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