October/The pizza is Life Changing!

this mission is seriously the best thing thats ever happened to me. I know understand what it means to truly love someone. to put them before yourself no matter what the cost. to do everything and anything in your power to bring them this eternal happiness that is the doctrine of gesu cristo. its not easy, no, but its doable. the people are like you said everything or nothing. they flail theyre hands like dragons and yell and kiss and hug and touch your face they are so affectionate and at the same time hard outer shells that are scared or not sure of your true purposes. Its amazing how much people change when they see you care for them and the theme i saw in conference was service. almost everytalk said something about serving other people. Imagine this. A man hardened throughout his life, spent time in prison, no family, Alone. two young men serve this man and he lets them into the house. these kids talk about christ like they know him. because they do. this man opens up and accepts their teachings. He makes progress over hardships and struggles but continues on. this is Rafeal he lives up the mountain a little way and if we didnt serve him he would be in the same rut maybe we dont know. the power of love. WOW!

conference was amazing and the fact that we got to watch it with our whole zone uip in Pozzouli! haha that was fun. anyway

i love you very very much! my little Italian branch here in Castellammare is moving forward one step at a time. things are really seeming to fall into place here. our new branch missionary leader is a return missionary hwo got home about a year ago and is really pushing the branch to work together with us and to also do theyre own missionary work like inviting friends to come to church. we have a less active member named Franco about 20 years ago this man went around castellammare and intoduced about 30 people to the church. with his help about 20 o them were baptised and now those people are the branch presidency and other office holding members.  hes starting to come back to church and open to us his deep book of friends family and other people he wants us to meet with. Anziano Simonetta and i are working as hard as we can everyday to bring this city closer to christ and come home every day dead tired. Hes from Arizona and was converted about 3 years ago he like to run track and lift weights. EVERYONE here loves him. we have some friends here that ill never forget and i just got here!

Napoletano is the dialect but we call it naptan for short. were actually in Napoli right now doing Internet and yes the pizza here is life changing. i dont think i want to eat pizza back home anymore becuase it just wont be the same. the street vendors are actually just tiny stores that put theyre foood out on like carts and you just walk inside to get the good fresh stuff. also the Kebabs here are phenominal. there was a Napoli game here the other night. we watched a little while we were waiting for our pizza at the pizzeria by the appartment. Napoli scores and theres fireworks and people screaming off their balconies cars honk and everything stops for 10 seconds,then live resumes as normal. haha i love Italy! anyway i must go.

i love yall so very much and keep progressing, keep moving forward.

ciao ciao bellissimi!