the companionships of Anziani in Palermo 1 and all
the Sorelle. We also invited the senior couple to come! They've only
been here 3 weeks, they're doing super awesome. Anziano Garrett speaks
Italian really well. Sorella Garrett doesn't speak Italian but she was
still working just as hard as the rest of us! She stopped a man and
Sorella Anderson was able to help her talk to him and ended up setting
an appointment to meet!! What a miracle!! They're super awesome I love
that I finally get to be with a senior couple.
- Funny moment: while we were at the gesso this group of teenagers
come up to us so I started talking to them and invited them to English
course and they said that the reason they came over is because Sorella
Roberts looks like a pokeball 😂😂 (she was wearing a red shirt with a
white skirt and a black belt). One of the girls ran up hugged her and
goes "you're my hero!" Hahaha that was probably my favorite part of
the week.
K well sorry that was kind of random. I still love life, love the
gospel, and although Cagliari still has my heart, I love Palermo! And
of course I love all of you, I hope you all have a wonderful week!!
I may not look like it but I was definitely really sad that I had to
leave Sorella Tingey.
Flying into Palermo!
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My companion surprised me with a cannolo!
A little bit of Centro ..I think this is actually a police station. They really go all out with their government buildings here haha
