Sorella Sandwich

Dinner at Gilberto's

Ciao da Italia!

first things first- i am staying in Ladispoli for another transfer :) with sorella ivory. so God answered that prayer haha cause..... i love her and quite frankly i am terrified to be with anyone who knows this city less than i do hah.. but no worries. we will be here for another 6 weeks at least. which means you can still send letters to this address:

Sorella Sudweeks

Via Flavia 21

00055 Ladispoli RM

Italy

i've decided i like letters sent here better cause i only get them from the mission office every 6 weeks (transfers). so yeah. send them here. :)

Elisa's Baptism

alright. so i had my first baptism this last saturday! her name is Elisa De Antonis and she is the cutest one! she got baptized in the sea and it was the coolest experience because we started in the church where sorella buma gave an amazing talk and i accompanied the music (proud of me clinton?) then we all walked to the beach together and there were still a few people there but not really in the water. when elisa and fratello viglietta walked down into the water everyone went silent. i swear, even the cars stopped driving by. there was such a beautiful spirit there and when elisa came out of the water she had the biggest smile on her face and she came back to the shore and gave her mom the biggest hug. it was so perfect. 

so sorella buma is leaving tomorrow to go back to salt lake! crazy! she has been an awesome trainer and its sad to see her go but im also very excited for her. its been insane though cause we've had SO many appointments with people since she's leaving (she's served in Ladispoli for the last 9 months!) and we have just eaten so much. you literally have no idea.. 

the other night we went over to a guy's house from our english course and he had his family and some friends there and it was just so italian haha! we ate outside and they had a pizza oven out there in their garden and they just kept putting pizzas in and pulling them out, all these amazing kinds of pizza! and they'd cut them up and pass them around. i swear i ate like 10 pieces of pizza that night.. (pizza is square by the way. we make it wrong in america). and then after the pizza they pull out this amazing gelato. oh man....... it was so great too because not only did we get to talk to the guy from english course about what we do and our church, but we talked with all his friends as well. it was just a fun night. :) 

At the beach with Giorgia

so since sorella buma is leaving, we have special privillages haha. no but we did get permission to put our feet in the water at the beach (at 6:30am. chill.) on her last exercise day. so we called giorgia and she came and hungout with us at 6:30 in the morning and it was GLORIOUS! and......... i will maybe be able to do that again in like 6 months.... we'll see haha.... 

im thinking of asking for them to make me a tag that just says 'sorella sud' (sud {sood} means south) because no one, seriously, no one, can pronounce sudweeks. i've gotten 'sun-eeks', 'suj-eek' and my favorite- 'sandwhich' yup. sorella sandwhich. 

well i love you all! vi voglio tanto bene! 

Sorella Sandwhich

Waiting for the bus

Giorgia and Laura