LA VITA IN ITALIA

This week has been kind of weird, getting into the grove of missionary work. It's been a long hot week! Como is absolutely gorgeous and the gelato is fantastic! 

LA VITA IN ITALIA

It is super duper hot here and it's only going to get hotter so that is fun! But I like the heat better than the cold! On Friday, we made lasagna. And here, it's not just an easy meal that you make like in an hour. You have to make a ragù which takes like  four and half hours to make, and you have to stir it every 15 minutes. But it's really cheap to buy all the ingredients, and it makes two pans so we will be eating lasagna everyday for like the next two weeks hahaha. I for some reason have become weirdly obsessed with cereal, it is literally all that I wanna eat and I crave it 24/7 lol, before my mission I wasn't a big cereal person so idk what sort of person I am becoming. Also, I recently started grinding my teeth apparently, and I made one of my fillings of cavity come out! And I hate the dentist more than anything in the world so I hope that it's not worse in Italy than in America!!!!!!!!!! (Sorry mom it might be expensive:) )

CORSO DI INGLESE 

We teach an English class every Friday, and it's so fun! But we only have three people who come to it, so on Saturday night we went to Centro (which is basically downtown) and did finding. It was so scary for me to try and talk to people! I felt like a sales person and was so nervous Haha. By the end I was able to stick my hand out and hand people the flyers and say free English class but in Italian hahaha. So I definitely need to work on that! I hope a few more people end up coming to class!

CHIESA

Sunday was my first Sunday in church! It was a little rough to understand everything that was going on, and everyone had separate conversations the whole time so you couldn't really hear the people who were bearing their testimony's hahaha. I bore my testimony and I don't think it was horrible Haha! I was soooooo nervous, but I did it! We went to a primary class and helped with the lesson and I was able to understand a few things since she was talking slow so the kids would listen Haha! We have a really awesome ward that is very well established! I'm excited to get to know everyone!

LEZIONE!!!!!!!!

We found a number of a lady in our area book, and we decided to call her! She said she would meet with us (hallelujah) and so we met her and taught her the restoration! I was able to say the first vision, and that's about it hahaha. I was nervous and kinda forgot every single word I know in Italian, and I wasn't able to say the simplest things ever haha! We asked if we could meet with her again, and then she told us that she is moving to the south of Italy in 2 days soooooo that was sad haha. But we've been meeting with members and have been doing finding so that we can stay busy! 

P DAYYYYY

Today for p day we went to Bellagio and it was so pretty!! Its just a little city and it's exactly what I pictured Italy to be like. It has tons of cobblestone sidewalks and cute little buildings! Seriously one of the prettiest places I've ever been. Fun fact Haha some of star wars was filmed in Bellagio! We met up with Elder Wright who left our mission not too long ago. He was visiting with his family and it was so much fun to hang out with their family! They were so sweet and bought us all gelato! I talked to his little sisters about the real world and it was fun to hang out with them Haha! I love Italy!!!

I invite you all to read the talk by Dieter F. Uchtdorf titled "Missionary Work: Sharing What is in Your Heart" from this last general conference and see what you can do better to share the gospel! This is something that I could have definitely worked on before my mission, and I wish I would've taken advantage of the knowledge I had, and shared it with others! Member missionaries are soooooo important! 

I love and miss you all! Thank you so much for all the prayers, emails, and support! 

Spero che avete una buona setimana!

Vi voglio bene 

Sorella Zesiger 

I have a giant sty on my eye!