Carissimi!!!!
I love you all so much!
I thought I would tell you that first! This week has been lovely:) after much
diligence and prayer:) We had a tad tiff, my companion and I, but thank
goodness for companionship inventory because we worked everything out and now
instead of being just companions we are becoming friends, yippee! I truly
believe that sharing spiritual experiances with each other is key to growing
closer together, like what you learn from the scriptures or how prayer has
helped you or what little miracles you witnessed throughout the day. I know
that I will use this advice in my future companionships as well as in my
eternal one;)
We have had the
most amazing speakers here this week! The daughter of Pres. Monson came, Sister
Dibb. I just thought Rosie would like to know that Pres. Monson loves mincemeat
pie, I would like Randy to know that Pres. Monson loves red heads and if there
is ever a crowd he will always shake the hands of the red heads first;) and I
want dad to know that Pres. Monson loves Haagin Daas Ice cream! You see we have
more in common with this amazing man than we think!;)
We also had Sister
Dalton come last night! It was the best discourse ever! I could not take notes
fast enough! She talked about the Chirstmas story and gave new insight on it.
For example, in Luke, before Mary was visited by the Angel she had
just a regular life, with plans like you and I have, but when the
angel says, "thou art highly favoured of the lord, fear not for thou
hast found favour with God" Mary says she will do the Lord's will, give up
the life she had planned. Would we believe the angel, that we are hightly
favoured sons and daughters of the Lord, would we fear even after he said not
to, to change our lives? The angel also says to Mary (Luke 1:37) "For with
God nothing shall be impossible". These seven words are so profound. Are
we willing to give up the life we have planned for the life that is waiting for
us? I know that it is hard, but I have seen already in my life that following
the promptings of the spirit can sometimes be hard and get in the way of our
"plans", but in the end our lives WILL be better, they WILL be the
best as we follow what God has planned for us. I have a great example of this
in a lesson we taught to an "investigator" this week. We had taught
him 5 lessons already and each time it seemed he was cosi cosi with everything.
Now I am not a very bold person when it comes to giving advice to others. I
usually beat around the bush, working hard not to offend them or make them feel
uncomfortable, so when Jad, our investigator, was saying sure I will pray in
the lessons nonchallantly(spelling?) I thought that was ok because I did not
want to annoy or pressure him. Well finally in the 6th lesson I listened to the
prompting of the spirit, I had the strong desire to ask him certain questions,
questions that were bold and way out of my comfort zone. I decided to act on
the spirit I felt. By the end of the lesson Jad was smiling(which is a first,
he never smiles!), excited to pray and be a part of the Gospel. The things
I had planned for the lesson did not work out, instead the Lord had something
else in mind, it was more difficult to do, by far, but in the end way better.
It was amazing! I love being a missionary.
This reminds
me of what my biology teacher, Temme said, he said to never
be comfortable, or else you will never grow and learn, be comfortable with
the idea of being uncomfortable:) I think God would agree with this:)
Ahh I am out of time! I
will end with my testimony!!! This gospel is truly the gospel of christ,
it truly is the way that we can draw closer to God and have the
most incredible and fullfilling time on this earth regardless of our
trials!
I love you all
so so so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I want you to know that
reading the scriptures and prayer is the best way to get the spirit and I
encourage you to drink deeply from them daily! Especially the Book of
Mormon, it truly is a book from God's prophets, exactly what we need in
our day.
I love this gospel so
much and I love that we are an eternal family!
Love you tons!
Love,
Sorella Comollo
P.S. I know what I want
for christmas:) I would love if all of you, the whole
family(Comollos, Getts, Williams and Babies) go and see the lights on temple
square together and share in the spirit of Christmas, truly remembering
why we celebrate it. Remembering the humble birth of our greatest example
and blessing! Love you!
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