Gesù & Gelato: Lasagna Love

Ciao famiglia e amici!

This week was slightly unconventional....last monday we caught a train at 6:30am to go to Cagliari (cal-ya-ree) for zone conference!! We had zone conference on Tuesday.....

The Great Italy Rome Mission is now an online proselyting mission! What does that mean? Well, we are Facebook official! (Mom and dad, I guess it's time you join the bandwagon and create facebook accounts so you can keep up...) haha. We have had a lot of training on that and more to come, so we haven't started using it a lot in our work yet! But I know that it will be an awesome tool to help us out. Here are few stats to help you make sense of things:

- Out of the 400+ mission worldwide, ours is one of 87 using online proselyting!

- In the month of June, 1/3 of the world's population (2 billion people) used Facebook

- There are roughly 27 million people in our mission boundaries + all the people from back home. We can reach all of them through Facebook!

Sardegna Zone

After zone conference I flew to Rome and took a train to Caserta! My birth city!! It was weird being back but so so amazing, it's hard to put into words. The best way I can explain it is like going home for less than 24 hours. Weird. I went to pick up my Permesso di Soggiorno so that I can legally live in Italy while I'm here doing missionary work! Unfortunately, it expires like November 12 so I will be doing the whole process over again. If you know, you know.

While in Caserta, I got to spend the day with the sisters currently serving there! One was Sorella Lee, from my MTC group. I tried to meet up with friends that live there, but it was pretty last minute so not much worked out. We did get Napoli pizza, with Denis, one of my friends from the ward who now has his mission papers in!! I got to see the Williams (the senior couple serving on the American base) which was really great, too. We had a dinner appointment with one of the sorelle investigators who lives on the American base!! A nice american meal, barbecue and coleslaw :)

With Denis who will soon be serving a mission

In Caserta with Sorella Lee

Sorella Demann stayed in Cagliari the whole time:/ We got back to Sassari at around 6 pm on Thursday! Quite the week for sure! On the train ride home we met a couple guys that spoke english really really well, one of which lives in Sassari. They were really nice and fun to talk to so we are hoping they will come to english group!

And speaking of english group.......At the end of every class, we close with a spiritual thought and a prayer. Thursday for the spiritual thought we decided to bear testimony of the Book of Mormon and its importance in our lives, the happiness it brings to us. We told everyone there that they could also have this book and we would love to give them a copy! We got to gift NINE copies of the Book of Mormon that night. Definitely the biggest miracle we saw this week, I am so excited for english group tomorrow to follow up and talk with the people that (hopefully) read from it :)

We made our very own lasagna this week. It was delicious.

Quote of the week said by an Italian Anziano "you can always pray to know if colpa d'aria is true" 😂😂 said like a true Italian.

On Friday we decided to do some casa in casa near the church! There were 3 open buildings that we got to go in and knock all the doors. No one let us in their apartment, but we did have a few people tell us to come back! Whether or not they meant that is another thing.....but what they don't know is that we actually will come back hehehe :) Lots of seed planting going on here in Sassari it is so much fun, especially with the perfect weather we have been having lately!

On Saturday we walked 9 miles. We walk at least 40 miles a week.

We had a lesson with Gift on Saturday!! She is our age and the absolute cutest African. She lives in a camp, and she doesn't have either of her parents or really any family for that matter. It is very sad but we are trying our best to help her and teach her! Teaching someone that doesn't know how to read and has never been to school is definitely challenging. For our lesson we cut out pictures of people or things that have to do with the Restoration and reviewed them like a million times. By the end, Gift was killing it. She is so smart and it is amazing to see how happy the gospel makes her :)

As we were walking into centro last night, we heard drums... and Italian "festa". But it was a parade celebrating one of the Catholic saints apparently! It was really cool to watch and just be a part of the Italian culture for a few minutes :)

Italy or Hogwarts?

Last night we were taking pictures of a really cute street we were walking down, when a group of little kids ran up to us asking why we were taking pictures of the street! Hahahah we tried to explain to them that it's a cute street and that streets aren't like this in america! They were mind blown. Sorella Demann and I had so much fun talking with these cute kids, they were partially mesmerized because we were American hahaha. We are so excited to hopefully see them again on that street or possibly in english group.

Today's pday featured a super en gamba ward member taking us to Castelsardo. Bellissima!!

During my studies this week, I came across a talk from last general conference that I really loved called "Stand Up Inside and Be All In". Elder Sabin tells a story about some scouts he took on a campout. One of the scouts didn't sleep very well because he was cold, the fire went out, and he didn't want to use his sleeping bag because he didn't want to have to roll it back up. "he froze for hours because he was trying to save five minutes of work. We may think, 'How foolish! Who would ever do that?' Well, we do it all the time in much more dangerous ways. We are, in effect, refusing to unroll our spiritual sleeping bags when we don’t take the time to sincerely pray, study, and earnestly live the gospel each day; not only will the fire go out, but we will be unprotected and grow spiritually cold." I love this analogy that we can all apply to our lives! This week, let's unroll our spiritual sleeping bags and just do the simple things like praying and studying our scriptures. I know these things will bring us warmth and blessings.

Can't wait for general conference this week! I am hoping that the missionaries in our branch will get to watch in English, but I probably shouldn't get my hopes up. I am so excited though! Italian or English, the Spirit speaks to us in the same way. The gospel is universal and it's amazing! I am so thankful, so blessed to be one of the Lord's servants called to share His gospel with the people of Sassari. They are such a strength and light to me. I love all of you and hope to hear from you soon! Have a great week :) More pictures below.

Sorella Carley Neuberger
Le Sorelle Missionarie
Corso Giovanni Pascoli 25
Sassari, SS 07100
Italia