I hope you´re all doing well. I miss you. Sorry if any of punctuation is messed up; this English keyboard is set to Spanish and I have no idea where the symbols are haha. These past couple of days at the MTC have been tough. There have been a few things, though, that have made it a lot better:
My companion is awesome. Her name is Sorella Cook and she´s from Alberta, Canada. She´s actually going to Rome and we are the only Italian companionship here that is Milan and Rome. I am going to miss her when we leave the MTC! Also we have the same birthdays; I am just like 11 or 12 hours older.
:)Another thing is that I love learning Italian. My teacher Sister Francom is awesome, at least she seems awesome, but I´m not 100% sure because she only speaks Italian to us. She´s in her mid 20´s or so. I feel like I´m picking the language up fairly quickly for having been here only 48 hours. The gift of tongues is real!! (aka Il dono della lingua e reale!!) Tonight Sorella Cook and I have our first lesson with an investigator. It´s supposed to be 20 minutes long and ALL in Italian. That will be intersting.
😅 Wish us luck. At least we have the Lord on our side.Also yesterday afternoon we had a big class with about 150 missionaries in it where we talked about our purpose as missionaries (my district of 8 has to memorize Il tuo scopo out of Preach My Gospel, which is Your Purpose from chapter 1 of PGM but in Italian, by Monday). In the class there was a video that really helped me when I was feeling down. I´ve been so tired and feeling like I´m not going to be a good missionary and it makes it really hard to be here. Knowing that there are 18 months ahead of me is really daunting. But this video https://www.lds.org/media-lib…/…/2009-10-38-lifting-burdens… helped me to realize that I am going to be supported by my Heavenly Father and that when things seem super tough, that He will carry me.
Check out the video! It´s only a few minutes long!
Today me and all the other Milan and Rome Sisters went to the Provo Temple. It was nice because we have been so busy and it was so peaceful. Peaceful enough for me to fall asleep for a bit, which I did hehehe.
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But the temple is amazing and even just standing on the ground can help
you feel such peace! I would encourage everyone to go as the
opportunities come up, because anyone can attend the grounds!My district of 8, 4 sisters and 4 elders, who I take language class with and do a ton of other stuff with, includes two guys from my YSA in Utah! Anziano Ethan Anderl and Anziano Alexander McConkie (Anziano= elder in Italian). They are also companions. It was awesome walking in and seeing familiar facing, being able to study Italian with them, and seeing them grow, too.
Attached are a pic of my dorm room of girls attending the temple this morning (Sorella Cook is standing on the end beside me), a picture of a scripture verse that was read during my language class that I lovvve, and a picture of what part of the white board looked like when I walked into my language class the first day.
Email me! I love hearing from all of you!!
Io so che il vangelo e vero! E io so che Dio mi ama, e che Di vi ama.
I know that the Gospel is true! And I know that God loves me, and that God loves all of you.
Ciao,
Sorella Johnson
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