Now for the shout out to everyone who’s sent me stuff. Well I got a bunch of postcards from Hawaii and I loved them all =) Man it looks so beautiful over there. Other than that I get the occasional letters from I think everyone. Your letters are getting here so don’t worry =) and they are much appreciated. I love nothing more than to hear from you, well other than preaching the gospel of course. No packages other than the 2 I got about a month ago and I got another this week from Dani which was awesome but that’s about it. I save some of the little pictures and letters my cousins write me. Matthew wrote me the best letter ever a couple weeks ago. Simple but touching =) made me shed a tear almost. And on the cover of my binder I have a picture that Aunt April sent me back in the MTC of Nora, Ricky and Brandon and at the top it says WE LOVE YOU KYLE!! Oh man I miss all those little guys. They are all getting so big too!!
Now for the Q & A's. You bought a new car!?!?! A lame sauce old school Honda too?? What you guys need is an old Fiat Panda. Now those are where it’s at. They are everywhere here. And all the little cousins starting soccer haha that’s awesome. Soccer season just started here and we live right next to the stadium. Game nights= craziness. But looks like I’m gonna be a diehard Catania fan now till the day I die. They are quite awesome. Mission President approves one game your whole mission and for sure I’m going to a Catania one when it’s not on a Sunday. FORZA CATANIA!!
Last Monday I told you was a crazy cleaning day, so yes mom, our house is fairly clean. We don’t eat at member’s homes a lot; we actually try to avoid it because it’s not a very fun experience in all honesty. It’s not the members or the food. The food is wonderful and the members are fantastic. The problem is the culture of Sicilia. There is this concept of over-hospitality when you have guests. To be honest they feed you till you’re literally about to explode, and then they feed you more. You walk out of dinner appointments praying that god will strengthen your stomach so it doesn’t burst or anything. It’s, in all truthfulness, torture. And if you don’t eat they get very offended and will be very mean to you. YOU MUST EAT EVERYTHING THEY COOK FOR YOU!! And they almost kill you. So yes. This is why we eat at members homes as little as we can =) haha unless it’s the American members on the base of course. I can never turn down enchiladas or hamburgers and hotdogs. No crazy recipes for you yet but when I get home I will make you all suffer through a Sicilian meal so you can... understand where I’m coming from =) Now for dads questions: P-days start at 10am and go till 6pm and once a transfer (6 week period) we get a super P-day where we can spend all day doing something. We usually save those for a long trip to parts of Sicilia. We just have a washer; driers don’t exist here so we hang our cloths out the window to dry. We got our new washer this Monday. They guys said they would be at our house at ten and didn’t show up till 1:30. They also told us that they would install the washer for us and take the old one away at the store which was a total lie. They dropped the new one off and just took off telling us we had to figure it all out and also what to do with the old one. So Monday was spent installing the new washer haha. Also something cool, I spent Monday on a split with a......... GREENIE!!.... I was so scared. My companion and the other ZL went to another city and left me with Anz. Davis who is 2 weeks out of the MTC. I did things I thought were impossible. Talked to people and then, understood them. Something I really haven't tried yet being only in my third transfer. IT’S SO TRUE!! I can never tell myself I’ll never learn this language because well it does just kinda come. IT’S AWESOME!!! HOORAHHH FOR THE GIFT OF TONGUES!! IT WORKS!! Also yesterday was our zone conference. Not as crazy as the last one but crazy none the less. But I always love hearing from President Kelly! He is a great guy and I’m so happy to be serving with him. As for the question of where I shop. There is a HUGE market here and also tons of fruit vendors and stands that sell whatever everywhere. There are also supermarkets though. We shop at both. Usually we get fruits veggies and bread from paneficios and stands while everything else comes from the supermarkets. There’s a couple Lidal, Auchan, and Despar. All are giant European chains.
Con amore
Anziano Hill
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