This week has been great! I can't believe I only have 12 days until I
leave! I am so excited. We had two new districts come in last week,
including one sister named Sorella Ehorn! She is from Southern
California, and actually only lives about 15 minutes away from Nana and
Gramps! She's been to Crestline a lot, and used to live in Lake
Arrowhead! All the rest of the new Elders are great too. All the sorelle
are making a goal to speak ONLY in Italian this week, and whoever ends
up speaking the least amount of English gets a prize at the end. It can
be hard to speak in the language all the time, so having a little extra
motivation definitely helps! Right now I'm really trying to just make
the most of the remaining time I have here. I'm trying to read up until
Mosiah in my Italian Book of Mormon before I leave, but right now I'm a
little behind. We still have the same four investigators, and they're
all doing great! This week has actually been pretty exciting because it
turns out that the main TV station in Italy, RAI, is some sort of
special on Mormon missionaries because of the political campaign with
Mitt Romney. They wanted to come and film one of the Italian districts
and see how they train the missionaries here, because I guess one of the
biggest reasons Romney gives for his success is his experience as a
missionary. They chose the other district that's leaving with ours, and
had a camera crew come in yesterday to film them in class and do
interviews with them. I think it's supposed to be a two hour special,
and it will be airing all over Italy!! Isn't that crazy? This is going
to be really great for all the missionary work that's happening right
now, and hopefully will get people more aware of the church and open to
our message!
Well, my time on the computer is about up, unfortunately. I'm so
excited to be in Italy in just under two weeks! I'm sure there will be a
lot of challenges I wasn't expecting, and I'm really trying to utilize
my last to weeks here to speak the language and become as familiar with
Preach my Gospel as I can. I love you all and hope you have a great
week! Arrivederci!
Love,
Sorella Lyman
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