Happy Easter! I hope you all had an amazing Easter
because I know that we did! The night before was probably the funniest of all.
We went through straight panic as we realized that it was 8 o'clock so all of
the bakeries and pastry shops were closed. We were seriously running down the
street, with our little trolley, dying to find something open. Well, thank
goodness we found something because all we had talked about was having fresh
bread and pastries for Easter. Other than that, for Easter we didn't have a
meal appointment but that was totally fine by us because neither did the
anziani. So, we made a district feast after lunch
and exchanged little Easter gifts. There was so much food. We all had our own
little plate to bring to share. Well, someone made deviled eggs... and a lot of
them. One poor, unfortunate elder by his own free will consumed 12 deviled
eggs. Needless to say that when we all went to the Castle Park to do finding he
beelined it to the port a potty and was there for a good chunk of time. He's
"had diarrheas since easters". 😂 we finished off the day with handing
out pictures of Christ around the Duomo and Castle. It was so much fun! I think
I was a little bit too happy. My face literally hurt from smiling. Not a bad
thing.
The Monday after Easter is what we call Pasquetta.
Aka. 2nd Easter. No one has to work and it is a holiday too! So for that day we
went and played soccer with some people from the ward. Sorella Williams and I
killed it. I don't think anyone will be asking us to "ma voi giocate calcio???"
(You guys play soccer??). We killed it. Also we were finally able to meet the
entire Kone family and they are so funny. We met the sister of Gaia and her
brother too. I was so happy to see Gaia after she had gotten back from her
cruise... a total of 3 days. Still too long. She thought of us and brought us
back little bracelets.
We went to an old folks home with Aydee after we ate
with them. I'm getting concerned because every time we eat with them, I eat
faster and faster. Maybe it's a coping method for getting it all down haha. The
old folks home was really nice! It was a bumpin place for the classic Italian
generation. We randomly met a South American worker there that was a member but
had moved to Italy and forgotten about the church.
The Guastella family gave us chocolate eggs from
Easter. These eggs are so cool. It's an Italian tradition. They are giant
hollow chocolate eggs that you have to break open to get a surprise toy.
Rachele has been coming to soccer too and she makes it so much fun. I love that
girl. Gian Luca had his 14th birthday on Sunday and that same day he was able
to receive the priesthood. I know it was such a good experience for that
family.
Life in Cimiano is going really good. We had our Zone
Conference and it went really well. It was fun to see some of my old
companions. Sorella Rosano, Sorella Nielsen, and Sorella Orr. It was good to
talk about different ideas that we can add to our missionary work. It was also
cool because President Allen said he would like us ideally to do 4 or 5 hours
of community service a week. But to close off every zone conference
missionaries who are going home at the end of the transfer bear their
testimonies. Sorella Rosano bore hers and she will still be living in Milano
but her testimony really touched my heart. I can't believe she's going home.
She is such an amazing missionary and I know she always will be.
Yesterday we did Zone Conference round 2 for the
Genova and Torino zones because we had to do a role play about how to invite
members to use social media. Man, it was a tough crowd. Sorella Williams and I
did a chest bump and we got a couple of chuckles. But it went well anyways and
we made the role play pretty fun. Of course the car ride home with the Allens
and the assistants was so entertaining.
We used our Pday to the fullest seeing "The Last
Supper" by Leonardo Da Vinci today. It's actually so much bigger than I
thought it was!
Oh and I forgot probably my miracle of the week. So
I'm not kidding when I was SO HAPPY all day Sunday and Monday. Well, I think I
drained myself because on Tuesday I was so mellow and just drained in every
sense of the word. When in FHE, my jaw dropped to the ground. The elders walked
in with Alex from Muggiò English class behind them. I'm pretty sure my jaw
unhinged and he was equally surprised. Well then I was so happy to see him
again and to catch up with him. The elders will be helping him out to find some
answers.
I've been reading all the conference talks and I think
I’ve decided my favorite. It's called "Overcoming the World" by Elder
Andersen. Here's the link to full talk:
It's so good. You all should go read it. But in short
I will share with you my favorite part. "Overcoming the world is not a global invasion
but a private, personal battle, requiring hand-to-hand combat with our own
internal foes.
Overcoming the world means treasuring the greatest
commandment: “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all
thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength.”
The Christian writer C. S. Lewis described it this
way: “Christ says ‘Give me All. I don’t want so much of your time and so much
of your money and so much of your work: I want You.’”
Heavenly Father only wants us. He wants our hearts and
he wants us to overcome our internal foes. I know that He is on our side if we
will choose to battle our natural selves, with Him, we can win. Little by
little. One battle at a time.
I love you all so much! Hope you have had an amazing
week!
"The Last
Supper" by Leonardo Da Vinci
We had Easter lunch and exchanged our little Easter gifts.
Giant chocolate eggs that have a surprise inside.
It's Italian tradition.
There was a gnashing of teeth.
When we went to have a picnic with Fernando, Eglayda and of course Grace!
This is the Castle Sforzesco Park. The water is only that gross
looking because it's hundreds of years old;)
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