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When life gets too hard to stand, kneel.

You know that feeling when your throat is tight and you are trying to hold back tears so you keep coughing and blowing your nose trying to disguise your desire to burst into tears by a fake cold? That was today. Today was a rough day. I may…
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Worthy of Love

Guilt and worthiness. I have struggled with these feelings for as long as I can remember because of my perfectionism, fear, I don't know. I know I am supposed to "learn" something from this infertility trial, but I feel done. Because I continue…

Little Seeds

This is Prince and Mary Jane. We met when I was a missionary serving in Mestre, Italy - a city right outside of Venice. Sorella Gillette and I found them when we were trying to track down a member of the ward there and it turns out they…

share goodness sunday | blogtember #4

Today is Sunday.  A beautiful day of rest dedicated to God.  It is 11:00 pm, which means no one will probably read this once I publish it, but I made a goal to write every day this month and gosh darn it, I'm going to stick with it.  I love…

Fino al giorno in cui ci rivedrem (last letter 10/29/14)

Carissima famiglia mia, I've been staring at the screen for 5 minutes now and my fingers are shaky. I don't know why, I just don't know how to put into words what this last year and a half has meant for me.  I don't know how to really…

Un giorno senza un sorriso e perso (letter from 10/22/14)

Carissima famiglia, A day without a smile is lost. A member gave me that phrase this week, and I thought I'd share it with you. There's always a reason to smile :) I just love you all! This week was a great week, filled with lots of little…

Le esperienze che ci fanno imparare (letter from 10/15/14)

Carissima famiglia, It has been a good week! Lots of learning experiences and God answering our prayers. I want to write about a lesson we had this week that was one of the favorites of my mission. We went to go teach one of our new investigators,…

Il pronto soccorso, la pazienza (letter from 10/8/14)

Carissima famiglia, Well it has been a great week, let me tell ya. It all started out with last Wednesday, we were rushing to an appointment with our dream family and my dear companion, Sorella Bringas, fell off her bike. Really hard. She…

Il nostre fondamento (letter from 9/17/14)

Cara famiglia, I'll give you a little rundown of my week. Thursday night we went to "La Fenice" to see Giuseppe Verdi's "Il Trovatore." My favorite scene was the gypsies singing and using the stuff they steal out of the trashcan's as instruments…

le piccole vittorie (letter from 9/10/14)

Carissima famiglia, How are you? Thank you for the emails, I am praying for each of you. We said goodbye to one of my favorite African families in the world this week. We sang African spirituals together and I seriously can't help but…

Calar del sole

Cara famiglia, I forgot my planner this week, and that's how I remember everything, so I apologize for my terrible memory of the week. This week consisted of a scambio with Sorella Nedelkov from Verona here in Mestre. She is probably the…

I gatti, i meno attivi, e miracoli

Buona sera cara famiglia, Come state? It has been another week filled with miracles. Lots of service filled, sweet miracles. I just love my mission and making these best friends for life. Let me just tell you about a couple of these sweet…

cucinare fa la differenza. ed anche lo Spirito :)

Ciao cara famiglia, It's been a pretty good week filled with lots and lots of miracles. For example. Last week, one of our investigators told us she wanted to know all the requirements for baptism so we went over them with her this week.…

Miracoli sempre vengono quando cerchiamo

Cara famiglia, So I don't think my inbox has ever been so full in my entire life! A lot of old companions are home and I just loved reading all their emails :) But, we're still working hard in Mestre, the work goes on! And let me tell…

Un cuore spezzato

Carissima famiglia, It has been a crazy week, that's all I gotta say. Sorella Lopez is preparing to go home! It's been crazy, running around trying to get everything together, teach as many people as possible, and just processing everything…

Today we spent the majority of the day on a boat...

Cara famiglia, Today we spent the majority of the day on a boat. Yep. It's allowed because it's public transportation and we were taking a water taxi to some of the islands in Venice. It's pretty :) We saw a lighthouse on the island of Murano,…

Un po di ricerca, le pazze, e la luce :)

Cara famiglia, So, can I just tell you Venice is beautiful. But, it's also super hot and super super crowded. My feet are killin me. But, I am NOT COMPLAINING :) How lucky have I been to serve in some of the most famous cities in the world.…

Sei felice?

Buon giorno la mia famiglia bellissima, It was a pretty good week if I do say so myself. First of all, we taught 6 member present lessons. Mestre hasn't seen more than 3 in a while. So, we're pretty happy with this. Members make all of the…