Ciao Famiglia!

Ciao Tutti!

Well, it has been another rough week for us. We found a list of members in our area. There are a lot more than I thought there were. So this week we made plans to go and see some of them. Let's just say that it was not the most pleasent experience. One of them asked us not to come back and seemed kind of mad that we tried to find her. It broke my heart, not that she rejected me, but that she was rejecting the gospel, something that would bring so much joy to her life. Another was on the phone when she answered the door and said she was busy and slammed the door, so that was hard too. 

We did have a great lesson with a women named Liria, she has a ton of questions and doesn't understand how people can know something is true. It was cool because we thought of the scripture in Moroni 10 verses 4 and 5 and how first you have to have faith, then act, by praying with sincerity and real intent and then can you come to a knowledge. I love the scriptures! We had our district meeting on Monday about faith and we were talking about how faith has so much power behind it. We cannot do anything without faith. If you do not have the faith to get up in the morning you will not get up in the morning. You have to believe in something first and then come the actions to carry out that belief and then that belief is realized and becomes a knowledge. For example, I eventually in my life want to run a marathon. First I have to have the desire to do it and then I have to believe that I can do, I do not know yet that I can, I believe only. Then I take the steps to realize that belief by finding out information on how to go about doing it, then I start training, acting. Then I run the marathon and my belief becomes a knowledge. I love faith!

(I forget what I write, so if I already told you that analogy sorry:)).

Last night was the most terrible night ever! We really have to go through the bad experience to enjoy the good. So last night we invited Giuseppe to a baptism that is taking place in Palermo tomorrow. Well, he wants to come!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That is a miracle, not the bad part of the night! Well, we need another miracle now, how are we going to get him there. So we started calling people about rides and looking a train times and bus times, etc. Well, I did not realize the time and I was calling people, in my frenzy for Giuseppe to go to the baptism, I called a member at like nine thirty at night who was sleeping and he just had a surgery. I felt so bad............ I felt so stupid........bah! Well, I was so busy on the phone (we were driving home on the freeway) I was not watching the exits for Mistretta, I wasn't driving, but since my comp is still new to driving and to the area I needed to tell her where to get off and everything.Well, we missed our exit and by the time I realized where we were we missed the exit after ours..... and the exits here are like 10 km apart. so we had to drive like 20 km just to turn around and then another 20 km to get to our exit. AHHHHH!!! So I felt bad about calling an old sick guy, then I felt even worse about missing so many exits. We ended up getting home an hour late. In times like this looking for the little blessings is key. So, usually we have to park far away from our house, well we were so tired and did not want to park so far so we went to see if there was a spot near our house. The spot closest to our door was free!!! That never happens! That helped me to feel better:) 

I have been learning a lot more about prayer lately. Ever since President Kelly told us in Zone Conference about finding time to pray out loud I have been striving to do so. I thought it would be easy, but I am so used to praying silently I had to kind of work at it. Now, I am seeing a huge difference in my prayers. They are more focused and I feel like I can express myself more because I am not getting distracted by other thoughts. I am seeing that prayer is a most edifying experience, way more than I realized. Thank goodness for prayer, for after that night of stress I needed that support. I want to bear you all my testimony that as we pray and use the atonement we can overcome those feelings of inadequecy and frustration. The atonement is not just for the remission of sins. Like it says in Alma 7:11-13, Christ went through all of our infermities, so he can succor us. I felt such a relief from those negative feelings after invoking my heavenly father for help. There is no reason to give up, because we have help, help from on high.

I love you all so much! I am so happy that I am here. 

Have a good week and I shall write you next week!

Love,

Sorella Comollo