venire a Cristo: Visited an American Naval Base in Naples

Tuesday. Nothing super special happened today. We had district meeting
in the morning and I led it like usual. We talked about "no fear"
kinda based it on what President talked about last week at zone
conference. I thought it went really good. I love having gospel
library because it opens you up to so much more stuff to use for this
kinda stuff and it just makes it so much better. Anyways, later in the
day we had a lesson with a less active. He is American so we teach him
Italian but we had like a break though lesson at the end and he really
opened up to us. It took a while to get there but I'm really excited
for his potential.

Wednesday. This morning started off early, we went down to the train
station and hopped on a train and went op down to NAPOLI! Let's go. My
companion, Anziano Just, has to go get his permission of stay down
there so I got to go with him. The cool part is, is that we took one
of the fast trains. It goes 300km/h I don't know what that is in mph
but it's fast. Real fast. We got to Napoli in an hour and 10 min. The
distance is a little bit less than Zealand to Ann Arbor. So. Fast. So
we got to Napoli, met up with the missionaries and then me and Just
went to the American Navy Base. He was in the Navy so he got us on. We
went there because the store there sells American stuff. $200 and we had a
lot of treats. It was nice. But very heavy. That was our night.

Thursday. So we are still In Napoli. The appointment to get my
companions permission of stay is at 3 so we went out. He showed me the
city because he was in Napoli for 4 and a half months so we walked
around. Talked to people. Saw a castle. It was nice. Then we got his
permission of stay. Thankfully. Followed by pizza. Napoli pizza is the
best. It is where pizza was invented sooooo they do it real nice.
Literally heavenly. So perfect. After that mouthwatering delight we
had an activity at church and everyone was confused to see us but it
was fine.

Friday. So we got back from Napoli Friday morning. When we got home we
made tacos with all the stuff we bought at the base and man they were
good. We also did an exchange with the AP's (two Anziano assigned to
be assistants to the Mission President) and it went good. We had
English course Friday night and a miracle happened because 2 of our new
students are representatives of the Red Cross. At English course we
were talking about good health this week and they heard that we have
this "how to quit smoking" program so they want to look at it and have
us present it to the Red Cross as a service to help people quit
smoking. Huge opportunity to teach a lot of people so we are really
excited.

Saturday. The scambio (Italiian for splits with the APs) continues. So we
went to go see Abraham again. We had his baptism interview and he
passed so we are planning to have his baptism this upcoming week.
The 19th. Hopefully everything goes good. After the scambio we made
brownies and took them to a couple members because we feel like the
members don't know us that well so we have to change that and everyone
here in Italy like seriously loves brownies!! So it was fun.

Sunday. Abraham came to church again today. I translated all 3 hours
again. Gave me a headache. After we went to go see some members and I
ate a lotta food there ha-ha. She was happy that she finally had Elders
that ate food. I like that. Also it rained. It's starting to rain
again. Idk how I feel about that. But it was a good week!!

Anziano Yskes

Fast Train to Naples