Buon natale

hey friends. 

Buon Natale. I cannot tell you how happy i am to spend Christmas here again. I want nothing more. Literally we have been asked by at least 10 different families to come spend it with them.

WE BE LOVED!

meno mals, thats all i can say.. Perks about being here is they don't just celebrate Christmas eve and day, but anche the day after! So we are going to a members house tonight with the Anziani. This family invited us to come sing Christmas carols with them to their neighbors and then to give them Book of Mormons!!. I love member work.. it makes my world a thousand times better. Then tomorrow we have to go to this city called Voghera four hours early because heyyy it is Christmas and i guess the trains just dont want to work but that is where our Christmas day family is.. and THEN the day after we got another lunch with a family who has an inactive son. SO MUCH FUN!!

i love christmas!!!

so i really don't have a lot today. I just love this mission. Yesterday at new missionary training we were singing the mission hymn and i just started to cry. My heart has just been enveloped by this work and the gospel. This mission just seems like it is my life, always has been and always will be.. I have found my testimony of the gospel here. Who i need to be and how i need to be. I love my Savior. I cannot comprehend His love or the gift He gave us by giving His life but it pushes me each day to be a little better. To do a little better, and love a little more. I know the things we talk about every day are the truth. I have never found the Spirit anywhere else or in anything else that has touched my heart so forcefully again and again then i have found in the gospel. I love this gospel. I love this church and i know we are guided by an inspired Prophet of God. This year share your testimony with someone. Help bring back those who have fallen. Be an example, but most importantly be a disciple of our Savior. That is my theme for my Sisters, is to really become a desciple of our Savior. That was one of my main mission goals. It is simple but not always easy. We walk after the footsteps of our master. I love this time of year and the Spirit i feel every day as i testify to my Italians about my Savior whether it be on the streets, in the subway, or in a lesson. I love Him and i know He loves me. Buon Natale! Vi voglio bene, e voi che siete ritornati a casa, ricordate sempre, noi siamo discepoli di Gesù Cristo!!. Il nostro Capo, e fratello. ((: 

Con amore,

Sorella Woods

and please watch... BUDDY THE ELF; WHATS YOUR FAVORITE COLOR???

and it's the final countdown

Got baby numero 3.. And her name is Warren!!! I didn't get to name her but our last names go fairly well together and she will be killing me off.. and we get to do all this while i try to be a one man show sister training leader.. Hopefully it just consists of calling the sisters, just smothering them in my mother superior love and getting to go do some work in other cities. 

and there is the reason for the title, i am literally in my last 2 transfers... and then that song just pops in my head... Weirdest thing of my whole life. This has been the quickest and most amazing by farrrr, experience of my life. I am super grateful to be staying here in Pavia though. I feel like i really can't make my mark and effect the people i need to effect in a short time. So even though it is only my third city and i never made it south or to Venezia, i am happy. 

SO HAPPY.

Like zero desire at all to come home.. Usually when i see a picute of home or of the mountains,  i always go ahhh, i miss that place. Sorella Warren showed me a picture from her MTC group, and i just looked at the picture and it hit me that i have to go back eventually... and the desire.. non c'è.

But life goes on. Simps are making progress. I am seeing the change in them and in me every day.. So great. We were walking down the street the other day and we had probably talked to over 20 people, and all we got was no, no, no, no ma grazie.. oh you're welcome.. no no. So we decided to stop and sing.. We are just luck it's Chirstmas time and it is fairly normal at least in my eyes to have random people singing on the side of the road.. People just stared like we were the strangest thing they had ever seen and then we just kept walking.. ANd you know in the best two years when they are waiting for the call, because HE'S GONNA CALL, well 

SHE CALLED!!

a lady that we met weeks ago. And she called us yesterday to set an appt with us. WE ARE SO BLESSED! 

Well this about sums up my A.D.D thoughts for the week.

Love you all

Love Sorella Woods

Hey hey heyyy

TRANSFERS...

and i'm not going anywhere.. Pavia is my death!
Baby Burt... TRIESTE! and i am triste. Perfect companion. After three
months, and 24/7 hours a day together i still learn from her every day. I
grew a new best friend. ((: One of my dreams is to go see Trieste, but
Heavenly Father has put me here to work, not see Italy. So it just gives me
a greater excuse to come back after.. huzzah!
but... guess what?
*BABY NUMERO 3*
And sister training leader... How do you do that? Not exactly sure, but
should be interesting. Dibb just called and said i need you to do three in
a row. Well, i accept. I actually wanted to die training, so sono super
stoked!
We met with this amazing man last night that i talked to weeks ago on the
train home and gave him a BOM. He just said, i hope that this will change
my life as it has yours. And miracles literally are happening everyday. A
woman followed us off the train the other day and walked after us for at
least 5 minutes just to talk to us. People just keep accepting our cards
and our message to the world. And this is the best time of the year to be
talking about Jesus Christ. It almost makes me sad to see these people
walking around with bags and bags of garbbage. I mean, i love Christmas and
all that goes with it, but they are missing the greatest part!
ECCO, perche i am here!
Well family. Too lazy to write more. BUT i am so happy, and i am super
stoked for this responsibility to realls just focus my brain so i can kill
it in these last two.
Any prayer requests?
Mine would be pray for these people here that the new baby and i can find a
baptism. I love you all. (:
Love Sorella Woods

IT'S CHRISTMAS...time at least

I love Christmas! CHristmas music. Christmas food. Christmas lights, tress, everything!! They have an actual outside iceskating rink that they just put up in the middle of centro with who would have guessed,, cotton candy and any other deepfried italian sugar covered dessert filled with Nutella thing you could ever want. I really am so grateful to have another Christmas season here in the mission. There is nothing better! I love what my brain focus is and how really it's about the things that are the greatest and most important

cioè, the gospel! But really. We are just all so blessed. So i feel like Burt and i have been doing our part as far as missionary work. We work hard and we talk, and we ended the Novembre with a verrrryyy smaaallll amount of new investigators

MONTH OF SATAN, WHAT CAN I SAY MORE?

So Monday we had not one appt so it was a ricerca day!!! FAVORITE DAYSSSS, not. But alas, we made it out on time and hit the streets to talk and talk.. And we have this deal going, whoever speaks english first outside instead of italian gets to clean the kitchen for the day.. so we really are trying!

So we had talked to a vast number of people, and we had little less then an hour.. and no lessons. NO simps.. nada, niente, nope. So we stopped in centro and we prayed. Didn't feel anything in particular as i prayed, but we opened our eyes and just started to walk again. I saw a woman and a man on a bench in front of us and wouldn't you know it, new investigator! 10 minutes after that another lesson taught and quasi simp.. By the grace of God, but really. So later that night we go to do a passby at a less actives and just find the non member husband as usual. DI solito we dont talk to him much. He is just cold and has never really seemed to like us or our weekly if not twice a week knock on the door. But this time for some reason i just started to ask him questions. 10 minutes later we had committed him to read and pray about the Book of Mormon. He said he would do it and we would talk Saturday with the family about what he found. The Spirit was so strong and i am so grateful for that guidance that came.. I am blessed that i am at that point in my life where Heavenly Father can use me as His instrument at any time He needs. Just such a good week! Seriously, if we would just stop worrying about the stupid little things in life and remember everything is planned out for our good if we do our part, there would never be a problem. Love you all! I hope you all have a good week.

Happy Birthday Baby CLAY CLAY!

Love

Sorella Woods

baby burt and i just doing what we do

#favoritebabyever