{"id":563,"date":"2014-05-06T23:51:02","date_gmt":"2014-05-06T23:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/?p=563"},"modified":"2014-05-06T23:51:27","modified_gmt":"2014-05-06T23:51:27","slug":"buono-pasqua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/buono-pasqua\/","title":{"rendered":"Buono Pasqua! letter from 4\/23\/14"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Cara famiglia,<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Buona Pasqua! Or, Happy Easter!.\u00a0 I know, I&#8217;m a couple of days late, but can I just tell you, I love Easter \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 It might just make the top holiday.\u00a0 It&#8217;s one of the holidays that has lost less meaning to the world, I suppose.\u00a0 And, they do Pasqua big here in Italy.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Let me tell you about the week and some thoughts I&#8217;ve been having.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>On Thursday I went to do a scambio with Sorella Jameson in Pisa.\u00a0 It&#8217;s so hard leaving my daughter in the big city of Firenze all by herself, but she did so good! We taught a lot of Nigerians and saw a member who is a really tall woman.\u00a0 She loved me, I&#8217;d like to think, because I&#8217;m tall \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 We mourned together abou kids makin fun o us when we were little and how we can never ear heetherwise we scare people. It was pretty hilarious actually.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Here&#8217;s a typical Italian conversation that has been getting to me a little bit lately:<\/div>\n<div>Us:\u00a0 Buon giorno! Come sta lei?\u00a0 (How are you?)<\/div>\n<div>Them:\u00a0 Insomma (which means.. eh.. not very good&#8230;)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Okay, so no one ever says, oh I&#8217;m doing good, how are you?\u00a0 It&#8217;s always, oh life is terrible, I don&#8217;t have any work, there is no money, etc., etc.\u00a0 Well you know.. guess what?\u00a0 We can still be happy even if we don&#8217;t have any money in the world.\u00a0 That&#8217;s speranza \ud83d\ude42 That&#8217;s hope. I&#8217;m praying so hard to have the spirit to know how to touch the hearts of these people who truly don&#8217;t have any hope in the world.\u00a0 I know there always is hope, and I know that happiness is attainable in Christ.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>That&#8217;s the beauty of the resurrection of the Savior, that He overcame death&#8230; physical and spiritual death, and that, that is what gives us all the hope to do anything.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Another thing! I know that when God is at the center of our lives, everything will fall into place.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Vi voglio tano bene, e prego per voi,<\/div>\n<div>Sorella Strong<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cara famiglia, Buona Pasqua! Or, Happy Easter!.\u00a0 I know, I&#8217;m a couple of days late, but can I just tell you, I love Easter \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 It might just make the top holiday.\u00a0 It&#8217;s one of the holidays that has lost less meaning to the world, I suppose.\u00a0 And, they do Pasqua big here in Italy. [&hellip;]<\/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\/563"}],"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=563"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":565,"href":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions\/565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}