Pray for me to have and see tender mercies...
I love you!
One thing I'm noticing is that we can't just pray for something and then just be like, "hey, I want to know this....". We have to really go for it and really have the desire.
Questions....
Father's Day -- I don't know if they have Father's Day in Italy...no one talked about Father's Day in church yesterday or anything like that. After church we had a meal appointment and this was actually incredible. The meal appointment was with the bishop's family and we as missionaries can't all six of us go to someone's house, but I guess if it's in the church it's ok. I don't know how it logically makes sense but they did it in Rome and President Pickerd knows about it. Anyway, for the spiritual thought it wasn't a specific spiritual thought. It wasn't that we sat down and planned it and said, "Ok, let's pray to start this" and then start talking. We were talking about the wars in the world and the Rwandan genocide and all these terrible things that have happened. We were talking about all of this and then related it to the Book of Mormon and how we see these terrible wars in the Book of Mormon and we don't realize how horrible these things are and we started talking about like how this is all related to pride and humility and then the bishop was like, "It makes me think about Moroni and Mormon at the very end of the Book of Mormon when all of their people have been destroyed and it makes me really think about the last chapter of the Book of Mormon." And he read it. And we discussed it and discussed how like, literally, think about the situation Moroni was in. He doesn't have a family anymore. He doesn't talk about his family but we know that they had families. They've all been killed in this war. There is nothing left for him. He's literally the last person, waiting to die. And this is one of the things that stood out to me is how despair comes because of iniquity. That really hit me...here's Moroni and he's talking about all of these incredible things God has done for his fathers, that he wasn't even part of this work, like he wasn't even part of this miracle of how God has taken our fathers and liberated them. He wasn't part of it, but he still has the faith and is talking about how incredible God has been. And people might say, "well, where is God now? He just let all your people be killed." And he's talking about gifts of God and what we have to do and he doesn't know who he's writing this to because he's the last one. And then instead of talking about how when things are hard you can turn to Christ, he says despair is for the wicked. Despair comes from iniquity. He's not despairing this moment. And I love this because this is what I always want to do with spiritual thoughts -- for it to be a discussion instead of just a spiritual thought and it actually happened and the Spirit was so strong. And because it was three of us companionships, one of us from each companionship spoke. It was very powerful.
My companion arrived on Thursday and we're not living in the apartment with the other sorelle. We're back in our house.
The most beautiful thing that I saw this week....apricots. Oh my goodness, they were incredible. Definitely the most beautiful thing. Also, probably the best thing that we ate. But also I ate a Napoli pizza today so that might be the best thing I ate. It was good! I'm trying to be vegan unless meal appointments. And also maybe sugar free. Why? Don't know. So we'll see. Stay tuned.
How someone showed me love and kindness this week -- I love Sorella T and Sorella M and the time I got to be in the trio and really how much we loved each other and served each other and it didn't stop. On Saturday they still came over and we made plantains and popcorn and I just felt a lot of love.
When I felt joy this week -- today. I love the city of Napoli. I'm so excited to bring you guys back to this city. It is incredible.
Personal studies this week -- literally everything. I'm in Mosiah in the Book of Mormon, almost to the story of King Limhi, and I'm studying Preach My Gospel obviously, and then after that I'm prepping lessons, prepping spiritual thoughts, prepping what we need to do in companion study. It's a little crazy. My reading the Bible in Italian is going well. I've slacked off it little bit because it was hard to figure out language study in the trio because we weren't in the same spaces.
Yes, I know how much you love me, and I thank you for it.
It's getting very hot here and it's very humid. I think I might get sunburned every day. But it's ok.
And there you go. I'm trying to be a happy girl.
I love you. Ciao, ciao, ciao.
Sorella Gisseman
9 months...I had to do it...
Greenie's first gelato
Napolitano pizza!!!
Random music in a store while we were out on P-Day
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