6th and Final Week at the MTC

Ciao Ciao Ciao!

Well, departure dates have been pushed back a week, and departure dates have been moved up a week. So here I am, 3 days away from a flight to Italy!! There is so much to be done, and so much to finish, but it has been quite the ride! I really have learned a lot! But sometimes, when you're laying in bed thinking about how you don't know how to order a glass of water with no fizz, you wonder if you've learned enough. But then I remember that's what the Senior Companion is for! It's exciting to think that the next lesson I help teach won't only be in broken Italian, but broken Italian AND somewhat fluent Italian. So that's exciting. 

We said some goodbyes already this week. The saddest so far being to our amazing tutor, Sorella Rincon. We all love her so so much and are going to miss her beautiful Italian. But, we have someplace to go, so we have to say goodbye. I also had to say goodbye to my bestie Sister Smith for 17 months, and that was pretty sad too. But she is now in Florida, serving the people. 

We got some good photos finally of the whole district. I have had a lot of just me and the other Sorelle, but non of us with the Anziani. But we all did a session at the temple together, and got some photos. 

I am so so excited to get to Italy, but am not excited for the long flight. But we have been super blessed to get a direct flight to Rome! So we don't have to do a bunch of layovers. But we have to leave the residence at 3:30 A.M. on Monday morning. Why do we leave so early? Only heaven knows, but we are still excited. Once we get to Rome, we get to see the temple, and I am SO excited for that. There are a lot of good things coming within the next couple of days! 

I love you all, and your support means the world to me!

Vi voglio bene!!

Sorella Thorup

5th Week at the MTC- General Conference!

Ciao!!

Well, If you missed it, this past weekend was conference, and it was AMAZING! The talks were just so good, and it totally made up for the lack of comfy chairs. And I got to sing in the Saturday Afternoon session. So that was really cool. I encourage you all to read or reread the talks, since they were just so applicable to our lives. I know it will be a blessing to you.  This week has been really busy, and we got to host the new missionaries! So that was really fun! I helped one sister who is called to Frankfurt Germany, and another going to Thailand. It was fun to see their excitement for the unknown.

This Sunday's devotional was pretty fun. We had Noteworthy come and sing for us.  We also had our first Skype TRC. So we taught a man in Honduras who spoke both Spanish and Italian. The connection was pretty bad, and when you add that with my poor language skills, it adds up to a pretty awkward lesson. But he was so patient with us and it was a good learning experience. So that was kind of fun. I couldn't fall back on English because he wouldn't have understood.  Anyways, I know it's a short email this week, but there's so much to do and so little time!

Vi voglio bene!!

Sorella Thorup 

Pictures- The one with my district and the windows: During class they all got distracted and proceeded to sent hearts towards the people in the other building. And it was just funny how they were all so invested in the people in the building across the way.

4th Week at the MTC

Ciao Everyone!

I'm sorry I missed emailing last week, things have been super crazy here at the Provo MTC. We have lots of rehearsals lately, and trying to find time to do everything has been quite the struggle.  It's hard to remember what's happened the last two weeks since every day is basically the same. It all really blurs together. One thing that sticks out is that we found out all of the Italian Districts will have to stay an extra week due to some timing error with the mission presidents. So we will be here until the 29th. We are all a little sad about the delay, and that we will miss the new Italian missionaries by two days. (they come the 31st) But it will be good and give me an extra week to learn more Italian.

I have been able to see so many friends here now, and it's always fun to take a second to catch up. But with the schedule, it really is only a second. They keep you going every min of the day here. We never seem to be able to catch our breath.  This weekend is General Conference, and we are all SO excited for it! We won't have any classes on Saturday or Sunday. It will just be a great time for us to recoup and hear the word of God. I know that there are some people who are waiting to have their mission announced this weekend. Their call literally just tells them that it will be announced, and they have to wait until then. So I'm excited to see where they are going. Also, the music is gonna be amazing this year!

 

Keep your eyes out during the Saturday Afternoon Session.... (hint hint)

I guess the last exciting thing is Christmas Lights! They are putting up lights on all the trees now, and it looks so beautiful! It's like a mini Temple Square! And it's fun to be able to look outside during our night classes and see all the twinkling trees. 

Anyways, I love you all!

Sorella Thorup