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

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

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!

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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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!

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.

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