Thursday, September 26, 2013

Week 3 in the MTC

HIIII!!!!! How is everyone
Im doing just dandy. There really isnt much to say. The MTC is pretty routine everryyyy dayy. BUT i do love P DAYS! Today is the three week mark! I leave in three weeks from yesterday, and i cant wait!! SOO, im singing in the broadcast at the conference center! How amazing is that. Seriously a once in a lifetime experience, and our good ol prophet should be there... or so ive heard. Mom, requests would be my white and blue maxi dress.I can wear it here apparently.. which is awesome. And they recommend them for my mission, which is cool. I want cookies and bread... but homemade. DADS COOKIES! I miss home, but i dont have homesickness. It feels like ive been here forever... like the twilight zone but than it feels like its gone by supperr quick. Ill try to send pictures today. OH, holy cow. Did you pay off my credit card mom, and i still need to do those papers for my loans. Temple was amazing. My love for the temple seriously grows day after day. Every time i go, it is just that much cooler. It is amazing a susepitable i am becoming to the spirit. It is truly an amazing thing. When you read Jacob 5, read all the cross references as well. It gives it a whole new meaning. My really good amico or Anziano left for ItalyMonday. He got held back for anxiety issues, but its amazing how close we all got to him. He truly is going to make on heck of a missionary. I was having a really hard time with the language last week. REALLY BAD. I couldnt understand anything, nor speak it for like three days straight. We went and taught real people, and i said maybe 2 sentences in Italian. We got back to class, and i just started crying. Sorella Carter, Yost, and McPeek all talked to me and we decided it would be best to get a blessing. The only two Anziani that i wanted to do it was anziano Parker, and Valencia. Right when Sorella McPeek and Yost walked out to get them, they were coming down the stairs. Heavenly Father knew i needed them. Anziano Parker came in and went straight to business. It is amazing to see an 18 year old boy have so much power. AMAZING. The words that Anziano Parker spoke were not his own, but Heavenly Fathers. The blessing just kept going and going and going. He addressed every little aspect that was bothering me. EVERYTHING. Talk about knowing the truthfullness of the gospel and how much Heavenly Father is aware of each of us. It was truly an amazing experience..for both Anziano Parker, and me. He was a mouth piece for God. We as missionaries have the same power as the missionaries in the B.O.M. Alma, and Amulek. All of them. We have the same right and authority as they do. I, the girl you all know, i have the power from on high. It is amazing. I cannot wait to bless lives. To use that power that i have from being set apart as His servant. I am honored to wear this tag i wear. Its hard here. Unbelievealby hard, but we push through. Not every day is great, but it will be worth it. I love you alll so much. I am so blessed to have to many people who love me. Thank you for the support. Keep going. Attend the temple weekly and read the B.O.M ever night. Pray every night. I promise you it will bring you the blessings that are promised to you because of my service. We are promised blessings,, but you still need to deserve it. I love you all. Anything that is homemade is accepted here!!! Love you all!
Love Sorella Woods














Looks like she is having a blast. These are all the pictures she 
has sent us. Can't wait to see more of her adventures. Hope you all enjoy!

Friday, September 20, 2013

Sorella Woods and her zone! We love her!

This is the only picture we have gotten from Cristal so far! This is her and her zone! One of the girls in her zone sent this to all the families. She is having a wonderful time serving The Lord! We are         
                    so proud of her! 

Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Sorella woods week 2 in the mtc!! Yay!!!



OHHH, HEY THERE!
First week is the hardest... and after that you just feel like you're in this weird time zone where the real world does not exist, and you just talk about Gesu' all the time in Italiano... So basically, second week=success. (: I still miss home, but i'm happy here. Some hours are just like kill me now, but for the most part this past week has been great. Thank you everyone who wrote me. AND KIRA HAD HER BABY??? WHEN? I got my shoes mom. The orange ones are too big so i'm sending them back today, and then they'll be shipped back to you. We had a Tuesday night devotional and we got to usher it. Because we did that (our zone) got to sit on the second floor on the floor. It was super cool. I sing in choir, but we thought it might be a general authority coming so we didn't sing this past Tuesday. One of our Italian insegnate Fratello. Jeter said we can no longer speak english to him... only Italin... That's when i thought great,.. i'll just become a mute. We went to the temple this morning, which was super good. I want to "accidentally" run into you guys there.. but that is probably not aloud. Oh, i know i'm an awful daughter.. right as i sent that email off last week, i remembered that i forgot to say HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!!! I promise i didn't forget. I think i've been driving my companions crazy with, crap, i forgot to tell my mom happy birthday.. so happy birthday 11 days late. I'm learning more and more Italian every day. It's hard to sit in a class ALL day, but we're learning, and that is what's important. Something really cool that the speaker said Tuesday was forgetting yourself is also forgetting what you can't do now. As i was pondering that, it was basically testified to me that a part of loosing myself is loosing the selfish, i can't speak the language, and can't do this, i can't do that. All of those had i in it.. So i'm forgetting the "I" and changing it to, what do my investigators need? What does Heavenly Father need from me as a missionary? I'm so excited to be doing this work. It is hard. Harder than i would have thought... and it's just the MTC. But i cannot wait to be busy with real people. People that i promised i would find in the pre earth life... i will find. It's amazing. Truly amazing. Just know i'll stick this through. No matter how upset i am, or how much i miss everyone, i'll stick it through. Tell Dad the little punk to write me or use dearelder.com. I want to hear from him. AND HOW'S MY BABY NUGGET!?? I LOVE HIM!
Any who... My comp Sorella Carter, and basically my other two comps, sorella McPeek and Yotes have seen my weird side.. and they're all freaks too... good thing. We're all pretty much best friends.. It's crazy, because i feel like i've know everyone in my zone from the pre earth life. Anziano Parker brought that up.. and it makes perfect sense. We were prepared and trained together in the pre earth life because we all knew that we would be doing what we were doing. We're a family... and that's why they all ring so familiar to me.. And think about who would have been training us for this battle. Just think on that... The Italy mission is not for weak players. No mission is. That is why this is the last dispensation. We are the last push.. the last army to fight this battle. To prune the olive tree, and bring forth the good fruit... READ JACOB 5. I know it's long, but read it.. and think about it. It's hard to understand.. but think. It's my one task for ALL of you. We we're reading it today in the Celestial room (Anziano Valencia, Parker, Sorella Carter, and i) And the spirit just testified.. Truly amazing... Listen to the spirit. He is hard to hear, and that is what i've been learning this week, but once i heard, he just comes again and again.
I LOVE YOU ALL!!!! l'amore il vengelo di Gesu' Cristo. Io grato per Gesu' and la sue l'espiazione. Molto grato!! Io falicito!!! 
And all my prayers are in Italian now.. it makes praying twice as long... but thats how the gift of tongues is received apparently. Try try try... and then try some more.. (:(:(:!!! 
BYE!! until next week.. the adventures of Sorella Woods, Carter, Yost, and McPeek..


BTW.. send me good food. We were up all night last night because Sorella Carter got food poisioning... SKETCH.. and another girl in our district had glass in her hamburger.. in other words.. FEEED ME!!! before i waste away... eating only raisin bran, and diet coke... THEY HAVE DIET COKE HERE VANESSA!

and i might try out to play the violin here!! awesome.. i know

okay, for reals.

BYE! 
Love Sorella Woods

Friday, September 13, 2013

Week 1 of Sorella woods and the mtc

 My pdays are wednesdays. 
And my shoes are doing pretty good. The ones i spent the most on (Karyns, and the black) are the nicest and comfiest. please use dearelder.com too.. i would love to get mail.
 We live in the apartments.. Not main campus. Our classes are at raintree apartments, and our living apartments are called wyview apartments. The other girls in my apartment are sorella yost and mcpeek. They are both going to my mission. I love them a lot. We have A WHOLE apartment to ourselves. We work out every day (sorella carter and i) except for sunday, and she kicks my butt. When the days are good though, they are good. Sorealla Carter and i are teaching a "investigator" named Valeria. She has been difficult, but i finally asked her in broken italian to be baptized. She said if she got confirmation of the b.o.m that it was true, she would. I started crying. I have never felt such happiness and she's not even a real investigator!!! The spirit was AMAZING. I can't wait to feel what it feels like when someone who is truly an investigator says yes.
We go up to main campus with our zone sometimes. That's awesome.. Because we get to experience main campus without living there in all the crazziness. It's just really chill here. I would speak some Italian to you, but i don't have the energy. 
I'm proud to wear this tag though.. Very proud. This work is amazing..
Tell everyone hi, and to write me. 
I have a great branch president. He's a doctor and our doctor knows him and told him i'd be here.. His name is president willis so it was funny. Well i'm almost out of time.. I don't want to go. This is as normal as i've felt all week. I love you.
Love Sorella Woods

I love you.
Il venglo e vero!! Io so Gesu Cristo morte per mi. L'espiazione e forte. a benidizzione. Mi famiglio e' eterna. Mi testimonianza di il venglo e' molto forza! Molto molto forza. Padre Celeste la ama, e lui me amma. l'amore!

It's not exactly correct, but there is a taste of what i do here. Bye Bye!!
(:
Love Sorella Woods

Thursday, September 5, 2013

Crissy is now on a mischy


These are just some of the pics of Crissy and everyone the couple of days before she left!! 





     Just being crazy like we usually are!! 
                    And then a day
           later she became Sorella Woods. But our Crissy forever!! We are so proud             
                           of her!!!



          Crissy is now sorella woods!!! 
Just a little chilis to celebrate before she left!! Then a packed car of Sorella Woods      
        and just a few of her loving fans!!







Family pics happen in the car!! Cant really     
           take pics outside the mtc. 
Gave cristal a kick to the curb at the mtc!! Quick hugs! Lots of happy tears and well wishes then she was off!! 
   She is serving in the Milan Italy mission and she is going to be amazing!! Send      
    her lots of letters and packages and make sure to check out this blog to read more about her adventures every week    
        and to see her weekly email!!