February 19, 2014

TRANSFERS!!!

Buon Giorno Tutti!

Well, big news! im going to serve in SWITZERLAND!!!! Im going to be serving in a town called Lugano right over the swiz border. IT... IS... GORGEOUS!!! The even cooler part though is that Switzerland, due to its strict law, has been closed to any missionary without a european passport for YEARS, so i am the very first american missionary to be serving there since it got closed i couldnt even tell you how many years ago. but the thing is is that im not going to be living in lugano. i will be living in Como, 5 min from the swiz border, and every day ill travel by train to lugano and then come back. It may seem like a pain but Como is actually one of the most gorgeous cities in this mission lol so im getting the best of both worlds! i cant tell you guys how excited i am! my new companion is Anziano Oz and he is from Australia and has been in the mission the same amount of time that my current companion, anziano lambert has. Everybody that calls me to tell me how lucky i am tell me that my new comp is super cool and a very hard worker so i am SOOO excited! Also, anziano lambert served there for 6 months and said it was his absolute favorite ward that he has been able to serve in. the bishop is american, and the members are all just amazing. he is also very excited that i get to serve there because i can say hi to all of the members that he got to become friends with while he served there.

I am going to miss la spezia though. i feel like this has been home. i have been here for over 4 months and i have gotten along so well with my companions, especially anziano lambert, and the other two missionaries living in our apartment. im also going to miss the margheritti family here in our branch. we just ate over at there house for pranzo (we ate the BEST homemade lasagna) and i got to share a spiritual thought at the end. i shared helaman 5:12 and bore my testimony on how it has effected my life and how if we build a strong foundation on the lord we can never fall. the spirit was very strong and by the end brother margheritti was in tears, which almost got me to begin to tear up as well. we took some pictures of their family, which ill send to you soon. they were by far the best family i have met here in the mission. im going to miss them so much. 

Well thank you guys so much for all of the pictures and emails, i love you guys so much! Dallin looks like a baller in his suit by the way! haha well wish me luck in my travels all the way to north italy/switzerland! haha im so excited im gunna DIE! (in the voice of that little girl in Dispicable Me). CIAO!