butter slushies and rotten sausage😋

 This week was a victory lap. My comp is going home so we went by some members homes to say bye. We got fed a bunch so that was cool. I typically am not a big eater so I'm pretty sure the members think I hate their cooking. Any tips on how to eat more would be appreciated

We are teaching Fabrizio who is a farmer. He recently bought a plot of land and had us over for the most ghetto barbecue ever. We all ended up dropping some of the meat in the dirt and still eating it. I wanted to throw up after and idk if it was the undercooked meat or dirt but either way we had a good time!

As a missionary, I've dabbled in shenanigans. Not too much that I make enemies but one day i was making brownies (members request) and the recipe started with some butter and way to much sugar so I followed the instructions and it looked kind of like a yellow slushy😈 I told the zone leader to come try this lemonade slushy that I just produced and he willingly took a spoonful and tried it. He spit it up as soon as he put it in his mouth. I thought it was funny but now there is contention

Weekly Italian: contese means contention

Buona serata,

Anziano Lewis

 For the Last Time, I'm NOT married! 

I come to you once again with absolutely no time to write an email. The best i can do is some random pics and a few funny stories so I hope that will seduce... suffice (jk I love you jsteves)

Some lady in our English course thought I was married because I wear a ctr ring on my left index finger so I tried to explain that I don't have a wife and it's the ONLY finger it fits on YET she refused to accept my answer. I still don't know if I'm the dumb one or she is

I bought this sick recorder at a music store for 7 euro and I'm trying to learn "if you could hie to kolob" and the titanic song. Pray for me... I'm musically handicapped

We had a fun devotional this week about balanced faith and I really liked it. It's one aspect to focus on the validity of the doctrine (the mind) but it's so crucial to have our own spiritual experiences with Heavenly Father (the heart). Without one, the two fail together so keep the doctrine in mind and the feelings in your heart balanced and in check

Weekly Italian: "folgorazione della mente" means brainstorm 

 My Life Explained by Pics

 I don't have much time to write a fancy email so some pics will have to do for now. I'll try to explain some of the ones with a fun story🥰 (probably out of order)

I was imitating prez after interviews and then he caight me. He thought it funny so we took a pic

Found my good friend Bailey in Rome... what a coincidence

This is an ad I made for the Facebook page (do you want to talk directly to God?)

The BYU orchestra performed for some pretty important people in the Rome area and since my companion and I set up chairs... we got to stay🤠

I'm about to hit 8 months (6 transfers) in da miss!

 1703 Push ups later~

Welcome back to another week of grinding my butt off and feeling like I haven't done anything. Let's get into it!🤠

We got to play soccer as a zone and I'd just like to say I let in 0 goals on about 10 shots as goalie... and then scored a goal😈 it was a lot of fun because later that day, I got to see my brother and sister at the temple

I think my Italian is getting better haha I went on an exchange and I did a lot of the talking with street contacting... at least when I could understand. We had a few people say *yell* things I couldn't quite comprehend so I just said okay and walked away

Progress with Fabio goes forward! We agreed to do a fast with him, us and Andrea (member friend). We are fasting from sugar since we don't drink coffee and neither doesn't Andrea but Andrea wanted to challenge himself and stop talking to girls for a week... 

My comp and I are doing a fun challenge: 10,000 push-ups between the two of us before he goes home and we are already behind... please pray for my comp to his dang push ups

Just about 20 minutes ago we had a fun member meal/lesson and he taught us how to make gnocchi😳 I feel like Thanos when he's putting the stones in his hand haha first is the Italian language and now the cooking... I'm not sure what the other 3 are hmmm

Italian for the week: sono eccitato means I'm excited🤭

Stay cool,

Anziano Lewis