I am so sorry I haven't written these past two weeks. But I hope you enjoyed all the photos.
So to catch you all up, I am now serving in Siracusa, on the island of Sicilia. My companion is Sorella Neff, and she is literally such a good missionary. I love her so much and we are working hard together. It is like a paradise here. It is literally so beautiful and I love the people. They are just very open and kind. We have some good work here. There is this sweet couple that we have been working with and they came to church for the first time this week. We just started teaching them my second day here. And we are going to be going to meet her daughter who wants to hear our message. It's really cool. There is just nothing quite like watching the gospel change someone's life. To see a light change in them. I can't quite explain it.
Anyways, there were a lot of cool things that happened these past few weeks. But one of the experiences was when we were on the bus coming back from an appointment. There were two girls from India who were on vacation. But they spoke perfect English. Anyways, we helped them know where they needed to get off the bus, and so we started talking. One of the girls was very interested to just hear about our church. Both girls were very intelligent and enjoyed learning about different peoples and cultures. So we explained about how we have a living Prophet who directs the church on the earth today. And as we were bearing testimony this girl look at us and said, "Wow you have got some divine light coming out of you. Have you been told that before?" It was just such a cool moment. I've learned to love sharing my testimony. I love telling people about the joy that I've found, the peace, happiness, and the answers I received.
Something else that has happened this last week was Zone Conference. It was really fun, because we all have to go the day before and stay over night because of distance problems. So it was a party! But we went on Thursday to Catania. It is a beautiful city. We did our interviews with the new mission president and his wife. They are both so so wonderful. We all ate lunch together, and we practiced the musical numbers for Zone Conference. Well I was doing good in practice, but purtroppo it wasn't that good in the conference lol. It was still fun.
Things are going well. I love my calling, I love talking to people, hearing their life stories and seeing how they think. We went out one night with these two sweet old ladies we had met at the park. And it was just nice to walk with them, and hear stories of how they found their faith, stories of their families, and just eat Italian food with them. I am here to teach them of the plan that God has for us, but I learn sooo much from them and all their wisdom.
We have also been doing some house to house lately. It's fun to turn it into a game. It's fun with Sorella Neff, she's good at making things fun when it would otherwise be long and hard. When we are outside the house, we speak in Italian, and she will just ask funny questions that I have to respond to or just tell me stories. Makes the hours in the sun pass a little bit quicker.
Anyways,this email was a little all over the place, so sorry about that. I will try to keep up on my weekly emails and not just send pictures. Haha but no promises.
Anyways I love you all and hope you have a wonderful week!!
Sorella Angela Thorup
I might have already sent the beach picture. I don't remember. But it is still beautiful.
Last week we went and had a fish pedicure so that was fun.
The picture of the street just looked very Italian. That was when were were out finding last night.
The cutest little girl, Purity wearing Sorella Neff's hat.
