Transfer to Sciacca

Dear friends and family,

Crazy week this week. We had a lot to do and a lot of stuff got done

so I'll try and hit the basics with you all.

Monday we took a nice trip with the swag family, Costantinos, up to Sila

again. Sila is this big mountain range and it's a national park in

Calabria and it's dope. I'd recommend going to visit it if you get the

chance. We got some good food and homemade sandwiches and stuff. It

was a good time. We also went to this festival called "la madonna di

porta" which means "the door of Mary”, well it kinda means that.

Anyways, when you walk through the door of this church during the

festival your sins are forgiven. I walked through it like 4 times just

to be sure.

Tuesday we went with Natalia and Valerio who are another swag couple

and they took us to go see this city called "Pizzo".  I've already

seen the city but last time we just drove through. This time we

stopped in and looked around and ate the famous "Tartufo di Pizzo"

which is the ball of ice cream with a cream in the middle. Idk but

it's so freaking good. I'd also recommend eating that if you ever have

the chance. Then we ate lunch at their house and it was good :) After

that we had English course and I had to say goodbye to everyone and

they took us out to go get pizza after course so it was a good time. I

definitely miss those guys tho.

On my last day in Catanzaro (Wednesday) I had to pack.... Cuz I hadn't

packed yet and I have a lot of crap. It's cool getting transferred but

I hate packing cuz I have a lot of stuff and I don't really realize

how much stuff I have until I pack so it's lame. Then the next day I

had to say goodbye to my good friend Anziano Brandon Eldridge. We had

a good time together in Catanzaro and he is definitely one of my good

friends so that was kinda sad.

Now I'm in Sciacca. It's a pretty cool city. It's on the south-western

edge of Sicily. It's on the beach so seafood here is a big thing. Also

they sell a lot of different ceramics and what not so I'll probably

buy some of those and send them home. It's a beautiful city though

with a very old history and tourists are already showing up so it will

be full of them this summer. The church is small here in Sciacca like

it is in Catanzaro but it should be fun all the same. My companion is

tall and tan and from Utah. He is a cool guy though and we should get

along great. So yeah, I'm doing great. I kinda feel like I left home again

 after leaving Catanzaro but I'm excited for the future here in my new city.

Anyways love you all and hope that you have a great week

Anziano Yskes

My New City, Sciacca, is Beautiful

We Have a Good View From our House

Pizzo

Sila

That's a Church in Sciacca

Idk