I've had a great week! Lot's of fun and exciting
things have happened. We have been pretty spoiled with our speakers
lately. On Sunday Ann M. Dibb, the second counselor in the Young Women's
presidency, came to speak to us for Relief Society! It was really cool!
She was the one in conference who spoke about "I'm a Mormon- I know it,
I live it, I love it." She gave a really great message, and at the end
she opened it up for questions about President Monson. It was really
cool to learn more about him from her perspective as his daughter! On Tuesday
we had a really good devotional by Larry Echo Hawk of the Seventy. He
was the one who spoke in conference about the Book of Mormon in the
second session. He has such a powerful testimony of the Book of Mormon
and told some amazing stories about his conversion to the gospel. He is a
full-blooded native american so it was really cool to hear about how
much the gospel has changed him and his family, and what a personal
family connection he has with the Book of Mormon.
Yesterday was excited because we got new Italian missionaries! We've
all been counting down to the day when we would have some new company
again after three weeks! There is one sister named Sorella Ehorn from
California. She is going to be in a threesome with me and Sorella
Harward when we have personal time, but most of the time during the day
she will just be with two Elders. Sorella Stewart is very happy because
her brother came in with the new district! He's going to the Rome
mission. Do you remember how I told you about Anziano Criscenti, the
Elder that's from Milan? Well he got moved into our zone because all the
Romanians left a week ago! He got assigned a new companion, Anziano
Smith, and will be with us until he gets some new Romanians in about
three weeks! It is so cool to have a native Italian to talk with all the
time. We're all actually able to converse really well with him, and
it's been great to have him in our district! I've been doing a lot of
teaching this week. Yesterday we taught an "investigator" that we
haven't seen in almost a month! Our teacher, Fratello Mortenson, was our
substitute for the day and really just felt that we should teach
Lorenzo again. So we had five minutes to prepare a lesson on the Plan of
Salvation and just went in there and started teaching! It was such a
great lesson, and we all felt the spirit a lot. It's so great to be
teaching so many lessons. The main thing I'm focusing on is being able
to teach by the spirit and have it be the main guide in the lesson.
Sometimes the spirit is there so strongly, and other times we have to
work more to feel it as we're teaching. There's definitely a lot more to
learn, but I'm so excited to be in Italy in just under three weeks
teaching actual Italians!
Well my computer time's about up unfortunately. I miss you and love
you so much!
Love,
DaNece
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