Dearest Mommy,
Hey! P day was GREAT! SUPER tiring. I was dead on the train home. cinque terre is beautiful though. I haven't reall seen sea since I've been on the mission and that was the best way to see it. I know last week I said I'd bring pictures but the computer I'm on right now is being super annoying so it will have to wait till the next one. Again I apologize for the lack of photos I said. I know, I suck.
Basically, I've almost seen every cool thing to see in Tuscany, almost. I still have to see the leaning tower and then I have to find some way to get to San Gimigliano...Which I don't think is too pratical. Anyway the most beautiful thing I've seen in Italy thus far...is still Bolzano. Haha I LOVE Bolzano. Still by far my favorite city. We had lunch with some members for Easter and turns out one of them served their mission in the Padova mission and got to serve in Bolzano. We just then spent the remainder of the time talking about how awesome Bolzano is. Long story short, Bolzano is awesome.
Oh another funny thing. So this morning we got our haircuts by these two guys from chile and guess what they like to do when they're not cutting hair. Box. Haha turns out the guy that cut my companions hair is also the featherweight champion of all of Italy. He showed us posters and pictures of him and his champion belt. Haha only in Italy can one man be a professional hairdresser and professional boxer at the same time. Haha I love it.
Sounds like everybody is doing well! That's good to hear. I'm doing super good as of recently. This week went by much better than last week. We're starting to find alot more people. GIULIO(Haha is name is Giulio no Guido mamma) is doing alright. Lately he's been having to work a ton and its really taking a tole on his spiritual progress. He still loves us and the church though so no worries. I would just ask that you keep him in your prayers cuz more than anything he still needs to get married so he start making some serious progress. Other than him we've had alot of south american investigators, which has been great because recently a less active member from equador came to us saying he wants to start being more involved with the church again so he wants to come with us to teaching appointments.
Other than that, its been another great week of scambio! Like I said we were in La Spezia and the other day I found myself yet again in Prato. Or should I say...China. There are TONS of chinese people in Prato I can't believe it. Anyway I love working with other missionaries. There are some truly amazing missionaries in our mission. I'm super impressed.
Last sunday we had a team of translators in church. Haha okay that sounds a bit extreme but there were a TON of tourists in church. Haha there was actually a family from Arizona. That would be the second family from Arizona I've seen in Florence. Anyway there where so many tourists that they took up pratically half the chapel! Its a good thing though it makes our branch look alot bigger. Haha anyway I had to do some major translating. I was doing well to right up until our 1st counciler started reading excerpts from Jesus the Christ in his talk. It was the equivalent of getting hit by a baseball bat. I did not see it coming and I could not handle it. I was able to give them the gist of it though so in the end it wasn't too bad. It did hurt though.
Anyway that's my week! I love you so very much and I love being on a mission! I had the spirit confirm that to me more than once this week so I thought I'd throw that in there.
Much love,
Joey
