Sorella Nelson: Week 5

I can NOT wait!!!! I leave on Monday for Italy and it feels like this week is taking years! It's been really hard to stay focused, but our whole zone has the goal to push through till the end and that's what we are doing!

Some highlights/funnies from the week-

Fratello Wirtham tried to explain to my district/class the art of rolling the r. Haha he had a lovely diagram and everything on the board to help us. Everyone has got it down except me, apparently I sound like I'm "underwater". Haha It's good, It'll come :)

If you've never listened to the Nashville Tribute Band, listen to them! Awesome songs! So, they are coming to the MTC this next Sunday to basically have a concert for the missionaries! I honestly don't know how we got approval but it's AWESOME! Last Sunday and Tuesday we've been practicing songs that we will sing with them. Super fun!

Sorella Tingey and I had our last lesson with our investigator yesterday. It was molto triste... Rafaela (real investigator from Milan that my teacher was playing) had been living with her boyfriend and daughter and it was just kinda a tough situation. Basically Sorella Tingey and I taught the Law of Chastity and The Family Proclamation and Rafaela decided she wanted to be baptized! Allora, we had to keep preparing her and she wasn't making any improvement until one lesson we just read in Il Libro di Mormon con lei about Lehi having the faith to leave all his precious things and go into the wilderness. Later, our teacher told us that that was her favorite lesson we taught. Apparently she personally had been praying about something in her life and we not only helped Rafaela, but our teacher personally. I love Sorella Russell (the teacher) so so so much! It's going to be super sad to leave her, but man I am so so excited!

These last couple of days in the MTC we have a culture day where all our teachers show us pictures and share stories of their missions (super awesome) and then we have in field orientation and then off to ITALIA andiamo!

High School friend Sister Harper Forsgren

More High School friends, Sister Freeman, Sister Hughes, and Sister Forsgren

MTC Sisters

Bathrooms

At the "Famous" MTC Map Board

Favorite spiritual moment for the week-

This last Sunday's devotional, the speaker had a bunch of missionaries randomly come up and bear their testimonies of the Sabbath Day. This great big Tongan missionary got up and started to really choke up. He talked about how grateful he is for Christ and the opportunity that we have to remember Him and take His name upon us. It was such a powerful testimony and I really needed to hear it. The Sabbath Day really is a day of remembrance. How awesome is it that we have the OPPORTUNITY to take Christ's name upon us? I had never thought of it that way and now I realize how grateful I really am for that.

Amo voi!!!! Ciao!

Sorella Carrie Nelson

Pictures from our last temple walk before we head out