La Spezia!!!!
Ciao Ciao!! Ok so it is BEAUTIFUL here! i cant even begin to
explain how much i love it here. i dont know if you all looked it up on the
computer or not but it is right by the ocean and surrounded by mountains that
are filled with houses and evergreens it is gorgeous. The train ride here was
awesome as well! I passed through genova and cinque terre to get here. SOOO
AMAZING! I am going to go there for one of these pdays. aparantly it only costs
5 euro to get to the furthest terre and back! i cant wait! ok so my new address
is "Via Foscolo 70, La Spezia Italia".
So my new companion is anz. Marin. He is a really cool
missionary, is hespanic and is from LA. Im also rooming with anziano Baker who
is one transfer ahead of me and anziano Walsh who goes home after this
transfer. We have a really really small apartment compared to the one in
Brescia but the city here makes up for it haha. The work here is a little
slower as well but its okay because we are going to change that really soon! In
fact, yesterday we just got a new investigator! she is from the dominican
republic but has been here in italy for about 16 years so she speaks italian
very well. She seems awesome and really took the restoration lesson well so we
will see :)
The Branch here is pretty small too i think we have about 30
to 35 members active but they are a GREAT bunch i already love them to death! I
got to bear my testimony in church on sunday and there was an american family
visiting from montana and the dad had served here for his mission and he was
translating for his family when i spoke... i hope he didnt have to struggle to
much trying to understand my broken italian haha. Actually i have really been
improving a lot in the language its kind of a miracle how much help i notice
Heavenly Father giving me and really the only language study i have been doing
is reading the BoM in italian. I just finished 3rd Nephi and i can understand
at least 3\4 of what i read, and what i dont understand is the random words
that i have to pull out the dictionary for.
I love serving here in italy so much it is SUCH a BLESSING!
Sometimes we will finish with a lesson and it will hit me as we are leaving
that we just taught someone in italian and i was able to understand everything
that they said and respond with an answer lol it may sound weird but its such a
cool feeling. The first night i was here in la spezia we were walking home from
proselyting and i look over to where the mountains would be but all i saw were
a bunch of lights like you would see on a sky scraper and i was caught off
guard because i hadnt seen any sky scrapers when i got here! and then it hit me
that all those lights were from houses that were sitting on the mountain side!
It is such an amazing site i wanted to take a picture of it but its too hard to
see in the camera!
Well, the work is good and its only going to get better here
in The Spice! Thanks for all of your emails and pictures that you send me! love
you guys so much and cant wait to hear from you next week!
-
Anziano DelgadoP.S - I no longer sleep-talk in English hahaha
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