Famiglia e amici!!!
The quote in the subject is from the one and only Joy Ezekiel!!!
(African less active) She never comes to church because she is too
busy but she sure loves our God! Haha she's awesome!
Weather in Caserta is always a guessing game. While we study in the morning it always
looks like it will be sunny so we dress accordingly and then it is a
down pour of rain later in the day or it looks rainy and ends up being
sunny! We have to always wear a lot of layers because better safe than
sorry! The evenings have cooled down a lot and I always keep a cardigan
close. Usually it rains at least once a day, apparently this is what
Italian winters will be like but just a lot colder.
Here's a couple highlights from the week...
PRANZO con RORY- Rory is a 50 year old member and has a friend
John Franco who comes to church with her. We planned to have pranzo
with her and talk about sharing the gospel with John Franco. When we
arrived at the set time we were surprised to see John Franco ringing
Rory's bell as well! Towards the end of our pranzo with Rory and John
Franco, her roommate (a crazy Ukrainian woman) came in and was so rude
to John Franco and Rory and her started yelling at each other! It was
crazy and then her roommate left the room and cute sweet John Franco
goes... "Hamilton, Nelson, do you have a message we can hear?" We
watched the "Egli Vive" and you could immediately feel the spirit come
back into the room! It was incredible! John Franco has sooo much
potential! He smokes, like every single Italian, but he shared that he
has always wanted a reason to quit. I'm so excited to see his
testimony grow!
MARIA RUSSO (less active who was seriously burned and doesn't come to church)-
Normally I DREAD going to visit Maria Russo because she cries all the
time, is super hard to understand, and always shows us her burns all
over her body... But this visit turned into one of the best this week.
We found her sitting at a sewing machine with all sorts of fabric
around her. She was actually out of bed doing something!!! I know I
had the biggest smile on my face after this wonderful sight! She told
us all about things she loves to make and places she has been and we
shared parts from the conference talk "choose the light" and she
LISTENED to our ENTIRE lesson WITHOUT CRYING!!!
ZONE CONFERENCE!- Sorella Hamilton and I woke up at 5:20 so we could
make bacon, chocolate chunk, pancakes for Sorella Hidalgo Guzman's
birthday! Perfect breakfast to start the day! Haha zone conference was
SOOOO GOOD!! We did some serious role plays and really learned about
setting goals and seeing those goals through. It's always so fun to be
with all the other missionaries and hear from Presidente and Sorella
Waddoups. And of course we had a delicious Napoli PIZZA!
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| WE LOVE ZONE CONFERENCES!!!! |
While Sorella Hamilton translated for Young Women's, I was able to
teach senior primary this week the story of Stephen the martyr ( I
didn't know who he was either...) and about the Godhead. It was SO
MUCH FUN! Most of them had been baptized within the last two years so
it was so fun to hear about their thoughts about the Holy Ghost and
who he is. We also had a nice discussion about what stoning a person means... Hahaha!
Here is something I had stuck with me this week... "You can’t do wrong
and feel right. It’s impossible!" - Ezra Taft Benson. We can tell if
we are choosing the right by how we feel. The Spirit only brings good
feelings, He will never make us feel unhappy! It's so simple but I
sometimes forget! It is super rainy and wet here but there is sunshine
in my soul! Haha see what I did there...?
Love hearing from you all
and seeing your beautiful faces!
Vi voglio bene!
Sorella Carrie Nelson
"Ponderize" scripture: Matthew 25:23
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| Awesome, beautiful P-day at La Reggia gardens. |
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Daniel, Felix and us at the train station at Aversa for a lesson.
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| Exercise one morning (we promise we exercise). |
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| Kingsley and Anita! They are so dark so we will have to take another when it's light. |
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| Waiting to eat our pancakes for Sorella Hidalgo Guzmans birthday.... |
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| They finally arrived!!! |
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| Time at the church. |
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| Daniel said, "act crazy like Sorella Nelson"!! |
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