{"id":517,"date":"2014-02-25T04:52:09","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T04:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/?p=517"},"modified":"2014-02-25T04:52:09","modified_gmt":"2014-02-25T04:52:09","slug":"im-staying-in-firenze-feb-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/im-staying-in-firenze-feb-19\/","title":{"rendered":"I’m staying in Firenze (Feb 19)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Carissima famiglia,<\/div>\n
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I am going to be staying in Firenze and training this transfer. \u00a0Sorella Holloway is leaving to open a new coppia in Modena for sisters, so that’s really exciting.\u00a0 I am super sad to see her go, because she literally is one of my very bestest dearest friends and has taught me so so much.\u00a0 I’m pretty emotional about it actually, she seriously has been an answer to so many prayers, is so positive and happy, and is a light and angel to everyone.\u00a0 She makes me laugh every day \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 Her new companion is pretty lucky.<\/div>\n
But, if any of you have any advice about training, that would be very much appreciated \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 I’m really excited! And slightly overwhelmed, not gonna lie.<\/div>\n
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I have a cool little story to tell you this week.\u00a0 So, Saturday we had an appointment with a less-active right in the heart of centro, right by duomo.\u00a0\u00a0 On our way there, we saw a tourist – a tall tourist wearing a University of Oregon jacket.\u00a0 So, Sorella Holloway decides to chase her down, since, she’s from Oregon, and who doesn’t love Oregon?\u00a0 We start talking to her, she is a professional basketball player in Switzerland right now and decided to come spend a couple of days in <florence.\u00a0 She had met missionaries before and we invited her to an activity that we were having that night for Valentines Day.\u00a0 And, she totally came!\u00a0 She made friends with a lot of the American members, and the next day we got to meet her again, give her a Book of Mormon, and teach her about the Restoration.\u00a0 She is going to meet with the sisters in Switzerland now!\u00a0 It really was such a beautiful little tender mercy.\u00a0 God prepares people in such different ways.\u00a0 She was really open to everything.\u00a0 She never really believed in God, but she has had some strong spiritual experiences in her life, and has accepted Christ as her Savior.\u00a0 She is reading the whole Bible, and is writing down all of her questions.\u00a0 She asked us a few, and the Book of Mormon responded.\u00a0 Look, just in case you didn’t know,\u00a0I know this gospel is the gospel of Jesus Christ restored on the earth today.\u00a0 I know the Book of Mormon is the word of God.\u00a0<\/em>Moral of the story: it’s okay to talk to tourists!<\/div>\n
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Also, let me tell you about the Valentines day activity.\u00a0 We had 6 investigators there, which was really really cool!\u00a0 One of our investigators was one whom we had never met, but that the old sisters had given to us and we finally, 3 months later, had the chance to meet her.\u00a0 We met her in a book store and talked about the power of prayer.\u00a0 Afterwards, we invited her to the activity that night and she said she could come.\u00a0 The entire lesson, she would not accept a Book of Mormon and kept saying that she was Catholic and had no interest in changing (never heard\u00a0that<\/em>\u00a0one before :)).\u00a0 But then, she came to the activity and totally felt the spirit.\u00a0 The activity was so so cute.\u00a0 The youth put together a video of all the couples in the branch telling everyone how they met, their song, everything like that.\u00a0 It was so adorable.\u00a0 There was lots of yummy Italian food too, so can’t complain \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 We also had our couple from Madagascar there, along with our Oregon girl, and the friends of one of our other investigators.\u00a0 The members welcomed them, and our branch president was so shocked, so we are gaining his trust.<\/div>\n
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Miracles truly are happening as we look for them.\u00a0 Take some time to find the silver lining. (is that a song… I can’t remember :))<\/div>\n
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I know this gospel is true.\u00a0 I love being a missionary. I am trying to soak up every moment of it.\u00a0 It’s so fun, hard, and rewarding.<\/div>\n
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Vi voglio bene,<\/div>\n
Sorella Strong<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Carissima famiglia, I am going to be staying in Firenze and training this transfer. \u00a0Sorella Holloway is leaving to open a new coppia in Modena for sisters, so that’s really exciting.\u00a0 I am super sad to see her go, because she literally is one of my very bestest dearest friends and has taught me so […]<\/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\/517"}],"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=517"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":519,"href":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions\/519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}