Happy New Year!!!!

So, the beginning of this week was pretty lame to be totally honest.

Basically we just put up over 100 English course posters throughout

the whole city. (We teach a free English course to people.) So, yeah,

anyways we are just going to skip ahead to New Year's

So, midnight on New Years I thought there was a war outside. When

midnight hit I woke up and literally bombs were blowing up outside our

house. Honestly, it was cool but I was too tired to give a crap so I

just went back to sleep.

So, New Year's Day comes around and we were supposed to clean our house

and we were doing it but then a member called us and said we were

coming over for lunch. We had a very very nice meal and played a solid

game of Monopoly. I didn't win but it's true my Monopoly skills

aren't that good. Anyways, we had a good time there. I realized that

I'm getting kinda chunky from all the food I eat so if anyone has some

quick "in-home" workouts I could do they would be appreciated. But I

gotta get the desire to work out in the morning. We’ll get there

though.

Also New Year's Day our mission president called us up and said he was

flying down tomorrow to Catanzaro to come see us and then said he

wanted to meet with our landlord. I was like "uhhhhhh..,. Ok" So

Saturday morning Prez and his wife come down and met us and our

landlord (Danilo.) He is a really cool guy and has a lot of interest

in the church. Basically President said that he needs to get on this

church game right now and start helping the missionaries and Danilo

was like "swag" (he didn't actually say swag cuz I'm translating) but

it was dope. Prez then said he would come down for Danilo’s baptism and

I'm like "bro that's commitment." So it was cool. Then Prez took

us out to buy pizza and gelato. I like when people buy me food.

So Sunday comes around and we had a lot of people in church because

President was there. It was nice. Also, we went to our branch

President’s (local church leader) house. We had a nice pranzo and then

played some games after. Let's just say that I've never laughed so

hard in my life. I loved it.

Anyways, spiritually this week I've been thinking about New Years and

what it means and I thought about the story of Lot’s wife. Basically

Lot and his family are told by God to get out of Sodom and Gomorrah

(spelling?) and the only thing he said was "don't look back" and while

they were leaving Lot’a wife decides to look back and she becomes a

pillar of salt. Why? She looked back longing to be in the city she was

leaving, longing to live in the past. She probably never even thought

that her future could be better than her past. So with this new year

starting I invite you all to do the same. Live your life looking

forward. Don't live in the past because tomorrow is the beginning of

the rest if your life.

Anziano Yskes

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Italian Monopoly

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