We don't care, we're missionaries

What we generally have to say in those moments which usually happen every day where you feel creepy or awkward with some stranger on the street.. I feel like a stalker sometimes.. SO we have been into just hashtagging everything because hashtags are just so much better as a missionary

#wesharebecausewecare

or 

#dontthinkjustdoit

Yeah, this is what peps us up on those days where everyone and their dog says no... AND THEN this amazing thought popped into my head. I love my mission, really love it. Part of me will always be stuck here, but eventually i will want to go home. So as Sorella Burt and i were talking last night it dawned on me that just everyone in the world is on a 'mission' and they all want to make it home in the end too. That home where there is family, love, and just you feel comfortable. Whether they know they want to go home or not, we all will need to get there in the end. So here comes the birlliance

#helpingourbrothersandsistershomefromtheirmissions

That is the goal in mind. I know that i would like to be with my family again.. Yes, here after my mission, but more importantly for the rest of forevers.. and that is just what everyone else wants as well and its our job to get them on the right track. We keep finding these little miracles. We have found a less active who has lived here for two years and has never found the church and she has come all these past weeks! She has two sons who are old enough to be baptized. We have investigators who are just so close to that waters edge! And others who have been investigating for years.. Like this one family. We were in a lesson with them this past week and the impression came to my head to pull out the good old Testament because they are hard core bible believers. So our good friend the Prophet Ezikeil (how do you spell him) helped us give confermation of the divinity of the BOM. At the end of the lesson she just looked at us and said 'i finally have learned something.. i finally understand.' We walked away with them saying they know the BOM is true now from one verse in the bible and that Jospeh Smith was called to be a prophet!!!...AMAZING!. Lesson i learned, never ignore the Spirit when using the scriptures.. The word of God will never fail us. Well friends, good week, good times. It is never easy, but its still the best time of my life. Love you all! Have a great week. 

Love Sorella Woods

 

and here is my baby burt. (:

Real life or is this just fantasy.

I dont know why that came into my head, but good song. But to be honest, reality has hit. The new city gitters and the fun of meeting everybody has kind of died down and the reality of pink washing has hit.. which means basically down to ground zero.

nada

niente..

BUT we will perservere.. Just some days arent great days.. and not every day could just be peachy perfect even though it seemed it could be after the first two weeks. Sorella Burt and i would just look at eachother at the end of each day and be like wow.. Perfect ward, companionship, we are even cooking good meals for ourselves. We are on top of the world!! So what have we been doing.

Ricerca.

The good old search for hours for the ones the Lord has prepared.. and you know. Just a lot of people are not really digging it right now. So the other night as we were just walking down centro for the 10th time i thought about Christ and His ministry. How many people rejected Him even though He was perfect at what He did.. Burt and i just stopped for a couple minutes once we had made it to the train station and just pondered.. If our Savior was rejected every day of His ministry, how could we not be? And yet, He went about doing His work day after day, year after year. Because He knew the importance of it. He accomplished the will of the Father. So we prayed for direction and kept going.. and we didnt find anyone that night or these past nights after.. but it doesnt matter. 

My full effort = success and then God will do the rest.

Well friends, have a peachy week. We will. (: 

and bucket list item can be crossed off.. thousands of stairs latter, we conquered the Duomo.

Love

Sorella Woods

Party time Pavia..

So we couldnt think of a name for our transfer vision and we just kept thinking and thinking, and it never came.. So we left the board blank and said we'd sleep on it. So we went to new missionary training and Pres comes around and starts talking to Sorella Burt and i and he says ' so here we are with the sisters in party town Pavia...'

I tell you what, that man is a genius. At that same moment Burt and i just look at eachother and it was PERFECT. Dibb probably thought we were nuts after we both start jumping up and down because we finally found our name! Dibb is always inspired. We went to Milano for the training. This is time number three that i have done it and it literally is the same training every single time, but somehow i always walk away edified and even more pumped to do the work. Its like the BOM or conference talks.. We read them over and over again.. but whyyy. I tell you, because the words are always the same but the inspiration that the Spirit will bring in that specific moment you need it will not be the same. I have seen that time and time again. I also flipped back to my notes a year ago when i was at that training and i see who i have become and what i need to keep doing. It really is amazing what God will turn us into if we just give it up. There is no reason to be stuck in the garbage this world offers.. Everything thats important leads us back to the gopsel. 

Can anyone tell me what time it is???

LA CONFERENZA GENERALE!!!

i seriously am so stoked. Its like that battery refill or a good Dr.Pepper after a long day... and we dont got that stuff here so general conference will do. Mi raccomando ... watch all the sessions.. They are just too good to miss. We get to hear Prophets of God speak.. for free..thats amazing. Nothing is free nowadays! And prepare yourself with questions and i tell you, you will get the answers. I promise. Have a fun week! I love you!

and here is a picture of a field....

Love Sorella Woods