{"id":365,"date":"2013-08-17T17:51:48","date_gmt":"2013-08-17T17:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/?p=365"},"modified":"2013-08-17T17:51:48","modified_gmt":"2013-08-17T17:51:48","slug":"agosto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/agosto\/","title":{"rendered":"Agosto"},"content":{"rendered":"
Cara famiglia,<\/div>\n
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This week has been filled with adventures and laughter and lots of sweat, haha. And lots of miracles.\u00a0 We have met a lot of potential investigators that hopefully will turn into progressing investigators \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 Tomorrow is a major holiday in Italy where everything shuts down and goes off work.\u00a0 So wish us luck! Adventures ahead! Apparently members usually invite the missionaries over… but since we’re the other\/new set of sisters in the ward we think they forgot about us.\u00a0 It’s okay, we’re gonna knock on so many doors someone’s bound to let us in! (And yell at us for disturbing their holiday…) The probability\/chances will have to work out…right?<\/div>\n
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But, although the days seem slow we have seen some major miracles.<\/div>\n
We are teaching two 14 year old girls. We\u00a0have taught them a couple times now.\u00a0 14 is such a difficult age.\u00a0 They are so open and yet so closed.\u00a0 They have experienced heartbreak and have difficult family situations. We are trying just to teach them that God loves them. It’s such a simple concept and yet such a difficult one to believe.\u00a0 Even as a missionary I forget this sometimes.\u00a0 But when we can understand\u00a0who we are<\/em>\u00a0and our divine heritage, we have the confidence to conquer any weakness or any sin, and face every difficulty that life throws at us with hope. Our main goal is to get them involved with young womens and such at church.\u00a0 There is one young woman in the ward and she is going to learn how to be a missionary fast!<\/div>\n
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We found a mother! With two children! She is from Russia and she’s beautiful.\u00a0 I see her at the park and my heart just goes out to her – she seems so sad and having some family problems. We shared with her our message about families, and she just started crying.\u00a0 We shared the message with her and how we know it can make her and her family\u00a0happier.\u00a0 We are meeting with her again tonight.\u00a0 We know she felt the spirit, she just needs to be brave enough to realize that what we have is different and worth investigating.<\/div>\n
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My favorite miracle – an area book miracle. So we’re going through the area book a couple of weeks ago, and we find this man.\u00a0 At the bottom of his sheet it said he just wasn’t ready.\u00a0 We call up his compagna and make an appointment.\u00a0 It turns out that the woman he is living with left the church many years ago.\u00a0She wants to change so badly, but it is so hard to change, and she feels judged and not loved by the people at church.\u00a0We testified that in order to change and feel the power of the Atonement in our lives, we have to act.\u00a0 We have to actually get down on our knees and pray.\u00a0 We have to come to church, open up the Book of Mormon and show God we’re willing to change for Him, because we only can do it with His help.\u00a0 My companion is so bold I love it.\u00a0 She said – “Non vediamo, non speriamo, but facciamo.”\u00a0 Which translates to mean – We don’t see, we don’t hope, we do.\u00a0 We thought she was bitter towards us.\u00a0 But guess who walked into church on Sunday?\u00a0 As soon as I saw her I ran up to her and kissed her and welcomed her.\u00a0 It was such a beautiful miracle for the week.<\/div>\n
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Finally, last night we taught a lesson. \u00a0With a woman that has become a progressing investigator.\u00a0 She came back from vacation and decided to meet with us. \u00a0 She’s reading the Book of Mormon and praying. And we’re so excited, but we’re praying so hard that she won’t lose interest.\u00a0 We pray that she will see the changes that this gospel can bring.<\/div>\n
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These things all sound so generic and I’m sorry I can’t go into more detail.\u00a0 It’s just that these people’s lives are so personal and I don’t want to share all of this deep stuff all over the internet if you know what I mean.<\/div>\n
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I love being a missionary and getting to know these people.\u00a0 Although I am still trying to figure out what they’re saying, it’s getting better.\u00a0 I love them.\u00a0 We meet so many people every day, and God loves them all.<\/div>\n
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His hand is in all of our lives individually.\u00a0 I look for this every day.\u00a0Sometimes I forget, but as I pray to Him for strength, I see that He is watching over me and over all of you.<\/div>\n
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Grazie for the emails! I Vi voglio bene,<\/div>\n
Sorella Strong<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cara famiglia, This week has been filled with adventures and laughter and lots of sweat, haha. And lots of miracles.\u00a0 We have met a lot of potential investigators that hopefully will turn into progressing investigators \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 Tomorrow is a major holiday in Italy where everything shuts down and goes off work.\u00a0 So wish us luck! […]<\/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\/365"}],"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=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":366,"href":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions\/366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}