Serving An 18 Month LDS Mission

In the LDS church, when a girl turns 21 she has the opportunity to choose to serve an 18 month, self-funded mission. I have wanted to go on a mission since I was a little girl. My parents both served a mission in Rome in the 1970's. In 2001-2002, my sister Letty served as a missionary in Hong Kong and my brother Algot in the Philippines. As soon as I turned 21 I submitted my papers. The Prophet and 12 Apostles determine through inspiration which of the more than 300 missions worldwide each missionary will be assigned. I was overjoyed when I opened my mission call and discovered that I was called to Rome, Italy! I feel immensely blessed and I feel that God has been preparing me to serve the Italian people. Each week, while I am on my mission, I will send my sister Letty an email and pictures to post on the blog. I won't see this blog till I come home, so I will be unable to directly respond to your comments until then. However, the sidebar will always have a current street address for me, and I promise I will respond to your letters! If you would rather write via email, just email your letter to my sister and she will print it out and send it me with her weekly snail mail!

Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Letter #4 and Pictures from Cosenza, Italy

Hello Everyone,

This week has been crazy but also wonderful. This sunday one Sunday one of our investigators came to church and the Anziani are teaching a family and they all came! It was great! We have a lot of potentials and people who we are excited to meet with. Cosenza is wonderful and full of people to find. It is the perfect size because you see many of the same people every day and a person you met 2 days ago you can see tomorrow. You can follow-up on how they are and if they read that pamphlet. It is great!!

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Letter #3 From Cosenza, Italy

Dear Family and Friends,
 
I am loving Cosenza, it is so wonderful. It is just the best size. We can walk from one edge of the city to the hour in 3 hours (at the most). It is nice because if it is too hard to get a bus we can just take a little jog and get anywhere we want to!

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Letter #2 and Pictures from Cosenza, Italy

Hello Everyone,
It was great talking with everyone on Sunday. If I was not able to connect with you I am sorry. I hope everyone had a great Mother's Day!
 
Here is my address:
 Via Delle Medaglie D'oro, 154
87100, Cosenza, Italia

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Letter #1 from COSENZA, Italy

So it has been a crazy but wonderful few days. and now we are finally in our city, COSENZA :) So the night that the all the new missionaries were arriving, the Assistants called during English course and said that Messina was not ready and I was going to be in Catania until it was. 

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Letter #6 and Pictures from Catania, Italy TRANSFER NEWS!!

Hello everyone,
 
So this week has been crazy we got Transfer calls last saturday and I am being transferred!!!
The end result is MESSINA (yes the land of "Twelfth Night" my favorite Shakespearean comedy). I will be opening the city for sisters AND I will be training!!!!! AHHHHH!