{Last week in November}

Hey! This week has been great! Thursday was Thanksgiving of course, and they do not celebrate it here, but Thursday nights is one of the nights we do English course and so we had a big activity with our students and the branch. It went awesome! But in the morning we got a lesson, which was a huge blessing! It went great, she is Romanian, so she doesn't speak or understand Italian super well, I can relate! :) We made brownies for the activity because people here LOVE our brownies, and they aren't very good. haha With students and members there were about 40 people there. And everyone brought a TON of food! We had turkey and it was delicious! But mostly Italian food! One of the students made cheesecake, and all the students wanted us to eat their food, so had to eat a ton of everything!! So I had to try this cheesecake and actually really liked it! I know I'm growing up so fast! There are so many awesome people that come to English course, I know the Lord is preparing them, so hopefully we will get the opportunity to teach some of them! There is a store in town called Lidle. It is a German store I believe so they have more "American food" I was hoping to find cheddar cheese but they didn't have it. They have an American section, but it is pretty gross. haha They put a picture of the statue of liberty on something and call it American. But they have cheeseburgers! And frozen buffalo wings! And last week my companion and I picked up some advent calenders!! So I am excited about that! We also found something there called Spuma. It is a drink that they make and bottle in Sicily. My companion had heard it was good, so we got some. It was delicious!!! Hard to explain the taste, but is kind of like Jim's guarana drink. A fun thing that happened this week was our water heater thing broke! They have been redoing our roof and they blocked something and it stopped working, and they couldn't get it fixed for about 3 days! Sponge baths it was!!! My first time with sponge baths, I think I prefer normal showers, but they finally got it fixed. Ready for them to get done with our roof also because we are on the top floor and they are always really loud and looking in our windows. haha We got the chance to do service with one of the members on Saturday, helped him move some furniture and it was a nice change of pace. Wish we could do no service. Then on Sunday they invited us over for lunch. Had the normal, salad and bread, pasta, fruit, then gelato! No complaints here! We didn't get as many lessons this week as we had hoped for, so we did alot of finding. Still trying to find that referral from Spain. And did a lot of street also. You really get the opportunity to talk to some really.... really interesting people! haha We had a lesson last night with an awesome lady from English course, we had an awesome lesson prepared, but of course nothing went as planned. We had some members with us and they tried to take over and it did not go well at all. This lady is so ready for the gospel too, so hopefully we can get another chance to teach her. I love ya'll so much and hope ya'll have a great week!! Love, Anziano Bird