{"id":334,"date":"2013-07-10T16:50:56","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T16:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/?p=334"},"modified":"2013-07-10T16:50:56","modified_gmt":"2013-07-10T16:50:56","slug":"ogni-giorno-e-unavventura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/ogni-giorno-e-unavventura\/","title":{"rendered":"Ogni giorno \u00e8 un’avventura"},"content":{"rendered":"
Caro la mia famiglia,<\/div>\n
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So, as the subject for my email states – every day is an adventure. I always come home at the end and think – wow, did we really do all that today? Did that really happen? So, today I’m going to tell you a story from every\u00a0day this week!<\/div>\n
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Thursday: We ate lunch with a member.\u00a0 IT WAS DELICIOUS. There is no way to replicate the food in Italy in America – because the ingredients here are so much better and fresh.<\/div>\n
Friday: I did a scambio with the traveling sister leaders.\u00a0 Sorella Gomez (she’s from Mexico City) came with me to my area. They are just in the other ward in Verona so it wasn’t too big of a deal with travel or anything. It was so much fun! So many miracles.\u00a0 We found a less active member from Albania super randomly and she bought us gelato.\u00a0 And she spoke English so that was a plus. It was a beautiful lesson.\u00a0 My companion also found a miracle on a bus. A man came up to her and started asking her about the gospel.\u00a0 He then came to a baptism that we invited him to on Sunday, and we taught him a lesson with a member right there and then.\u00a0 We are still teaching him.\u00a0 He kept saying – I am like Joseph Smith, looking for this truth too. We are excited about him.<\/div>\n
Saturday: Okay, we went looking for more less active members. Didn’t really find them, but we ran into some people from this religion…it was pretty hilarious.\u00a0 I respect all religions, I do.\u00a0They were just saying some pretty funny stuff. But they were showing us some books and magazines and we prayed with them and tried to teach them a lesson.<\/div>\n
Sunday: There was a baptism! The ward discovered I could play the piano, and so they had me play. \u00a0We went tracting afterwards\u00a0and I had to go the bathroom SO BAD.\u00a0 And it was Sunday, and you have to buy something to use a bathroom in Europe. We decided to stop by a less active member house who did not want the missionaries to visit her.\u00a0 But we yelled up to her from down below- can we please just use the bathroom? And then, after much relief, we were able to talk with her and develop a little bit of a relationship with her.\u00a0 So, sometimes having to go to the bathroom so bad is really just a blessing in disguise \ud83d\ude42<\/div>\n
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Anyways, every day something funny happens and I’m trying to remember it all.\u00a0 It’s such an adventure, and I have met some of the craziest, sweetest, most hilarious types of people.\u00a0 I love it.<\/div>\n
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The sweetest part of this last week has been preparing our investigator for baptism.\u00a0 Our investigator that we found on a bench my first week in Verona.\u00a0 As we have been meeting with him, his heart is changing.\u00a0 Hearing is testimony is absolutely touching. His faith in the Atonement is inspiring –\u00a0 I have learned so much from his faith.\u00a0 He is so exctied to be baptized on Friday.\u00a0 We are so excited for him, and we’re trying to get the whole baptismal service put together. I can’t wait to send a picture to you next week! We are so so so so so happy.\u00a0 Seriously, baptism. Ah! And this is just the first step, but he is so ready to take it. He even came to church for all three hours plus a baptism afterwards.\u00a0 5 hours of church – he’s a champ.<\/div>\n
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Also, people remember my name here.\u00a0 It’s quite a plus.\u00a0 Oh, Sorella Strong? Then they flex their arms and say, “Sorella FORTE!” I love it. It makes me happy \ud83d\ude42<\/div>\n
I could tell you story after story after story, but there is not time \ud83d\ude42<\/div>\n
I’ll close with my testimony of this – Mosiah 24. Read it. Sometimes, we have so many burdens and the world seems so evil.\u00a0People say this to us all the time.\u00a0 Why would God love us when there is such cruelty?\u00a0When we have faith in the Lord, though, these burdens\u00a0are lighter.\u00a0 He doesn’t always take them away, but faith in Him brings the hope (Ether 12:4), and we can have the confidence to do anything.\u00a0 Because with Him, all things are possible. When we realize that He has suffered it all, and so much more, that He can empathize with us in the deepest ways possible, there is hope, and our burdens are lifted.<\/div>\n
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I love you all so much! It is hot, life is good, and the gospel is true. Ges\u00f9 \u00e8 il nostro Salvatore e Redentore. Questo \u00e8 perche sono qui in Italia.<\/div>\n
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Vi voglio bene,<\/div>\n
Sorella Strong<\/div>\n
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Caro la mia famiglia, So, as the subject for my email states – every day is an adventure. I always come home at the end and think – wow, did we really do all that today? Did that really happen? So, today I’m going to tell you a story from every\u00a0day this week! Thursday: We […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337,"href":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions\/337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}