Quick Email July 13, 2013
So I am going to blow through this last week! New president, a lot different, but is really ready to make some good changes in the mission. We have been going crazy trying to do 6 zone conferences in 3ish weeks! And as of right now we only have one left! Last Sunday I got the chance to drive President and Sister Waddoups down to Battipaglia (city south of Napoli next to the Amalfi coast, famous for their buffalo mozzarella) for church. It is a branch of about 25ish normally, but that Sunday they set a record with 54 in church! It was so cool!
Got to eat with all the missionaries there after at the senior couples house, the meal was prepared by a professional chef in the branch, it was incredible! So in driving time I got to spend about 6 hours alone with the president and his wife, even though they slept a little. Got back late Sunday, and had to wake up early Monday to catch our flight down to Catania! I sat next to a super awesome young couple and learned a lot about Sicily and got their number and they will be baptized one day!
The conference went really well, then Anziano Kasper and I got a car from down there and started the journey home. The first night we stayed in Reggio Calabria. And Wednesday morning before we left we got what was voted southern Italy's best gelato! We headed up to Battipaglia again where we ate the worlds best buffalo mozzerella and picked up some missionaries to head to the Napoli zone conference, which is actually held in Pozzuoli, and that church may have the best view of any church I have been to! It is up on a hill and overlooks the beautiful ocean!
Headed back and got home late Thursday night, and did the normal stuff on Friday and today we were preparing for my first general authority visit since my stay in Rome! Tomorrow Elder Evans from the first quorum of the seventy arrives and I have to pick him up from downtown Rome for church, afterwards they have permission to go on the temple site (I am hoping SOOOO bad to get on too) and they we are having lunch with them and our mission president and his wife!!! It should be the coolest thing ever! I will keep y'all updated and will try to email on Wednesdays from now on! haha
The one picture is Ex-Anziano Kafel (my companion in Palermo) and Ex-Anziano Botallo (who lived in our house) they have been down in Sicily and stopped to see us on the way up! It was way good to see them and you could tell they had been at the beach! The other picture is by in Pozzouli and it is the spot where Paul landed and began to preach! So that is all of us and the church they built there... so that of course is awesome! Love y'all!
Love,
Anziano Bird
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