Ella's Italy Adventure: 2011

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

ella this winter

so ella has not moved yet still next to the ocean! but she has changed companion this transfer! but here are a few pictures of her recent life in italy!

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

i hope she wanted me to post all of this ha ha

he everyone i asked ella for an update and she emailed me some for me some for you! i hope i got it right!

ITS GETTING COLD!!!! I HATE PANTY HOSE!!!! yeah, i dislike getting all dressed up everyday with a bunch of clothes, but thats not stopping us from fufilling our duty here in trieste! Trieste is a BEAUTIFUL city, the members are great, they take good care of us, im sure you all know what happens when you have a caring ward....ill leave it at that. My companion is still the same that i had from when i got here to trieste and we are hoping to stay together for 3 transfers at least! we have a bunch of investigators right now, its getting hard to keep up with whats going on with everyone! but i love it, i like to be busy, like you all know. we have been having some great experiences, and also some that were just plain wierd, but whatevers thats what you expect on the mission. im getting used to all the crazies that come up to us wanting cigarettes and money, or worse...., its becoming a part of our everyday life. The mission is more than i would have ever expected, i never knew i would be so blessed by doing this. Sono imensamente grata per questa esperienza è davvero la esperienza piu bella nella vita tranne che per la nascità. Pero, sono ancora emmozionata di tornare e condividere le cose che ho imparato! camunque, non ho tanto di dire, ma, vi voglio bene!

PS: sorry ashley i havent been doing so good at taking pictures of everything i eat, there is a mission rule that we are not supposed to use our cameras on anyother day besides p-day and baptisms...or something like that...but i will tell you one thing, the food here is BOMB! hahahahaha

Sorella ARUME

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

hello all!

hello!

i haven't gotten a post from ella lately but i can tell you that she is doing well in treste! she has a great companion and is on her 5th transfer out of 11! she is working hard and loves the work!

she also sent me a note and she wants us to do something! here is her request!

oh i have a request for christmas, i would like to get a little

book with everyones testimony, and conversion story in it,

everyone in the family, parents, grandparents, cousins, aunts,

uncles, everyone in our family! and from those who are not

members, a cool experience that they had with their family this

past year. that would be amazing if you could organize something

like that! love you sis, you rock! =) talk to you next week!

-tara

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

news from ella! aug 2011

so...news from Italia...IM GETTING TRANSFERED!!!!! AHHHH im off to my second city! its called Trieste...look it up on a map..=) yay. its actually where i wanted to go because its the only place where their are sisters near the ocean. and i heard that we can go to venice. so stoked! i sure hope that that is possible. but who knows. I am heading there tomorrow, and guess what?!?! Im getting an italian companion!!! im a little nervous about having to speak in italian all the time, i hear that she doesnt speak on speck of english. so....yep. here we go! soooo. my rein in torino is over. its been a good one, seen two baptisms, and right now we have a pretty good teaching pool. we have about 7 solid investigators, on italian family with 2 children =) im so excited for them. The two kids, one just turned 12 and the other in 20, but this is exactly what we were praying for. we have been teaching the Dad for about 3 months now, and only a few weeks ago we got to meet the family. so stoked for that one! the family is awesome! they are always so happy when we come. im sad to be leaving them. there is also another investigator of ours that is gonna be baptised on the 26th of august. its rare when you find some one that tells you that she's gonna be baptized this month, and then we set up a date just like that! its so great.....although, she was taught and had a baptisimal date 2 years ago. her husband wouldnt let her do it the last time, she is more than ready for it this time! she is super awesome. Then we had our other two investigators Rosa and Isabella, they are awesome. I think within a couple of transfers they will be ready for the water! We have one other person named Villma, she is from peru, she is the hardest working lady ever,. with the BIGGEST heart! she really is amazing, and she loves God so much, we'll see when her baptisimal date will be...i think it could be soon! anyways. we also have 2 really awesome new converts. Yanelys, she is amazing, everyone tells us that too! she has the firmest testimony i have ever seen! She said that she's gonna come visit me in Hawaii. i hope so! hahaha. the Omar, they are having a rough time right now, their daughter Chrismarina is in the hospital, she had a really bad asthma attack. poor thing! she has to stay there for 5 days. we went and saw them yesterday...i have never seen her so depressed and timid. But everything will be okay. the doctors and everything said it will just take a few days to heal up good. but yeps. I will be leaving the city in the hands of Sorella Alexander...she keep this place in great shape! and then Sorella Walton will be taking my place, she is amazing, she was in the MTC with me. Love her. She is the sweetest person, and she really puts her heart in to her work, i know that she is gonna make this place burst!!!! so awesome! so anyways....thats life here. im exctied to be moving on to another adventure!

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

another late update

Oh so here is an update on the pictures from our last baptism too! =) me and my comp are very different but we work pretty well together and im really enjoying this transfer. =) we have a lot of great people here in torino, we are teaching like crazy! i hope to stay another transfer but probably wont happen, i've been here for 3 transfers already which is almost 5 months. crazy. so i passed my 6 month mark yesterday...how crazy is that? time has gone by pretty fast, but at the same time not....every day is just another adventure! I really am starting to like this part of Italy. its actually really nice, Torino is one of the better cities to be stuck in. plus the sister missionaries dont get to go to the small cities...=( but its probably better, you can find more people in big cities, when every one has seen you already its really hard to make contacts. Anyways. work is good, we have 2 more baptisimal dates set up for the next transfer! oh and we have been asked to go to the zone leaders meeting and do a 15 min lesson on how we have been successful in reaching 20 lessons every week! im kinda excited to go to the mission presidents home, only 1 set of sisiters gets to go to this once a transfer, not every sorella gets to go to this thing...i feel honored. but thanks to my very driven companion we have this oportunity! =) im happy and healthy...well a little over weight, i dont know how to tell people that i cant fit that much food in my body and still be okay!!!! its just not good how much people eat here!

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Tuesday, June 28, 2011

message from ella

From SerElla Arume

looks like we will have the first baptism here in Torino this transfer! sooooo excited! nothing better than seeing someones life change all the way around! last week we taught the law of chastity and the next visit he got rid of all the photo's he had on the computer and changed them to pictures of the temple and of Joseph smith. so cute! he was so excited to show us! we also have been meeting with this other guys Giuseppe, he said his first prayer on Wednesday! so exited for him! then this other lady that we are teaching a lady from Santa Domingo and she, after weeks of seeing her, she is starting to read the book of Mormon and is learning and asking so many awesome questions! these people are amazing! we just haven't had time to do anything!

Thursday, June 16, 2011

from ella bella

...From SerElla Arume,

so heres the news of my life here in italy...you can let tara use what she wants on my blog.
We have 4 investigators right now, Omar, Roberta, Giuseppe, and Martina. I think i have mentioned them before. but here goes...Omar has a date for baptism for the second of july, His wife got baptized at the begining of this year, this will be a complete family(except their 4or5 year old daughter...way cute!)! they are from peru, super awesome and super sweet! they remind me a little bit of Ramon and Perla. I miss them too. But he is just accepting everything and doing everything he can to learn and understand these things that will for sure bring him eternal happiness! Roberta, she was someone that we found knocking on doors, she has a 5 year old son, way cute also! she is open to learning, and the last time we saw her, which was the 3rd time, she told us that she felt somethign and she would watch the restoration and pray to know if it is true, and she said if she felt that it was true that she would be baptized, so we will see where this goes! =) then Giuseppe, we met him doing Speza(grocery shopping) and he is super sweet, he has been in a couple of wars, and he has had some surgeries for his arm to get it working good...but he had like no faith, and we can see it growing! he is working on learning how to pray, but he said that everything that we have been teaching him makes sense! =) always a good sign! then Martina, she is from santa domenica, and she is making progress, and likes our visits, but she has a lot to do and its hard for her to make the time to study, but i know that if she does, she'll know that this is true...and we really need to get a member over to those lessons.

other than that, we are on the search for more people to teach, but we are really focusing on our less actives and getting to know and gaining the trust of our members. It is so AWESOME when we have members at lessons, to have their extra testimony that what we are saying is true, really helps. it always helps coming form a 'normal' person. hahaha. Its so good.

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Ella is doing GOOD things!

Ella sent a letter the other day!

she told me about her senior week... she said it was really cool she got them to the "C-zone" some place in the city and she did so with out getting lost! she and her companion went to some apartment buildings and they where feeling a little discouraged and she didn't really want to talk but she did and they met a mom and her daughter. they were invited to dinner and agreed to take the lessons... the daughter said that she cant do dinner but that they would see the sister missionaries more than just that time. so cool to hear her stories please pray for her and her mission.

please send ella some mail

ITA MIL MISSION
Via Gramsci 13/4
20090 Opera (MI) Italy

-tara

Sunday, May 1, 2011

sorry for the delay

ella sent my mom an email and said to post this on the blog for everyone......

we have no investigators right now, we are working hard to find them, there has been some referals, but no sucess yet. The language is coming slooowwwly!!! But im learning. One thing that has been great is seeing the members do some of the work, just by talking to friends about the gospel and showing how it has blessed their lives. These experiences are gifts from God and are meant to help others come unto Christ as well. God wants you to share these with people, not all of them, but the ones that are appropirate. Memebers are the long lasting missionaries, we are only around for a few months at a time. Keep up the good work in being an example and a light to all those with out the truth and the restored Gospel

ok so ella sent pictures so i will try to post pictures as soon as i learn to scan by my self ha ha

Monday, April 4, 2011

Ella Is Leaving the MTC!

she is leaving the MTC tuesday april, 5, 2011 for Milan Italy!

please send her lots of emails and letters! now you can use her Italy mailing address

just remember any packages need to be marked missionary supplies or ella will have to pay for each thing in the package!

you can also send pre-made packages thru the dear elder site it's mostly cookies and candies..

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

ella update!

i got a letter from Ella and Ella wants you to know that they are getting 39 new Italian missionaries! That will make it the biggest the Italian zone has ever been! she is really excited! she says it makes her happy because " I know that Italy is gearing up for the temple being built. the work there is moving forward" she goes on to say that if it could move forward there where no one really thought there could be a temple ... it could move forward anywhere in the world. she says especially in Hawaii, although its hard to do missionary work at home it is important. that members are there to help as missionaries come and go. she also says she feels blessed that she got to grow up in the gospel and that she is grateful to her parents for raising her in the church. as well as her grand parents for raising our parents in the church for those who accepted the gospel and their responsibility to share it. she says she hopes to be a great missionary in italy (we all know she will be) she also says she loves the MTC and any RM would tell you the same.... she leaves the MTC on April 5th so any thing you want to send nows the time after that things will need to be sent to italy and must be marked missionary supplies other wise she will be charged for all contents of the package!

she had bore a little part of her testimony so i could share it.

"I know that this church is true & that God is our father in heaven & he knows us all so well & gives us trials that will make us stronger if we endure them righteously. I know that Joesph Smith saw God the father & Jesus Christ in the flesh and bone. they are real. I know that living the gospel with exact obedience will bring us blessings & help us back home to our father in heaven. i know that commandments & the teachings of all the prophets since Adam are true & are applicable to us individually at all times of our lives I hope one day i can be that good to be a servant of God that at the last day he can say to me "well done , thou good and faithful servant, thou hast been faithful over a few things. i will make thee ruler over many things; enter thou into the joy of thy lord."- Matt 25:21 one day I'll be much better at being a disciple of Christ. :) I love this work , love learning & growing everyday. I say this in the name of Jesus Christ. amen"

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

wow two posts two days

i stole some stuff from an email ella sent to my mom shhhhh! thought it was ok to share so i copy paste it below!!!!

so here's the update. im officially past the halfway point of my MTC experience. love it. but am way stoked to be getting out into the field. i cant wait to get there. uhm there are some thoughts that has been on my mind recently. first of all how important it is for everyone to hear the gosple there are people everywhere that are ready and willing to hear the gosple. i think that uncle greg is doing a great job at getting th ward members involved in the misionary work. it is so much easier to be new to a ward where you have friends already. thats where the memebers come in. 2nd of all how important it is to do your best at any calling. no matter how insignificant the calling may seem it comes from God, and he wants you to succeed in all things so he gives you these little things to help you grow in some way. and 3rd something that you always told me which has helped me throughout my life. God NEVER gives you more than you can handle. with proper use of the atonement we are able to have Christ help us lift all our burdens and we will make it through a better person than what we were when we went into the situation. there is so much to learn about the Gospel we can never stop our learning because that will stop our faiths progression. that will hinder what God can bless us with. anything in our life has to have one purpose. to bring ourselves closer to christ. :)

thats just a few thoughts i have had while i've been going through the week.

THANK YOU GUYS SO MUCH FOR MAKING THIS MISSION POSSIBLE FOR ME!!! even if it ended now it would have been totally worth it, i can only imagine how great it will be in 17 months from now!!!

love you guys oodles and bunches!

molto amore!

--sorELLA Arume

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

the first pictures of the mission

this is the disclaimer, the pictures are not in order and Ella writes really small so if i misspell anything (i can't spell to begin with) Ella wrote small and i copied it wrong.

we are so happy sorELLA Arume sent us the pictures we hope that you are to!

millie

sorella simkin's (my running buddy)

me & the dd & new zone leaders

Anziano Portellano (french) & Anziano Wilkey (english)

(the real europeans)

mom cafe rio

la mia collega and the world map

the girls of zone 33 :) week 1 feb/6/2011

(note by tara: really love ella's dress totally was eyeing it out when i was up there)

sorella bishop & sorella simkins

the new district + the old ones- the whole zone feb, 13, 2011

me & my companion in front provo temple 02/20/2011

anziano ( elder terry) & sorela cazier ( my companion)

District 33-e feb 13, 2011

(tara note: this is just cause she loves me and i love chick fil a )

Thursday, March 3, 2011

sorELLA update!

hi everyone ella says hello and that she is getting our dear elders and letters! she loves the letters and the support. She let us in on what's going on a little but she will be sending pictures soon! YAY! according to our letters she is growing a lot and is enjoying the salad and wrap bar in the cafe ( which according to ella is way better than BYUH cafe ). please keep sending ella all the letters you can! the link for dear elders are in an earlier post! keep checking in i should have pictures up in a week!