10 MONTHS flew by like....

Ciao tutti! So my second week in Lodi was awesome! I am really getting to love it here and getting adjusted to a new city has been pretty easy. It is still August, so there are not many people in church, all the people we are teaching basically are out of town, and there is practically no one outside but we are almost to September! Which is crazy because I hit my 10 month mission mark last week! Time really is flying by and every transfer just goes faster and faster.

This week we played 4 square for the youth activity and that was dope!!!! It took Sorella Button and I back to our MTC glory days haha. The youth in this ward are super cool. I also got to know more of the members this week at various appointments and at church, and I love them all! A little Brazilian girl got baptized in our ward, and she is so cute! Everything in the program was done in Portugese because they don't speak Italian, and it made me wanna learn it so bad!

We also got to meet with a guy named Johnson on Sunday. I found him doing finding my first day in Lodi. He was super cool and super interested in finding out the truth. But he lives in my old area! So we are gonna have to pass him off to the Anziani in Navigli. We also had a really awkward pass lesson with the Anziani this Saturday that was just cringeable and not at all well-planned. But that's our bad. But at least Danilo is still interested even if after the awkward lesson.

I love being a missionary! Time is going too fast! I love being able to devote all my time to the Lord and be bold with people. Because this really is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and I'm so grateful that I've done it! This week I want to challenge you all to give up one extra thing to the Lord this week. Just one thing. And I know that you will see the blessings from it. Vi voglio bene! 

Sorella Henderson