Prima settimana a Mistretta

Ciao tutti!

I am so distraught! They gave me the wrong address! AHHHHHH!
Hopefully, you have not sent me lots of things already. However, not
to worry I will still probably receive what you have sent me, since we
are going to find the address that I gave you last week and turn it
into a missionary experience as I plead for any mail sent to that
address to be sent to my real address! So here is the right address:

Strada Concordia 2
98063 Mistretta (ME)
Italia

(Fratello Taylor won the premio of guessing where I would go.)
This week has been splendid!!!! I love Italy! I love Italians! You
know how they always say, love the people you serve, well check me off
on that! I love the vecchiete with wiskers, I love the cheek kisses, I
love how sicilians call everyone Gioia, I love the old men who stand
on the side of the street smoking and chiacaroning(chatting). I also
love missionary work! The church must be true because I am so happy,
even when I get doors slammed in my face, which by the way happened
for the first time yesterday! This lady answered the door when it was
my turn to do the introduction and all I heard after I said my part
was, sorelle missionarie blah blah blah satana, then she slammed the
door, my companion started clapping and said now I am a true
missionary! It has been raining so much! We had to do a lot of finding
yesterday, since our appointments fell throw, so we walked all day in
the rain, cold with soaked feet. Even after this I am still so happy,
we twirled with our umbrellas smiling all the while:)
I love it here! The church is super small, but super strong. On Sunday
there were only eleven people, including the missionaries. We got to
teach primary and young womens (the YW consists of two and primary
consists of one, all three are the daughters of the branch president).
The members are always so willing to go out and teach with us, they
always bring us dinner and make sure that we are taken care of.
So there was a miracle that happened this week, I must tell you about
it! We were doing finding one friday. We knocked on a door and a man
that looked like dad(only he had a white combover:)jk dad, I love
you!) answered that door. He said he was catholic and did not want to
waste our time. My companion said oh we never waste time talking about
Cristo. He said fine we could come by another time. So on Saturday we
went back and his wife answered, she let us in and we taught about the
family and prayer! We prayed with her, oh mamma mia the spirit was so
strong, after we prayed she said she felt so good and really liked how
we pray and have this close relationship with God and she wants us to
come back! She asked us to return, hurray!
I am doing alright with the language. I can understand most of what is
going on, but man, sicilians speak sooooo fast and some times they
switch between Italian and sicilian and it is hard to keep up! I am
learning cute phrases in sicilian like chi sta ca e mia suor, which
means, that over there is my sister. It is amazing though how the
spirit can speak to us even if we cannot understand each other.
My Companion is from Logan, Utah, her name is Sorella Johnson. She has
been on the mission for 10 months and her Italian is amazing! She is
amazing in fact! She is so good at listening to people and applying
the gospel to their needs, all in italian too!
I hope all is going well at home! (ALEX! one twenty one guns is
playing in the shop I am in!!! It makes me think of you! I have to
resist the temptation to sing along!)
I love you all so much!
I know with all of my soul this church is true! I encourage all of you
to read the book of mormon daily and pray! I know if you do it you
will feel God's love and will have a happiness you cannot find
anywhere else!
Love you!
SORELLA COMOLLO

Mamma, can you add these people to the list to send my emails to. They
were my teachers in the MTC.