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Ciao tutti!

So this week has been pretty great! On Sunday's during Relief Society we usually get a guest speaker. This Sunday it was Mary Edmunds. She was on the General Relief Society board and she has been on four missions and she was super old and so funny! It was like an emotional roller coaster listening to her because we would all be laughing and then like 20 seconds later we would all be crying because the spirit was so strong! She told us to not touch the elders, no high fives, no fake punching them... don't touch their arms. Then she said "however, keep a list of those you want to touch. Everyone was dying! She was just this crazy lady! After she said "when you get home from your mission, look all nice, go to your reunion and then...... touch." haha! Ten seconds later she was in tears talking about how her missions have blessed her life so much. It was hilarious she also told us that so many babies are born in one day. It takes us a year to baptize the same number of babies born in a day. Then she paused and said "we need to beat the babies!!" she was literally crazy! HA

On Tuesdays we have devotionals and usually one of the Seventy come. So we are waiting in line to get into the devotional and there was BYU police there (haha byu police, what a joke). They were telling us no pictures, no cameras.. blah blah blah, So Sorella Rossell and I just look at each other and both say "its someone big tonight" so we get seated (we ran cause we knew it would be good... we got the fourth row right dab in the middle) and they start the prelude music and then everyone stands up and it was ELDER RICHARD G SCOTT!! Then guess what we got to sing for the opening song..... again...yep called to serve (we sang it four times this week at our meetings )! So exciting though. He talked about prayer and he talked about how for the guys it was a priesthood responsibility to serve a mission but for the girls it was a choice and a sacrifice, which was really cool! Then at the end it was so cool... he stopped talking for like two minutes (it was forever) and he told us he felt like he needed to give all of us learning a language an apostolic blessing that we would not only learn it but master it! I was bawling because I had had a super rough day with the language and I was praying like crazy for help. Then he said that, and it was so cool because we were so close! He was looking right at us! ahh I love him!! 

Oh yeah also on Sunday they called me to be the Sister Training Leader. It's like Coordinating Sister (they just changed the name) So basically its like I'm the zone leader but for all the sisters. So I take care of about thirty Sisters in my zone. I just visit them every night and talk about if they have any problems. So that's kind of interesting. 

Some funny things ive learned about Italy! I guess they love to laugh (i mean who doesn't, but with Italians even more so. They just laugh everywhere they go and everything they see). So they told us that we need to learn how to laugh and have fun and to not be the perfect missionary. God sent you because he needs you, not a robot. Also they told us the best way to get into a house is to use your nose! Smell out the houses where someone is making food, knock on their door and say "wow it smells so good in here what are you making" and then BAM... before you know it you're learning how to cook, and they are learning the gospel. hahaha. They also said that the Catholics are getting easier to convert. The only ones that are going to church are the kids (for their Communion) and the older people (just in case) hahaha. I thought that one was funny! 

Oh yeah, so this one guy came to talk on Sunday night at the devotional. He was in charge of advertising for the church. He said they do these things called invasions, where they just buy out all the advertising space in a certain place. For example, at Christmas they did Times Square. They had over ten advertisements just in Times Square alone for the church. It said like "Christmas is family, Christmas is love, Christmas is Christ, Mormon.org". He showed us this picture of a sign an atheist group bought for advertisement right next to ours. and it said "keep the merry dump the myth". It was surrounded by huge posters of Mormon.org. So he was like "yep we definitely dominated the atheists" hahaha. they also did England and bought out ten subway stations and over 250 double Decker's. Awesome! haha

ok well i have to go, I love you all like crazy and miss you!! i cant wait to get the photo book!! vi voglio bene!!!

Love Sorella Felice!!

You know the food is bad at the MTC when they take pictures of the wrappers from treats they ate!

Paula did not take any pictures last week so these are from her companions SD card. Probably why they are mostly of Sister Rossel.

Paula said she really loves this painting she found at the MTC