Dear Family and Friends,
Sorry it has taken me a while to write home. I don’t have as
much time here as I did in the MTC. Well, Napoli is awesome! No place in America really compares to
Napoli. On Monday we were in Possillip,
in this park. The park was the point that divided our area from the other
elder’s area. This park is the highest point and the very end of this mountain.
You can see everything from it. The park
is very beautiful but not well maintained, but then again Napoli isn’t for that
matter. I would love to take you to the park but it probably one of the most
dangerous places in Italy.
Well with the mafia, don’t worry about me. I’m fatter and bigger (muscle) than pretty
much every Italian here. I get told it
every day plus people here love us. We were walking along the highway on
Saturday and everyone was honking and waving at us. We met this guy who owns a
super nice restaurant who gave us free ice cream (the best ice cream I’ve ever
had. Sunkist which has real orange juice
and a pastry like a croissant with powder sugar on top and the middle had
frosting and a cherry. We got that for
free just because of what we are doing and for just being motivated/proactive
kids. We were walking on the sidewalk
and we ran into this guy who just wanted to shake our hands for dressing up,
looking nice, and not being like other Naptan kids. So people here love the
missionaries, especially older people.
So let me tell you more about the people. The people here are the nicest and most
friendly people for the most part. They are very creative when it comes to
saving themselves some work. They are
very lazy. Napoli doesn’t have any industry or service that brings money
here. I feel very bad for the kids
here. They have nothing to do but
school, friends, and bad things. Because of this they fall into drinking,
smoking, and immorality at the age of 12 starting. Its’ Interesting to see kids
here smoking that young. They have very
little to motivate them in life and its sad. Every girl here dresses immodestly. Distracting yes, but there isn’t anything we
can do about it really. Regardless the
people here are awesome.
Last Saturday we had a lunch appointment with some old guys
we met in Possilipo. They cooked rabbit
for us. I ate some of its insides. The rabbit was very good but the insides
weren’t as good. They are cooking fish for us, not this Saturday but next.
Whenever I’m about to eat something I am unsure about, I pray that I won’t gag
or throw up. It’s worked so far! I really want a pizza right now.
We have a lady that gives us referrals and we teach her
friends and such outside her food storage shop. So we teach her friends. One night we were walking through this park
and found two college kids which is rare. We’ve been talking to one of them in
half English and half Italiano. He said
he’d come to church if when he does he’ll technically be progressing.
On Tuesdays we teach an English class to anybody who wants
to learn. There is one guy there that we teach a gospel principle of the week.
Next time we will teach him to pray and give him something to read. If he does
the reading then he’ll be progressing along. We have some other contacts but
nothing serious so we end up walking around trying to find more people.
So the drivers here are interesting. Cops do not write tickets. No stop signs, few stop lights and cross
walks. So Italians may appear to be very crazy drivers. True. But they are some of the best. They
drive very aware. I could walk across a street blind-folded and I would be
fine.
So we headed to Pianura to teach. To get there we take the RG which is a bus.
We waited 30 minutes for the bus to come and found out they aren’t
running. So we headed to the Cumana
(train) and took that there. It was very
packed. Then we found out that because
the people of Pianura are sick of not having their trash emptied they spilled
several locations in the street. The bus
drivers didn’t want to drive through it so they just stopped driving. (He told us in the past that the 2 mafias are
at odds … one owns the garbage trucks and the other owns the garbage dump and
they aren’t cooperating with each other so no garbage is being removed.)
I hope everyone is doing well. I hope this letter gets to you soon. I don’t know how long it will take, but we
will experiments (it takes 6 days).
Love, Anziano Hosford
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