Good afternoon from good old Italy! What a busy past couple of weeks its been here in our mission. Its been non stop. Its awesome though. This week we had our zone leader council and we had a lot of fun with the leaders of the mission. We really have a great bunch of missionaries. We've been working on a lot of projects too these past few days and we're keeping ourselves non only busy, but productive. Its the greatest thing ever being an assistant, and im not saying anything n egative about it, but, we just dont have time to do teaching like im used to. I think it's a great transition though from missionary life to real life for after the mission, its helping me get ready... I'm not gunna lye, but, it will be nice to walk off that plane in a month and not have to worry about these my 130 missionary brothers and sisters like i do now. Its a miracle how much my love has grown for each and every one of them has grown getting to know each one of them. they're incredible missionaries. This really is the best mission ever. I'm going to miss it so much, and its going to be so hard to leave it all behind me and start the rest of my life. I never could have imagined how much a mission could change a young, immature, prideful, selfish 19 year old, until i put the tag on 23 months ago and started sacrificing. I know im not done yet, and im so grateful that i still have more than 1 month left, because there's nothing that makes me happier than serving the Lord and my beloved family here in Italy. Its gunna one of the hardest things i'll ever have to do is leaving this miraculous place that has so much changed me and my life. Weird tangent i got on there, but, as for this next week, i get to go to Sicily for the first time ever b/c we have a zone conference down there on Tuesday, but, me, sorella and President Kelly are going to be flying down tomorrow so he can do some interviews b/c there's about 40 missionaries down there. I love you guys, you're the best, Anziano Lane FORZA ITALIA!!!