Verona, Italy - November 17, 2010

Yesterday we went out to Bussolengo, a city outside Verona, to eat lunch with our member friends, Sorella Gasparatto and Sorella Mistura, but we missed our stop and ended up in the middle of no where. We called Sorella Gasparatto to tell her we were lost (we were already extremely late), and so she asked me to describe where we were. We told her we had no idea, but that there was a field of big electricity towers on one side of the road, and a field of very small trees with no leaves on the other side. She announced she would come get us, and that we should wait! So we have no idea where we are, and Sorella Gasparatto and Sorella Mistura have no idea where they are going, and they just hop in the car and start driving, and left their cell phone at home so we couldn't contact them either. It was crazy! We waited about twenty minutes, then decided to start walking and hope we would find Bussolengo. Then miraculously, they found us! It was so funny, and Sorella Gasparatto was so excited to tell her son, who would just laugh and say, 'women.'

Then during lunch, they started telling us about going to some crazy Italian yoga class the other week, and how the lady teaching it started chanting and making gong noises halfway through, and how they had to do this one position (which they imitated for us), where they are rolled in half on the floor, and the lady says, 'If you are having trouble breathing, don't worry! It's fine. It's good for you. If you can't breath, just stay there.' And it was super funny. They taught us some of the stuff they learned, so we were all doing yoga together in the Gasparatto's living room. hehe.

We had a big training meeting on Monday with two zones combined together here in Verona, and so two of the anziani from my MTC district were there, Anziano Lesa and Anziano Palmer, and we chatted some about the MTC during lunch. It was fun. The training was really neat, both Sorella Mullen and I felt we learned a lot of things we need to improve on.