Ciao Caro Famiglia!!!!
Mamma can you email Lauren Kane and ask for her address and Catherine Cromar's and let her know when I get it I will write her back:) Thanks!
So this week was hectic and lovely! I feel like my Italian is getting a tad better, only the vocabulary, my grammer still is not so great. I feel like I study it lots and then when I am in the moment of speaking to someone it all goes out the window and I probably sound like how indians sound to us, "how you? me happy." etc (I do not think that that is super PC to talk about indians, o'well:)) Anyhow, my companion and I have been struggling this week. She is getting really frustrated with her language skills and how she can never remember what she learns and then when I speak to her in Italian she gets annoyed that she cannot understand, then I get frustrated that I cannot practice my Italian and it goes on. But no longer is it like that! The Lord loves us:) I have been praying super hard to love her more and be her friend and have lots of patience and my prayers are being answered! Now I cannot help but get super excited when she starts to speak even a little, high fives and hugs all around when she said in Italian for the first time, without looking at her notes, "Devo andare al bagno addesso!" Plus she got a blessing last night and it was a beautiful blessing of comfort that even comforted me:) Week three is going to be good I can feel it!
Thanksgiving went well, the food was disgust.... I mean great! And I was so grateful for it! Elder Russell M. Ballard came and gave a talk. It was cool because he mentioned the word for thanksgiving in greek is euchoirso, or something like that, which stems from the same root as eucharist, which is like the sacrament wich means sacred mind so during the sacrament you should be grateful. It reminded me of Dad and how he knows all the roots of words:)
So, remember how I told you I was the coordinating sister, guess what my job is??? It is to support the lovely sorelle in my branch, which there are only 6 and they are the ones supporting me and I am incharge of making sure there is a sponge in the bathtub in the handicap tub! What a responsibility if I do say so myself;)
Thank you sooooo soooo much for the yummy bread! You are so sweet to think of me:) I gave some of it to an Anziano from England, I think I told you about him, he has never had pumpkin bread before, those crazy brits!:)
So I must tell you the revelation I had while memorizing the first vision in Italian, which I receit beautifully. I always thought of the first thing God said to Joseph Smith was this is my beloved son hear him, but actually he calls him by name first! The first thing that God says to Joseph Smith is his name!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That is so incredible to me! God knows us, he knows our esigenze (needs), our hearts and our names! This made me think of how we start our lessons, in Preach my gospel (which I think everyone should start studying because it is amazing!), we start with making sure investigators and people in general know that they are children of God, that he loves them so much and that he knows their names and circumstances, then we start teaching about Christ and all of the happiness that comes from following him. Just like in the first vision, God calls him by name and then introduces Christ. I love the Gospel and all of the pensieri it gives to me!
I will tell you, going on a mission is a lot harder than I thought. Sometimes I get discouraged because I am not good at organizing myself to study or I do not know how to respond to our "investigators" in Italian. I have realized that I am super hardheaded(Dad was right all these years;)) and I want to do it my way, but it does not work that way, because without the help of the spirit their is no way I could last. I am so grateful I have been humbled to realize I do not have to do it all, I can lean on the Lord, while still working hard, to guide me.
Hopefully this all makes sense!:)
I love you all so so much! I pray for you always and think of you sempre! You are the best! Thanks for all of you support!
Love,
Sorella Comollo!
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