December Already!

Wow! It is so hard to believe that it is December already! But it sure feels like it! We are in a mountain town and there has been snow in the mountains for a while now. And a couple days ago there was finally snow on the ground! Something I was not expecting to see in Italy. My letter wont be very long today because we are in Rome today and we are actually going to get some things done today! haha Planning on the coliseum and some other things close to it! Should be alot of fun! This past week I bought my first Italian tie! It is beautiful! And at Christmas Zone Conference yesterday we got a little gift pack and it had a super sweet tie it in also! Zone Conference was awesome, always is! It was way cool cause the Napoli zone came up and got to see my mtc comp and a ton of other people! Did some more finding this week, got to teach a couple of lessons, but we went through the area book the other day and found some awesome people we can hopefully teach! I read an awesome story in the Liahona about a missionary in France and the branch he was in was in the same situation ours is in and for Christmas he got them all Preach My Gospels and the work there exploded! So we are going to do the same and I am super excited!! I ate a hot dog this week! We saw a place and it said chilly cheese dogs, so we went back cause those sounded delicious, but they were just hotdogs. The best part was when I asked the guy what they put on them and he said "I don't know, you tell me cause I have no idea what to do with these" haha Also ate at McDonalds this week and got a burger they only make in Italy, it was super good! Did not taste like a burger from there! haha It was sweet this week we went for service at the shelter, and it just so happened they were having a party that night so they had pro chefs there and so we got to eat some amazing food! Really hoping to get the work going during the holiday season because this branch needs it. We have not had corolation in 6 weeks and it is a little frustrating. In will be nice when we can get a baptism! We had a party this week for Mattia who is in our branch and he is leaving to go on his mission to Portugal in a couple weeks! He is going to the Provo mtc and is super excited and is going to be a great missionary! Love yall and hope yall have an amazing week! Love, Anziano Bird