Elder Peter Goode: Week 60

Hey mom, how are you doing?

My first full week here was great!

To get to Ladispoli, I took the train! The one that takes 13 hours! I took it alone with a sorella from Palermo all the way to Rome. It was super awkward being alone with another missionary, especially a sister missionary. I had to lift her bags for her and they were super heavy! Those sisters put sooo much stuff in their bags that it almost broke my back! My bags were fine because I

threw out some stuff! My 20th birthday was good we had a service project and dinner for and with the stake president! He is really cool! He's the one that only speaks English to his kids and his wife only speaks Italian to them. He is also in charge of all the translating from English into Italian for the church!

It is supposed to rain this week and it has been so cold in the morning! Makes it a bit hard to do morning exercises outside so we play ping pong in the church! It's crazy to think I only have 9 months left! I have so much to learn and to change before I come home! I love working with our president and with the spirit to just figure out how I can truly become the person I need to become. It has been life changing being in the service of others and forgetting

myself! Yesterday, we played basketball in our suits with these kids and invited like everyone we saw to play; then when the game got bigger we left them all to have a good time on their own. It was more fun just having the parents watching us invite their kids to play basketball then going and talking to the parents as their kids were now playing in this game we organized!.. Well the cake you sent wasn't quite that good, we used corn oil instead of vegetable oil and it made the chocolate chips taste nasty, hahaha! Still gotta work on my cooking skills! I haven't seen the temple yet, but I heard that it will be another 3 years before it might be done, hahaha! Also there is this beach nearby that kids surf at and I want to go super bad just to watch!

This week we have a ton of lessons planned! We are also planning to have a baptism on November 7th, if all goes well! The bishop invited us to come to the ward council which should be really great! I'm still a district leader over Ladispoli and another city with 4 missionaries called Ostia.

Well anyway have a great week!

Love Anziano Goode!