Ciao!

Cari!

So lots of changes this week! Sorella Johnson is being transferred to Rome, she is leaving me, ah! We are going to Catania today to drop her off and pick up my new companion. Her name is Sorella Sobeck, she is from California and has been her only two transfers more than me. 

It is crazy to think Sorella Johnson is leaving! She has been such a great trainer and has taught me so much about how to be a missionary and about life. She will do great things in Roma 3, I know it! I am a little nervous thinking about doing everything without Sorella Johnson, but I know that this challenge will help me to put more of my trust in the Lord. Because I have been just leaning on her for help lately. 

We had the most wonderful experience last night with Giuseppe. Before we said the prayer he said that he wanted to tell us of an experience he had afterward. We were both thinking, it is either going to be a bad one or an amazing one. It was an amazing one! He told us about how he dreamed about asking a man were a street was and it was like he was asking through prayer and then he saw a light, he said like Joseph Smith did, and the man said that the way is with the missionaries and the gospel they are teaching and you need to keep going down that street. He said he woke up with the most exquisite feeling of peace and happiness and was even more excited to see us! It was a awesome, because we had spent a lot of time thinking about him this week and planning his lesson. We ended up deciding to keep it simple and do the third which is about the gospel of Chirst and give him a homework assignment of sorts. We wanted him to read 2 Nephi 31 and write some notes on the question, how can you follow Chirst more? Well, it was perfect, for it fit in perfectly with his dream and following the way of the gospel! We were so happy for him.

It was also incredible to see how he is changing. When we first met with him he was impatient and wanted to learn everything at once and was just looking for facts, he did not really listen intently to what we were saying, but now he is tranquilo, he listens intently and asks pertinant questions to the topic we are on. He is going to Milano for a conference for work and he asked us to help him find a church close to where he is staying. We found it on the google map (the church has the coolest website to find meeting houses!) and he called the bishop! He said that he wants to bring his collegue that he is going with. 

The companion of one of our investigators had a baby! She is the cutest thing in the world, only 2 kilos. Her mom, who is in active, is softening so much because of the sweet spirit that baby brings. I love babies and it makes me want to see Lena and Jimmy so bad!

I heard this story from Sorella Johnson. Sorella Johnson's brother's friend, while serving in Brazil, was walking across the street when a bus hit him. He hardly had a chance to live he had so much damage done to his body. Well, he is alive and progressing so rapidly that the doctors are amazed. A couple days before general conference they thought he was going to be completely paralyzed, but in just those few days he started to move a little more and then when in conference everyone sustained the prophet, he suprised everyone by raising his right arm to sustain him too. Now he is starting to learn to walk again. When I think of this I am just so filled with the spirit, inspiring me to keep going and working hard. This young man, instead of being depressed and sad and lamenting, why did this happen to me, I was on a mission, I was being good, why would God do this to me. He is showing great faith in accepting the trials that come to him and being an example that no matter what we go through we can be positive and go on.

Lots of people here have lost hope or are losing hope. We are working so hard to help them to understand faith. I know with all my heart that if we have faith in Jesus Christ we will be happy, happier than we ever thought possible in this world, no matter what.

Love you all and I hope you have a good week!

Love,

Sorella Comollo