{"id":855,"date":"2015-08-25T05:03:08","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T05:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/?p=855"},"modified":"2016-09-01T21:20:23","modified_gmt":"2016-09-02T04:20:23","slug":"talking-to-myself-in-italian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/talking-to-myself-in-italian\/","title":{"rendered":"talking to myself in Italian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tonight I started having a conversation in Italian with myself. \u00a0I was about to take an Italian test and decided that I should probably refresh a little bit. \u00a0I started talking to an imaginary person, telling them all about my life and how wonderful it was.<\/p>\n

And I honestly felt like a different person. \u00a0 I started bearing my testimony. \u00a0I started seeing positive things in my life that I had failed to recognize. \u00a0I started talking about all of the things I am grateful for.<\/p>\n

Every day on the mission I wrote down a miracle that happened every day. \u00a0It changed my life. \u00a0It taught me to see the beautiful things in every day.<\/p>\n

\"IMG_0683\"<\/a> \"IMG_0013\"<\/a> \"IMG_0291\"<\/a> \"IMG_0737\"<\/a> \"IMG_0858\"<\/a>In all of these pictures I look so tired, but you can just see “la felicit\u00e0” – the happiness in my eyes.<\/p>\n

As I spoke in Italian to myself, I spoke of happy things. I used my hands a lot. I felt my eyes twinkle and I smiled.<\/p>\n

The people I met in Italy changed my life. \u00a0My companions, my friends from all over the world (in all of the pictures above we have represented: Nigeria, Peru, Italy, and the Philippines), and the random people on the trains and on the street that we tried to make smile every day.<\/p>\n

And I’m resolving to be happier. \u00a0I’m resolving to find a miracle every day. \u00a0Even if it means I only speak in Italian for a while \ud83d\ude42 Because life is so good, il vangelo di Gesu Cristo \u00e8 vero e pu\u00f2 benedire le nostre vite quando lo seguiamo e lo obbediamo. \u00a0E quando vediamo il mano di Dio. Perch\u00e8 c’\u00e8, ma a volte non scegliamo di vederlo.<\/p>\n

Vi voglio bene,<\/p>\n

Emma<\/p>\n

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