CIAO!!

Ciao Tutti!

I just wanted to email you and say that I have my p days on wednesdays, so that is when I will be writing:) And yes you can email and snail mail me:)

I love you and I am excited!

Love you!

Sorella Comollo

I am in ITALIA!!!

Hello! Hello! Ciao!!!! (I do not know if I got Olga's email right, so let me know if it is wrong so I can change it:))

I am just emailing you from the mission home in Rome, Italy! Did I say I was in ROME, ITALY!?!!!!! Well, I am shaking with fatigue, because it has sure been a LONG day, but I am also shaking with excitment because I got my golden transfer(my first one that is)!!!! Guess where?

 

SICILIA!!!! MISTRETTA, SICILIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am so so so happy! It was crazy, because when the mission president told the four of us, the sisters that came from the MTC that all of us were going to go to Sicily and he started naming some of the cities there, when he started talking about Mistretta, this hilly village, I had this sense that that is where I need to be, I had this yearning to go there. Well, I got my mini call and low and behold I was going exactly where I felt I should, rather, where the Lord felt I should:) I love having the spirit! I am taking an one hour flight at 1pm tomorrow, so I shall be there so soon:) Usually you have to take a 12 hour bus ride, but there is a strike tomorrow, so I get to take the plane! YAY!

 

Today was great, the flight only took 7 and half hours from Dallas to London, which is less than I was expecting. My ears were hurting sooooo bad, they would not pop for the whole time, in dallas and in London:(

I prayed so hard and guess what, they popped right as I arrived in Rome:) I love prayer:)

 

Well, you should write back to this email ASAP since I get to check it tomorrow before I leave:) I am allowed to write on email to my family, including sisters/brother etc:)

Also, you can totally send mail to me directly in SICILIA! My address is:

 

Via Pozzo Gelso, 1

98073 Mistretta Italy

 

So write me lots!

I love you all! It was the best talking to you today, I have the best family ever! I pray for you daily! And I just want to let you know that I know this church is true! With all of my heart! Remember that Jesus is our Savior and that through following him we can truly find joy!

Have a great day!

LOVE

SORELLA COMOLLO

Last E-mail from the MTC

Eva email 01/18/12

Ciao Tutti!

I hope all is going well for everyone at home. I hope you had a white Martin Luther King Jr. Day (pun intended:)) I have not seen an inch of snow in Provo yet, which I guess I must get used to since in southern Italy it doesn't snow. This is my last email from the MTC, Crazy!!! I leave from here next Tuesday at 5am. I will give you my itinerary:

SLC to Dallas - 8:10am-11:55

Dallas to London - 4:45pm-7:30am

London  to ROMA!!! - 10:35am-2:05pm

I will most likely be calling you when I am in Dallas since I have about a five hour layover, so plan on me calling about 2pm or so:) I am still not sure on all the rules of calling, but I think I can talk for about 45 minutes. We shall see:) So be ready to answer the phone! (I am not sure, but I think I can call more than one person as long as I am aware of the time, so perhaps I shall call in the morning in SLC before everyone goes to work and than in the afternoon again!)

Also, I am sending a bunch of stuff home on Monday, so be expecting a package from me next week!

I was wondering if you could do me a huge-mongo favor? Can you send me my blue pocket size italian dictionary today so I can get it before I leave. It should be on the book shelf in my room (which Sam, I am sure is so lovely taking care of:)) or if it is not there it should be on the shelf in the closet on the left side where all my textbooks are. Rosie knows what it looks like because she has the same one. If you cannot find it or do not think that I will receive it by Monday do not worry about it, I can just buy one later, but if you can that would be great!

Also, Mamma do you think that you could send me a dearelder or letter this week letting me know how much money I have on my Debit card? I cannot look here and I just want to make sure just in case I need to use it at the airport and whatnot. Thank you so much!

This week has been a good week. I finally realized how to really prepare for lessons and the principle is that I am using to accomplish it is forgetting myself and focusing all my time and energy on the investigator. I am not sure if I have explained this yet, but now at the MTC we start teaching "investigators"(usually our teachers), in our mission language from week one. We also get to teach in the TRC, which is where members or even less actives come from the "outside world" and volunteer to talk with us for a bit on the gospel. I have really loved my MTC experience. I actually do not feel nervous to go to preach the gospel in a new language, because I know why I am doing it now, to invite people to come unto Christ and there is nothing better in this world than this and I am excited for everyone to hear this incredible message!

We are teaching a lot about the commandments lately. I am learning so much about why we need them and what they can do for us. I was thinking about commandments during the sacrament and how we covenant to take upon the name of Chirst and always remember him. Well, how do we do that exactly? My answer thus far is keeping his commandments, which in essence is following his example. When we follow the commandments we are putting God's will in front of our own and we are changing our entire lifestyle to be in harmony with his. If the commandments help us change our lifestyle that means that everytime we follow a commandment we are remembering Christ and putting his will or his name upon us and acting as he would. I have been striving to think about this in everyday things, like why would I eat healthier(since this seems to be a commandment I struggle with, just look at my chubbalub;)jk), by following the commandment of the Word of Wisdom, I am doing it because The lord has asked us to and then that reminds me of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ so I am literally keeping my baptismal covenant when I think of these things and as I DO them! I encourage all of you this week to implement this mind set of remembering the why we keep commandments(notwithstanding all the blessings we receive, like eating healthy has a lot of other blessings attached to it:)). For example, why am I abstaining from the morning coffee, or why am steering clear of media that has degrading content or why am I going to church, etc. In the end all of it comes down to remembering Christ and really applying him to our lives.

I hope that made sense:)

 I did not know anything before!!! The gospel is amazing! It is true! I know it with all of my mind, heart and soul! I have never been so close to my Savior and my Father in Heaven and I have never been so happy too (even through all of my trials, which are not so bad in the scheme of things). I am so blessed to have this priviledge to serve my God and I know that as we have faith, repent daily (so as to come in stretta harmony with God) and have charity and serve one another his spirit will be with us in more abundance and there is no better thing in the whole world than having this taste of the glory of God in our lives!

I love you all so much! I am so grateful for all of your prayers and support! Have a great week!

TALK TO YOU SOON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LOVE

SORELLA COMOLLO