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🎉 (email from my missionary)
Ciao tutti!!
Big news! Today is my last day being trained! Bigger news!! Tomorrow I will become a trainer. Aka I am having a baby haha (hence the subject line). On my MTC group's first day in Italy, someone asked my mission president, President Allen, when he expected us to be ready to train. He told us, "By the time you're done being trained." Never thought it would happen to me haha. I am actually on my way to Milano right now and then I will be staying the night with some sorelle there and then I will pick up my daughter the next morning. Wish me luck
😅This will be an interesting 3 months... but I am super excited. My trainer, Sorella Hoffman, is leaving and just finished her 8th transfer (1 transfer = 6 weeks), and I will stay in Bergamo-- I just finished my 2nd transfer-- and train a new missionary. A couple things I am most nervous for are the legalities (such as going to government offices and applying for a permesso for her) and not starving. Also I can barely even pronounce addestratrice in Italian and I still can't roll my R's... When we told one of the less-actives we visit each week, she started laughing hysterically
😅😅 Also our bishop was like 
🤤 Hahaha. But the Lord will help me through this! This week was a bunch of cramming in appointments and cramming information into my brain so I know how to get to peoples' houses and everything. So if you all want to know what I did this week, just imagine me sitting at a desk looking at schedules and making lists of things to remember and studying more Italian. Then today for P-Day we got lunch as a district (some yummy pizza) and then played volleyball and other stuff together at the church. It has been super moderate temperatures lately, like mid-70s, but after today it's supposed to get colder and rainier. I am excited.
😁So considering the upcoming slap in the face (becoming senior companion and feeling like I literally know nothing and having to talk to people on the phone in a language I started learning 4 months ago, etc etc), I have been thinking a lot about how God is all-powerful and all-knowing. I figure a lot of the things I learn in the next few months will serve me well in the rest of my life. This does not mean that I am not still wigging out of my mind, because I am. But it DOES mean that I plan to trust in God in literally everything I do in the next couple months, kind of like a trust fall. He will carry me when I need it.
Gordon B. Hinckley said, "Believe in yourself. Believe in your capacity to do great and good things. Believe that no mountain is so high that you cannot climb it. Believe that no storm is so great that you cannot weather it. … You are a child of God, of infinite capacity." We are all children of God, and He can help us through anything we face.
I am attaching a pic of me and Slla. Hoffman when she sat on me, a member present at one of our lessons, our district right before doing English class finding in Centro, and a cool random church we found on a hike.
I hope everyone has an awesome week!
Con amore,
Sorella Johnson
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