È un bellissimo giorno qui in Italia per Natale! E sono molto grata per l'opportunità di essere in Ostia con la mia collega e anche le belle persone!!
Merry Christmas everyone!
This is such a special opportunity we have. Today is a day we can dedicate to family, service and focusing on Christ! (So pretty similar to Sunday, just add presents and lots of goodies.) This week has been especially beautiful and an amazing experience to center on Christ. We have been able to reach out to lots of people and invite them to the temple open house.
This last Friday we had Zone Conference. For those of you who haven't heard, Sisters all over are now allowed to wear pants! So the Church will help the sisters who are already out to buy a few pairs. I'm excited to try that! We also had a special training for the sisters so we can help out at the Temple Open house. We start VIP tours on the 12th of January, so it's coming up. We have been instructed to be the World's friendliest tour guides. That will be a really special experience. I can't wait to welcome people to the house of the Lord.
We then were able to have a good conference about effective finding and about the blessings of the Atonement of Jesus Christ. It was beautiful. We then enjoyed a feast of cookies and Hamburgers, and then got to do a nativity. My favorite part! I was assigned as an angel. (: So I and two other Sorelle got baptismal dress and dressed up for the part. It was lots of fun.
We had the special Sacrament Meeting. I had the opportunity to play the songs for the meeting. It was beautiful. I didn't understand everything but I knew they were talking about my Savior and the Spirit was there.
For Christmas eve we were able to spend the morning with Danielle. That was a special bonding moment with her. I can't remember if I mentioned, but she has a baptismal date of March 8th, so keep her in your prayers! But I'm glad we got to do that with her, so she didn't have to spend all of Christmas eve alone. Christmas eve night, we wrapped up gifts for Angela. We gave her a hymn book, so she could sing the hymns at home. And then she really enjoys book marking her scriptures, and never using a pen. So we got her a cute spiral book of Sticky Notes and I gave her my YW Ribbons. We wrapped those all up and tied them with a cute bow. We did some finding and also called Sorella Harmon's family. They are just all so wonderful. It made sense why Sorella Harmon is also so wonderful. I am so blessed to have my trainer. And then at night we stuffed each other's stockings and told the Christmas Orange story and shared an orange. We opened up our Christmas Pj's. They have cats we had little mouse fuzzy socks!! It was a blast.
Today we woke up and opened gifts, and made breakfast for the other missionaries! While we were making pancakes at the church, this little old lady wandered in. She had seen the church was open and came in. Her husband had died two months ago and she kept saying he was with Jesus. It was really sad, but we offered her love and an invite to come eat with us. She was headed to her sons, but said she would come to church. We hope to see her. We were able to eat Christmas Pranzo with Angela, her son and neighbor. Boy, they fed a lot. It was a little overwhelming but we made it through. She was so touched by our gifts. It was special because we were able to share some of the gospel with them. And then after being stranded at the metros trying to get home, I was able to video chat my family outside of the Burger King. We only had one slightly crazy man stop and interrupt the call, so it was good. I was grateful to talk with my family and share my testimony with them. It was a really special experience.
This Christmas season has been a wonderful chance for us to gift Book of Mormons to those we love, and offer them the gift that gives us the most joy.
I challenge you to give a Book of Mormon away to someone you love. Let them know how much it means to you and the joy you've found. This gospel is the best gift that could be given. I love you all.
Merry Christmas!
Buon Natale!
Vi voglio bene ❤️
Sorella Thorup
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