19th Weekly Email

 both of our flys... are down?

Thank you to all that wished me a happy birthday. Yall mean the world to be but I'm sorry I can't respond on messenger, I have to use email:(


We got locked out of church for a bit. We waited with a senior missionary couple and the husband was nice enough to tell Anziano Checketts that his zipper was down. Both of them talked about how kind it is to tell someone their fly is down. He turned to me and I swear the next few seconds were slow motion. I was internally screaming as I look down at my croch RIGHT AS the man goes "Anziano your zipper is down too🤨". My soul had left my body for a bit. I was so embarrassed. I can't even imagine what the old couple thought of us after that colorful interaction. "someone tell President what those elders do in their free time" or "those elders are freaks"-that couple (probably).


Il mio compleanno (my birfday) was this week and we celebrated the old fashioned Italian way. Just kidding but we did go out for pranzo (lunch) and got some nice pasta. I got some gabbaguol with capracola and it was soooo good😋 we got some Gelato for dinner so it was a good day I'd say!


I just want to say that I did not just get bad knees and blue eyes from my mama. I got her hair cutting skills! I had trimmed two Anzianos hair for zone conference and the next day I shaved my companions hair hahah it was so fun. I might go into it after the mission idk maybe why waste God given talent, right?


Today we got to do a bit of service for our branch president! We were putting a primer on the walls because he's renovating house. My roller paint brush started dripping and he looks at me from across the room and says "itz bleeding" in the funniest accent. Idk why I wanted to share but it certainly made me and my comp laugh😁


As for an update on my missionary work: it's going well! We have some progressing people and my Italian is coming slowly but surely. It's actually pretty frustrating because sometimes it feels like 1 step forward and 2 back but I trust in God's timing.


Pensiero spirituale:
I really like how we can take the times we are at our lowest and look to Christ and his gospel and feel like someone better. There is a song and one of the lines says:


"you took my broken melody, and now I hear a symphony" 


My challenge is to turn to Jesus Christ (even if we aren't struggling), putting our trust in him and see how much better our lives are. Through him, we can make this stinky world a symphony (starting with ourselves of course) 


Italian for the week: dubbio (doubt) 


Ci sentiamo presto, 
Anziano Lewis




1: cool pic (personal favorite) 
2: pre haircut (excited) 
3: post hair cut (confusion) 
4: birthday lunch
5: rainy day
6: cool little Italian road
7: trevi fountain 
8-9: nature. (Italy has mountains ig)