Rome Time
Piazza del Popolo
Vatican
Vatican
Trevi Fountain
Coliseum
Coliseum
Coliseum
Spanish Steps
Spanish Steps
Gelato!
Trevi Fountain
Trevi Fountain
4.28.14
So, as
you can probably tell from the pictures last pday rocked. We went to Rome and
met up with the Anziani from Ostia which are Anziano Baggaley and Anziano Zemp.
Zemp and Gemmell were companions in Bitonto and Baggaley and I were really
close last summer in Brindisi/Lecce. It was so fun being in Rome all day with
them. I also get to see Anziano Pizza and McCllelan every Tuesday at District
Meeting. We drive to Terni to have DDM in their chapel every week and it is a
lot of fun. It is so good to meet up with missionaries I have served with in
the past. They are seriously like brothers to me.
Unfortuately, most of the people we have been seeing were busy
this week, but it still ended up being really fun and productive. On
Thursday night we had a party for English Course in the Hotel. The Sisters
made banana bread and all of the Italians wanted the recipe. It was really
good. I totally forgot how much I loved banana bread. Anyways, the English
Course at the church is the Sisters course, but we always go to do lessons/they
need a ride home after because the buses dont run that late. Anyways, we went to
their party and became good friends with some of the guys from the corso and I
think we are going to get a pizza with them and do a lesson at the end of this
week, so we are looking forward to that. After corso, we tried to go find a
contact that the sisters have at eurohotel which was right across the street.
We took the wrong exit on the roundabout and got an a freeway towards Napoli
that had no exit for 30 minutes. We ended up paying 6 euro in tolls and took us
forever to get back. We will use the nav for everything from now on.
Friday night we got to go visit the De Nunzio family from a
ward. They are so cool and live in a village on the top of a mountain that is
sweet. They had some friends visiting from the North who are investigating the
church, and we were able to leave a message on the Restoration. It went super
well, and we are headed back over there on Thursday night. Fratello
De Nunzio is from Tropany (in Siciliy) and he wants to make us arinchini
(probably the most famous Sicilian food). It is a holiday here in Italy May
1st, so we will go there for dinner and a lesson with their friends who will
still be in town. Should be fun.
Saturday morning we went to Rome so I could get certified
to drive the car. In New Zealand they drive on the left, so Anziano Gemmell and
I felt more safe about me driving the car, haha. We met President Waddoups at
about 11. I thought it was going to be a 5 minute stroll around the block.
Instead we drove around Rome for a solid hour, and he took us to the temple as
well. It made me so happy to see the temple. It looks really good, and I think
it will be done before I finish!
On Saturday night we met with a man named Hector who the
Sisters found a couple weeks ago. He was so nice to us, and he was really
humble. He and his wife are from Albania, and they moved here and have 2 kids.
We had a great Plan of Salvation lesson, and he really wants to come to church
next week. Hopefully there is more to report on that next week.
Anziano Gemmell and I both started to get a little fatigued from
journal writing this week. I have missed 2 or 3 days my whole mission of
writing. Nontheless, at times when it is 10 oclock there is no desire
to put any thought into writing. This week we came up with a game to make
journal writing very amusing. We started writing in our journals using Book of
Mormon language. Now it is the funnest part of the day. I will quote a few
entries from my journal this week:
And it came to pass that Pres said, what doest thou desire to
see? And we said, the house of the Lord. And thus we began to ascend to the
mountain of the Lord. As we thus arrived, we stopped our journey for the space
of 10 minutes for a picture. While I labored to release the parking break, Pres
said unto me, art thou a wimp? And it came to pass that Gemmell began to mock
me as well. Nevertheless, I heeded them not.
The day was far spent, and we decided to stop to talk to 8 ragazzi
in the piazza. A girl from the land of Napoli reached to hug me. I said, reach
thou not youngblood. I am not yet released from my calling.
And it came to pass that as we began to journey towards
EuroHotel, we did err. Or in other words, Anziano Gemmell did err insomuch that
he put the navigation away. And it came to pass that we lost our journey
towards the land of Napoli for 30 minutes and were taxed with 6 onti (which
were equivalent to 6 euro, or in other words 2 nopton pizzas). And we humbled
ourselves by grabbing the navigation we recommenced our journey towards
EuroHotel.
And while we were thus laboring with all our might, we began to
obtain buckets.
This is abnoxious. I know. However, we are having a lot of fun
as you can tell. Hope everyone was a great week as well.
Anziano Smith
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