Finally in Italy !!!!

I AM FINALLY IN ITALY!!!!!!!!!!
Hello my family,
So I arrived safe and sound as you already know because you talked to my mission presidents wife. So mom my town doesn't start with a P it starts with a C I'm serving in a small town 20 min west of Torino ,I'm in Collegno!!! :) It's so tight, we have a ward of 50 people and our church building is only 6 years old so its brand new its awesome.  My trainer is such a stud his name is Anziano Meszaros,  our unity is awesome we're pretty much best friends. He's super tall ,he's 6'6 he reminds be of Patrick haha .He was born in Canada and moved to Utah when he was 6.  Are you ready for the surprise? He's only been in Italy for 3 full transfers I'm his second comp and he is training me ,it's so awesome. He's really good with the language because his trainer was a native.  We're both young but because of our faith and because we have no fear we are going to see miracles happen, as we like to say "we're going to destroy Collegno" :)

I'll go day by days so I can tell you all that I've been doing:

WEDNESDAY-I arrived in Italy and had dinner at the mission home with the mission pres and his wife and then we went and stayed in a hotel for our first night nothing too special.

THURSDAY- We woke up and went to the Milan's two church building(its called Milan two because there are 3 wards in Milan) We went there to meet our trainers and find out where we were going. That's where I met my super cool trainer:) Then we had lunch and we were off to our new city.  To get from Milan to my city you have take a 2 hour train ride to Torino and then either take the metro and a bus or just a longer bus ride but either way it takes 20 mins. On the metro on my first day there was a guy there and I felt like I should talk to him. As you know my Italian isn't the best yet but I tried my best. I explained where I was from and why I was here and so on . I then  went on to say since it was my first day ,would he mind if i practice my Italian? He said sure so I taught him that God is our loving Heavenly Father and how the Gospel blesses families .I would have continue but it was time to get off so I said bye. By the time we got back to the apartment it was later so we only had time to knock on a few apartment buildings.

Let me tell you about my apartment.  The location is amazing and I'm sure I'm going to make you jealous when I explain how awesome our apartment is. The apartment is  right in the middle of the town ,so its close to everything. Also we live over a bakery and the baker and  everyone that works there love us ,so we sometimes get free stuff it's so awesome . Italian i LOVE IT!  My town is called Collegno but we also have other little towns to take care of . We have Rivoli and also Grugliasco or something like that.  A week before I got there our bikes got stolen so I need to buy a bike this week so it should cost no more then 200 £ just to be safe . For this whole week we've been walking everywhere which I don't mind anymore I'm really used to it but that was my first real day. Also we got the best pizza ever!!!!!!! and then we ate gelato and it was the BEST Coconut EVER!!!!!! Italian food rocks!!!! :)

FRIDAY-  We planed for the whole week so for example we make goals and stuff for how many people we want to talk to and how many lessons we want to teach. Then we spent the rest of the 6 hour day doing casa( casa means tracking and that just going from apartment building to apartment building) at first I was nervous but now it's not big deal. I just talk to whoever hahaha. It was hard and long but fun. Then at 7 we had a lesson with this guy named Encrio. We taught him half of the 2nd lesson. He's doing well and he understands and agrees with all we are teaching him. For the moment he's the only person we're teaching which means we do casa every other time of the day.
SATURDAY-this day was rough but fun we did casa for like 8 to 9 hours ,it was fun though. I'm just glad I have a companion who I get a long with ,it just makes things so much easier and more fun.

I'll tell you how my days go; I wake up at 6:30 get ready and eat till 8 . Then personal study ,so studying the scriptures from 8 to 9 and then from 9 to 10 its with my comp .We learn together, plan lessons etc. Then from 10 to 1 we go do casa or if  we have an appointment and then from 1 to 3 we have lunch/language study/power nap!!(pres said he was a fan of power naps so we eat for half an hour study for an hour and then nap for half an hour)! I never knew I was going to get to power nap. Any ways then we do "casa" from 3 to 8 and then from 8 to 9 we do "strada". We just walk to streets and find people to talk with because after 8 its too late to be ringing door bells. Then from 9 to 9:30 we plan for the next day makes goals and plans. Then 9:30 to 10:30 is hangout ,talk and get ready and then go to bed.  I love being here it's so awesome. I wake up in the morning and can't believe that I'm here it's amazing.

SUNDAY- We have church at 9, church was super fun I met all the members and they are way nice and awesome. I explained that  it was my first week and they understand when I speak to them haha !! I gave an opening prayer and that was fun ,I wasn't nervous at all and then I went up and introduced myself and bore testimony. I hope they will be able to trust me as a missionary and know that I can do this even if i don't speak the language as well as I would like to hahaha .Then during Sunday school we taught a new member that got baptized November 20th. We taught about the importance of church on Sunday and so on and then we had priesthood 3rd hour I didn't understand a lot because it was just a lot lot lot lot lot lot lot of talking in Italian but it was still awesome.

MONDAY- We had to start my temporary residence forms for being in Italy for 2 years so we had to go to Torino, that was at 10:00 and it went fast and then we had District meeting at 11:00. That's when our district has a meeting and we talk about investigators that we're having a hard time with and just ask for help on how to fix situations and so forth. There are 4 people in my district(very small) there is me, Meszaros, Dean and our district leader Gammel.  after district meeting I went on splits and stayed in Tornio with Gammel. it was fun I got to stay in Torino and see what Tornio was like. It's pretty ghetto but cool I sure like Collegno way better I love it because there are only Italians no immigrates like in Tonino ,its hard to find an Italian in Torino. We got pizza and we got gelato and it was AWESOME!!!!

TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY- we pretty much just did "casa: and work hard its fun but hard because we're not finding anyone. Our effort and attitude is there so it's just a matter of time before we see a miracle. This week we're going to try some new finding methods should be awesome :) Oh also yesterday was "Immaculate Conception" day for Italians its a famous holiday. No one works ,   I guess it's just another day for Italians to take off work hahaha !!

Anywyas that's it for me this week tell me if you want more detail and give me questions of things you wanna know haha all right I love you all have a good week !!!!!!!!!!!

Love Anziano Glowa