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| Sorella Felice and I |
-HAPPY
BIRTHDAY JORDAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Give him a big kiss
from me hahaha. Has Jordan stopped growing yet or will I come home to a 7
foot tall brother?
-By the way mom, so far on
my mission I have never felt scared for my life. So you don't have to
worry. Also I found out that a huge storm hit Pescara and it was very
serious. Whoo I just missed that one!
-So crazy that Chantel is getting married!!!!!!!! Wow. Also, I feel
weird that you have a life size picture of me...please treat me well and
don't let anyone take any inappropriate pictures of me. I'm still a
missionary after all.
-Will you send me some actual pictures of Kayden so I can stare at him all day or show these Italians?
-I
finally got to meet some of our investigators this week (we have more,
but I guess they're on vacation...?). Anyway one's name is Antonella and
she's great. She's 60 years old, but does not seem like it at all. She
told us how she doesn't think that the Catholic church should have idols
and be kissing pictures of the Madonna. We told her she's right. Now
we're helping her have a testimony of the BOM. I love meeting people who
pay attention to that voice that tells them when something is wrong and
when something is right.
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| These are huge candles which are in every chapel and I guess once a year they bring them all out and have a parade. Man I hope I get to be there. |
-Okay so this week I was
wearing a skirt with two layers and I guess the bottom layer got all
messed up and it made my skirt look weird in the back or something.
Anyway I was on a bus when this old lady noticed it and tried to fix it,
but couldn't...and then all of a sudden five old ladies had their hands
up my skirt to fix it. And I'm just standing on the bus like.. "Whoa
what is going on?!?!" This is why I love Italians...there's absolutely
no boundaries hahaha. Luckily I had good tights on underneath.
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| A less active and I...with the fluffiest cat ever |
-Sorella Felice's family
has a tradition every year where they have "Candle time" every night.
Candle time is when you turn on some candle and do something Christmasy
like singing or drinking hot chocolate or telling a story. So every night
here we do it! We've listen to Christmas music, made a tree, decorated
the tree, and we eat a lot of Christmas sweets :).
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| Our cute Christmas tree |
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| Decorating our Christmas tree |
-The members here are so
great and take care of us so well. One guy asked if he could buy us our
water and bring it to our house so that we wouldn't have to carry it.
Also so I guess it is a VERY BAD thing to go outside when your hair is
wet. Sorella Felice wore her hair in a bun for church and it was a
little bit wet...and our relief society got way upset. They told her she
was going to get way sick and we need to blow dry her hair. We told
them we didn't have a blow dryer and suddenly everyone was talking about
what they're going to have to do...because the sister missionaries have
to have blow dryers. Then we got a call today and a member delivered us
a blow dryer and told us we need to keep them better updated on what we
need. Now we know to never leave the house with your wet hair (it's not
THAT cold here yet). Haha love these people! What great members!!
-People here are crazy.
Like seriously a lot more crazier than Pescara. Plus this town is
smaller...so we get to know all the crazies real well haha. No mom
they're not dangerous crazies, they just do weird things...I think all
these people have been messed up by taking drugs and alcohol.
It's sad. But just a little bit entertaining...there's the guy who
dances in the street, the guy who tells us he's seen Christ, the guy who
shuffles, etc. I have a huge testimony of the word of wisdom, because
seriously people are lost without it.
-Hey so I got information
about skyping and basically I can skype Christmas Eve, Christmas day, or
the 26th whenever I want. So far we don't have any set plans (although
we have a Philippians investigator who told us "you come to my house, we
bake pig, we make Christmas." I'm excited hahah) so let me know when
you want to skype and give me a couple times (you have to choose times
between 9am and 9pm FOR ME) next week and I'll let you know which one!
Thanks! Excited!
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| Me laughing at our English course students as we blind folded them haha |
-Okay now for a little
spiritual thought. I LOVE serving in Italy. And I love how hard it is
and how we get rejected all day long. I used to really hate finding and I
would try to do anything to not have to do finding, but here in
Sassari...there's not a ton of options. So this week we've done a lot of
finding. Then I found this talk by Holland from a talk named
"missionaries and the atonement", which completely changed my attitude.
Here's my favorite quote from it:
"The Atonement will carry
the missionaries perhaps even more importantly than it will carry the
investigators. When you struggle, when you are rejected, when you are
spit upon and cast out and made a hiss and a byword--you are standing
with the best life this world has even known, the only pure and perfect
life ever lived. You have a reason to stand tall and be grateful that
the Living son of the Living God knows all about your sorrow and
afflictions. The only way to Salvation is through Gethsemane and on to
Calvary. The only way to eternity is through Him, the way, the truth and
the life."
Aw I love it!!! Here is
this mission I have gotten to know my Savior more than ever. Everything
that I am going through in this mission...the Savior went through more. I
love the fact that I get to bear my testimony of Christ all day long
and if people reject me...that's okay because Christ knows what it is
like to be rejected too. I am so grateful to what he did and I am so
grateful for the mission to learn about Christ and try to do my best to
thank him for the gift he gave me.
Good luck with everything!!! Love Sorella Knudsen!!!
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