I am in Caserta near Napoli with Sorella Hamilton! This is the first time they have had Sorelle in Caserta so we are starting from scratch. Sorella Hamilton is awesome and absolutely everything I could hope for in a trainer! She is from California and a superstar! She is fantastic with the language as well as being very very patient with me as a "greenie"! I ask soooo many questions and how to say soooo many words! Italia is fantastic! Haha I can't understand what they're saying, but I know I've been asked out three times and people love to yell America at us! "baccios" are so real here! Literally get kisses on the cheeks ALL the time!
Here is the run down of the week
Wednesday: woke up and got ready to go to the church for iPad training and interviews. We ate panini and the nasty carbonated water is schifo... That took about the whole day and when we returned to the villa we had a massive dinner with lasagna, salad, and normal water. After dinner we were all given golden envelopes with our first area location and who our trainer is! I was so so so happy when I opened it!!!
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| Opening the "Golden Envelope" |
Thursday: stressful!! Almost missed the train to Napoli and the Anziani in my zone weren't on the train with Anziano Whitaker and I (he is in my zone) but thankfully they were there to help us with luggage and such at the train station! We waited for our trainers and then we split and Sorella Hamilton and I with the other two Anziani came to Caserta! We spent most of the day unpacking and such but the senior couple (the Bryans) did take us to lunch so I've already had my pizza! Benissimo! We have a brand new apartment and brand new everything since we are the first sisters! Also helped teach our English course!
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With Trainer Sorella Hamilton
and Anziani at train station |
Friday: Lots of errand running again, running to and from the church, meeting the Anziani for supplies and so on!
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| First pictures of Caserta |
Saturday: walked to the outskirts of Caserta for about 2 hours till we decided we were lost. The senior couple came and got us and took us back to our apartment for lunch time. Sad waste of time, but we really need to find this referral! Later we went finding! We are trying to recruit more people for our English course on Tuesday and Thursday so that was fun. We also did casa a casa where we basically ring doorbells outside of apartment complexes. One time we did that and a man let us into the door except we didn't remember which apartment he was in... It's okay though because we found other people that want us to come back! We also got my first gelato on the mish during a break :)
Sunday: Church! We have an interesting set up here... There is a military base close by so the ward is like 1/3 English speakers so the entire meetings are translated! I was asked to bear testimony and it went well so happy bout that... Everyone is soooo excited to finally have sister missionaries in Caserta so I'm hoping that means that they'll give us lots of referrals! After church we had pranzo and then walked two hours to find a home of a referral but couldn't find it so we walked another two hours home. Biggest tender mercy was when we found the public drinking spigot thing! Very sad and very unsuccessful but we are feeling confident about finding all our less actives! Tomorrow we have a dinner appointment with a less active and her family so it'll be great!
Haha there are also cats all over :)
Love Sorella Nelson!!!
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