Hello from Caserta! Well my last week at Rome was really good. I am going to miss anziano herrick and the assistants and anziano deruvo who was anziano steiners companian slash the new assistant. But i love Casserta and my companian is awesome. Very smart educational and with the language and obedient and i dont think we will have any problems. I am very thankful because it is just the two of us in the apartment. He reminds me of my cousin Ben and Napolean Dynamite. He is great. Anziano Patrick is his name and he is from Florida. So my second night here i woke up at 12. i thought i heard bombs going off. I was very worried. It sounded very close to our house. I thought maybe already the mofia was after me. I woke my companian to ask him if the bombs close to our house was a normal thing. He explained to me that it was just fireworks. Italians always put off lots of fireworks for holidays of the saints and the next day was a day for one of the saints of this town. Ha so that was funny. So this town is pretty small but we do work in alot of the cities nearby also. And we ride bikes everywhere. No more bus. Last saturday i am almost positive i was on a bike for 4 hours. We went to a small city about 40 minutes away. It was really cool because the people in that city seemed very open that day. We knocked this door and this really cool kid of 22 years let us in and we taught him the restoration. We also talked with this investigator who is so ready for the gospel she just needs to realize and commit herself. The ward here is 70 percent american and 30 percent italian more or less. It is really interesting hearing talks in english again. The branch president is american and his counselors are one italian and one american. It is because there is an american base close to Caserta. We also have an investigator named Claudio who has a baptism date. He really loves america but also is a very good man. We are just trying to help him read the scriptures on his own. We also have a ward missionary leader named rudolpho Donodeo who just returned from Dallas Texas Mission. He knows Ben but not supper well. You should ask ben what he thinks of him. He is very on the ball and he is really picking up the missionary program here. It is a very good time to be here in caserta. I am very excited. It is very different being here but i am learning different things. Our finding work is just stopping and talking to people on the street. Its really fun. Well sorry if i just bored you all but i dont know a whole lot of specific information yet. But i am very excited to be here. Oh yes i will have the opportunity to translate often which will help my language. I translated on sunday in primary for a little italian girl who is 8. probably one of the funnest things i have done on my missions. This week i have really started realizing the importance of continuous prayer in our lives. Preach my Gospel has so many promises about prayer. If you get the opportunity read chapter 3 commandments(chapter 4) prayer. Like 4th paragraph i think but so many amazing blessings. Prayer is truly helping me become who i want to become. Ok well i have nothing else to say this week. I love you all and have a wonderful week.
> Anziano Hale
