We had lunch there and then a little later four of us got to go around Rome with Anziano Hatch.\u00a0 We were the four that had a bag lost.\u00a0 We went and saw the Spanish Steps which were packed and really busy and it was really cool.\u00a0 Then we walked over to this pillar thing that has a story carved all along the sides.\u00a0 We didn’t know the name of it though.\u00a0 [It is Trajan’s Column, a Roman triumphal column, that commemorates the Emperor Trajan’s victory in the Dacian Wars.\u00a0 It was erected in A.D. 113<\/span>]\u00a0 Then we walked to essentially what is their government building I think.\u00a0 It was really neat and the architecture was awesome.<\/p>\n At that point you could see the Forum and Colosseum.\u00a0 Then we walked down towards that and it was just so so so amazing.\u00a0 It was all just so beautiful.\u00a0 It was super fun.\u00a0 Truly, Rome was just way ahead of its time when it was built.\u00a0 It was really cool to see all that stuff though.\u00a0 They have like really old water fountains that constantly spit out water that you can just walk up to and drink at anytime which was really awesome too.<\/p>\n Well next we went back and had dinner and then we had some short training and got to open our envelopes.\u00a0 We knew where the areas were and that there was one Italian trainer. I ended up being the last to open my envelope and I knew at that point that Rome was still open and that the Italian trainer was still available so I already knew everything except the specific area and my trainer’s name hahaha.<\/p>\n My trainer is Anziano Jonathan Calvagna and he is from Bergamo, Italy. [Bergamo is a city of 120,000, about 25 miles northeast of Milan, in the foothills of the Italian Alps<\/span>]\u00a0 He is fluent in English as well and I am blessed to have him because he will be able to help me a lot.\u00a0 We are in the Rome 1 area and are a district of 6 in the same area with 4 other sisters.\u00a0 They are all really nice and I will give you their names next week.\u00a0 They live right up the hill from us and cover the same areas.\u00a0 We had a lot of lessons scheduled this week but ended up having 7 of them fall through.\u00a0 We did a lot of finding and ended up finding some great potentials that I hope we be able to contact and teach for sure.\u00a0 We had a lot of quality gospel conversations and I think that we can continue to push ourselves more.\u00a0 We had a lesson with the Bishop’s nephew, Simone, and he is really cool.\u00a0 He loves the missionaries and we do some service for him each week, give him a lesson, and then he cooks for us.\u00a0 That was my first meal from an Italian which was really good.\u00a0 He cooked spaghetti and it was really basic ingredients but he made the food so delicious.\u00a0 I loved it.\u00a0 It was good to get to know him and his mom over that meal.\u00a0 I look forward to working with him and really hope that we will be able to really help him in any way we can.<\/p>\n I love it here in Rome, but it isn’t the easiest thing at all.\u00a0 It really is hard work.\u00a0 I love my trainer and we get along great!\u00a0 He likes movies, movies, and soccer.\u00a0 He is really cool.\u00a0 Our area is huge and it covers so much area.\u00a0 We are in the Rome 1 ward and it was a lot of fun yesterday.\u00a0 I didn’t understand much at all, but it was still an enjoyable time.\u00a0 Last night we visited at the Salerno’s.\u00a0 They are a member family and we shared a short message on member missionary work and then ate with them.\u00a0 We had some lasagna, then chicken, spinach, onions, and then some left over cake they had from the Easter weekend.\u00a0 It was all really good.<\/p>\n Coming on a mission I have realized how important member missionary work is.\u00a0 We really can’t reach our full potential without them.\u00a0 Working with the member is a necessity.<\/p>\n Well we are planning on going into Rome as a district and seeing St. Paul’s Basilica [Basilica Papale di San Paolo fuori le Mura.\u00a0 From Wikipedia: “The Basilica was founded by the Roman Emperor Constantine I over the burial place of St. Paul, where it was said that, after the Apostle’s execution, his followers erected a memorial, called a cella memoriae<\/i>. This first edifice was expanded under Valentinian I in the 370s. … <\/i>C<\/em><\/span>ommonly known as St. Paul’s outside the Walls<\/b>, is one of Rome’s four ancient, Papal, major basilicas:\u00a0 The Basilicas of St. John in the Lateran, St. Peter’s, St. Mary Major, and St. Paul outside the Walls.\u00a0 The Basilica is within Italian territory and not the territory of the Vatican City State.\u00a0 However, the Holy See fully owns the Basilica, and Italy is legally obligated to recognize its full ownership thereof<\/sup> and to concede to it ‘the immunity granted by International Law to the headquarters of the diplomatic agents of foreign States'”.<\/sup><\/em>]<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>so that should be a lot of fun!!\u00a0 I am excited for the mission conference next week with Elder Bednar and look forward to that experience.\u00a0 I won’t have p-day next Monday but it will be moved to next Thursday. Well, I will talk to everyone next week!!<\/p>\n Ciao,<\/p>\n Anziano Taylor Garrett<\/p>\n Anziano Calvagna and me. He is from Bergamo, Italy.<\/p><\/div>\n Roman fountain<\/p><\/div>\n My first Italian pizza!<\/p><\/div>\n![\"Anziano](\"http:\/\/taylorgarrett.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Elder-Cavagno-e1429532103639.jpg\")
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