Seventeen: August 28, 2013 Milano

Ciao Cari!
Come state?

This is week 5 of transfer 2 and depending on if I get transferred, I might not be able to write you next week, just a heads up.

How was the Yankees game??
Thanks for sending a pic.

How is the summer and being all together again?

I am so excited to hear about the job possibility and the beach trip!  It all sounds so great!

You all seem to be having a lot of fun!  I'm so excited.

I have a few cool things to share.

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Our ward mission leader is so awesome.
We had this meno-attivi hunt on Sunday.  We've done it before, where we go to the address to see if they are accurate and we try to have a lesson if they are still interested in the church.

He set it up to be announced to the members in church to see if they would help out.  Guess how many people came!

I'd say about 15!  WOO!  It was awesome!  We got a lot done in 2 hours, it was so cool!

But our ward mission leader's son had a dinosaur book, and I don't know if you know this, famiglia, but I love dinosaurs.  Yes, I am weird, I know. We were looking at it with the son, the son's name is Melvin.  and I showed him my favorite dinosaur and guess what!  He drew me a picture of my favorite dinosaur!!!!

HOW COOL IS THAT??

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BTW, there is a Magnum ice cream store in Milano by the Duomo.  I'm sorry I haven't gone to it yet.  Maybe we can go when you come here.

Every time we get groceries we buy magnum bars though so does that make up for it?

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Thank you for sending that talk.  IT CHANGED MY LIFE!  Ma davvero.  I really liked it, and I picture things differently because of it.  Thanks for sending come thou fount.  We don't have any English hymns here so it's nice to have the words to a song I know.



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We did a lot of finding this week and we have 2 new investigators!

Its a mom, she's almost 90, and her son.  We also met 3 people from other countries just visiting, but we were really guided by the Spirit this week.  It was amazing.

There was a guy who was an investigator, then we couldn't find him, then we found him, but then he got mad at us.  We have a rule that we can't have anyone separate us by sitting between.  It's fairly new, and he wanted to sit between and because we were obedient he left the parco.  I think we were being protected and it was a blessing.


We also cleaned the church this Saturday so we got to wear regular clothes.  It was so weird!  Ha ha, but we got to clean it and it reminded me of being a custodian and how much better I felt when I could help I room like better.

We have an activity this week.  Its a beach party, member-brings-nonmember activity.  We've been planning it for a while so we hope it all goes well!  we're so excited.

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Something I noticed that will make you laugh is there are tiles everywhere.  Most of the building have tiles in the floors and on the walls in the bathroom and kitchen, but also outside.  On the outside of buildings.  TILES EVERYWHERE! lol

We have been having a lot of rain here and it's been nice and cool.  I have had to put on fuzzy socks and use a blanket to sleep the past few nights.  Pretty much the hot humid summer is over and it feels amazing.  It's pretty much going to be a new jersey winter though, because the climates are about the same.  so yay for chill-down-to-the-bone cold!!!! WOOHOO!

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So about not having hot water....yeah we're stupid.  The landlord came back and we told them we haven't had hot water and they came down, flipped our boiler switch and said, the boiler wasn't on.  OOPS!  It was probably me too.  I wouldn't be surprised!

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I've been thinking a lot about myself and how I can be a better missionary.  I thionk I have learned so much and one of the most important things is recognizing who I am, and what I can do because I know I can have divine help.

I can testify, I know who I am. I know I am a daughter of a Divine Being.  He created me, He chose me to be here.  I am a daughter of God, of the Father.  I can walk with my head held high because I know who I am and I am important to Him.

and even if I were to come home now...for whatever reason, even though I won't, I like being here too much, I love being a missionary....even if I came home now, my life would be forever changed, and I don't think you would recognize me.

I am a disciple of Christ. I can do all things in Him who strengthens me. I know I am nothing compared to Him, but He has given me the air to breathe, the strength to walk, and the words to speak.  It's so great to feel words and thoughts and scriptures come to your mind and knowing this person needs this right now and I have to say it so that they can receive it.

I have faith that He can change the hearts of even the most wicked men.  He has the power to humble us and build us up.  All we must do is love Him enough to follow His commandments.

I love my Saviour. 

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I was thinking though when you guys come to visit, sorry for such a dramatic change, would you all want to come more when we can go to the Rome temple together when its dedicated or do you want to come and tour the mission with me? We won't be able to go to the temple while I'm still a missionary unless we flew to Rome to come back home. and we couldn't afford coming to Italy twice.  What do you all think?

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We do this thing on PDay, we buy a chunk of cheese and bread.  Today we had Gorgonzola.  The food is just different in the US, and a piece of Gorgonzola would cost a lot more than 1.50£ . Its nice to feel so fancy but spend so little.

A lot of the time, Sorella Hoppe and I talk about the difference between Germany & Europe from the US on PDays.  It's interesting because the  countries are so different but her and I are similar in so many ways.

I love being here. I love Italy.

Ognuno di noi sulla terra è un figlio di Dio, e l'ho visto ogni giorno.
Every one of us on the earth is a son of God, and I have seen it every day.

I know that this church is the only church with the proper authority and the fullness of the truth.  I love my God and I long for the day when I can see His face again and remember all of the ways I have never been left alone by Him, in this life, in the life before and I can't wait to be with Him in the next.

Our ward mission leader asked us a question in Correlation the other day and the question was: do you think in some time down the road, you will be inactive?

I said, absolutely I will not be.  Now don't get me wrong, I am in no way perfect, or not subject to the enticings of the devil, but I know that I have a foundation in Christ and I refuse to fall.

I refuse to fall.  I will never give up, and as always I will say to you all again: never give up.

I love you all.  Life is not perfect, we have seen that in our family over and over.  We have been tried and tested, but we have always been made stronger and more united through our faith in Him, individually and together.

I love you all with my whole heart.

Time and all eternity.

Sorella Carlock

Zoe (Sorella Carlock) doesn't like this picture, but Mommy does - and Mommy is in charge of the blog! ha ha :)

Sixteen: August 21, 2013 Milano

Ciao tutti!

Come state?
Tutto bene?

Siete insieme finalmente, sì?

This week has been a huge mess of up and down and really hard, and blessings (the calm after the storm).

I really wanted to give up this week...without any reason.  It was just hard.  Sometimes Satan just makes me think that we're not accomplishing anything I guess, but I went through the motions anyway and I came out on top.  Although going through the motions is bad, doing it because it's right is a good way to just keep moving.

I don't want to be anywhere else in the world. Not even with you three and Georgie - and that's saying something.

Something funny that I might have already told you is that...I'M THE TALLEST IN OUR HOUSE! ha ha ha! Take that tall people, who is the tall one now? ME! ;)

OH BTW....we haven't had hot water for two weeks.  Everyone goes on vacanza in August and our landlord turned off his water (we live in a 'duplex) and that turned off our hot water.  Va beh, it's actually nice after a long day---but my face has never been so bad because we don't have hot water to scrub the dirt out.  I'm going to start microwave or boiling water though to wash my face.

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We got new mattresses this week from IKEA!

I HAVE NEVER SLEPT SO WELL IN MY LIFE!

OMG it's amazing!  They are perfect!

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It's been pretty cool lately.  It rains like once every two weeks.  Some days it's almost unbearably hot, and hopefully we have lessons those days but not always.  It's ok though, my new skirts really help! :)

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During weekly planning, Sorella Hoppe has me conduct the session now and at the end we always talk about goals right? Well, something that I want to do is to act with this phrase.

I did all that I could do.....(this is the phrase)...'and I did a lot more'.  I want to be that kind of person.

It also connects with the Strength, Courage, Patience.

We did parco this week, we talked to everyone (there weren't many people there...we maybe talked to 10) and I wasn't afraid to just talk and explain.  Every one took a card or pamphlet.  Nothing has come of it, but how great! no one yelled at us! and they were all Italian! ...our ward is pretty much all South American so we don't get to talk to a lot of Italians----Milano is full of Filipinos, Peruvians, and Egyptians.  It's awesome!

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I found a few scriptures that I want you all to look over

Jacob 2:35

STUDY JACOB 4!   It is sooooo cool!

I studied it this morning so it you study it today its like we're connected or something!

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We just adjusted our finding areas this week and I feel really good about it.  Our area...areas are splits between the left side of our 1/3 of milano and the parc around our church-  I know that makes no sense to you sorry!

We did it that way so that we could have parco because there isn't any parco in one area.  We went to check out our new digs this week and we had a lesson in the parco with a Muslim man...he was amazing.  He is searching for the truth, he's Muslim so he understands why prophets are key, he wants a Book of Mormon in Arabo, and he's great!  The only issue is that because of new mission rules, we have to pass him to our anziani, so we'll do that after our next lesson so that we can say he's an official investigator.

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Another one of the new rules is everyone that is GANS (YSA) age, we need to call them Sorella/Fratello lastname.  It's odd  put it into practice but I get it.  It makes sense.  We work with one GANS a lot, she's amazing! It'll be weird to have to call her Sorella instead of her first name.  We've become kind of friends...is that allowed?

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Hey! You won't believe this...or maybe you will.  I HAVE A TAN!  Not on my legs of course because we always walk and they'll never get any color....BUT! I have a cool modesty tan.  I like it!

Speaking of tans...you know how I have those special cool leather ENGLISH scriptures? How the color changes and gets stronger the more you use them?  It's funny how different the colors are between Book of Mormon and Bible.  The Book of Mormon is a lot brighter!  I want to read the Bible more, but there isn't really any time.  I want to really study it and that takes a while, but I really love The New Testament.

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Eva, I gave your Facebook and email to some girls here in Milano. they are 13, 13, and 12.

Si chiamano Jashmine, Christine, and Jennifer.  The first two are Filipina sisters and Jennifer is Peruviana.  They are so cute.  Talk to them!

Sorry Tanney and Mommy, I haven't given anyone your stuff but I'm pretty sure you prefer it that way.

There are so many Spanish speakers here Tanney.  When you come, you won't be lost.  You'll be able to talk to everyone.  Even in church the Latinos mix Italian and Spanish so the Italians understand everyone anyway.  You'll be perfect!

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Hey, can you send me the NEW & OLD scripture mastery references, I didn't mark all of the ones in the bible and d&c in my new scriptures.  And I want to see the new ones!

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Listen to this.

We have this investigator that has been on vacanza.
We left her with 5 envelopes full of scriptures for all the weeks she'll be gone.  She's read 3 already.  I've told you all about her.

She texted us the other day and she was saying:

"Oh, I really like Alma 32" and she pretty much quoted it, then she said "I can't memorize it because I'm old. Sorry!"

How cool is she??? Oh man, she's so ready!

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So the way Italy is set up is a little different

They have Cartoleria for like office supplies, Farmacia for all of your creams, sprays, salt, and pharmaceuticals, and your grocery stores.  It's confusing because super markets at home have everything.  There is one store for every need.  Here there is one store for one need.

Also here they don't have the same shampoo...they have like Garnier and stuff but they have 'flavors' that we don't have at home.  Its not same but not DUN DUN DUN!

It's just funny.
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Something I do to calm myself down after the day is sing in the shower.  I can't remember many English hymns and I don't know the Italian hymns.  When I'm lucky I can remember children's hymns and a few verses to a hymn.  What really helps is singing our lullabies though.  I know they aren't church approved but they remind me of being an eternal family so I think its ok.

I love you all so much- this is a sacrifice, but a gift.

I'm trying hard to develop Strength, Courage, and Patience. 
My 'example' of the week...(the thing that my blessing said that I told you about was that I need to remember my examples)

My example of the week (its my new thing)....

is Nephi.  I chose him because of one of the last scriptures he ever wrote...

'the Lord commanded me, and I must obey'.
how powerful. how simple.

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Please send me foto of you all together!

PS: if I write any words that look wrong in English, they might be errors, but mostly likely they're just Italian ha ha- like frase, foto, etc.

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I printed out some foto this week so I'll send them today if I can, or next P-DAY. you've already seen them all but I figured you might want hard copies.

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I thought of something funny to do....The adventures of Nutella: The SuperNocciola! you'll like it, it'll basically just be pictures of Nutella in each city that I'm in.

it'll keep the spirits up----


sorry this letter is more silly than spiritual.


I love you all.  We are eternal. Our bracelets tell us so :).
You are in my heart and prayers and the prayers of others.

I love you more than I knew I did before.
I am different because I am here.
I am happy because I am here.
I am a disciple of Christ and will be until the end because I am here.

Don't any of you ever give up.  Even I wanted to this week, but I didn't. Use my example - lean on my faith if you need to.

Don't you dare give up.  You can win this fight.  You are not alone.
I am here. He is here. You are never alone.

I love you all more than earthly words can express.
I miss you, just enough to keep me here.

Don't forget, we have the rest of eternity.

I love you
I love you
I love you


Sorella Carlock
Missionary Lopo

The "real" Italia pics

What's more Italian than Nutella?  And pigeons?  Huh?

Fifteen: August 14, 2013 Milano

Hi!

No time - seriously like 10 minutes!

Everything is good this week.  We had a lot of appointments and lessons, and we're trying to get more.  We had a few more investigators this past week but they've just slipped through our fingers. We can't find them, or they are always busy.

This week, aka yesterday, Sorella Hoppe and I decided something.  Because I understand Spanish and we both speak Italian, she is going to speak to me in Spanish and I'll speak to her in Italian.  Its going very well so far, at least that way we're not speaking English in public.

A volte è dificile ricordare che dobbiamo parlare in Italiano perché non so tutte le parole.

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Also, there are just a lot of things we can't find here that are so common in the US.

face wash
water bottles
epsom salt ;(
stationery

Those things just aren't common or they are hidden!

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We're trying to work on forever finding - we even talked to 2 women in a store today. We talk to people at metro stations a ton, but we could be better at it. 

Sorella Hoppe and I are really good for each other. We both want to change but we don't know how to be accountable to ourselves, so we are being accountable to each other and through prayer, so we're making changes.

We have a kind of motto...we don't say it or use it ever in a situation, but it's in the back of our minds when we don't want to do something: ''Push, push, push!'' We really want to push ourselves this transfer, and we're trying our best to do so.

There are a lot of funny phrases that Italians use: for 'I dont know' you say 'boh'.

I don't have any more time, we have to go....I thought it was only 430 when we got here but it was 530.

I didn't get a chance to read your email, but I did see that you graduated!!! CONGRATULATIONS, you did it! and with a perfect GPA!

WAHOO!!1

I love you all more than you know. And I cant wait to see you again - well I can wait, I'm just excited. 

Never give up!
Never surrender!  Don't you dare!


I love you
I love you
I love you

We'll talk more next week

Did you all get my letters? Tanney? Eva? I'm glad you got it, Mommy.

Thanks for the pic of Georgie.


I LOVE YOU
VI AMO TANTISSIMO!

Ciao

Milano zone conference: with new mission mother/mission president, Colleen & Bruce Dibb

Fourteen: August 7, 2013 Milano

Hi di nuovo

MOST EXCITING NEWS OF THE WEEK: I finally bought a water bottle!!!

It's a 'platypus' American-made.  It's like a Camelbak but without the backpack.  It has a cool hose though!!!  I'll send a picture.

We had a scambio yesterday and it was really cool.  I was with the sister I was with last time, Sorella Santoro.  She's Sorella Hoppe's trainer.  She is going home this transfer.  She is from Bari, Southern Italy.  I had a lot of grammatical questions and she really helped me.

I couldn't feel comfortable praying in 'tu' form because I didn't get it.  But I understand it now.  To me, the explanation...'oh its informal' just wasn't right...I understood that as disrespectful.  I get it now.

I'm getting a tan.  So and steady, and it's not dark or anything, but I'm definitely darker.  My feet are much better too.  Some days they are swollen, some days they hurt a lot!  But I''m ok.

To start the transfer the right way, we had the Anziani give us blessings.  Mine was very special.

I was blessed with 3 things

Strength
Courage
Patience

it really helped me to understand that He, my Father, knows me and hears my spoken and unspoken prayers.

I've been learning so much about the plan of Salvation and why we're here and that we are all connected.  Sometimes when I'm walking down the street or we're standing in the metro, I just think..

How will this person feel as they get the opportunity to maybe hug their Saviour after this life.  or I think...God loves him, God loves her.  He created us all and all the things around us.

Eva, I'm such a hippie now.

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Another thing that my blessing said was that I need to remember the examples that came before me, and that Jesus has walked this path before so He knows how I feel and what I'm thinking.

Something that I thought was cool....how many examples are there before me??

Everyone from Adam to Nephi to Jesus Christ Himself to Appleton Milo to You Mommy to Tanner to Eva to Sorella Hoppe....

I have so many examples!  So one thing that I wanted to do was to take one person each day, just one, and try to act as they might in that one day so that I can develop their good qualities.  Maybe it'll be better if I do it for a week, but the idea is the same.

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For this transfer, we have a lot of ideas, something we are doing is planning to sing in the metro on Sunday.  I'm really excited for that...and other than that, we decided we won't sit next to each other on the metro so that we'll talk to people.

I'm really excited to get that going-

did you get my letters that I sent 'snail mail'????

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It's so humid here.
I sweat all the time...I never sweat like ever, and I'm so sweaty here.  It's not even that hot, the air is just so heavy.  It's good though because the more people we meet, the more everything makes sense.

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I don't know how horrible my grammar is or anything. I can't take the time to adjust, so correct me if I don't make sense.  Also Italian grammar is way different.  The sentence structure isn't like in English.

English : subject verb object
Italian: object subject verb...I think....

example:

He gave me a flower

Mi ha dato un fiore....so it would be
(to)Me he gave a flower...

It makes life interesting.  ha ha, no I like it.

There are so many things that are different here.

We have a 3hr period where most shops close and people take naps or get lunch o qualcosa (or something).  It's nice,  thats when we do language and have lunch. but just 2 hrs obviously.

The people here also carry things in bags.   They never have anything in there hands. Like if they had a book, it would be in a bag, not just in their hands.

I've just noticed little things, little difference.

Also their trash and recycle is so intense and so much smarter.
Produce waste
Plastic
Paper
Trash

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Tanney,

I wanted to tell you something
I am so happy you have found something you love to do
For a very long time, I really hoped that you could find something to help you relax and that you really enjoyed.  Turns out, it's fishing and I am so happy.  I printed out the picture of you and the fish because you just look so happy and I am so glad!

GO TANNEY! CATCH THOSE FISH!

How are you? how is everything? Let me know!

Eva,

Trek! WOO! Have so much fun.  Be good.  Wear a bonnet!  Drink water.
I am so glad that you've pretty much devoted your summer to church activities, that is really special.  You are rocking it! Keep going.  Keep learning and enjoying, and tell me about everything.

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I thought about something the other day.
In a lot of photos of me...back in the day, I don't really look happy, even when I'm smiling.  If you look, you can just kind of see how sad I was, you can tell.

I looked at the foto album Tanner made for me the other day (Thanks Tanney), and there is the picture is Tanner, you Mommy, and me outside of the Manhattan temple after my first time.  I just looked so different.  I looked happy and bright and clean, shiny, and new.  You can see a difference. My life has changed so much in the past 3 years.  I am completely different.

It's even changed in the last 1...the last 7 weeks even! I feel so much better.

When I got my blessing this week, it was the first time I felt that I really understood what it was, who I am, and it was the first time that I felt that I was good, that I was on the path of righteousness, that Father was pleased with me too!

It was a really nice feeling; a feeling of progress and light.

Now I can happily say, I am good.  I am faithful.
I love my Father, He loves me too.

My heart is pure, my slate is clean, and my future is bright.  Even as bright as the sun! ;) did you catch that? I love this Gospel!

I love you Mommy, I love you Tanney, I love you Evie!  I love you Georgie!  Where is Georgie??

Ha ha

Be good.  Don't you dare, give up.  Like Jeffrey R. Holland said, if you feel like you don't have enough faith or your testimony isn't strong, use mine.  lean on mine until you have enough strength for your own,.


I love you more than any earthly language can express, but we have our bracelets and that is symbolism enough for me.

I love you

We'll talk soon

Sorella Carlock

Scenes in Milano

Thirteen: July 31, 2013 Milano

Hi everyone!

I have lots to tell this week, I'll try to be quick!

Transfer 2!!! YEAH!  I'm with Sorella Hoppe again, as I told you.  She's amazing.  We are friends, we get along, we laugh, we teach together, we try to improve together and keep each other accountable.  She is very different than the other friends I've had.  She doesn't like to feel so serious about everything, she likes to be happy.  She realizes sometimes we can't be in control and we need to go with it and improvise.  She's so smart.  She has a creative mind.  She draws and she thinks with her eyes almost.  She can map something out perfectly in her head and then she does it.  Needless to say, we draw lots of sweet cards for people!

We have a lot of goals for this transfer and we are working hard to stick to them!  We're doing a lot of daily things: spiritual thoughts, daily goals, popp-bys (we have POPP charts here: principle, scripture, question, testimony) which would be a quick lesson using the popp chart for the day, and we want to light up this town with LOVE!

Something that I have been thinking about is this...my first week here, a missionary asked me what Christ-like attribute I wanted to develop...I said undeniability..

When Christ was here, to the people who were willing to listen to Him...it was undeniable that He was who He said He was, the Christ...

I want to be UNDENIABLE!

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Also....I have proof that God loves Italian the most...
Doctrine & Covenants 128: 8 ...the words ''propria persona''....YEP THEY'RE ITALIAN!  Just saying...

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So, we went to the Duomo to have a lesson on Saturday and we were attacked, more or less ha ha.  These men were selling bracelets and they pretty much threw them on our wrists and they were like 'they're free, they're free' ...we go to walk away...they weren't free.  Ha ha! We'll now I have a new ''free'' bracelet!



I realized something this week too.

For the longest time, when I was 'learning' Spanish...I would say words that were Italian, because I though they were Spanish...turns out, I've known more Italian than I thought for a lot longer than I thought! YAY for spiritual gifts!

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A funny thing...you know the 'lamanite haircut'.  The haircut from all the Mormon movies with Lamanites, the shaved head and crown-of.-the-head ponytail....yep, tons of South Americans have them here.  It's a fulfillment of heritage I guess.

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Something I remembered...When I first met Sorella Dibb and first hugged her, she said something I liked

She hugged me and pulled away and said, 'that one's for your mom'
then she hugged me again and pulled away and said, 'that one's for me'

When I hugged Sorella Wolfgramm, it was similar.  I just love Sorella Dibb!

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Ok....so I also realized, wordly speaking, why Sisters need to stay together...We have had a lot of people come up to us and...not know that we were missionaries let's say.  Nothing too creepy, but it's really important..the sight and sound rule.  It's keep us safe!

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I'm only telling you this next part because I didn't do it...

Sunday was really hot here....really really hot. And humid.  I couldn't stay awake in church, I hadn't had much water either.  It was MI SER A BLE!

I was ready to go home.  I really was.  My feet hurt. It was awful...then I prayed.

I prayed that I could just make it through the day.  I prayed that it would rain soon, I prayed my heart out just asking Him to guide my feet and make me feel less hot.  I seriously...I don't know how to explain it.  I've never felt like that before...and I was just so angry. I realized I also had been (up until that point) relying on myself and my own strength to do everything. 

'Lean not unto thine own understanding'...well I was.

I prayed just to be able to rely on Him more, that He might help me through the day...

We made it through the day...and the next day, it rained.
It rained all day. It rained and rained and rained.  It was so fresh and cool and calm.  It was amazing.  Every morning since then, it has been chilly and fresh.  That to me is definitely the Lord's hand.  I feel that He really did save me from making a huge mistake. 

...that experience ties unto another experience.

I have a lot of difficulty picturing Christ like it says in the hymn..

If the Saviour stood beside me, would I do the things I do?
Well I finally have somewhat of a concrete image now.  He is a man of flesh and bones.  He is glorious and dressed in white.  That's all I've got, but I can picture Him beside me now and it feels right.

I was thinking the past few weeks...if I were to go home right now, would I feel satisfied with the work I've done so far.  Most days the answer was no.

I think a lot of that was because my attitude wasn't right.  I think I can say today that I wouldn't feel that I was finished, but I think I could say that I am pleased with what I've done so far.  I wouldn't be ashamed that I didn't do enough.

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THE 2nd BEST PART OF THIS EMAIL!!!!

Finding...
Ok that rainy day, Monday, we did finding.

WE HAD 2 LESSONS!

We did casa in casa, which is knocking doors.  TWO WOMEN LET US IN!

Their names are both the same too!

(dont add this into the blog, Anna is their name)

We left a Book of Mormon with one....she wanted it!  She asked if she could keep it.

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Eva....your EFY scripture is amazing...
Mom, I'm so glad it was your 'mission theme'.
Tanner, I'm sure you used this one too!! ;)

Helaman 3:35 right?

Sorella Hoppe and I have made it our transfer motto!!!!!!!

We're using it too!
We're all connected now!
Now it HAS to be our family scripture!!!

I really was overcome with the Spirit when I read it.
This is it, our family scripture.

Eva, the scriptures you send...I really do use them.  People are touched by them....YOU'RE TEACHING MY INVESTIGATORS!

don't stop sending them!

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Tanner
I am so glad that you are fishing.
I'm glad that you are FINALLY doing something for yourself!
You deserve it.  You work so hard.

YOU ARE SO GOOD!
You are a shining example of a disciple of Christ and I love you!
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If you haven't heard it,

I mean this...like its mandatory...

buy the CD LAMB OF GOD
it's a musical interpretation of the lasts days of Christ on the Earth.
it's beautiful--- my favorite part is when the narrator reads the scripture that says

And when Peter heard that it was Christ, (he cast himself into the water to swim ashore)-

That's going to be me...I want to be like that...Mommy, I really love Peter.

''Not only my feet, but my head and my hands also!''

I really love all of your spiritual insights and scriptures. keep them coming.
I have compito for you all

In your next email to me...
Send me your testimony...your thoughts on God and Christ and how prayer has blessed you.

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I also sent some letters so you should be getting those within a week or two.


I love you all. We are eternal-

You are a part of my strength and my motivation...

Sorella Carlock


PS- i really hope you're editing these emails to make them grammatically correct and not inappropriate or anything.

THANK YOU


YOU ARE MY SUNSHINES!

I LOVE