Well this may or may not have been the craziest week of my mission. I'll just go through a play by play of how our week went. Monday we were in Taormina, super cool!! I loved being able to see the city and it has some super cool things there. It is super super touristy but it was cool to see everything!! That night we went to Messina to do a scambio for that night and for the morning and part of the afternoon then we had to make it back so that we could go to the Italian Course that we teach on the American base. That's when everything got crazy.
Tuesday evening around 10:15 we found out that we were going to do a surprise exchange in Malta!! There are very very few people that go to Malta that don't serve there and so we were caught super off guard. The plane left at 7:50 the next morning and so we were awake trying to get everything ready (keep in mind that my comp was supposed to leave on Friday and finish his mission) for the next 2 days we were going to be in Malta. We get to the Airport and our tickets hadn't been confermed and so we had to go buy some. They wouldn't accept the card number that the mission office was giving us so we had to use personal money to pay for plane tickets to Malta hahaha. It was crazy because by that time it was already 7:30 and check- in was closed down but they got permission to re-open it and then get us our tickets as we sprinted through security going down the "executives line" trying to make the flight. We get through security and found out that the plane was 1 1/2 hours late. hahaha but because of the big chaos we met this super cool guy from Finnland who we became friends with. We made it there and did the exhange and it was very effective and we were able to help them out a little bit then Friday morning at 6.20 we had a plane home so we woke up at 4 to get that plane and get there on time. (yes dad, when I was in the Malta Airport I picked up some Maltesers:) haha )
We got home around 7 in Catania and we got picked up and went straight home and had my comp pack everything up. We used that entire rest of the day to see people and say goodbye to people because the rest of the week we were not there and so we saw some people that are interested in the church, members and pretty much everyone we could in the time we could. Then we took him to the Bus station and he had to take a night bus so at 8:45 he left and he got into Napoli around 6 in the morning and then he took a train to make it up to Rome. It was pretty amazing and a huge miracle that we were able to do all of the most important things!! SOOO crazy though. Then saw some of the people the other Elders are working with on Saturday before I got to translate for Stake Conference from 3:30 until 7:30 saturday then went to the station to pick up two elders coming from a city nearby because at 7:00 the next morning we had to go to Stake Conference in Palermo and so they just slept with us that night so that we could all wake up early and catch the bus to palermo haha. There were lots of miracles that happened this week. I am pretty tired but it was lots of fun to see the Lord's hand in everything this past week. We were able to get eveything done and payed for and many people needed our help so it was a very crazy but fulfilling week!! I love you all and hope you have a great week as well. This coming up week I will get my new comp. Anziano P***. Wish us luck!!
love
Anziano Passantino
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