Italy!!!

We have arrived in Sanremo... first Sorelle! And we live in probably the coolest apartment. I always thought being a missionary you kind of just accept that you are going to have to live in a cardboard box, or maybe next to a garbage can, but no... not at all. We have a three bedroom apartment to two people. Our apartment is bigger than any of the other apartments that have actual families they have to fit. It is crazy actually, but i am so grateful. We can basically see all of Sanremo and the ocean... Any who, i love Sorella Egbert. She is probably the most concecrated person i have ever met. And she is teaching me how to be that. We do this 12 week program. It is how long my i have my trainer, unless we get another transfer together, but basically it is just her teaching me everything.. so when i train... which is a scary thought, ill know how to train that poor Sorella! It is all rather cool actually. But she seriously just caries this spirit with her all day. We have actually come to find that we are basically the same exact person, just in two different bodies... which if you think about who i am and than add another one... Let you soak that one in. She really is amazing though. We can have really really cool spiritual experiences together and just feel the spirit so strongly...but than we can also have SO much fun, and just laugh. I actually don't think i have laughed so hard before... like today we had to take five huge bags of garbage down five flights of stairs because the Anziani so graciously left them for us when they moved, and than down the street because that is where the dumpster is... on the way down, one of my bags broke and we basically just fell on the stairs..i dont know if it was because we just gave up or it was to dang funny that an Italian man just sat there and gave us a dirty look.. We just have fun every day, but than we also get to preach the gospel every day. I love it. I have the best of both worlds, and we have a really good balance. Creepy stories of the day could include that two men followed us into our stairwell to our apartment.. we offerred them an Il libro di mormon, and they left. Some guy kept trying to say hi and wouldnt give up so he switched to english, and finally we just told him we don't speak english... and than a probably about 90 year old man that is about two feet shorter than me looked up at us as we were walking by and started blowing kisses.. You just got to love it. But we are safe and happy. (: If anything we can throw our book of Mormons at their heads, and run. It all works out. We have a family that we are teaching right now, and we are just really working on strengthening our branch.. which is seven pages long! It is so big, but majority is less active. So we are working with a lot of them. Church was good. I couldn't understand everything, but its coming. One of our investigators is crazy, and she just wont accept the truth but she comes to church all the time. Something really cool that happened this Sunday though is that she has a tumor or something like that, so she asked for a priesthood blessing. She is a full blown catholic, but believes in our priesthood?.. Yeah, i don't know, any who but after the blessing she just started crying. And she finally admitted that she felt the spirit!!!! Than last night we went to teach a part member family. Mom is less active, dad is not a member, and they have two kids. They have a lot of work to do, but after we left Sorella Egbert just grabs my arm and tells me shes had a dream before about them in that exact house, with the exact same little boy playing, and they same mom and dad. Everything.. Heavenly Father sent us here for a reason. Sanremo needed the Sorelle. Our branch president even said it... a big change is coming here. We are going to make a miracle happen.. We are going to complete families, and bring what these amazing people need. We share with people everywhere from park benches, to trains, to them coming to find us. It is truly amazing. We have pday today because we have to take a train to Milano tomorrow for new missionary training. But it will usually be on Wednesdays... actually always on Wednesdays. We are having a Halloween party on Thursday with our members!! I am so stoked. They are the loudest, most energetic, and loving people i have ever met. It is so strange though because i feel like i have know these people before... like i have known them forever.. And who knows. It is very well possible that i did in the preearth life. I just love this place. And even for the people who do not accept, i respect them for being willing to listen to two young girls walking around in almost what they would consider pilgrim clothing carrying around this little blue book. We definitely turn heads... but it is all part of the fun. Because the moment they look at you, you get to turn around and say Crede in Gesu? and that just starts all the fun. I am happy, and safe, and we are working with angles right beside us daily. Something to do this week is do everything you can to attend church.. there is so much power that comes from going each week to the Lords house. You miss church, and your whole week will be affected... everything will be.. Quick side note... the Italians wanted to know how we do Halloween... so we got to choose what we are doing.. It is going to be hysterical to say the least. They are sooo interested on how we do things... It is weird.. who wants to be like us?

My address is Via Marsaglia 71 Sanremo Italy btw.. idk the zip right now though...google it? Non lo so..

Well love you all!! Thanks for everything!

LOVE SORELLLAA WOOOODS! (:(:(: