Alright. This week's letter is gonna be powerful quick because once again we don't get much time to email. This week we are going to go hiking and take some pictures because it is Zito's last P-day in Sciacca.
So this week we went up into the mountains for a quick
trip to see if we could find any of Zito’s relatives. His mother’s father is
from this town called Chiusa Sclafani out in the middle of who knows
where. We found one guy who may or may not have been Zito’s relative? The
mountain towns near Sciacca are super pretty and they all smell like a campfire
because they use wood stoves and all the houses are made from stones. It’s
pretty neat. This town felt like 1000 people at max lived there. I am pretty
sure I was the first American to ever set foot in that city and definitely the
first missionaries to ever go there.
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| This week we went to this town about 30 minutes from Sciacca looking for Zito's relatives (his 2nd cousins and what not). We could not find them sadly. We found one man that did know Zito's mom though! |
This week we had to do exchanges in the Palermo City of
Bagheria. It was nice and a good San Valentino.
This week we had Marianna come to church to see Zito give
his goodbye testimony. I could write a book about Marianna but for now I will
just say that we were very very happy she came to church. After Zito gave his
testimony the whole branch was very very sad to see him go. He really has done
a lot for the branch. He also left some pretty big shoes to fill.
Oh! Transfers. A missionary named Anziano Brown is coming
to Sciacca. I don’t know why Mission President is sticking the two biggest
goofballs in the mission together in Sciacca of all places but we will see how
it goes. But seriously... Anyhoos. Anziano Brown served in Agrigento about 3
months ago so he knows a few of the people in Sciacca. We are expecting some
big things this transfer!
Zito is leaving to Taranto (he is Zonelord again for the
6th transfer in a row) and also, my father in the mission, Anziano Stewart, is
leaving the Island! Which makes me the oldest consecutive missionary on the
Island of Sicily. People joke around that I don’t speak Italian only Siciliano.
There may be truth to that.
Carnival is in two weeks. It is literally just a week
worth of everybody partying in the streets all day and all night. Not quite
sure what we are going to do that week. It seriously is HUGE! That is all
anybody has talked about for the past 2 months.
Well gotta go!
Also! Manda’s call is pretty crazy!!!
