We are going to Thanksgiving this week with an American member so we will see what is happening. A ton of food probably.
Well the news is... Im staying another transfer with the same companion Anziano Colemere! We are going to be tearing it up here in Torino another transfer (for christmas yes!). Im really excited. I have gotten many letters from you that tell me to open themselves at different days. Im doing it!
Also It is getting cold here, we had the first snow, but it only stuck on the cars and the rooftops. Its supposed to be super cold this year so we will see. Im excited and fully prepared.
The work here is going great, we are working on finding people who want to accept the restored gospel right now. Its been crazy this week because we were in charge of telling our whole zone about transfers and everything but now everything is calmed down.
We had an amazing experience going to the place where Lorenzo snow dedicated Italy. We couldnt find the trail at first so we just scaled the mountain but eventually we got on the right path. I thought the views and the mountains around us were amazing. It was a great experience.
This week we went to the place where Lorenzo snow dedicated Italy. It was an amazing experience.
He dedicated it on the top part of that mountain there. (Mt. Castelluzzo) 
Anziano Colemere reading the dedicatory prayer.
Note from Mom:
High on Mt. Castelluzzo is an overhanging rock accessible only through a narrow passageway. On 19 September 1852, Elder Snow and his three missionary companions (Elder Jabez Woodard of London had joined them) climbed to the secluded spot, sang praises, offered prayers, officially organized the Church in Italy, and prophesied concerning the latter-day work. From then on, the mountain was known among members of the Church as “Mt. Brigham,” and the rock as “The Rock of Prophecy.”
"Elder Snow and his companions often climbed Mt. Castelluzzo, which he named “Mt. Brigham,” to visit the Waldensen families. He loved its natural beauty: “The clouds often enwrap these mighty eminences,” he wrote, “and hide their frowning grandeurs from our view. At other times they are covered with snow, while at their feet the vine and fig tree are ripening their fruit.
"It was to this mountain that Elder Snow went to plead for the life of a three-year-old boy who was near death. Reflecting on the urgency of their work, which, as yet, was moving slowly, Elder Snow regarded the healing of the child as a circumstance “of vast importance. I know not of any sacrifice which I can possibly make, that I am not willing to offer, that the Lord might grant our requests.” 4 Upon returning from the mountain, he administered to the child, who, by the next day, was completely healed.
"From Elder Snow's letters “Think not that we are amid the marble palaces, nor surrounded by the choice productions of art which adorn many portions of this wondrous land. Here, a man must preach from house to house, and from hovel to hovel. Here, many a dwelling has no glass in the windows, and from the scarcity of fuel there is often no fire upon the hearth; and during the long winter evenings, the family are huddled together in the stable among the cattle, for the sake of a little warmth which they cannot find elsewhere.” 5
From "The Ensign" August 1982 p 35
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