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Ciao tutti!! It's been another amazing week here in Bologna! I still can't get over that I live here in this city! Bologna is home to the oldest university in the world (or so the Italians tell me), the Universita di Bologna!! And we literally have 3 Zaras!!! One is just for girls; they don't even let boys in hahaha it's amazing. And 2 H&Ms, Bata, 2 big Kikos, which is Italian makeup.... I'm loving it!!! And right now is saldi, which is the big Italian sales that last for a whole month, so we've just been shopping every week for p-day. It's been so great and so terrible at the same time.

Hahahaha one of the funny things that happened this week was we were on our way to go FHE that we have every Friday at Friday's house, an African family in our ward. And they are neighbors to our investigators, so they are always there too. And we were on the bus, and there were 3 ragazzacci on the bus standing by us (ragazzacci means like bad boys kinda....but like less lame) and they were with this littler kid who looked like 14 years old. And they were vaping and just filling the bus with smoke. And they get off the bus, and as the little fat kid walks past me he goes, "Hai degli belli occhi" and then runs off the bus. So that means "You have some beautiful eyes." for all of you that don't speak Italian. Sorella Mitchell and I just looked at each other and started dying hahahaha it was the most random thing and the whole situation was just very funny.

Then at Friday's house, I had to chomp banku again. But this time I was very fast at swallowing it, and they didn't even make fun of me! And we played this African card game called Whot, and they were super worried about if we would understand the game, being foreigners and all. But then I beat all the Africans every time we played, so they were all just going nuts hahaha. I don't know if any of you have been in a room with 8 Africans and 4 missionaries, but it was so loud and after that night of banku and cards I was lovingly accepted into the African community. Needless to say, I was very pleased.

Other things we did this week was play calcio (soccer) with some of the wardies and our potentials. It was fun, but freezing! And we taught one of our new investigators, Giuseppe, the first lesson yesterday during scambio with Sorella Blandford, which was good. He is the husband of a less active member, and he has taken the lessons before many years ago. But we are gonna start over with him and see where it goes! We also got another new investigator yesterday from Nigeria named Vivian. It is very difficult to teach her because she lives far away (technically in another missionaries' zone but we are working on figuring it all out), so we can only teach her on facebook. But she's funny! We're not sure if she's as interested in the church as having "American friends," so we will see. 

Life is good and living here in Italy is amazing! I am so grateful to be a missionary and to know some amazing people and have these amazing experiences. There is so much joy that comes from sharing this Gospel, and also getting to know people and their stories. I love you all and wish you well! Vi voglio un sacco di bene! Ciao!
2 Nefi 29:7

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