the best week of my life (and more to come!)

Ciao Tutti!

Holy Cow...this has been such a wonderful week! I just wrote an email and then got kicked off so here it goes again. This week has been great! A humbling experience for sure and they keep us pretty busy so it's good. I really can't even remember a whole lot of what happened, but I know I'm in the right place right now. The MTC is the best place I can be right now. Besides the food, the MTC is heaven. Let's just say, it's not exactly dad's cooking! I've learned so much and have so much more to learn! I can't wait for what next week has to bring. Italian is coming along...I can meet and greet people, understand mostly what others say when they speak, and say a basic prayer. There are only 14 Italians in the MTC (6 Sisters and 8 Elders) Does that equal 14? My math is not very good. Everyone here is super nice. All of the Italian Sisters are so nice and friendly and not weird. haha. seriously though. They are wonderful. I only have one other Elder in my class so it's just me and him because we were the only ones who came in the day we did. Well, that were Italian Missionaries. My companion is Sorella Miller. We actually knew each other from up at BYUI and she is a great missionary. She'll be off to Catania, Italy in two weeks! There were 700 other missionaries that came in the day we did. The spirit is so strong here. I love it so much. There were two things I wanted to do at BYUI that I never got to do--take religion class all day long and learn a foreigh language and I'm getting it all here so it's great! I love seeing Sister Conley (Paige) and Elder Glaus around. I also saw a picture of Sister Garff up on the wall so that was fun! This is about to kick me off so I've got to go. Just know that I'm in a wonderful place and preparing for an even MORE wonderful place to be in! I hope you all have a Happy Thanksgiving!

Love,
sorella Hashey

"A missionary is someone who leaves their family for a short while so others can be with theirs for eternity"

p.s. Sorry I couldn't send a personal email mom or dad or em or carl...I'll try for it next week! I love you!