Ciao Mamma!
You should write
your emails either on your email or in word document or something where they
can be saved and then copy and paste them to the Dear Elder website or you can
just send me emails and I can print them out and read them all of my P-day. I
really want to hear more from you, so if that website keeps deleting your
emails just stop using it and use a different method. Have you been getting my
letters? Has dad been reading them along with my emails? He has not written me
anything for a while... how are things going at home? Thank you so much
for your Christmas present you are so sweet and I really liked
what you wrote in the card, you are so sweet! I love you:)
So start of week seven
today, it is crazy to think I have been here for six weeks, sometimes it seems
longer. There is a saying about time in the MTC, days feel like weeks and weeks
feel like days, how true that is!
I have to tell you
something so funny that happened yesterday, our district was practicing a door
approach teaching a family, when it was the Elder's turn to do it (we only have
two in our district) one Elder said this in Italian, "Siamo missionari
dalla Chiesa di Gesu' Cristo dei santi degli UOMANI Giorni." (instead of
saying ULTIMI) or in English, "We are missionaries from the church of
Jesus Christ of MEN-day saints" I burst out laughing and could not
contain myself! Our teacher couldn't stop laughing either so he said start
over, shut the door, start over, we had to take a minute to compose ourselves!
It is so humbling to learn a new language, no worries the Anziano who said
it laughed too:)
Today instead of going
to the Temple we get to clean it! It is closed for the Holidays and I am so
excited to be a part of the maintainance of that incredible edifice!
So we heard a talk on Sunday
night that was delightful:) The orator was so funny! He told us a story about
when he was Stake President he had to go and get a drink before a meeting. So
he went to the drinking fountain, one of those with two right next to each
other(one for the little people:)) and started drinking, well this little boy
comes up and takes a drink too. We all know about how the water pressure in
those darn fountains is so tempramental, so this Stake president decided to use
this knowledge to play a joke on this sweet boy. He let go of his button and
the water in the little boys drinking fountain squirted in his face! Well, the
stake president looked around, to check if anyone was around and then pushed
his button again to get a drink, the little boy came back for another and then
the stake president let go of his button, allowing the water to splash in the
little tyke's face. (no worries I am sure the little boy was having fun.)
He likened this
though to how Satan is pushing our buttons and he knows how to push them. And
if we do not be careful he can push them so much to discourage us from
continuing, he can make us want to quit. We cannot allow this to happen! Of
course we are going to have trials, physical, emotional and spiritual, these
trials will truly help us to become stronger if we go through them with faith.
Christ's life was not a life of ease, why would our lives be? We need to have
these difficulties to learn and grow. Just as a muscle needs resistence to
become strengthened the same principle applys to us. And during these trials
Satan is going to try and push our buttons, but remember with God nothing is
impossible, so lean on him and you shall, I promise you, you will come off
conquorer!
Oh I love you all so
much! I hope you have a SUPER HAPPY NEW YEAR! I just want to let you know that
I know that this Gospel is true! I know it because truly I have felt the peace
that comes from following the commandments and going forward with faith. I have
felt the Holy Ghost's witness of truth as I ponder the Savior's life. I know
that we have prophet on the earth today, this man who truly talks with
our Lord. I know if we listen to him we can overcome any trials with
tranquility and we will not quit when Satan pushes our buttons.
Love you tons!!!!
LOVE,
SORELLA COMOLLO
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