La Vita Bella della Sorella: a B-day on P-day

Letter 25~

I LOVE SORELLA CANO SO MUCH WE ARE BEST FRIENDS!!!

(this is from sorella cano's camera

we took it this morning waiting for the bus :)

Ciao tutti!! Thanks for all those who sent birthday wishes!!

Yep today I am no longer a teenager!! It's a beautiful day and so much sunshine, Spring really has finally come and I am so happy!

This morning I was doing the hour of personal scripture study and I've been reading the Old Testament, like from the beginning. Leviticus was a lil dry but today I finished it and started Numbers and got a BIRTHDAY SHOUTOUT from God! The first chapter of Numbers, Moses has to count all of the males in each tribe over TWENTY YEARS OLD so he counts in each tribe so it says the phrase "twenty years old" like 15 times or something!! And I remain convinced that it was a birthday shoutout from HF ;) Ahahah

The other sorelle and anziani have already also made this a very special day for me with making a French toast breakfast, balloons, and cake! Plus it's P-day and the city is OURS!

Birthday breakfast of French toast and Nutella!

Thank you SO MUCH to my family for the birthday package, especially the Reese's cake!

Thank you to the Anziani (elders)

for the birthday cakes!!

Also LOOK AT THE SUNSHINE!!
just for me!!!

LASAGNA! I asked for some and look how much they gave me
at this little trattoria (chill restaurant?)! Mmmm but I almost exploded after eating it all

In honor of the 3 days spent in a trio with Sorella Marsh and Sorella Jones
(Yep all the treats I've been eating have really taken their toll,
you can tell by how INGRASSATA I am!!)

In other news, I got my nuova collega Sorella Cano!! She is fanTASTic!! She really does not speak English, it's the best thing! She's super fun and really has a talent with people, especially on the phone! She is SO good and she got us all these appointments with past potentials, past people that Sorella Clyde and I had met on the street but nothing ever happened! I miss Sorella Clyde but I am so excited for this transfer with Sorella Cano.

My Italian has already gotten so much better, as that's how we talk to each other! She's helped me with pronunciation/accent too, that's been really hard for me to pick up. Sometimes in the past I've started talking to someone and they're like "Hey I don't speak English, try Italian!" and I WAS. So I'm so glad for the opportunity to really improve my Italian.

Me and my nuova collega!!

Having Sorella Cano is also fantastic because she is colombiana! She was born in Colombia and moved to Italy when she was 3, they speak Spanish at home so she's totally fluent. And so my poor broken ability to speak the Spanish language is being slowly nursed back to health, now that I have her to practice with. My brain screams every time I try but I am slowly learning to speak again, much like a person who has been confined to bed after a terrible accident learns to walk again. Thank goodness I never lost the ability to understand spoken Spanish.

We're going to start teaching in Spanish this week so PLEASE PRAYERS ARE NEEDED HERE but I am SO excited and I know that the Lord will help me!

Anyhow I love her and I'm so excited for new things! My English may start to take a turn for the worse as I'm juggling two other languages so stay tuned and please excuse the poor writing.

Gotta run!

Sorella Frandsen

ps Last few photos with SC!