{"id":671,"date":"2014-10-31T06:45:36","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T06:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/?p=671"},"modified":"2017-05-07T15:48:37","modified_gmt":"2017-05-07T22:48:37","slug":"fino-al-giorno-in-cui-ci-rivedrem-last-letter-102914","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/fino-al-giorno-in-cui-ci-rivedrem-last-letter-102914\/","title":{"rendered":"Fino al giorno in cui ci rivedrem (last letter 10\/29\/14)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Carissima famiglia mia,<\/p>\n

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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.\u00a0 I don’t know how to really think right now.\u00a0 But, it’s okay. Forgive me for being unorganized and I’m just going to type what I’m thinking.<\/div>\n
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This week was great!\u00a0 Another week of working hard.\u00a0 We didn’t have any time to go home to eat between appointments so we bought panini’s every day and ate them on the side of the road. Life is beautiful.<\/div>\n
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We found another family. Miracles!\u00a0 He is Italian and she is from Thailand.\u00a0 They have a beautiful daughter.\u00a0 She is super Buddhist, so it was really interesting. We are passing them to the anziani because they don’t live in our area but \u00a0he was super interested and curious to read the Book of Mormon. \u00a0 We found this family doing contacting in this area because our investigator did not show up to our appointment.\u00a0 But, the Lord places people in our path always, we always need to look for the miracle and push harder for it because He is just waiting to bless us!<\/div>\n
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I love my companion, Sorella Bringas.\u00a0 She is the most amazing missionary and I feel so priveleged to have been able to serve with her.\u00a0 She trained me at the end of my mission, haha.\u00a0 She’s training next transfer here so I’m excited for some greenie power to hit Mestre.<\/div>\n
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Last night we taught my favorite phillipini the Gospel of Jesus Christ.\u00a0 The Gospel of Jesus Christ is our purpose as missionaries: Thanks to Christ We Can Be Cleansed from Sin, Faith, Repentance, Baptism, the Gift of the Holy Ghost, and Enduring to the End.\u00a0 It was such a beautiful lesson, filled with inspired questions, testimony, and lost of listening.\u00a0 The spirit was overwhelming to me.\u00a0 As I we were asking them what obstacles were keeping them from going forward on the path to the celestial kingdom, I was filled with an immense gratitude that I am on the right path.\u00a0 That I am going exactly where I need to go in order to end up with my Heavenly Father.<\/div>\n
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Italy is a beautiful country.\u00a0 Yes, for the tuscan hills, venezian gondolas, beautiful cathedrals, and the colorful houses on every corner.\u00a0 But it’s a beautiful country for the people.\u00a0 They have taught me how to love.\u00a0 These people have taught me how to open my heart and give it to them, to give it all to the Lord.\u00a0 Heavenly Father blesses us with the ability to see His children the way that He sees them.\u00a0 I have never been filled with so much love for people in my entire life.\u00a0 Love that just bursts out of your chest and you will do anything to make sure people know that you feel that love. Dammi cuore.\u00a0 Only Jesus Christ can give us the ability to love people like that, thanks to His atonement.<\/div>\n
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Heavenly Father has taught me to never doubt Him.\u00a0 Every day He shows me this.\u00a0 Yesterday my companion had to go to a doctor’s appointment that would cost us 150 euro. We barely had enough money between the 2 of us because it’s the end of the month. Sorella Bringas kept saying “The Lord will provide.”We were worried about being able to pay for groceries today.\u00a0 My wonderful companion spoke to the doctor about the gospel and it softened her heart.\u00a0 When Sorella Bringas asked how much she needed to pay, the dottoressa told us that it wouldn’t cost anything. She accepted a Book of Mormon as payment \ud83d\ude42 We were dumbfounded.\u00a0 This is just one example of thousands the God has shown me that He can do anything when we put our faith in Him.<\/div>\n
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During the mission I have never been so aware of my own weaknesses.\u00a0 It has been\/is the hardest obstacle for me – feeling that I’ve done enough for my Heavenly Father.\u00a0 As I’ve poured my heart out in prayer to Him, He answers me in little ways every day that He loves me.\u00a0 I know that the promise in Ether\u00a012:27<\/span><\/span>\u00a0is a real promise.\u00a0 The Lord turns our weaknesses into strengths. Every night, I kneel down and ask my Heavenly Father for forgiveness.\u00a0 I tell Him about my day, and I resolve to do better the next day. I have found myself saying the words “Heavenly Father, thou knowest that I love thee.” \u00a0What does He ask us to do? To feed His sheep. \u00a0 I know I have not been the perfect missionary, there were things I could have done better every day, but this is His work.\u00a0 He will not let us fail.<\/div>\n
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Consecration.\u00a0 The only thing that is truly, completely ours, is our agency.\u00a0 The Lord has given us everything.\u00a0 In the end it is all His, all, except our agency. It is a beautiful gift that is necesary to the plan of salvation.\u00a0 I will admit that agency has been difficult at times for me, as people choose to reject the plan of happiness! Sometimes I wish I could just make them understand.\u00a0 But, I know it’s so important and without it we cannot progress.\u00a0 True consecration is giving our will completely over to Him.\u00a0 Giving Him our whole heart.\u00a0 It can be really, really, hard. But, it is the most intelligent thing that we can do.<\/div>\n
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I love my Savior, Jesus Christ.\u00a0 Ah.\u00a0 I don’t know really how to write down my gratitude for Him.\u00a0 For His atoning sacrifice.\u00a0 Not only does His atonement cleanse us from our sins, but it enables us.\u00a0 It gives us the power to become like Him.<\/div>\n
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I know that no effort is wasted. Every little thing we do to build up the Lord’s kingdom is seen by Him.\u00a0 I am so grateful for this opportunity that He has given me to serve Him. For meeting these amazing members, investigators, and people who have built my faith so much. I have gotten to plant lots of little seeds on my mission, in all sorts of ways.\u00a0 I read this scripture this week from Doctrine and Covenants and it spoke to my heart:<\/div>\n
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Let\u00a0no\u00a0man\u00a0count\u00a0them\u00a0as\u00a0small\u00a0things;\u00a0for\u00a0there\u00a0is\u00a0much\u00a0which\u00a0lieth\u00a0in\u00a0futurity,\u00a0pertaining\u00a0to\u00a0the\u00a0saints,\u00a0which\u00a0depends\u00a0upon\u00a0these\u00a0things.<\/p>\n

<\/a>\u00a016\u00a0You\u00a0know,\u00a0brethren,\u00a0that\u00a0a\u00a0very\u00a0large\u00a0ship\u00a0is\u00a0benefited\u00a0verymuch\u00a0by\u00a0a\u00a0very\u00a0small\u00a0helm\u00a0in\u00a0the\u00a0time\u00a0of\u00a0a\u00a0storm,\u00a0by\u00a0being\u00a0kept\u00a0workways\u00a0with\u00a0the\u00a0wind\u00a0and\u00a0the\u00a0waves.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

I am so grateful for the Book of Mormon.\u00a0 It has the power to change lives.\u00a0 I know it is the word of God and it is the foundation to my testimony of this restored gospel.<\/div>\n
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Well I probably just wrote my homecoming talk let’s be honest.<\/div>\n
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Vi voglio un mondo di bene.\u00a0 Sono cosi grato per il mio tempo qui a Mestre.\u00a0 Per tutte le persone che ho incontrato.\u00a0This Sunday<\/span><\/span>\u00a0I felt love from the members, which was a big miracle. to say the least.<\/div>\n
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Sono grata per il mio Salvatore.\u00a0 So che questa \u00e8 la chiesa restaurata. Ges\u00f9 Cristo \u00e8 il nostro fondamento. Lui ci da la forza di affrontare qualsiasi cosa.<\/div>\n
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I love you and I will see you soon \ud83d\ude42 \u00a0I will miss this place.\u00a0 It will always have un GRANDE POSTO nel mio cuore.\u00a0 Ah.\u00a0 I have loved every moment, ogni piccolo momento that has changed me and brought me closer to my Savior.<\/div>\n
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Con tanto amore e un GRANDE ABBRACCIO,<\/div>\n
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Sorella Strong<\/div>\n
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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.\u00a0 I don’t know how to really think right now.\u00a0 But, it’s okay. Forgive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[33],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671"}],"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=671"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1140,"href":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions\/1140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}