28/02/07

Hey everybody, Well I leave for Italy in like 4 days. Its crazy. My lastp-day last monday, tuesday etc. Its unbelievable but Im excited to gethit up some doors and here real Italian, and then be humbled by how lamemine is. So I guess Uncle Rick and Aunt Gail are all there to, I hopeyou all enjoy your time together. Des thanks for all the Dear elders. Wetaught our last lesson to volunteers monday. It went well, slowlyimproving and my Italian sounds better. Ill be released from Zone Leaderon Sunday, and the new ones will be called officially. The weather hasbeen weird here, one day it snows all day the next it melts. But 4 moredays and I wont see snow for 2 years. Im going to send a few pictures Iprinted off a few weeks ago home this week, just random ones, youllrecognize my comps, but the rest are just other elders who were going toItaly a few weeks ago. Not much has been going on this week, just beenreviewing everything and trying to go full days without speakingenglish. Ive noticed how bad my spelling in English has gotten since Istarted Italian, I make a lot more mistakes. My Italian spellling ishorrible because eveerything in Italian is how it sounds which is theopposite of english. But Italian makes a lot more sense instead ofconjugating sentences you conjugate one word which is the subject. Soyou ad and ending onto the end of a word. Like Voglio (Iwant) Vogli(youwant) Voglia(formal of you want) Vogliamo(we want) Vogliono(they want)etc. Im kind of glad were going soon though, because Im pretty sick ofthe food now. Im ready for some real food. Were slowing cleaning out ourroom from all the things you collect over 8 weeks. Well Ill give you myflight plans, we leave from here at 10am which means we leave MTC at6am. So I will call you all probably between 8&9 our timewhich is Iguess 11 your time. Then to NEW York which is only a hour stopover, orId called you all from there. Then from new york to Rome then Rome toCatania. We get there Tuesday morning at 924 am there time, so basically1 or 2 am Utah Time. 4isham your time I think. Noones said anythingabout me calling so Im assuming somebody will be there to say hi, but noworries if youre all at work or anything. I was going to call Germainbut I think it will be to early. Airport means we get MCDONALDS to whichwill be nice. And then we stay at the Mission Pres's house for a daywhile he interviews us, thenour comps pick us up wednesday which will bePday. So theres probably not going to be a good chance I will get toemail you all next week because I will probably be on a train all day.But I will try to get on a computer and get you my address at least.Anyways I only have 2 minutes, so I hope everything is good, Stay strongkeep the faith. Love Anz. Costa