Fuoco artificio. Artificial fire. Also
known as: Fireworks. However, this last Monday, while these were going ff, so
we're some bombs. At least, it sounded that what and they were right outside of
our window for quite a while. We tried to get to bed at 10:30 ish (not very
hard) and about half an hour before the actual new year in Italy (I was asleep
and awake before you even had yours back in the states) until about 2 in the
morning. Even as I write this email at 14:30 here in Italy, I can still hear
some fireworks going off.
Pizzas eaten: 33
Gelato: 46
Books of Mormon: 55
Alright! I'm sorry I didn't email last
week, it was Christmas, and so, I had calls to my family and three meal
appointments all in a row, one for every day starting on the 23rd after church
where we were fed a nice pile of octopus meatballs. They were rather tasty and
I didn't even realize that's what they were until after I heard the members
talking about it. I knew we were going to be eating octopus, but I wasn't
expecting a meatball form of the creature. It was rather interesting to see how
much I've already forgotten what straight beef tastes like, and how it feels in
my mouth. almost all beef you buy here unless it's in steak form, has anywhere
from 20 to 40 percent pig in it because Italians don't like the taste of straight
beef I suppose. At least, that's how I seem to find all my ground ''Beef''.
A Volcano erupted not too far from where
I live currently in this great country of Italy. I didn't feel too much from
this big old thing going off, but I do have pictures! Thanks to another anziano
in my district who can see this volcano from his house. I'm safe, as far as I
know, no one died or was injured. but you know what did affect me this morning?
Deep cleaning day!! we got up and to celebrate the new year and because my
companion and I were so gosh darn excited to be in a new year, we were overcome
with the desire to clean our apartments just like our Mission President told us
to do! You can believe we did that. It's nice to have a super clean apartment.
We found out this week that we should
finally be getting our Books of Mormon sometime in the month of January! And I
also learned a super fun thing about the month of February! Learning a Latin
based language is fun because you learn things like this: Febbre. it's the word
for Fever. So the month of Febbraio is literally the Month of Fevers in our
calendar year. That's why we named it that. because the Romans figured out that
cold and wet bring sickness and fevers, so this time every year is probably
going to bring many fevers. Let's make sure we never forget that by naming the
month after what it brings! Same goes for October, November and December
because those mean the eighth, ninth and tenth months, but then Julius Cesaer
came around and named a month (July) after himself and so did Augstus.Illet you
figure out what month he gave his name. That threw the other months out of the
loop but they kept their names.
I wasn't able to do a whole lot of
proselyting this week because I had some cold or something that knocked me over
for a day and then when we were able to go outside, there was nobody to be
found because they were either all shopping for the new years parties they were
planning on hosting, or they were teenagers making out with each other. There's
a lot of that going on here in Italy.
One thing of note however, I'm going to
be heading back to Napoli this Tuesday because I have permesso work! that means
they fly me from Sicilia to Napoli (one hour flight) and then from Napoli to
wherever I have to go to get my fingerprint appointment (usually a police
station) and then I might either spend the night or, take a flight from napoli
to Rome and then from Rome to Agrigento. You can fly to napoli from Sicilia,
but not from Napoli to Sicilia because there are not enough people who want to
go to Sicilia from napoli for it to be worth it for the plane companies. Then,
in about another month or so I'll be headed back to Napoli to get the actual
card itself. By that point, it will be almost expired and then unless it's a
two year ( which napoli doesn't really give out that often) I'll have to repaet
this process again until i'm able to go home.
if you have ny questions about anything
specifically, feel free to send them to me any time during the week, and i'll
try to include the answers either in this, my weekly or in a personal letter to
you.
Ciao for now!
Anziano Anderson
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