Ciao all you beautiful people!
It seems that I can only send emails
from a computer right now thanks to the technical difficulties that define my
phone right now. So, it will be a while before I will be able to read your
responses, if any for this week. Other than this, there is not a whole lot to
report on. i'll just start with last monday and then continue on from there.
Stats: I don't remember right now, but there is a plus 1 for
gelato and pizza for this week.
Monday: We went to the colosseum. Super awesome, super
italian, super hot and super long wait times. Overall, super. When all the
sights had been seen, we went home and applied some sunscreen to our burns in
an attempt to make them feel less burned. it was not a very sucessful gambit.
Tuesday: We did a little bit of suit shopping, and one of
the anziani sold a silver ring that they found on the ground a few weeks back
for 37 euro. Not bad when you consider that it was basically free money! we
then had english course and it was very sad, with only two people that showed
up. the teachers outnumbered the students two to one. we decided to change
that.
Wednesday: we were supposed to have district council on
thursday, but because we decided to hand out 356 english course cards, we
pushed it back to see who would show up to this course tomorrow.We then treated
ourselves to some gelato and then went home to relish in a day of hard
missionary work completed.
Thursday: There was a WWE start to the morning where for fun
my companion and a member of the other companionship started to wrestle for no
particular reason, and for six minutes the other two of us who were watching
the match also recorded a piece or two of it.We have a saying here in the
mission that goes "Attack the day!" but i'm pretty sure this is not
what they have in mind when they say things like that.it
was all good fun and nobody was hurt. we went and bought stuff for a tiramisù
and then had some studies and the like until we went to english course. The
number of people we had there was two. Usually we have four, but we had even
less today. We're still waiting for new people to show up, but we're planning
on giving out 1000 cards sometime this coming week and then maybe english
course won't be so sad.
Friday: We had an "Area Book flush" because
the church wants to be compliant with European privacy laws and that means
calling and digitizing everyone in the physical areabooks, and burning the
paper after that, more or less. If we don't, it's illegal and not the image we
want to give to the church. Once that was all said and done, we ate food and
then parted ways.
Saturday: District council! We celebrated the birthday of
one of the sorelle in our district and then we ate gelato because a birthday is
a good reason to do that. After that, it was a wild experience of busses and
walking home just so that we could do more work! Fun times!
Sunday: We attended church, I made bread, and we all
had a wonderful time talking with the members and then calling all the other
people in area book that we had yet to call. i made the mistake of thinking i
was talking to an african and started to talk to them in english, calling him
Jesus with a hard J, but the answer on the other end was a confused spanish man
who speaks italian. Thus, I had to change the pronunciation of the name and
then try to hold a serious conversation through my own laughter at my little
slip up and the unrestrained laughter of the three anziani who happened to be
listening at that exact moment. a fun time in the life of anziano Anderson.
There won't be any photos this week
because my photos are not on this computer. Maybe next week, we'll see.
Anziano Anderson
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