Last Zone Conference with President Waddoups

It was another long week haha we had a lot of stuff to do but I look

back and I'm like dang.... It was a long week this week.

On Wednesday we were in Palermo because we had zone conference. It was

the last zone conference for our mission president. We get a new one

this next week which is cool but it's sad for President Waddoups to

go. The conference was really short and it was more like "Bye

President" conference haha it was good though. After conference I

bought a really cool cream colored felt blazer. It's my new favorite

thing.

There was a car show in Sciacca again. I don't have any pictures right

now but I'll send them out later because my comp has them on his

camera. Anyway, in a little city near Sciacca there was a race with

old Fiat 500's. For those who don't know it's like the classic old

small Italian car. But these ones were all supped-up and went real

fast. It was pretty cool. We couldn't go to see the race because it

was Sunday morning and we have to go to Church Sunday morning

soooo we weren't able to go.

Today for PDAY we went to Palermo for some good ole zone soccer. My

team killed it. I scored a goal. It was a good day to say the least.

Afterwards I ate some classic Sicilian food. #arancine and

#cassatasiciliana. It's good stuff. If you have time and don't know

what I'm talking about, look it up.

Also, for those who don't know, Italy won their first two games in the

UEFA Euro Cup. The first against Belgium 2-0 and the second against

Sweden 1-0. Italians love soccer. (Obviously) So for the Belgium game

we got a table outside a pizzeria and watched the game on a projector.

It was a very Italian thing to do and it was so much fun!

Anyway, it was a good week. I'm having fun. Losing weight because we

walk so much. That's a good thing tho. Love you all. Have a good week!

Ciao ciao

Anziano Yskes

Sciacca

Car Show in Sciacca

A Visit to Caltabellotta

Heeelloooooo,

Let's see.... Uhhhh nothing super crazy happened this week, I guess. I

mean we got to take a trip up to this city called Caltanissetta. It's

basically in the center of Sicily. I had the splendid opportunity to

do a baptismal interview for the missionaries there. It was cool.

Everything for the interview went well and we even got to play a nice

game of monopoly with the other missionaries. I lost but anyways, I like

going to visit other missionaries cuz it can get a lil lonely some

times when it's just you and your comp by yourselves for a week. So it

was a nice "break"

Also we figured out this week that typical "sciaccitana" pizza is

basically a pizza without cheese and then add onions and anchovies.

Imma just say that even in Italy anchovies aren't very good. With that

said, it wasn't the worst pizza I've ever eaten but I wouldn't

recommend it to a friend either. Unless they were a fan of anchovies

them go for it haha.

This week for PDAY we went to this city in the mountains called

"Caltabellotta", a really old city dating back to the first century BC.

So it's old. Filled with small streets and lots of steep hills. It was

a good visit though and reminded me how lucky I am to be here in Italy

haha.

Our mission president told us not to tell him that it's hot in Sicily.

So Imma tell you guys. It's hot here. Not like super crazy hot but

it's hot and 99% humid. Perks of living on the ocean haha. Everyone is

like going to the beach and we are just walking around sweating like

dogs haha. On the bright side our apartment has an A/C unit so that

keeps our bedroom cold. Other than that we just have a few fans. It's

good though, the house stays pretty cool.

In other news everyone here seems to want to ask us our opinions about

the presidential campaign in America. A lotta people here don't like

Trump in case you are wondering. I tell them up to this point I don't

have an opinion cuz I live in Italy and I'm not following the race

(the truth). They don't like that answer. But moral of the story, I

think more people outside of America are following the race than

Americans. Idk why but people love American politics.

Anyways I’m doing good here in Sciacca. I am living the dream and loving

every day of it. Hope you guys all have a good week. Stay safe. Don't

do drugs. All that good stuff.

Anziano Yskes

Caltabellotta

Un uccellino che non mi vuole bene

Hey fam,

So idk how the title of this email will translate on google but if ya

get what I'm saying it kinda describes this week ha-ha. But I'm going

to describe kinda how this week went with an experience that I had

Saturday night. So after a night of talking to people about how we

teach English and what not, we had decided to start walking and then I

felt something hit me in the head. I didn't think much of it because

we were walking under trees so I figured it was a lil fruit or

something. But then my companion started laughing and I soon realized

that it wasn't fruit. A bird had pooped on my head.

I'd say it was a long week but even when I say that time goes by so

fast here that it doesn't even really matter ha-ha. Even though this

week didn't go how we thought, nor how we wanted, there were still

some cool things that happened. For example, we bought a charcoal

grill for the house for €10 ($11) and today we are going to be

grilling with it so that's neat. Then on Saturday (I think) there was

a random car show in Sciacca which was basically a bunch of Ferraris

and other old cars. Definitely can't complain about seeing that ha-ha.

Before we made it to where the car show was we saw this random Ferrari

pass us and I was like "THATS A FERRARI" and this Italian dude saw me

and was like "non si trova quella in America" which means "can't find

that in America." I laughed. He's kinda right.

So usually I don't talk about specifics in missionary work but I kinda

feel like I should share this experience we had Sunday. So a guy from

English Course invited us over for dinner. He wasn't really into

talking about religion but he likes us and Southern Italians are very

hospitable people and like feeding their friends food. So we went over

to his house and then after we ate he was like "so tell me about your

church" and I'm like "okay." Hahaha so we talked about the church,

gave him a Book of Mormon. And I liked his thought process because

it's similar to mine. He's like "I'll read it. What do I have to lose?

If it's true than I've found truth. If it's not true I've also found

truth because now I know it's not true." And I was like "swag" (these

aren't exact quotes) but in the end it's true. Everyone is so scared

to read the "Mormon Bible" but what do you have to lose? Nothing. You

will only gain knowledge. So yeah.

In the end it wasn't the greatest week in the world but it could

always be worse. This next week will hopefully be better. But I don't

wanna jinx anything so we will stop there. Anyways, love all of you

and hope you have a good week!

Anziano Yskes

Bird Poop :-((

Car Show