tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50361710989118956682024-03-12T19:33:40.887-07:00Pizza, Pasta and PrayersAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13586468115549652113noreply@blogger.comBlogger77125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5036171098911895668.post-90722728783779744882015-03-04T19:56:00.006-08:002015-03-04T19:56:59.479-08:00Letter #77 - 3/4/15<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
Ciao Famiglia!
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Can’t
believe this is my last email to you from the beloved land of Italy. So weird, doesn’t
really seem real yet. <o:p></o:p></div>
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This week
has been so great, we were able to do a scambio with the Como Sorelle, which
ended up lasting two nights because of unexpected events and so after the
scambio Sorella Russell and I had to sleep over in Como and I literally had
nothing except my book of Mormon and the skirt I was wearing, haha like I had
to borrow pjs and brush-my-teeth-with-toothpaste-on-my-finger kind of
situation. It was great, haha and all 6 of us, because there are 4 sorelle in
Como, slept in the same room. It was so fun. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Then Sorella
Russell and I have just been running around and seeing everyone; and we found a
super cool new investigator doing parco (park contacting) and it’s just been
such a blessed week. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I’ve been
able to think a little bit about the past 18 months and how much they have
changed my life. I will forever be grateful for the experiences I had and the
person they’ve helped me to become. I know I have a lot still left to learn and
do in life but I know that my mission helped me to see a little clearer the
plan the Lord has for me. My mission changed my life, but more importantly it
changed me. I think back to the day when I realized that I needed to serve, and
the happiness and excitement I felt when I finally decided, and I look back now
and I realized why. It was just a tiny preview of the happiness and joy I was
about to experience. It’s been the ride of a lifetime and I will miss Italy and
the people here so much. I will leave a part of my heart here in this country
but I know it’s time to go home and that there’s more to do. The mission never
really stops, just changes locations :) <o:p></o:p></div>
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Love you so
much! Thanks for all the support and love this past year and a half! Can’t wait
to see you! <o:p></o:p></div>
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Vi voglio un
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Ciao Famiglia!
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How is
everything? :) So crazy how fast time is flying by! Next week will be here
before we know it! So weird to think about, but we are so busy I feel like I’m kind
of in denial, haha. I haven’t started
packing or doing my customs or anything yet, haha, there’s still time. <o:p></o:p></div>
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So this week
was crazy, we did two scmabios, one in Lugano and another with Varese. I got to
go to Lugano this time! So I was a missionary in Switzerland for a day. Pretty
cool :) Italy and Switzerland are a little different I have to say, haha, you
can tell when you pass the border. But it was super fun, and I was with Sorella
d'aleo from Palermo. It was super fun and we saw a ton of miracles together. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Also this
week was carnevale here in Italy. It’s a little like Halloween, everyone
dresses up. We ended up having no appointments that night so we were out doing
strada in the pouring rain and we talked to this man and had the coolest gospel
conversation ever with him. It was really cool. It brought back a lot of
memories from Alessandria being out in the pouring rain doing finding. It was
awesome. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Then we did
a scambio with the Varese Sorelle. I was with Sorella Richards and we had like
the best scambio ever. We were doing strada after one of our appointments and
we talked to the first woman we saw and she ended up really liking us and what
we were teaching her and when we asked if we could pray with her she said she
has a friend she wants us to pray and talk with too so she took us to her friend’s
house and we ended up teaching them both the first lesson in the friend’s
house. It was so cool. <o:p></o:p></div>
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This week
has been so great and next week we have our last scambio and we are going to
just work as hard as we can to the very end. My companion is starting to freak
out a little bit that I’m leaving, she says she’s going to be an orphan, haha,
but she’s so great, she can totally handle anything. <o:p></o:p></div>
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So crazy to
think my 18 months are already coming to an end. I’ve loved every single day
out here. It’s been the hardest thing I’ve ever done but also the most rewarding
and life changing. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Thanks for everything!
Talk to you next week! Literally... ;) <o:p></o:p></div>
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Love you! <o:p></o:p></div>
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Ciao Famiglia!
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Come state??
so....this week was a little rough. I had the flu! barf.. literally. We were stuck
inside for a few days and I was so bored. We got so bored we watched the old
80's church videos, so yeah. It wasn’t fun. But I’m feeling a ton better now. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Funny story
though, we had to go out one morning for Sorella Russell’s fingerprinting
appointment for her permesso di soggiorno, and so, even though it felt
horrible, I put a skirt on, put my coat on over my pug sweatshirt, refused to
put on tights, flats, you get the picture; I looked like a total scrub. So we
go out, get to the questura (police station) and they do the fingerprinting and
I’m just concentrating on not throwing up in the questura. Then I get up to go
collect the paperwork for Sorella Russell and get the instructions from the
worker lady for the next set and i just got really light headed and my vision
just went black and the next thing I knew I was sitting on the floor, haah. The
lady kind of freaked out and helped me get up and sat me in a chair and gave me
some chocolate (which i threw up once we got home). i think they thought i was
diabetic. Anyways, yeah, it was super embarrassing. and my greenie grounded me
to house arrest for the rest of the day, which turned into even longer. It was
not fun, but now all is well and we are healthy and get to leave the house and I’m
super happy ahah!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Mom, I got
your Valentine’s Day cards!!! Thank you so much! I loved them :) oh and I got
the kids’ letter too! haha thank you!!! <o:p></o:p></div>
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This week we
have a scambio and I’m going to Switzerland this time! So I’ll get to be a
missionary in Switzerland for a day which is pretty cool. And then next week we
have the last two scambios and then we will be done. It’s been a crazy transfer
for sure, lots of scmbios and stuff. But i love it! The Sorelle i get to
scambio with are so great, i just love them. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Yesterday I
had my last zone conference and we watched meet the Mormons! it was soooooo
good. Also I did a training at the conference and I and two other missionaries
who are finishing their missions with me all gave our 'dying testimonies'. It
was a really weird feeling to be up there bearing my testimony and giving
advice to the other missionaries, It’s a little surreal to think that my time
here is almost over and some of theirs is just starting. <o:p></o:p></div>
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But i wouldn’t
trade a day of my mission for the world. I’ve learned so much and I’m the
person and missionary I am today because of the mistakes and lessons I’ve
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I love and
miss you all! Crazy how soon I’ll see you all. Just gotta enjoy every last day
I have here and I’ll see you before I know it :) <o:p></o:p></div>
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Ciao Famiglia!
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Sorry this
is going to be short again! Hey, I’ll see you in like 3 weeks right? ;) haha
but this week was super awesome! Giovanni gave a talk in church on missionary
work and he did such a good job! I was the translator for third hour so it was
super funny translating his talk because he was talking about me and Sorella Hawks
and just a little bit about his conversion story. It was really cool. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Then we had
a big ward lunch after church which was super fun. And Sorella Russell and I
survived our four scambio week with new missionary training and consiglio di
missione! Haha, It was really fun though. We got to know lots of new sorelle. <o:p></o:p></div>
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And on Monday
night we went out on what we like to call 'miracle giro' and we were able to teach
two lessons on the street! It was so cool. The people we met were so nice and
one of them actually was really interested to learn more and told us she has
seen our church name before and had actually been really curious to learn more about
it. So we got her phone number and should be seeing her in the next week – huge
miracle. <o:p></o:p></div>
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ever and they loved it and want us to come back again next week. So that was a
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Sorry again
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Ciao Famiglia!
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Sorry, short
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Few fun facts
from the week, apparently I sleep talk in Italian more than i thought...hahah Sorella
Russell informed my I sat up and asked her if we could say a praying in Italian.
She thinks I was teaching a lesson in my dream. And she said it has happened a
couple times. ahha get ready for that Anna! ;) <o:p></o:p></div>
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Giovanni
blessed the sacrament for the first time on Sunday and it was one of the
highlights of my mission. It was the coolest feeling ever to see him up there.
He looked so excited and happy, so cool. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Also, we are
doing like 4 scambio this week so that’s going to be crazy. Plus new missionary
training and consiglio in Milano, so that will be crazy – we’ve already done
one so three to go for the week! hah <o:p></o:p></div>
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Vi volgio
bene! Talk to you next week! <o:p></o:p></div>
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Ciao Famiglia!!
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Well this
week has been crazy, like always! Haha! <o:p></o:p></div>
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And guess
what? – my new greenie made it here safe and sound. Her name is Sorella Russell
and she is from Alberta, Canada! She’s super sweet, and apparently it’s super
cold in Canada because she has yet to wear tights! She even wore a short sleeved shirt to church
on Sunday! meanwhile I’m over here wearing my coat and scarf! haha – Sorella Russell
is super brava! She’s going to take good care of Busto. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Unfortunately
Sorella Russell has been a little sick, so I’ve been doing lots of study time. I’ve
never sat for so long in like 18 months, haha! It feels so weird. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Also,
Giovanni was ordained to the priesthood on Sunday!!!!! MIRACLE :) So awesome. He’s
such a rockstar. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Also, I met
my second cousin Anziano Smoot! Haha, It was really fun to see him, even though
I don’t think I’ve ever met him before. I will get a picture with him when i
see him again next week. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Sorry, not a
lot of time to write more today. We have an appointment and have to go teach English
class, but all is well here in Busto! We are just working hard and making the
most of these last 5 weeks! SO CRAZY!!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Enjoy Mexico!
Get some sun for me ;) <o:p></o:p></div>
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Ciao
Famiglia Mia!<o:p></o:p></div>
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TRANSFERS –
and yep, that’s right. I’M TRAINING AGAIN, hahahaha. So I’m staying here in Busto
for my last transfer and training for my third time in a row. And it gets
better, Sorella Nilsen, my first greenie, is now training too! Ha, so I’m going
to be a "Grandma" in the mission too! Haha, I’m seriously going to
have like the biggest posterity ever by the time i go home. It’s so great. But
sadly, this means that Sorella Hawks and I are being split up. We are soooooo sad.
But she is going to Trieste, with Sorella Burt, Becca's roommate! so cool
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President
Dibb called us on Saturday morning with the transfer news and he was so funny,
he was just like "Hey Sorella Yost, I have great news for you! You get to
stay in Busto as a sister training leader! Oh and also . . . I need you to be
training again." And at this point, I’m so excited because I get to stay
in Busto, and then I realized what he said and I was like "I’m training
AGAIN??" and he just started laughing and was like "yeah again!"
haha. And I was like "so... for my third time?" and he just laughed
and was like "yeah, for your third time! you know Sorella Woods can’t be
the only one that trains three times, I need you doing it too." haha so
yeah. Baby #3! I’m super excited! I loveeeee training. It’s been one of my
favorite parts of my mission. <o:p></o:p></div>
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So I couldn’t
be happier. I will definitely miss Sorella Hawks though, we think President
knew how bad we wanted to stay together a third transfer, because when he was
telling Sorella Hawks that she was getting transferred, he was like “so, Sorella
Hawks, I’m sure you’ve heard by now that it is very, very rare for companions
to be together for 3 transfers, and I know you and Sorella Yost have done
amazing things together but these happy days are going to be coming to an end
soon because I need you in Trieste." <o:p></o:p></div>
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We were
almost crying the whole time he was talking to her, haha, but I’m so excited
for her, she is going to absolutely love Trieste and just going to kill it
there :) Also, other exciting news is that our new convert is going to receive
the Priesthood on Sunday! He is doing so well; we are just so excited for him
and his family. They are progressing, <i>piano
piano</i>. We just love them so much and know that he is such a good example
for them all. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I did a
scambio in Como last week that was super fun. Funny story from it though, we were
at an appointment with the Sorelle's baptismal date, and we got there and it
was this lady with the baptismal date and her 16 year old son named Ricky. They
were soooo sweet. So we get there and turns out it was a dinner appointment. I
had no idea. Ha, so we sit down and it’s like 8pm, and this family lives like
on the top of a hill in Como, like a bus ride and a walk, and we have to be home
by 9:30. So naturally, I start freaking out a little inside. So it takes a
little time before the food was all ready and then we finally start eating,
(and the food was amazing by the way). Then we finish and are eating panettone
and get to start the lesson, it was on the prophet. So we taught a good lesson,
the spirit was super strong and we think they really liked it. <o:p></o:p></div>
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So the
lesson ends and we say a prayer and we tell them we have to scamp because we
have to make the bus. So at this point I would say that I was really freaking
out because I didn’t know the city or how long it would take to get home or
when the buses came. So the 16 year old son tells us to wait and that the will
grab his coat and walk us down the hill to the bus stop. So I’m like in the
door way like "okaaaaay we just have to hurry..." and then he comes
and Sorella Ince just start booking it down the stairs, and out of the palazzo
and then start heading down the hill. As we are going we tell Ricky to look up
the bus times on his phone. which he does and then he was like” oh no...."
and we were like "what Ricky!?!?!" and he said" well...there’s
one that comes in 5 minutes....and then the next one isn’t for another
hour..." (cioè we would get home at 11pm or later) so I just look at them both and am like
"we have to run, literally." So I just take off and start running as
fast as I can and Sorella Ince is leading the way and we are just booking it
down this hill and Ricky is just running right with us saying "are you
sure we have to run?!" and I’m just like "RUN RICKY!" hahaha, it
was so funny. Moral of the story, we made the bus and made it home by like 9:55
so we just had to call our zone leaders. But still, it was hilarious. But now
Sorella Ince, Ricky and I are the best of friends. It was a great bonding experience.
haha so funny. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I gave a
talk in church on Sunday on missionary work and miracles I’ve see on the
mission. Well I think that’s all for this week. Hope all is well back home! I love
and miss you! <o:p></o:p></div>
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So first of
all.....GIOVANNI GOT BAPTIZED!!!!!! It was such an amazing day, so many members
of the ward came even though the baptism was in Milano (we don’t have a font in
Busto). And Giovannis whole family came and they really loved the baptism. The
mom was taking pictures and they took pictures all together as a family in
front of the font when Giovanni was in his white clothes and it was just so
awesome. We love that family so much. They are so special. <o:p></o:p></div>
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And Giovanni
bore his testimony after the baptism and it was one of the most amazing
testimonies I’ve ever heard. He is being interviewed for the priesthood this Sunday
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Well Buon Anno! 2015! (Happy New Year) <o:p></o:p></div>
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think that all of 2014 is over and that I was a full time missionary for every
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week was awesome, we saw so many miracles and are just loving being in Busto. It
really is miracle city. We did scambio with the Lugano sisters this week which
was so fun and then our investigator passed his bap interview!!!!!!!! So we
celebrated with gelato; hopefully everything keeps going well. Thanks for all
the prayers! <o:p></o:p></div>
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Sorry I have
like basically no time today because we have to be in by 5pm for New Year’s Eve
but here’s just a short email to say hi :) Skype was so fun last week and it
was so good to see everyone! Sorry again about the chaos....just more memories
right? ;) <o:p></o:p></div>
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And funny
story, President Dibb let us watch one Disney movie each year on Christmas and
we got to watch Finding Nemo courtesy of Anziano Hubbard and we were going to
save it to watch when we got home at night but then we ended up getting home
late and were so tired and I was totally fine after Skype and everything but
then with the stress of getting home late and everything else that was going
on, we started talking about watching Finding Nemo and when I realized I was so
tired and wouldn’t even be able to keep myself awake to see Crush in the turtle
part of the movie...I completely lost it and started crying, haha it was so
funny. I was just crying I was so tired. I just kept telling Sorella Hawks I
just wanted to see Nemo and the turtles. She was so supportive, haha we were so
tired. It was crazy. So once i regained control of myself we got ready for bed
super quick and put on Nemo and I fell asleep literally like 5 minutes into it.
Like I’m talking right after Nemo’s mom dies, haha. It was so depressing. so
yeah, that will probably be the first movie I watch when I get home, just a
heads up. i want to see the turtles!! <o:p></o:p></div>
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duck innards this week, and we had the most amazing Christmas ever. We made
like 70 cookies and went out caroling and handing out cookies to investigators
and a few less-actives on Christmas eve and Christmas and it was just so
special and fun. Definitely a Christmas I will never forget. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Famiglia! <o:p></o:p></div>
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So today’s
email is going to be super short because we are SKYPING tomorrow!!!!!! I’m
soooooo excited :)<o:p></o:p></div>
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We acted out
the nativity with a little family in our ward on Monday and it was super fun and
super cute :) They loved it! We did it in honor of the Yost tradition to do it
every year! And one of the little girls made me a homemade Christmas tree at
school and its soooo cute. I didn’t find a cute nativity on our shopping trip
to Luino, but i got a cute little one in Gallarate, it’s really small though
but its super cute and Italian looking. I’ll send a picture of it next week! Oh
and I got it really cheap since its right before Christmas and it was missing
one little sheep so it was only 18 euro! So i thought that would make dad happy
:) haha, Oh and the Siena Sorella slept over last night because of permesso
problems so we all opened the last story (from the 12 days of Christmas) together
this morning around the Christmas tree and drank Starbucks hot chocolate and we
all loved it! It was so fun ::) so thank you mom!<o:p></o:p></div>
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I just
wanted to send a little email about how amazing this Christmas has been for me.
I feel like I have truly learned the true meaning of Christmas and why we
celebrate such a momentous day. We are celebrating the beginning of something
so great, something so grand, that is the life of our Savior Jesus Christ. It’s
the day Heavenly Father let Him go and come down here to earth, fully aware of
His earthly mission and fully aware of the price that was to be paid. It truly
was the greatest gift of all and each year we have the opportunity and blessing
of celebrating the hope and peace of the plan of happiness through our Christ
the Lord. We have so much to be grateful for and so much to celebrate. That is
the true meaning of Christmas. We are so blessed that we get to come together
each year and celebrate it as a family and remember that because of this great Christmas
gift, we can be together forever. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Christmas is
about peace, and it’s about gratitude. Nothing else matters. It’s just our job
to honor Christ and His unwavering gift to the world by striving to be more
like Him and completely forget ourselves for the sake of all those around us,
our brothers and sisters. All in all, we are really just giving back to Him
what he has already given us. I’m so grateful for my mission and for the many
opportunities I’ve had to come closer and to better know my Savior. <o:p></o:p></div>
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My mission
has changed my life and I will be forever grateful for the chance to be here in
Italy. I know my time is running short so I must make every day count while I
can :) He truly is the gift. <o:p></o:p></div>
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has been super great. Literally full of miracles. Our investigator with a baptismal
date is doing so well and literally so elect. We are so excited about him and
his family. We teach them all together every Sunday and they are just one of
the sweetest families every. We love them so much. It’s so crazy to think that
we found them on our 21 lesson week at like 8 pm on Sunday night, trying to get
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trying to figure out a brand new area and everything we were going through and
we can see that the Lord was just preparing us to be blessed with such a huge
miracle after the trail of our faith. We are so grateful for the situation we
were put in because we had to solely depend on the Lord because we knew
nothing, and because we did that he led us to exactly where we needed to be in
the right moment. The hardest trials always bring forth the biggest miracles. I
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transfer I found out I’m going to be Sister training leader over Como now, as
well as Lugano and Varese so that will be really fun :) I love all the Sorelle I
work with so much, they are all such rock stars. <o:p></o:p></div>
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week we got to experience sciopero...aka train and bus strikes. So yeah. That
was fun. But we saw a huge miracle from it! We were waiting at the train
station in Busto just looking up at the board with all the trains cancelled
freaking out because we needed to get to Gallarate for our lesson with our bap
date and his family. So Sorella Hawks and I went behind the corner and just
said a little prayer that we would be able to get a train diretto to Varese and
be able to get to Gallarate. When we finished the prayer the thought came to my
mind that there was someone there we needed to meet. So we go back by the board
and we noticed this woman that had been standing close by us before and we went
over and started talking to her and she invited us to sit down by her. So we
did and she asked us to say a prayer with her that the train to Varese wouldn’t
get cancelled because she really needed to get home. So I said a prayer and
then we talked with her for a couple seconds and then all of a sudden... the
only train to Varese that hadn’t been cancelled yet...was cancelled. My heart
just sank. And so I just started praying and asking Heavenly Father to show
this woman the power of prayer and help her get a train. I didn’t want her to lose
her faith because the train got cancelled. Then all of a sudden...a different
train that had earlier been cancelled automatically came back up. Saying that
instead it was now just going to be 15 minutes late instead of cancelled, aka
it would be there in about 10 minutes!!!! I looked at the lady and she looked
at me and was like: 'Hey! it’s because of your prayer!' and she was like
'wow...this one’s going to come.' And i just smiled and looked at her and was
like' yea, this one’s going to come' :) and it did. We rode the train together
and as we were sitting by here the three of us said another prayer together of
gratitude and it was so awesome. Then this lady realizes that her umbrella was
broken (it had been raining pretty much all night) and she was going all the
way up to Varese where it was probably raining harder and that same voice came
back into my head and told me "give her your umbrella" and I was like,
uhhh okay, so i turned to her and offered her my umbrella, and she very
gratefully accepted it and gave us her number and we gave her our number and
she said she wants to see us again before Christmas so she can return it to me.
it was such a huge miracle and I’m so grateful for the spirit and how He helps
us know exactly what we need to do. it’s such a blessing in our lives. I know
we will see her again and I know she’s the reason there was a sciopero and that
God has his hand in all we do because this is truly his work! <o:p></o:p></div>
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Hope all is well! Glad to hear Grandma and Grandpa are doing
well! Tell them “hi” from their favorite granddaughter ;) also, glad Will had a
great birthday! Hope everything goes well this weekend with his ordination! I’ll
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So here in Busto everything is going really well! It’s
getting dang cold though, haha, I’m not in Tuscany this winter, that’s for
sure, haha. But this past Monday we had our Zone Training and got to sing some Christmas
carols and eat panettone so it was super fun :) <o:p></o:p></div>
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And i got your packages! Thank you so much! You guys are the
best. Oh and I showed Sorella Dibb the picture of Mom and Cynthia and she loved
it, she said to tell Cynthia hi :) I love the Dibbs so much and will forever be
grateful they were my mission parents. They are so bravi (good). <o:p></o:p></div>
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Also fun fact, Sorella Hawks said I she woke up the other
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We finally got to do scambio with the Sorelle in Lugano, Switzerland!
It went really well too! I just love the girls I work with. They are so sweet. I
stayed in Busto with Sorella back from Germany and Sorella Hawks went up to Lugano
with Sorella Boscia from Sicilia. So both of us spoke A LOT of Italian
those 24 hours. But it was really good for us :) and it was such a fun scambio!
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Then we went up to Lugano to rescambio and so I got to see a
little bit of Switzerland and it was super pretty! I thought of dad a lot on
the train ride :) and we talked to this couple the whole way who are from the Bahamas
and they told us a lot about Switzerland. Super cool. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Then Sorella Hawks and I were reunited and we headed back
down to Busto, she got her permesso (blessed be the day) and we then had one of
the best lessons I’ve had on my mission. It was such a cool lesson. It was with
our 17 year old investigator who comes to church every week on his bike in a
button up white shirt and sweater vest, and we are teaching his sister too. She’s
reading the book of Mormon and told us she will pray and ask if it’s true and
she wants us to call her Sunday morning to help her wake up in time for church,
haha, so awesome. They are seriously so elect. I love them so much. But anyways
we taught him in the church in the primary room with all the Christmas lights
on and we read 2 Nephi 31 and the spirit was so strong and we were all just so
happy. Sorella Hawks was so awesome and gave him the baptismal invite like a
total champ and he accepted the date and knows it’s the right thing to do. We
are so excited. He is such a miracle. <o:p></o:p></div>
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We love our heavily decorated apartment and we love
listening to our new Christmas music and life is just good. We still have hard
moments but at the end of the day we always have so many miracles to count. It’s
so blessed. I love it. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Ciao Famiglia!
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Come state?!
:) Sounds like you had a crazy Thanksgiving?! Is grandma okay?? I’ll be praying
for her! Wish I was there to help! Tell grandma and grandpa hi for me! At least
that means Grandma can spend more time with Charlie; I know how good of friends
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This week we
had a huge miracle! You know the 17 year old boy I talked about last week that Sorella
Hawks and I found during 21 lesson weeks? Well he came to church AGAIN this
week and even wore a button up shirt and white sweater vest! It was so awesome.
And he came to the young men’s activity and turns out to be friends with an
inactive young man from our ward and now they are coming together to
everything! It’s so cool. And he introduced us to his family and we’ve started
teaching them and committed the 16 year old sister to come to church this Sunday
and everything! The parents aren't super interested for themselves but they are
super interested for their children. They are so cool. So we are super happy
and excited about them :) huge miracle! <o:p></o:p></div>
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Thanksgiving
was good here! We got hot chocolate to celebrate and finished decorating our
house! You will love it mom :) we went to the market and got 5 boxes of the
cheap Christmas lights and decorated our whole house. The ladder Christmas tree
is back and it’s a little ghetto this year but still super awesome :) ha-ha we
have lights all over our house and it’s so great. I love it. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Tell will
happy birthday for me! I hope he has an awesome 12 birthday tomorrow :) also if
you haven’t seen “He is the Gift” yet....do so now. christmas.mormon.org and if
you want to be cool and watch it in Italian....go to mormon.org/ita/natale :) so awesome. <o:p></o:p></div>
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all for this week, sorry it’s a short letter today! We are heading out to Como!
So I should have some pretty pictures next week :) We are hoping it snows soon
here, it’s been pretty cold and we are looking super fly in our huge rain boots,
haha - love and miss you all! <o:p></o:p></div>
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This week
has been crazy. So as I write you...I’M BACK IN RAVENNA! Yeah. Weird, haha. We
got the call yesterday that we had to be in Ravenna this morning for me to pick
up my permesso (paperwork). So since Busto and Ravenna are literally on
opposite sides of the mission we had to leave last night and spend the night in
Milano which was super fun and then leave bright and early on the first train
we could make to Ravenna. I got my permesso and now since its pday I get to
hang out with Sorella Nilsen a little bit too!!!! Blessed be the day. I’M WITH
MY TWO GREENIES ALL TOGETHER, so fantastic! <o:p></o:p></div>
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Last week we
had the Fingerle conference and it was sooooo good. We learned so much! and I
got to see Sorella Woods! And she is training Sorella Burt! Becca’s roommate! So
tell aunt Tamera that I finally met her and we are already best friends :) <o:p></o:p></div>
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Also I got
your packages! Thank you so much! We LOVED them! and i got the envelopes from
Landon and it totally made my day, I LOVE them! So thank you Landon! love you!
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On Saturday
we had our big ward Thanksgiving Dinner and it was such a huge success! We had
105 people there in total and a ton of part member families and less actives
which was awesome. We had some investigators and people from English class
there too! It was awesome, we were really happy. I have to say, Thanksgiving
dinner Italian style isn’t too bad :) It was really good! not as good as Grandmas’
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in church between us and the Anziani we had 5 investigators in church! It was a
huge miracle, especially with how big of a hassle it is for people to get out
to the church since the buses don’t run on Sunday. So we were super excited and
so was the ward. It was so awesome. One of those investigators was someone that
Sorella Hawks and I found on our 21<sup>st</sup> lesson week and he is so
awesome. He’s 17 years old and rode his bike to church all by himself...stayed
for all three hours....and LOVED it...and he’s bringing his sister with him
this next Sunday. #elect. We are so excited. So hopefully we can get the whole
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cousin of a member who passed away; and I have also been asked to give a short talk
after we sing....so yeah. Hopefully that goes well and I will be able to speak
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thinks that’s all for this week! Love and miss you so much! I’m so thankful for
my family, tell everyone hi for me tomorrow and eat pumpkin pie for
me...PLEASE. LOVE YOU!!! :) <o:p></o:p></div>
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such a crazy week. First of all... we taught 21 lessons!!!!!! Huge miracle. It’s
a challenge President gives to all the new missionaries their second week in
the mission and by some miracle we did it. It was so crazy. We were out talking
to people allllll day. We had so many of our appointments fall through and so
we were out doing finding from 3-9 a lot of the days. But it was so cool and my
Greenie definitely has a ton of Greenie power. <o:p></o:p></div>
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We found 4
new investigators and two lessons we taught we looked down at the clock
afterwards and it was 8:59PM. perseveranza sino alla fine (endure to the end),
haha. So it was awesome :) we are so tired though, haha. Sunday night we got home, did nightly planning
and then weren’t able to move for like 30 minutes, haha!! It was so funny. I
feel like I’m becoming a Grandma. I’m literally so tired all the time, haha. So
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poor little greenie got to experience me having one of my random crying attacks,
haha. I think it was like Thursday during lunch or something and I was just
tired for some reason and she went upstairs to get something and I was
like" hey where are you going?" and she was like "I just have to
go grab some socks" and I was like "don’t leave me..." and she
was laughing and was like "it’s okay, I’ll be right back!" thinking I
was just kidding...and then I randomly started crying and she came back down
the stairs and was like "I’m so sorry! I didn’t think you were
serious!" and I was half-laughing and half-crying and explained to her
that sometimes when I’m really tired I just randomly cry, haha. It was so
funny. We laughed for like 15 minutes afterwards. I get lonely really easily
apparently, haha, so weird. <o:p></o:p></div>
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week our ward got a new bishopric! We absolutely love our new Bishop already. He’s
so fantastic and served a mission in England and is like 28 years old. He’s
super cool. This week i did my first scambio (exchange) with the Sorelle in Varese!
It was super fun. I stayed here in Busto with a Sorella from Sorella Nilsens
group and Sorella Hawks went to Varese. We had a lesson with an el Salvadorian
family and learned how to make pupusas – they are super good! Then we found out
our villa has a spider problem and killed spiders for like 40 minutes before
bed. NOT super fun, but we think we killed most of them, ahha. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Oh and Sorella
Hawks and I almost broke the church last week. We tried making cookies and the
breaker went out in the church building, haha classic. Never doing that again.
We were supposed to have an appointment with a girl and make cookies with her
and become best friends but she didn’t show up and while it is a 20 minute bus
ride to get out to the church and it only comes like once an hour so we had to
wait for the bus and were sad she didn’t show up so we decided to make the
cookies anyways and yeah, we tripped the breaker - power out. So funny. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Also, we
were doing strada (street contacting) on Sunday in one of our cities called
Gallarate and this like 17 year old kid came up and started talking to us and
he was asking us about missionaries and what we do and stuff like that. And then he asked us where we live and we
told him we live in Busto and he was like so it’s just you two that live there?
and we were like yeah.... and he was like "so it’s just you two...and Jesus?"
Oh my gosh we started laughing so hard. It was one of the funniest questions
ever. People think we are nuns all the time, which is so funny. But this kid
was super legit and I think the Anziani (elders) are going to go try teaching
him. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Well I think
that’s all for this week! Busto is awesome and we are finding our way around. I
was actually able to give someone directions somewhere today so we were super
excited about that. We are figuring it all out with a ton of help from Heavenly
Father and seeing miracles every day. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Ciao Famiglia!
Come State?! <o:p></o:p></div>
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We are going
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What?! you
have frost on the ground in Redmond?!! It’s just POURING rain here, haha,
luckily we got Sorella Hawks some rain boots last week on pday so now we are surviving
the weather a lot better, haha. Our boots are actually super cute, we are
totally matching, haha – oh and we got little sock inserts for them too to make
it warmer and they are like the most blessed things ever. We love them and are
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This week
has been a lot better, we are starting to figure our way out around the city
and aren’t getting lost as much. However, we almost got separated on the train
the other day which was SO scary, hahah - the doors closed after Sorella Hawks
got on the train and so only I got locked out of the train when the doors
closed. I had to quickly run to the front of the train to get let on by the
conductor - ha it was so scary. After the doors closed we just were standing
there staring at each other with pure horror on our faces through the window
for like 3 seconds, haha - it was so scary... and now funny. . . #italymilanmissionprobs
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We have
probably lost like 5 kilo this week from all the running we’ve had to do in our
big coats, haha, it’s been great. We are always worried about missing trains or
buses in this city. We have a lot of little cities that we have to travel to
quite a bit that are in our area so that keeps us in shape. <o:p></o:p></div>
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This city isn’t
very bike friendly so we never ride them, sadly, but it’s okay. Also this Sunday
in church it was the primary program and it was the cutest thing ever. Little
kids singing in Italian is so precious. Oh and we taught Gospel Principles on Sunday,
reminded me of the Montevarchi days. We only had like 20 minutes to prepare
though, which was funny. A year ago that probably would have given me a heart
attack to even think about doing but now it’s just so common it doesn’t even
phase me. Miracles of the mission am I right? <o:p></o:p></div>
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I finally
cut my hair! Well i asked my companion do it, haha - she was freaking out, but
she did so well! I just looked at her and was like have you ever cut hair Sorella?
and she was like, uhhh, I trimmed my mom’s hair a couple times in the back,
does that count? And i was like yeah, good enough for me. Just cut like 6
inches off, hahahahaha so funny. But it’s so much better now - goodbye braid. <o:p></o:p></div>
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It’s been a
good week :) we are working hard and seeing a ton of miracles. One of which
being we are always thankful to make it back home each night. We finally got in
contact with some of the old Sorelles investigators and are finding some new
ones of our own too. The Lord’s hand truly is in everything we do. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I’m so glad
to be here and am so thankful for my Greenie, she is so great and is so patient,
even whenever I get us lost. We are definitely getting it all figured out
together :) <o:p></o:p></div>
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Ciao
Famiglia Mia! <o:p></o:p></div>
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Oh man. This
week has been insane. We have been travelling all over the place for consiglio
(training) in Milano and district meeting in Varese. As we are both brand new
to this area, we have been going on an adventure all over Busto and Varese for Sorella
Hawks permesso (registration), this is my fourth time doing this process and it’s
never been this complicated. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Tomorrow we
are heading back to Milano for new missionary training and then I do my first
scambio (companion exchange) in like a week and a half. I’m the sister training
leader over the Varese Sorelle and the Lugano Switzerland Sorelle. So that
should be fun :) My new greenie is Sorella Hawks! She is from New York, went to
BYU, 19 years old, and super awesome. I love her so much already. She actually
is from the ward where my cousin Kieonah is serving right now! How ironic is
that? haha so funny! <o:p></o:p></div>
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This week
has been a little hard because of everything we’ve had going on and trying to
figure out the new area together. I’ve never been so tired in my whole life,
haha - we have just been getting lost around the city all week in the rain,
haha. We’ve been sent on multiple scavenger
hunts for her permesso and have had to go to Milano for consiglio and Varese
for district meeting etc.. so basically we are doing a ton of train and bus-type
finding, because we have no other choice, haha. But it’s so fun and we are
seeing miracles from it for sure. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The other
day we were on a train and we found this super awesome girl who is like 24 and
lives here in Busto and she talked to us for the entire 40 minute train ride
(big deal). She’s super awesome and gave us her phone number and so hopefully something
comes of that. Greenie power, it’s a real thing. <o:p></o:p></div>
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On a sad
note all of the simps (investigators) that the Sorelle had before we got here won’t
answer our phone calls or texts and when we go to pass by they are never home –
soooooo, we are basically starting all over, which is hard but good because it
means there are new people out there we need to be finding. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I’m just
glad my greenie is just so hard working and great. She’s just going with
everything and super positive even though I’m like totally freaking out on the
inside, haha. Yesterday we were running from place to place all day and didn’t
get to eat lunch until 8:30 at night (remember how we don’t have dinner in our
mission? haha still hard for me) and we kind of had a break down, haha. We were
so exhausted. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Then today
we got a call from the Anziani (Elders) here in busto who is also training a
new missionary – right in the middle of studies, saying that we had to run to
the train station so we could make the train to go to Varese because they just
found out we have to go there for something for the permesso. So we literally
RAN the 20 minute walk to the station in the pouring rain to make the train, go
to Varese, and sit in the post office on our pday, haha. It was a little rough,
but we are almost done with the process now - meno male (thank heavens). <o:p></o:p></div>
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everything for the week. It’s been crazy but we love being companions, are
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So...its
transfer week! And guess what, I’m leaving Ravenna and Sorella Nilsen :( so
sad. But I’m going to be white washing (both sisters are being transferred out)
a city called Busto Arsizio, training a new missionary AGAIN, and I am now a
new Sister Training Leader - sooooo yeah, I am kind of freaking out – I really have
no idea what I’m doing. I am sure it will be fine, haha, but oh man. I will just figure it out as I go I guess! <o:p></o:p></div>
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We are
leaving tonight and staying the night in Reggio Emilia so that we can get to Milano
early enough for me to get to Cimiano (Milan) and pick up my new greenie! This is
so weird, I already have a greenie! Haha – well now Sorella Nilsen will have a
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So with my
new greenie, we will somehow make our way to Busto with both of our bags and
then somehow figure out where our apartment is and everything else we need to know
about the area. We won’t have a phone or anything, so the Anziani (Elders) will
probably meet us at the station or something to give us our phone and keys and
tell us how to get to the apartment and the church or something – I sure hope
they do, oh man. This will be an
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This week
has been crazy between saying “bye” to everyone and seeing all our investigators
one last time before I go, and we’ve seen a ton of miracles. Yesterday we were
gone from our apartment from 8:30 am until like 9:30 pm with back-to-back appointments.
It was insane, haha – we are dead tired. I got my suitcases all packed and I can’t
believe I’m leaving Ravenna. I’ve been here so long; it’s so weird to think
about. I’m so sad to leave some of these
really amazing people that Sorella Nilsen and I found. They are so amazing and
will do great things. And it was hard saying “bye” to the Branch last night
too. They are all so sweet. Oh and Mom and Dad, just so you know, at least like
50% of the branch offered their homes for us to stay at if we ever come back to
visit after I finish the mission, haha – so we have to come back ;) haha!! <o:p></o:p></div>
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Sorella
Nilsen and I are so sad to leave each other though; I’m going to miss her so
much. we were doing weekly planning on Friday and we got to the part in comp
inventory where you discuss the strength of your companionship and we both just
looked at each other and started crying, hahahaa – ah man. She’s so great. She’s
going to do so great here in Ravenna with her new compie, I have no doubt. <o:p></o:p></div>
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that’s all for this week! It’s been cray and I’m exhausted, haha – but all is
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Ciao Famiglia!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Come state?! HAPPY BIRTHDAY DADDDDDD!!!!!!!!<o:p></o:p></div>
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This week
was so good! We saw so many miracles! We have so many awesome new investigators
that we are really excited about so we will see what happens with them :) they
were definitely all an answer to prayers though. God’s timing truly is perfect
and puts us in the perfect places at the perfect times. <o:p></o:p></div>
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This week we
did a mostra (street display) in centro with some members of the branch and it
was really awesome! I think it was really cool for them to taste a little bit
of what we do every day. It was really awesome and we found some really cool people!
So we are excited :) they played Grazia Lui in the background and it was so
powerful (i think it’s called “Because of Him” in English? From the Easter
movie about Christ?) So that was awesome. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Oh but it
was so funny, this man yelled at me from the gazebo telling me that the Madonna
( Mary, Jesus's mom) is my mother too and that I have to know that. He just
shook his finger at me and yelled it at me for like 30 seconds. Probably like 75
year old man. I had no idea what to do so I just tried not to laugh and tell
him I hope he has a great day, ahha, oh man. <o:p></o:p></div>
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And then
today we went to the mare (ocean)! it was soooo pretty today. Don’t worry; we didn’t
go on the beach or near the water, just on the wooded path. But it was so fun.
We took some funny pictures. enjoy :) <o:p></o:p></div>
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Transfer
calls are this Saturday so we will see what happens. Other than that, I think that’s
all for this week. <o:p></o:p></div>
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We are doing
well; I just love Sorella Nilsen sooo much. She’s just so great and I’m so glad
she’s my verdina (Greenie) :) We have so much fun together and work really hard
and see a lot of miracles too. She’s so brava (good). <o:p></o:p></div>
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We are doing
well; our investigators are doing well and we have lot of faith in them.
Ravenna is the best. I just love it here :) The mission is the best! <o:p></o:p></div>
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Sorry,
another short email! Hopefully the pictures make up for it :) <o:p></o:p></div>
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vi voglio
benissimo! statemi bene! (Have a great day) :)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Ciao Famiglia!
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Sorry this
week my email is going to be really short because I am totally out of time
because we went to San Marino today! It was so fun! <o:p></o:p></div>
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This week
has been literally crazy, a huge rollercoaster ride. But we are so happy and
doing well! Sorella Nilsen invited one of our investigators to be baptized (for
her first time ever) and our investigator said yes! Whooo! Huge miracle. I don’t
have time to tell the story of how we found her but it was a huge answer to our
prayers, it was so incredible. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Sunday was a
little rough, we had a lot of problems with some investigators at church but
everything is totally fine now and all is well all is well :) <o:p></o:p></div>
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Then last
night I had literally one of the scariest experiences in my mission, and I’m
not just saying that to scare mom, haha but we are now safe and totally fine;
and that will be a great story in about 4 months ;) ahha <o:p></o:p></div>
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It was
Sorella Nilsens birthday so like everyone in the whole world wanted to throw
her a festa (party). It was fantastic and our branch did a really cool activity
gathering chestnuts in the mountains so that was really fun. I’ve never done
that before, it’s super interesting and it was really beautiful. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I got your
packages (four of them)! Thank you so much! I LOVED them all! <o:p></o:p></div>
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There was a
giant ice storm yesterday and today we went to San Marnio with Sorell Jarvis
and Sorella Killpack and it was so awesome, we had so much fun. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Oh and guess
what, tomorrow I will have officially been in Italy one year! Weird right? <o:p></o:p></div>
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Well I think
that’s all! Sorry again it’s so short today but i gotta go! <o:p></o:p></div>
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I love and
miss you so much! Talk to you soon! :)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13586468115549652113noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5036171098911895668.post-49428160563616999812014-10-08T20:29:00.002-07:002014-10-08T20:29:36.747-07:00Letter #56 - 10/7/14<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ciao Famiglia!
<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Come state?!
:) This week was so good. We had General Conference! Whooo! So great. Because
of the time difference we didn’t get to watch Sunday afternoon and majority of
the women’s conference because of technical difficulties at the church but
everything that I saw was so so good. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">So last week
we had been praying all week to have someone put in our path that was ready to
hear the gospel and then one night we were out doing some finding work by
centro (town center) and we stopped this lady who spoke English and she was
super funny and talked to us for a little bit and then when she left this guy
came up to us and was like, "hi! do you speak English?!" and we were
like "yeah!" And then we just started talking to him and he’s soooo
legit. He’s from Barcelona and is here in Ravenna for work for a few months at
least and doesn’t know Italian yet and doesn’t know anyone. He even has friends
who are members of the church back in Spain and had so many good questions
about the church. AND he came to conference with us! How cool is that?! it was
so awesome. Definitely an answer to prayer. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Then last
night we had a dinner with this cute little Italian couple and had homemade
pizza with them and guess what else....fried pig skin. It was so gross, as we
were eating it (and initially had no idea what it was) they were explaining to
us how they make it and it was so disgusting. Sorella Nilsen asked me what it
was and I told her I wouldn’t explain it to her until after we were done eating,
haha so gross. Oh my gosh, also at the end of the meal they gave us a pomegranate
from their tree in their yard and I went to open it and....the berries flew out
EVERYWHERE. Haha we were all laughing for like 5 minutes straight. we were
finding pomegranate berries everywhere the rest of the night. They kept calling
it "the pioga". haha so funny and so embarrassing, haha oh well. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I thought it
was really cool in conference how they talked a lot about being personally
responsible for our personal testimonies, so powerful. And actually yesterday Sorella
Nilsen and I really had our testimonies tested at one of our appointments. It
was with this woman who was super sweet that we met on the street way back when
Sorella Carter was still here. And we were finally able to set a return
appointment with her and so yesterday we got to her house and her husband was
home too. It was a really tough lesson. He just kept questioning everything we
said, pointing his finger at us and diminishing us and what we 'thought' we
knew – he kept telling us we were just convinced and that we didn’t really
know, we weren’t old enough or experienced enough to really know. It was so
hard, he didn’t really give us a chance to speak or defend ourselves. But I
will never forget the moment where I just looked him in the eye and said
"IO SO, con tutto il mio cuore che Joseph Smith era un profeta (I KNOW,
with all my heart that Joseph Smith was a prophet)." The spirit was so
strong and we know he felt it too. We just both bore our testimonies and left
them with that. It was one of the hardest but coolest experiences. Sorella Nilsen
and I both were tearing up as we left the palazzo (building), having your faith
questioned is not a fun experience, but if we have that rock foundation like in
Helaman 5:12 we will never falter.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Vi voglio
bene (I love you)! I hope you all have a great week! talk to you soon! :) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13586468115549652113noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5036171098911895668.post-40929070843378375652014-10-01T21:16:00.000-07:002014-10-01T21:16:13.329-07:00Letter #55 - 9/30/14
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ciao
Famiglia Mia! :) <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Come state?!
(how are you?) first of all...BUON COMPLEANNO ANNA!!!!!! :) (Happy Birthday Anna)
I hope you have an awesome 15th birthday! It makes me feel old to think that
when I left you were still 13... ahhhhhh. Stop growing up! Don’t worry; we will
eat gelato for you today ;) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">So guess
what! Last week 45 people came to our English class! It was a HUGE miracle! It’s
a little intimidating teaching them all but we have a lot of fun with it, haha,
it’s great. So we are hoping that we can find a lot of people to teach from
them so speriamo bene che quello vada bene (well hopefully one that goes well).
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">ALSO - remember
that peanut butter gelato I told you about? Well I am a genius and I got that
the other day with fragola (strawberry) and it was literally like a peanut
butter and jelly gelato sandwich. I have to stop myself for getting it every
time now. It was sooo good. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">On Sunday
our branch had a big pranzo (lunch) together after church and it was so fun!
Sorella Nilsen and I made these cookies that everyone LOVES. We were requested
to bring them to every branch function forever, haha. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Also Sorella
Nilsen got her permesso (paperwork) this week! She’s official! and I’m almost
done with the renewal process so we have had to spend quite a bit of time at
the questura (police station) and posta (post office) this week. And this
morning we passed our apartment cleaning check, another miracle. Haha! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Our
investigators are doing well! We have one investigator who is sooooo ready to
be baptized, but because of some legal things we have to wait a little longer,
so it’s been a little heartbreaking for us the past few days. She’s so ready
and wants it so badly but we have to wait a little bit. But she just has the
biggest heart ever and I love her so much. She asked Sorella Nilsen and I to
come back to Italy and be the witnesses at her and her fiancé’s wedding when
they can finally get married. HOW CUTE IS THAT?!?! I literally almost cried. I
just have so much love for her. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Sorella Nilsen
is a rock star and I’m just so glad we are companions. We have so much fun
together all the time. Italy is great. I’s getting a lot colder now for sure,
though. I can almost say that I have survived all the mosquito seasons on the
mission! They should all die fra alcuni settimane (within a few weeks). That
will be a blessed day. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">All is well
here :) Being a missionary is the living best. Our zone has been focusing a lot
on the Atonement of Jesus Christ this transfer and I am learning so much. I
feel like especially during my time here in Ravenna, I’ve grow so much closer
to my Savior and gained so much more of an appreciation for Him and all he did
for us. Everything we do should be for Him. He is so aware of each one of us because
he has literally been there. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Vi voglio
tantissimo bene! (I want so much good).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Have a great week! :) Love and miss you! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">p.s. sorry
my emails are always so scatter brained, hahaha, love you!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13586468115549652113noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5036171098911895668.post-30318258443315751022014-09-26T06:57:00.000-07:002014-09-26T06:57:54.290-07:00Letter #54 - 9/23/14
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ciao Famiglia!
come state?! :) <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">This week
has been sooooo long, haha. Literally so much has happened, ahh. Well where to
start - we had a super cool family home evening at one of our member’s houses
the other day with one of our investigators and a lot of other members and it
went so well! They all loved it and I ate like a million different types of
meat; it was crazy. Sorella nilsen and I did a lesson on perdono (forgiveness)
and they loved it. We did a little backpack object lesson thing and it was
super cool. Oh and today we ran into a couple (from Utah) here from the cruise
ship and they ran over and talked to us and gave us some food they had and took
a picture with us. They were sooooo nice! we were so happy to see them :) small
Mormon world. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Last night
two random men asked to take pictures of us, it was so was weird - oh Italy. Sorella
nilsen let me cut her hair this week, haha so that was fun. Mom my hair is
ridiculously long, you would seriously freak out. It needs to be cut so badly,
ahha ahh. I will probably chop it when I get home. I imagine 18 months of being
in a braid isn’t super healthy, haha oh well. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Funny story,
we got home late the other night so the zone leaders told us we had to sing
them a song on the phone to make up for it and they requested “If you could hie
to Kolob”. So my companion and I did a singing/beepboxing duet to “If you could
hie to Kolob” for them. It was hilarious and they were very impressed – ovviamente
(obviously). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Tonight we
are restarting our English class so pray for us! We are hoping tons of people
come and that at least a couple of them will be interested in talking with us a
little more. We’ve been getting tons of phone calls and stuff about it so we
are really hopeful. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Oh and
yesterday I had a PB&J for lunch; I almost cried I was so happy. It was so good
– blessed day. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I think that’s
everything! Ravenna is great, Sorella Nilsen is great, and I just love life
over here. Our investigators are doing good! One came to church for relief
society for the first time ever on Sunday so that was a huge miracle :) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Hope all is
well back home! love and miss you! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13586468115549652113noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5036171098911895668.post-27119937532073417862014-09-17T14:25:00.001-07:002014-09-17T14:25:25.407-07:00Letter #53 - 9/16/14
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ciao Famiglia!
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">How are you
all?? Mom, how was your birthday?? :) Well this week has been nuts here in Ravenna.
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">One of our
branch members passed away after being in the hospital for 104 days, so we had
his funeral last Saturday. It was a really peaceful day; he suffered for a
really long time and was 80 something years old, I believe. But I played the
piano at the funeral and we did it in our little church building and then went
to the cemetery. The cemeteries here are so different; all the tombstones are
huge, literally like little houses. So crazy. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">And then
also the mom of another one of our branch members passed away this week so we
went to her funeral in a Catholic church on Monday morning before district
meeting. She was older as well and had been sick for quite some time; it was a
really peaceful service for her as well. It was really cool to see all of our
members really coming together to support each other. I just love this little
branch with all my heart. Good thing I’m here for 6 more weeks :) also. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Guess what?
Sorella Jarvis is getting transferred to Rimini! So she is going to be my
sister training leader for the last 6 weeks of her mission!!!!! I’M sooooooooo
excited! ahhh I love her so much - so that will be fun :) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Also, scary
story form the week... remind me to tell you that one when I get home mom ;)
haha <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">But yeah we
are doing well :) Sorella Nilsen and I are excited we get to stay together for
6 more weeks :) We just love each other, it’s great. The other day I climbed
out of the bathroom window to get on the balcony and scare her from the kitchen
window, it was priceless, haha so much fun. My <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">daughter</i> is such a good sport for putting up with me ;) haha. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Also we are
starting up our English class again next week so we have been doing a TON of
publicity for that and have seen so much success. We are so excited for it to
restart, like literally one lady we went up to give her a flyer threw down her
cigarette (big deal) and jumped up and hugged us she was so excited. She said
it was a birthday gift from God that we were teaching a free English class,
haha, so yeah, it’s going to be fantastic. can’t wait. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Also,
yesterday I saw one of the biggest miracles so far on the mission. Sorella
Nilsen and I were having a little bit of a tough day and just weren’t feeling too
good, and our appointments cancelled, and we just had literally an entire day
of finding. So we were just feeling super discouraged and just felt really
alone and like no one really cared. As the end of the night came along and we
were doing casa and getting rejected house after house, our phone randomly rang
and it was our branch mission leader - literally one of my favorite people in
the whole world. So I answered and he was like Ciao Sorella! Can you be at the
church by 7pm? and we were like of course, we will be there, thinking he wanted
to have correlation or something, - he said okay perfect – meet you there, I
have something for you. And we were like okay so we got on our bikes and rode
over to the church, having no idea what to expect. So we get there and wait a
couple minutes and then in comes our branch mission leader with a huge smile on
his face carrying...a bag of chicken. Literally, a big rotisserie chicken. He
shook our hands, and handed it over to us and told us he got us some pollo. We
were just kind of shocked, haha, he said he bought two and thought he should
give us one. Then he shook our hands again and told us to have a great night
and left just like that. It was so crazy. He just randomly brought us a
chicken, on the day we were struggling the most and feeling so useless.
Fratello Pogg brought us a chicken. It was like in 17 miracles when that lady doesn’t
know how she’s going to keep going and then a pie appeared. Such a huge
miracle. We knew that Heavenly Father was watching over us and heard our prayers.
He sent us Fratello Pogg and the chicken so that we would know that everything
was going to be okay and that he is aware of us. The miracle of the chicken, I
will never forget it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Hope all is
well! Love and miss you so much! I hope you have a fun week with Grandma and Grandpa!
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Vi voglio
bene! (I love you!)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Sorella Yost</span></div>
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