Hey guys,

Well, ive been here now for about a week. I had a nice trip up here and so far, things have been incredible here! The second day i was here, we had a Christmas party with all of our members, and it was a lot of fun. Our church is really nice and its a nice city overall. But the activity went really well. We had a ton of American food and it was great. I've missed it so much. Then on Saturday we found 2 new investigators who are studs. we were doing house and we found these 2 college kids and they are extreemly interested. Then on sunday we had church and it felt really weird. I've been out of America for so long, but serving here we have half of our members Amreican and it makes things feel a lot like home. That night we went with the Miliatary missionary couple and we ate with them at their house and then we went to the American base and we sang Christmas Carols with the other companionship and the couple. It was sweet. The base is littlerally like "little America" there's averything there, normal American soda and Taco bell and KFC and A&W root beer (which dont exist in italy). Anyways, i got to play some ukulele because the couple have 2 nice ones from Hawaii. Then on Monday, the assistants came down and brought us some furniture, becasue Caserta has only been a 2 missionary city, and now theres 4 of us and the couple. Then on mopnday evening, we ate at an investigator's house and we ate a ton of food that i didn't really like to much, it was still good, but, it had stuff in it that i didnt like. It was a lot of mushrooms and fish. The we had a party for our English class, and i got to dominate in some ping pong and the Reber's (the couple) brought a ton of American food from the base and we got a lot of good contacts. Also in the past few days we've had a ton of pizza, and it's the best in the world here in teh Napoli area, so i cant complain. People just keep buying it for us. Yesterday, we had to do some stuff on the base and we got Taco Bell, and i was in heaven. It was soo good! Then we had another dinner appointment with a really cool american family and we played a Napoli card game with them, then they made our Christmas. They did one of the nicest things anyone has ever done for me and my comps here in the mission. As we were leaving, they gave us each presents and a ton of American food. We got so much soda, and they got me diet dr pepper and dt mt dew and a ton of oatmeal cream pies and American chips and oreo's and captain crunch and beef jerky and bbq sauce and i cant remember the rest. But, it was sweet. Then we took off and went home and it filled up our car. IThe members here are awesome, we've only made luch once since i've been here, every day so far we've had at least one meal appointment, and all day i feel so full, but, our members are great here, i love them.

Im loving being in 4 missionaries, its a blast, but, it's a little tougher staying focused. The car is also sweet. It's nice becasue we can go wherever we want whenenver we want and its nice and warm in the freezing cold here, but we cant really find people in it, unless we talk to someone when we're stopped. But it's sweet!

We dont have many investigators yet, but, i'm sure we'll find some. We have one investigator with a baptismal date that we set this past week for the 7th of January, and this guys a champ. He's a cool dude. The base is awesome too, we cant do any procelying on it though, but, we can get whatever we want there. It's huge and very convenient. We live about 15 kilometers from it, but it takes 30 minutes to get there becasue traffic is so bad here at times. We actually technically dont live in Caserta, our adress is:
Via Matteotti #9
San Nicola La Strada
Caserta, 82010
Italia

Thats about it for this week. I've gotta get my president's letter out soon. Love you guys, and i'll call you sunday no earlier than 10,love you guys,
Anziano Lane