Spelunking in Sicilia

     I don't know when I'm going to be able to tell you all that I went spelunking in Sicilia and almost got stuck in a cave alittle ways underground. Fine times, and I have a video of the moment as well. Numbers and then experiences! 

Pizzas eaten:75

Gelati: 62

Books of Mormon: 100!!!! 

     Last Monday we went to a soccer field and we played soccer for a while until our time was up and we had time to go and eat food before heading to the church to call family. I was goalie for most of the game because I'm somewhat decent at that and lso because I don't enjoy running all that much so it was an awesome time overall. 

    Tuesday was full of spesa and pass off lessons. The sorelle here have been meeting with a wonderful and smart afircan man that would be baptized if he could get Sundays off, but he's the only one who can work Sundays at his job and he's also the best worker that they have so they aren't willing to give him the time off for even a few hours to go to church. We're working on that right now, but he's an aweomse guy and he has some pretty cool insights on life that you can only have by experiencing them. 

     We also almost bought a swordfish head, but they don't accept card funnily enough and so we missed out on the fish head. Maybe another day, photos will follow when one is purchased. 

     Wednesday was district council, and we all were told to prepare a four to six minute long addestramento about a chapter or sentence in the Preach My Gospel. There were eight of these lessons given, and five of them were on chapter four, which covers spiritual promptings and awareness of spiritual things. It was definently something that this district needed, and it was guided by Heavenly hands for sure. 

     When we had all been edified spiritually, we went to an all you can eat sushi bar where they gave us so much food that we were all suffering to finish in the end. Luckily, Anziano Sabin and I are Bigger than your average missionary, so we ended up taking on the leftovers of the sorelle and just having a ball there. I didn't puke, but I wanted to by the end of that. 

     By the end of the night however, and Sabin did end up blowing chunks because we thought it would be a great idea to do the Banana and Sprite challenge. The challenge is simple. Eat a lot of bananas and then chug sprite. Hold it down as long as you can, and record the results. It took me about five minutes, but after a while, Sabin had to drink litre of milk and then a raw egg. The raw egg got us both. I watched it, he threw up, and then I followed suit again. The miracle of this work I suppose you might say is that both of us can go outside after this experience and still convert people. Amazing really. 

     Thursday was full of finding and lots of fun stuff. We found an African market place that sells African suits, food and just about anything else from the wonderful land of these people's inheritance. We also met with President Kefus, and I was assigned a talk that was to lay about 15 to 20 minutes. Before I came out on my mission, that would have terrified me. Since then, it really doesn't pose that much of a challenge to me. I'm actually excited to give a homecoming talk in church that can talk half an hour because I have material that I can use to fill that space. Funny how that works 😁

     Friday was full of little things and just a bunch of finding because all of our appointments canceled on us within twenty minutes of one another. A whole day of lessons, gone in an instant. We did manage to meet with a wonderful family who just gave birth to a child a few weeks back and who ate currently investigating the church. The baby is also super cute, and I can't send photos so you're going to have to take my word for it.

     Saturday I was given a whole jar of peanut butter and I've eaten maybe a fifth of it since this day. It was fun being able to just eat peanut butter, and I feel much how I imagine a dog might feel when trying to remove creamy peanuts from the roof of their mouth after eating a spoonful of it. We also stumbled into some sort of parade where there were lots of drums, and other tourists for some reason. It was a busy day overall.

     That's all for now! 

Anziano Anderson