Ciao
Famiglia!
So today’s
email is going to be super short because we are SKYPING tomorrow!!!!!! I’m
soooooo excited :)
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!
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.
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.
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.
Vi voglio
benissimo e mi mancate tantissimo! ci vediamo domani! BUON NATALE!
Love,
Sorella Yost
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