Last email of the year!!!

CHEEYOW FAM-E-LEEUH!

I just told Sorella Walton "this is the last email of the year!" and she said "oh baby." Yep. That's my companion.

Well I feel like I don't really have anything to say to you all this email seeing as how I just got to talk to you all on the phone on Sunday! Basically everyone that I talked to before I called told me to tell you that they send their regards and say hello and all of that. We were at Giuseppe's house (the new convert with two teenage kids) and it was taking us forever to figure out how to work the dang phone card, but he was the one that finally got me connected and he was so excited to hand the phone over to me when he heard you (mom) answer and say hello! You'll be happy to know that I'm feeling much better and of course I got my voice back on Monday. Of course.

As a quick review of the week for those of you who I didn't talk to on the phone, I was sick! I had a really bad sore throat that progressed to just me being boogery and having a headache and also losing my voice. It was real cute. And, this is new news, Sor Walton saw how much fun I was having being sick that she decided she just couldn't take it any longer! So on Monday she decided to wake up with a sore throat, too. Pretty much all day yesterday we spent drinking juice, herbal tea, and warm milk with honey (ALL the Italians we talked to told us to do that) and coughing (followed typically by a moan of pain or declaration of "ow"). Surprisingly, though, being out in the cold air really helped clear up my sinuses! So, tender mercy, I guess!

Also, zone conference in Milano last Friday! I finally got to see Anz Dunshee, who was one of the missionaries in Siena when I was there last year. After I bore my testimony in sacrament meeting last year, he came up to me and said "when are you turning in your mission papers?? you're coming to Italy for sure!" And he was right. But I had no way of telling him until he saw me at zone conference! Funny, huh? A few missionaries were cast as participants in our reenactment of the nativity scene as part of our Christmas "celebration" at zone conf, and yours truly got cast as a angel! I was type-cast, I know. What can I say ;)

So a note about Alina, our new investigator! One of the things we talked about as part of our training at zone conf was inviting investigators to be baptized during the first lesson. Yeah. Really. Anyway, the goal of it is just to let people know that our purpose as missionaries is to teach people about the gospel of Jesus Christ, help them to gain a testimony and then help them be baptized and the idea is that if people don't understand that we want to help them be baptized then our visits and lessons with them are fine and dandy but have no purpose. Anyway, we asked Alina to read the Book of Mormon and when she decides for herself that the Book of Mormon is true if she would be baptized into our church and she said yes! She'll be gone for vacation for the next two weeks, but we made her a little bookmark with a reading chart on it so that she can keep up reading while she's gone. She is just so great and I've probably already written too much about her that people are getting bored of my email already, but I can't help it! She is so great! As I was talking with her the other day I just caught a vision of her divine potential and how much confidence and hope and happiness she will gain as she continues on this path of trying to be more like the Savior and it was just so exciting. I even dreamt last night that I was at home and Alina came over and was waiting for me to finish getting ready so that I could take her to church. Crazy!

Another crazy thing is that I've been set apart as a missionary for four months!! Four!!! Hokey Smokes! I can't believe it! Every day I think about the missionary that I want to be - what things I want to accomplish as a missionary, in terms of how I teach and contact people and what influence I have on my companions and members in the ward. There's so much that I want to do and be as a missionary and every day I just want to be better and do better and work harder. I have so much work to do to get to that point! But, as I was discussing with Sor W the other day, if I was the missionary that I want to be, the missionary I've envisioned, right now, I might as well go home because all the hard work would be done. So! Every day is just another opportunity to be who I want to be. I believe so strongly that you shouldn't just "be who you are" but that you should "be who you WANT to be". I mean, who just wants to be who they are right now for the rest of their life? How boring would that be! You've got to become!

I was thinking about the email I sent the other week about referrals, and the one thing I was thinking about that basically sums up what I wanted to say was that referrals ARE NOT investigators. Finding investigators is a missionary's job, but referrals can be anybody's job. Anyway.

I was also thinking about how part of the reason we go out as missionaries is to share with others the happiness we've found through the gospel. But really, we don't want people to find our happiness. We want them to find their own happiness! And the way you find it is through living the gospel of Jesus Christ. We don't want to convert them to our God, we want to convert them to THEIR God. He just happens to be the same God. But in terms of happiness, the gospel of Jesus Christ is where we can find happiness - by living our lives in such a way that we know God is pleased with us and is able to give us blessings - but the actual "happiness" is different for everyone. I mean, just because sleeping outside in a tent in the wood and eating sticks and not showering makes someone else happy does NOT mean that that is what makes me happy, but that doesn't mean that we don't both appreciate the wonder of God's creations. We just find happiness in them in different ways.

Also, quick plug for my companion (and no, I don't write this just because I know her mom has checked out my blog! While we're acknowledging this fact, though, Hi Sorella Walton's mom!!!!), Sorella Walton is so great! I've been learning so much from her as my trainer and we've really gotten to be good friends, sometimes to a fault. She dropped food on her skirt at our dinner appointment the other night at Giuseppe's house and it made us both laugh so hard I couldn't even breathe (also because I was sick and coughing). She's been good to get me thinking about what I've learned so far as a missionary and what I want to accomplish and how I can go about doing it. I just wanted to add that just so that you all know that I really am learning so much about myself and the gospel and this work. I don't really know how much I've changed in these past four months, and particularly in these past two months, but I think some things are moving around in me - becoming more secure, more solid - and just becoming a better, more focused person.

Hokay. Well. Basically I'm out of time. Merry late Christmas everyone! Oh, and shout-out to the Vashaws and Auntie Kim who sent me Christmas cards! Apparently my pleas for mail are being heard ;) Sometimes I think about how many prayers are offered in behalf of missionaries and then think about the miracles we as missionaries see each day and can't help but see the correlation between the two, even if those offering the prayers don't. It's the prayers of the faithful that keep the work going, that keep US going. Thank you. Thank you so much. We cannot do this work without you. It's your church, too.

A very very happy new year to you all!

Mucho love,
Sorella Soh

Buon Natale!

CIAO CARISSIMI!!!!

I really can't believe it's p-day again. Of course, that also means that I've been here another week. Yikes! Auntie Kim, I got your letter this past week! It took a little longer to get to me because I had to wait for someone to get it from the office in Milan, but transfers were last week and so I got it on Sunday when I saw our zone leaders at church. But yeah! Transfers! I already knew I'd be with Sorella Walton still because we're in double transfer trainings now, and the only change in our district was Anz Nielsen who went to train in Firenze. Now we have Anz Ostler as our new zone leader. And all of the sister companionships in our zone stayed the same, so that's pretty cool.

So a funny thing - we had a lesson this past week with a man named Luigi who is the friend of a member (who also came along to our lesson). And guess what the member's name is? Yes. It's Mario. We had a lesson with Mario and Luigi. !!!!!!!!!!! Isn't that awesome?! Sorella Walton apparently never played Mario Kart growing up, so she didn't get why I was so excited about it. Haha. Luigi had a piano in his house, and lucky for him, Sor W plays the piano. So Mario asked if she would play and she said yes. She actually had some piano music in her bag because she sometimes plays the church piano while we wait for investigators to show up at the church before lessons and had been playing earlier that day. She always wants me to sing along while she plays and sometimes I oblige. Well. You know what that sneaky companion of mine did? When she sat down at the piano in Luigi's apartment and said she'd play and she roped me into singing the song she had had me sing earlier that day! And what could I do, say no? So here we were, this little companionship of sisters in Torino, in the home of a non member and it's just Mario and Luigi and then Sor W playing the piano and me singing "I know that my redeemer lives" (in English) in his living room. Definitely not a scene I ever thought I would be a part of, but there we were. And I didn't see it, but Sor W said that Luigi had tears in his eyes at the end. It really did bring a good spirit. Luigi has had a rough past couple of years since his wife died. We're hoping to stop by again before Christmas and just check up on him. He's such a great man.

So! We have an awesome new investigator!!! Her name is Alina and she is from Moldovia (Maldova? I think I'm combining languages here...), but moved to Italy when she was 8. Anyway, she's 16 and we met her as a referral from her grandmother who we met on the street. Anyway, she is so great! She is cute and smart and studying to be a dentist/dental assistant or something. Anyway, she doesn't have a ton of friends and mostly just studies all day. This past Sunday we went to her house to pick her up and accompany her to church. She really liked it! We have a ton of young women in our ward and no young men, but the young women were all so great about talking to her and stuff. She really liked them and had a good time. We're excited to get to see her again tomorrow. The bummer part about this time of the year is that everyone is leaving and going to visit family so we don't get to see them! Okay, that's a selfish thing, but I just want to see them!!!

We had another ward party last Saturday! No green jello this time, but it was still good (and we made brownies). Our new convert, Giuseppe, was asked to play Babbo Natale (aka Santa Claus) and come and give all the primary kids little gifts. He told us about it a few weeks ago and was not excited about it, but Sor W and I both know that deep down he loved every second of it! It was so cute to see him call up all of the kids and give them their little present and have them sit on his lap. We KNOW he loved it! It was fun. And of course there was food. Italian food. Made by Italians. Need I say more? OH! And guess what the AMAZING ward members did for us?? They gave us a HUGE, I mean HUGE, box full of food! Six jars of pasta sauce, six kilos of pasta, 3 Italian Christmas cakes called Pandoro (google it, they're delicious and we eat some every day now, basically), a huge bag of chocolates, 4 cans of tuna (I know, weird), a big bag of clementines, a pizza, more chocolates (gianduia - also google that because it's a special kind of chocolate made in Torino) and a bunch of other stuff I can't even remember! Aren't they so great!? The Torino 2° Ward is SO GREAT!!!

HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY DAD!!!! Do you feel really old now? You probably should ;) And Happy Almost Birthday ALEX!!!!!! You should also start feeling old. A quarter of a century already, sheesh! To celebrate on Friday, I will be going to Milano! Also we have zone conference that day.

Oh, and let's talk about how Sunday is CHRISTMAS!!! I can't believe it! It can't be Christmas already!!! I only entered the MTC a few weeks ago and that was August 31st! Still trying to figure that one out. I feel like I just barely got to Italy, but apparently my first transfer is already over. Hm. Weird.

Well, I confess that I didn't make a list of things to talk about this week, so I don't really know what else to say! Things are good here. It's gotten pretty cold the past few days, but Torino is basically right by the mountains, so that's not a huge surprise. I had a really bad sore throat last night, but it's much better now and I've basically downed an entire liter of orange juice today. Also I bought a little knit hat today at a market. I would send pictures, but the only ones are on Sor W's camera. Next time!

Anyway, I love you all dearly! Have a great great great week and a buonissimo natale!!!! This is the Lord's work and His hand is ever-present in our lives!

Love, etc.

Sorella Soh

Chee-yow!!!

CIAO CARISSIMI!!!!

What a great time to be alive! I made a list of things to talk about this week to help facilitate the writing of this email.

First of all, I LOVED the "we'd like to talk about cheeses" and ghostbuster costume pictures that you and dad sent me!!! Loved them so much. I love getting letters. We usually get mail when we get home for lunch and so we read them as we eat lunch. The best part, though, is getting to read them over and over and over again throughout the week before bed. They are the best! Oh, and dad, it's okay that you didn't make the time limit for the krispy kreme challenge. I don't think I could even attempt it, although Sorella Walton and I do run around our block every morning for excercise and it's not as horrible for me as it was at the beginning! One day I might even get to like it! And thanks for telling me all about your Thanksgiving festivities! It sounds like you all had a good time.

I was thinking about where I was at this time last year, and I remembered that I had already gotten home from Siena by this point and was somewhere between Alabama, Wisconsin and Florida. Wow. I can't believe that was a year ago. Who would've thought I'd be back in Italy again - and in Torino of all places! Heavenly Father really does have a plan for each of us.

Mom, question: now that your stake has split, do you think they'll finally get a singles' ward?

I'M A COUSIN?! (again) Huzzah! Spencer is a great name. Spencer Smith has a great ring to it. And he's destined to be super cute. All those little nutheads I have for cousins are all cute. Email me a picture!

I. Have. Eaten. So. Much. The past few days. We've been fed dinner 4 nights in a row. Sat, Sun, Mon and yesterday. Oh man. Of course the food is all so good and I'll tell you why. It's because it's been made by Italian women who learned how to cook from their mothers, who were also Italian women, who learned how to cook from their mothers who were also Italian women. There's no way you can go wrong. It's all been incredible. But it's a dang good thing we're biking all over the city all day because we really can't afford to eat all these extra calories! Haha. The members are SOOOOOO great, though. Last night we went to visit Sorella Bocca, who joined the church back in 1968 or so. We didn't know she was going to feed us dinner, but she did anyway (she's Italian. Feeding people is what they do) AND she gave us Christmas presents!!!!! Can you believe it!? She is SOOO GREAT!!!!!! We decided to save the presents to open on Christmas. I still can't get over her giving us presents. I just love her so much! And she's just ONE of the tons of super duper awesome members that we have in our ward who have such SOLID testimonies and just go out of their way to make us feel loved. And boy, do we feel it!

So last Sunday was our Stake Conference! We all had to travel to Alessandria, which is about an hour away from Torino, but where the Stake is centered. Anyway, we got to see all the missionaries in our zone (including Sorella Nilson!) and we got to see a TON of members! It was SO awesome to be gathered together as saints in Italy. I just felt so happy. Pure joy. And of course we're sister missionaries and not all of the cities in our mission have sisters. So. We had several members just fawn over us. They saw us from afar off and would just say "OH! SORELLE!!!!!!!" and run over and greet us with the kiss on the cheek thing. There was one woman from the Philipines who is a member of the Alessandria ward who met us as we were waiting for the bathroom and she just clung to Sorella Walton like a candy cane on a Christmas tree! She took Sor W to where her family was sitting and wanted us to meet her sons and daughters and husband and sister and the whole fam! It was so much fun to see how excited the members were to see us, even if we're just little sister missionaries in Torino and nothing particularly special. But to these members we were just like candy, it was funny. (p.s. Sorella Walton is slowly getting accustomed to my strange expressions such as "clinging to her like a candy cane on a Christmas tree" and "sweating like a sinner in church". Slowly. Slowly.)

So this week is the last week of the transfer! Aka I have been here for SIX WEEKS. Hokey smokes! I can't even believe it! We had our transfer calls last night and our district is staying the same except for one Anziano (Nielsen) who is going to Firenze to train next transfer. He was a zone leader, so we'll get a new one in a few days. I've been thinking the past few days about the end of the transfer and what I feel like I've learned. I don't think I could even begin to write down what I've learned. But I think what I've learned most is that I still have a lot to learn. I want so much to just be a good missionary and I know that there are a lot of things I need to work on to be better. It's not a discouraging kind of "I have a lot to learn", but I feel like now I have a better vision of the kind of missionary I want to be and some of the steps I need to try and take to get there. Good thing they've started this new double transfer training program because that means I still have six more weeks to learn from Sorella Walton!

I just need everyone to know how awesome Sorella Walton is. And she probably will never read this (even though she's sitting right next to me), but I just want you all to know that she is great. She is a great missionary. One of the first things my mission president told me about her is that he thinks she is one of the best sisters in the mission. Perfect! I learn so much from her every day and she has been really patient with me trying to pick up on what this missionary business is all about. I probably drive her nuts, but she is just so so great and we get along really well. I'm so blessed to have another transfer together with her!

It's almost Christmas, and I know all of you are just dying to know how to best shower me with your love. Well. Let me help you. First of all, I will refer you back to the list I made back while I was in the MTC of things that I love to get in the mail (kitkats, sharpie pens not markers, etc.). Now that I'm here in Italy, I would LOVE to get any of the following things from you: peanut butter (Sor W seconds this motion), treat mixes (brownies, cookies), jello packets (the members LOVE and are also disgusted by jello), post-it notes, lucky charms and fun American things.

OH!!! AND CHRISTMAS CARDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SEND ME YOUR TIRED, YOUR HUNGRY, YOUR CHRISTMAS CARDS!!!!!!!! Please.

Okay. That's all I've got time for. I am so blessed. I am blessed to have all you in my life - family, friends and internet creepers. I am blessed to have a great companion. I am blessed to be in the perfect city for me to start my mission. I am blessed to be a missionary. The blessings that come from that are endless. I am blessed to be a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. I am blessed to be loved. I am blessed to have the Gospel of Jesus Christ in my life and I am blessed that I get to share that message with the people I meet here.

I love you all so much! The gospel is true! Merry Christmas!!!

Love,

Sorella Soh

p.s. the pictures are of me by the river Po, the wall of our apartment where all the sisters have marked how tall they are, and also of our Christmas tree (which has cookies and kinder eggs hanging on it)

Note from Sorella Soh's mom: If you want to send ONLY a Christmas card, it can go directly to her apartment. Email me at nicolesoh (at) yahoo (dot) com and I'll send you her address - it's only good for another six weeks though. If you are sending a package (watch out, it's wicked expensive, $45 for a medium flat rate USPS box - and be sure to check the list of restricted items to Italy on the USPS website, it's kinda hilarious) then it HAS to go to the mission home address that is posted on the left side of the blog.

And, so that the rest of you can know what she was talking about, here's the "cheeses" cartoon I sent her:

And the Ghostbusters picture of her dad and little sister from Halloween:

Merry Christmas! Thanks for reading about Katie's mission adventures!

As Sorelle in Zion...

Cheeeeyaooooooooo carissimi!

It. Is. December. Hokey smokes! DECEMBER!!! How did that happen?! I just barely left the MTC! Yikies.

Well well well, what to say this week. Last Wednesday was Sorella Walton's bday, so to celebrate we went to a little pizzeria called "Zeus" and I treated her to a birthday pizza. Twas dee-licious. And then on Thursday, our new convert, Giuseppe, had bought a little cake for her! It said "Auguri, Kimberly" on it. Haha. "Walton" is a reeeally hard name for the Italians to say, so they always ask what her first name is so they can use that instead. It's kind of hard to explain the whole sorry-we-don't-use-first-names-on-the-mission thing, but whatever. Most people are content to use "Soh" instead of "Katie", so that's been nice.

So it's funny in Italy because everyone does the little kiss on the cheek greeting thing. We are only allowed to baci (baci means kisses in Italian) women. There are lots of older ladies in our ward and we always baci them at church. The problem is that all the little old ladies at church are LITTLE! So basically I have to bend over/squat to meet their faces whilst trying not to knee them in the ribs. I'm being pretty serious! They're so little! You know those little step stools that they have at the pulpit in sacrament meeting that they pull out so that little kids can see over the pulpit? Yeah, the bishop pulls ours out so that the little old ladies can stand on it so that THEY clear the pulpit! It's so cute and totally funny. Italians are so great!!!

There is an AMAZING sister in our ward, Sorella Manoni, who is one of these little old ladies. She was sick on Sunday so she couldn't make it to church, so we went and visited her later on in the evening. She is about 90 years old and has the most fantastic story. She is so cool! Her dad was Jewish and her mother was Catholic. She was born in Torino and during WW2 had to leave Torino and take refuge in Emilia when she was 16. She told us that when they returned to Torino, so got married to a Catholic man, but didn't feel Catholic or Jewish. She was just really confused. Anyway, she told us that she didn't know why she let the Elders in when they knocked on her door, and she couldn't understand anything they said because their Italian was really bad. But, she told us that she really felt good about the Book of Mormon and was baptized in 1968. She said there were about 5 members in the ward at the time. Anyway, she's been a faithful member of the church her whole life. None of her other family members ever joined the church. I wish I could tell you all the amazing stories that she told us about growing up in Italy and how great her husband was and all of that cool stuff, but you'll just have to come find me after the mish and I'll tell you in person. The members here in Italy are so strong. Sorella Manoni is INCREDIBLE. Seriously, so so awesome. Oh, and if anyone knows a man named Greg Maumstraum (?) from SLC, tell him that Sorella Germana Manoni wants to know how he is doing - he is the Elder that baptized her all those years ago!

So Friday was a big day for the Sorelle in Torino! That reminds me, we are the ONLY sister missionaries in this city. This is the second biggest city in our mission and it's only me and Sor W holding down the fort here for sisters! There are 6 elders between the two wards, but that's it! No pressure, right? Anyway, we had a missionary exchange on Friday with the sorelle from Genova 1 - Sorelle Bowman and Nilson! And we did a blitz, which means that instead of just switching companions, both of the Genova sorelle came to Torino instead of one coming here and one of us going to Genova. Anyway, Sor Bowman was my companion for the day! She is great! It was really helpful to get to see how she does missionary work. There's no set way of doing missionary work (other than following the mission rules, mish president and the Spirit) so it was neat to see how she approached people and taught different things. She is also a trainer (she's been training Sor Nilson), so it makes her even more legit! Haha. I probably wasn't any help to her at all, but I feel that way about most missionaries - I learn a ton from them and they get not much in return, haha. In any case it was fun to be with the Genova sisters for the day.

Sorella Savoia, our RS president, invited us over to her house on Saturday and taught us how to make pasta al forno (baked pasta). The "real" pasta al forno is typically lasagna, but the one she showed us how to make was a little different, but man was it yummy! Don't worry, I wrote down how to make it! (Just more incentive for all of you to remain friends with me throughout my mission ;D )

The weather has really cleared up in the past two days, so I'm attaching pictures of the view from our balcony in clear weather! Oh, and also, there's a great fashion/myspace shot of me in my new coat! A new coat, you ask? Why, yes. You may have also noticed the other new coat from my pictures last week. Yes. So I brought my blue coat, which I love. I've also already picked up a white/black patterned coat which the sister before me (who left to go home when I arrived) left because it wouldn't fit in her suitcase. So voilà, second coat. The coat in this picture, however, is my second new coat. And where did I get said coat, you ask? Well I'll tell you. I got it from Giuseppe's wife, Angela! Yeah. I know. So we were at their house for FHE on Monday and they were freaking out about how we're still riding our bikes around (it's not that cold out yet, but whatever). So she goes to her closet and pulls out this black down coat and tells me that I should take it. Of course I didn't want to take the coat, but she was like "are you kidding? This thing is so long it doesn't fit anyone in our house!" Then she held it up to her body and showed how it goes from her shoulders to her ankles (please see previous paragraph about short people in Italy). So. I have another new coat. And it is SO warm. I am NOT going to freeze this winter! I know that is a great consolation to all of you, so now you can all rest easy.

There's a spot on the wall of our apartment where all the sisters for the past year or so have marked their heights on the wall. Sor W and I decided to add our names to the wall on Sunday. I come in as the 3rd tallest, beat out only by a Sorella Johnson and Sorella Huber (who's sister I met in the MTC - going to Russia). There is also a mark indicating the armspan of Sor Huber, which is about 2" or so above her height and says "yes, she has freakishly long arms". Well. Not to be outdone, I had Sor W mark MY armspan on the wall as well. And my arms are longer than Sor Huber's. I wrote "sorry Sorella Huber, I've got you beat". There's about a 3" difference between my height and my armspan. Awesome. Just thought I'd share that fun fact with all of you.

Thank you for your letters this week, mom and dad. I got them on Monday. I was thinking, mom, about something you said in your letter to me this week about how you've never prayed so hard before for missionaries to find people to teach. You know, I haven't either! But people really are looking, even if it's not the number one priority on their minds all the time. I was thinking about being a member of the church and how I never felt like I ever had any referrals to give the missionaries. When they came over and asked for them, I was always like "no, I don't know anyone who wants to be a Mormon" and now I realize how wrong that kind of thinking is. A referral is anyone who may possibly want to know who Mormons are and what we believe. They're not people who you think are ready to get baptized - they are just people who you think might want a clearer picture of who Mormons are. They don't have to want to join the church, and that's not our job as members to decide that. A referral is somebody who you think respects and loves you enough to want to get to know you better by learning about your church and your beliefs. Whether or not they want to hear more about the church after they meet with the missionaries doesn't matter. All that matters is that by meeting with the missioniaries, they are really showing that they want to understand YOU better, that by your example and their interactions with YOU that they are willing to take that extra step in your relationship. If they decide to continue meeting with the missionaries, great! If not, great! At least then they know a little bit more about you as a person, the real, true person that you are and what you really believe deep down - what makes you tick. THAT is what a referral is. Just make sure that the missionaries you choose to give your referrals to are GOOD missionaries - that they are keeping their covenants and living the mission rules! Anyway, just a little plug for referrals - they're like candy for missionaries! People who aren't going to (hopefully) yell at us when we talk to them! :) I wish I could just tell the entire church about missionary work for members because it is NOT the same as being a full-time missionary. I wish I would've know the difference before. Maybe then I could've been more of a help to the missionaries in our ward.

Anyway, my internet time is almost up! I really just want all of you who read this weekly email to know that I am SO grateful for your support, which is manifest in the fact that you even read any of this! THANK YOU!!! The prayers and well-wishes are of more value than I can even tell you. This really is the Lord's work. People's lives really change when they start living the gospel - change for the better! There is so much more happiness and joy in this world, and there's no reason why we shouldn't enjoy the happiness that is available to us. Happiness that lasts. God loves us so much. I know it. The Book of Mormon is true. Read it for yourself and you'll know it, too.

VI VOGLIO TANTISSISSISSIMO BENE!!!!!

LOVE,

Sorella Soh