I Apologize in Advance for this Email

Well, I tried to write about this week but I'm really tired and kind
of stressed from preparing for zone conference sooo it didn't really
work.... sorry. This is what I've got.

Monday:
We did a super fun FHE with the Africans. Juliet made plantains and
spicy beans and was probably the best thing I've had at her house. We
had less actives and investigators there and played crazy, fun game
then connected it to our spiritual thought. I'm so grateful that I get
to serve with these wonderful African people and experience their
culture as well.

Wednesday and Thursday:
We ran around the city and waited in lines a ton to take care of my
green card stuff so that I can be legal for the last few weeks of my
mission....lol

Friday:
We went over to a less active's house and by some miracle her friend
who is an active member was there getting her hair done. She helped us
so much in the lesson. I love members. They help so much. They're
super good friends so she could be bold with her in a way that we
can't.

Saturday:
We had a super awesome day planned but then all 5 of our appointments
got cancelled. Sooo. we went finding!!! And got our bidone
gelatooooo!!!! Yayyyyyyyy!

Sunday:
Sunday was interesting because the branch president was out of town so
one of the elders had to preside and bless the sacrament and give a
talk and the other elder passed the sacrament and my comp gave the
other talk for the 5 members that were there.

Then we spent the rest of the day traveling to Taranto for zone
conference this upcoming week.

Today:
We played beach volleyball with the zone for a few hours! It was great.


My companion is cute and wrote a poem about our branch so I'm going to
just send this to make up for this terrible email:
There's an itty bitty church
In an apartment down the street.
You'll find it if you search
Where all the Mormons meet.

They sit all together,
All 6, side by side.
They come in any weather
And in the Lord they confide.

They don't have any stairs,
Just cockroaches on the floor.
They have green plastic chairs
And an always open door.

The missionaries give talks.
Everyone participates.
In that church by the docks,
New members they anticipate.

And together they read
And together they sing
They resemble a seed,
Just a humble sapling.

And together they pray
And together they cry
And together they say
"O Signore, lo sai."

So they continue to grow
their faith in their hearts.
But they never feel low.
It's how every ward starts.

Love,
Sorella Bonzo

Calzoni

Pythagoras statue

The trip to Taranto. sorella walch was our entertainment

Volleyball today

Change up in Crotone

Hello friends! This week has been lots of fun and was great for us in
terms of the work. Thanks to transfers I have an iPad again which is
definitely helpful so I'll fill you in on some good stuff.

Monday we went to a little town in our area over an hour outside of
Crotone because we wanted to try to go to the famous mountain range in
Calabria. We walk around the town but it was impossible to go in the
mountains without a car, but a least we got to be surrounded by the
beautiful trees that reminded me a lot of pine valley. We also ate
some pretty posh gelato so I was happy.

That night we received the news that my little Sorella Zapata would be
leaving the nest and flying down to Catania! I'm so excited for the
great work that she will do there. And, you guessed it, I will be
finishing my mission here in Crotone! In total I will have done 7
months here. I couldn't be more content. My companion is my sister!
(in mission terms) Sorella Walch! She was also trained by Sorella
Clark about 6 months after I was. She the cutest little redhead you'll
ever meet. She comes from California and plays the ukulele. We get
along great and really do feel like sisters. We'll have a lot of fun
together!

Before Sorella Zapata left we had fun running around saying goodbye to
people and as well as fitting in as many last lessons as we could.
Sorella Zapata and I were able to meet twice with a new investigator
Slessia. She is an ex-investigator from English course who came back
to English then also came to church last week. We taught her the
restoration on Tuesday and put her on date for baptism for the 15th of
July. We saw her the next day and taught the plan of salvation. We're
working on helping her recognize the spirit and receive an answer to
her studies and prayers.

We also were out to a tiny town this week that we'd never been to
before. We had to wait a while to catch the bus back home so we did
some finding through the flee market. It was really cool because no
one in that town had ever heard anything about our church. They
weren't super accepting of our message, but at least we got to plant a
lot of seeds. Like they say, it takes an average of 7 encounters with
the church before someone will agree to take the lessons. I felt like
a pioneer a little bit and thought about the first missionaries who
ever came to Crotone and all of the hard work and seed planting that
they had to do here to prepare this city and finally open up a branch.
I'm so grateful for those missionaries and what they did here.

Then Sorella Zapata tried to kill me on her last day here... We had a
lunch appointment scheduled with Juliet at 1:00 and planned to pass by
Sorella Zito before that to say goodbye. She called us at 11:30 and
whenwe told her that we were heading over she said, "just eat with us
today!" Sorella Zapata told her not to worry about it because we had
to see other people at 1 but she insisted saying, "its already ready.
We'll be quick, just come!" So my sorell accepts the have a lunch
appointment at 12 when we had another on scheduled for 1!! We ran
through the city in the blazing heat to sorella zito's where we at
rice with broth, chicken, vegetables, and I was forced to eat an
entire giant roll of bread because she fed us potatoes with
peperoncino which was easily the spiciest thing I've ever eaten...I
was sweating and couldn't feel my lips or tongue for like 20 minutes.
Then of course you've gotta finish it off with a banana and some
gelato cake to fill us to the max. After saying goodbye to this sweet
sister we ran through the southern-Italy heat to the other side of the
town where we ate a mountain of spices African rice and deep-fried
turkey. Sorella Zapata is lucky that I love her. But wait, there's
more!! Only an hour later we met with Graziella who gave us tisana and
a bunch of little Italian pastries. Let's just say if no one fed me
for the rest of my mission, I would be perfectly okay with that.

So Graziella is one of President Sarcone's friends that has been
coming to English course for years and meeting on and off with the
missionaries but she's always been more of a friend to the
missionaries than anything. As we talked with her and read from the
Book of Mormon to answer her questions, we discovered that she
actually wants to be baptized and join this church because she see
what good people we are and feels the spirit with us and when she's
there. She said that she doesn't even come for the English anymore,
just to sit in the church because she feels good there. She told us
that the reason she isn't baptized is because she's really busy and
doesn't find the time to come to church. She said that if she gets
baptized she wants to be a "full-time" Mormon, not like some of the
less active members that she knows (she is already friends with a lot
of our members.) We told her that we're here to help her and prepare
her to do this. I'm really excited to work with her more seriously
because she will be an awesome, and very strong member and we're in
need of those right now.

Transfer day was one of the craziest days of my life, and I wasn't
even being transferred! Let's just say that as we were carrying
sorella Zapata's luggage to the train station, basically all of the
wheels broke off! That made for a fun day. After lots of travel to get
her where she needed to go, we got back to Crotone and met up with
Sorella Walch. The day was especially hot as we lugged her suitcases
back to the apartment then went right back to the station to pick up
sorella bishop who would be staying with us that night and heading off
to Taranto the next day.
That night before English we did a lesson all together with slessia. I
was a little nervous about it because teaching in a trio is kind of
different, and none of us had ever taught together at all and we
didn't have any time to study and prepare together so we had no idea
what to expect. It went really well though and was definitely guided
by the spirit.

Saturday morning I got to participate in the Missionary Leadership
Council via skype because of my new assignment as the sister training
leader of the zone. I really appreciated being apart of the MLC. We
prepared for zone conference by discussing what we as a mission can do
to overcome the plateau that we are hitting. We are seeing many
miracles and our number of baptisms have increased, but we had kind of
hit a plateau at this point where everything is staying about the same
now. We had a great discussion and I am really looking forward to zone
conference in order to put learn more and implement these ideas. A
quote that someone said that I really liked was, "If you always do
what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten."
We always be repenting (changing) and striving to reach higher levels
rather than just resting on our plateau.

Sorella Walch is amazing and I am so grateful to be with her. We have
already seen some wonderful miracles together. Her first day here we
went to visit a less active member that we have been struggling with.
She has finally started coming back to church but would not stay the
full three hours because she was offended by someone in the relief
society so she didn't want to go back. We taught her about obedience
to all of God's commandments, no matter how difficult it may be and at
the lesson we invited her to stay for relief society that week. She
was a lot more open to accept our invitation because the spirit was
there unlike some past times when we would go and kind of argue with
her a little bit. She ended up coming and staying the whole time on
Sunday and loving it!

Sunday night we ran into Roberta, a girl that I've known for a little
while because she has printed pictures for me a couple of times. Every
time I see her we talk about what we do as missionaries and our
beliefs but she always seemed more interested in a friendship than
anything else. Well we ran into her and she told us that she had
looked us up on the internet and had tons of questions for us. She
invited us into her family's shop and we sat down and she bombarded us
with all sorts of things she read on the internet. Thankfully she
understood that the things on the internet usually are not correct and
just wanted to really know what we believed in. We answered some
questions then explain The Book of Mormon and prayer to her and
invited her to read the book and start taking the lessons with us to
really know the truth. She accepted this invite and we're excited to
start working with her because she's young (26) and is intelligent.
She actually knows what she believes in as a catholic which helps a
lot.

Those are probably my biggest highlights of the week, sorry it's a
lot. Today we did a hike that I surprisingly haven't ever done before!
We hiked up to the giant sword that sits on the top of a mountain here
that we walk by almost every day. The view of the city was pretty cool
and it actually felt super nice because it was really windy up there.
We also walked through this park/museum that was created in honor of
Pythagoras because he was born in Crotone and essentially created math
here. It was full of statues that were all cool shapes and tons of
triangles and stuff. My favorite was these giant steps that created a
multiplication table (sorry I'm a nerd...)

Have a great week! I love you!
-Sorella Bonzo

Last gesso together

Dropping off Sorella Zapata 😢

Sorella Walch (aka Merida from Brave) with her deep-fried gelato! It was soo good

Times table

I ❤️math lol

The hike

Anotha 1

This week we saw many miracles because we followed the promptings of the Holy Ghost. That has probably become my biggest desire as a missionary: to recognize and follow the promptings of the Spirit. I have come to understand that that is honestly the best way that we can be successful in this work. I know that this knowledge will also bless me after my mission as I try to live my life in line with God's will and make my decisions with the guidance of the Holy Ghost. 

Alright, I'm going to apologize in advance because this email is going to be quick and I probably won't have time to respond to any of your emails. I'll explain why...

On Tuesday morning we took a train up to Catanzaro for district meeting. While on the train I was using my iPad to study The Book of Mormon, then I got super tired so I set it down and fell asleep for a few minutes. Then when I woke up it was time to get off. I grabbed my bag and got off all chill and everything. Then as we were waiting for the calabro (another little train thing to get to the church) I looked for my iPad and......I bet you can pretty much figrue out the rest. We ran back to the train station and talked to some people and eventially talked to the police. Luckily the train hadn't left the station and was just parked. They went and looked for it on there but didn't find anything so they assumed that someone must have seen it after we got off and taken it. It was unfortunate. It sadly made my proselyting a little more difficult this week because I have everything on there from addresses to lesson plans, But it's all good. In the end, like President Pickerd says, "it's just stuff." All I really need to is the spirit and my Book of Mormon and don't worry, I'll make sure to not lose either of those!

(so the reason I won't have time to email is because we're leaving in about 20 minutes to go and see the cool mountain range that's famous here in Calabria called Sila and I won't have an iPad to write emails while we travel like usual.)

We spent tons of time in the Questura this week because my green card to live here in Italy expired after a year and I had to renew it so we did that last transfer, but then they rejected my renewal request!! haha apparently I'm not welcome in Italy anymore. We sadly had to spend tons of time trying to figure that all out and still haven't gotten it completely resolved (we have to go back this Wednesday.) I hate doing legal stuff in Italy because it always takes FOREVER. But at least we get to talk to cool africans while we wait!

On Wednesday it was one of the elders' birthday so Sorella Zapata and I made them lunch. I made that super good lasagna that sorella taylor and I learned how to make together and sorella zapata made a cheesecake. Quoting sorella zapata, "I've lived in Italy for 15 years and that is the best lasagna that i've ever eaten!" Her cheesecake was super good too. It's kind of funny because I made the italian dish and she made the american dessert and they both ended up to be delicious! 

Later that day we had planned to pass by a member but on our way there we walked past a street that would take us to a less active's house and I had the smallest impression to go there instead. Mind you I haven't seen this less active since before sorella zapata arrived. she stopped answering our phone calls and wouldnt ever let us in. We went and rang her citofono and there was no answer. We rang again, then without saying anything, the door buzzed open. We went up to her house and when she saw us we could tell that she was expecting someone else. My companion really needed to use the bathroom so that was our excuse to get in haha. We came to find out that this sister had just had a surgery the day before and was now recovering. She was happy to see us and pretty open as we sat and talked to her. Then a few minutes later her aunt and cousin (the people she was actually expecting) came in. We started talking with her cousin Nuncia and found out that she has read some of The Book of Mormon, been to church, and took the lessons a long time ago. She told us that The Book of Mormon really helped her through a hard period in her life that she was passing through and so did some of our members that she became close friends with. We asked if she would like to meet with us again and she said that she would. After she left our less active member told us that once she gets better, she'll take us to her cousins house and we'll do the lessons together! I'm so grateful that we followed my prompting that day!

Thursday we got to see our nonnina sorella siniscalchi in the morning. As we were talking, she told us about how she really wanted to go and visit her husband in the cemetary that afternoon, but after what happened a few weeks ago, she was a little scared to go alone. She used to go on a long walk every morning before the sun came up from her house, down by the seaside, and to the cemetary to say hello to her husband but a few weeks ago she fainted while on her walk and ever since she hasn't been (keep in mind this lady is 86 years old and she doesn't just do one of those little granny walks, she's a speed walker.) We told her that we'd love to come back to do the walk with her that afternoon so that she could go. We met up with her after lunch that day and took the long walk to the cemetary where we were eaten alive by mosquittoes. Every time we looked down we saw 20 on our legs no joke. Cemetaries here have always kind of freaked me out..they're interesting.. but it was all worth it for her of course! When she got there she walked up to his grave and said, "I'm here, I'm here." Then she sat on a bench next to him and just smiled. On the way back she insisted on buying us a gelato and while we sat and ate so that she could regain her strength to walk home, she told of their love story. They met when they were 12 and have loved each other ever since! How cute! 

We saw how much she missed doing her morning walks to see him, and decided that we would start going with her every morning during our exercise time to do that walk. So Friday and Saturday morning we left our house at 6 and ran to her house then walked with her down lungomare to the cemetary and back. She looked so cute when she came out of her house wearing her little jumpsuit, hat, and sunglasses. Everyone that walked past us was so impressed with this cute little 86 year old that is about a head shorter than me, speed walking down the peer. The walk takes about an hour and a half total, so we have to sacrifice some of our time to get ready in the morning, but it's so worth it. I love my nonnina here in Crotone and would do anything for her. We're going to continue to do it as long as she feels up for up for it. These kinds of things are what really make me feel like a missionary. She told us, "I don't want to bug you guys or be a burden to you because I respect your calling as missionaries." We told her that we as missionaries are representatives of Jesus Christ, so we're suppose to do what He would do. And I assured here that if Christ were here, He would also walk with her to the cemetary every morning. 

Also, my cooking skills are on fire these days apparently because our bananas were about to go bad so I made banana muffins Thursday morning and brought them to english course and everyone said that they were the best muffins that they've ever eaten. Who would've thought that I'd ever get good at cooking? Look mom! I'm finally learning! 

Friday we went to see a some less active family that lives in Cutro. When we got there the dad was starting a barbecue and invite us to stay and eat dinner with them. It was really really good but holy cow they made me eat so much meat. Usually I'd eat 1 piece of meat and the grilled vegetables and everything, but he made me eat FIVE pieces of meat!!! We had rabbit, fiorentina, chicken, sausage, and chicken & onion kabobs. I definitely gained a testimony of the Word of Wisdom after that meal.... I felt sick for the entire next day. 

I didn't eat anything that next day because we had a dinner appointment scheduled for the next night and I was still super full of all of that meat. There we ate the spiciest pasta I've ever had and to wash it down he offered us non-alcoholic beer.. I don't know why anyone would ever drink that stuff. Then on Sunday one of one of the counselors from the stake presidency and his family came for a visit so we did lunch in church as a branch like always...In total we had 4 meal appointments this week and we have one with the africans tonight as well. Calabria has wrecked my stomach with all of this african food and peperoncino.T his region in Italy known for its spicey peppers- it's really the only region where they eat spicey food at all..and if you know anything about african food, you know that it's even spicier. I'm pretty sure my tastebuds were forced to change here.  

Other than that, this week we saw a lot of cool miracles that we're hoping will lead to some new investigators in this upcoming week. Including an ex-investigator coming to church, staying all three hours, and even staying for lunch after! We're going to start teaching her again on Tuesday and really feel that this might be her time!

I really loved Presidente Conforte's (counselor in the stake presidency) talk that he gave in sacrament meeting. He told the story of when he was a boy, and his grandpa helped him plant an aprocott tree. Every morning following to his dismay, nothing had grown. Then years later when he was an adult, he took his grandfather back to that place and found a tree that was fully grown. He had forgotten about it, and didn't know that in the meantime his grandfather had cared for the tree until it was fully grown. He compared it to our little branch saying that it starts out as a little seed, but with time, patience, and work, it will someday be a big, beautful tree (or ward.) 

Love, 
Sorella Bonzo

sorry, no iPad= no pictures

There is Power in the Book

I hope that you guys are prepared for the most amazing miracle-filled week ever! I know that this email is long, if you don't have time to read it, just skip down to the paragraph after today because that's the best part anyway. 

Monday:

We hung out in Cosenza with basically the rest of the zone because the missionaries from Taranto came for house inspections and exchanges. We did a gesso all together that night and while i was drawing the man came up some of the elders and showed them his phone. He was looking at Facebook on his phone while walking by us when he saw a picture of me drawing! So by now I should basically be famous for my street art. Lol. 

The gesso was fun. There were tons of young people because Cosenza has a big university. I love talking to university students. They're so smart and have open minds.

Tuesday & Wednesday: 

We did district meeting all together in Cosenza Tuesday morning then took the long bus ride back to Crotone to do our exchanges with the Taranto sister. I got to do an exchange with Sorella Bicchierri!! I love working with and learning from other sisters in the mission. It was super fun because we did scambi together when we were greenies. She's always been such a good example of consecration. She helped me a lot to see this city with a new perspective.

We did a lot of finding and had a lot of success! The biggest thing I learned was that it doesn't matter where you are, or what you're doing, as long as you talk to everyone possible and always follow the spirit, then Lord will take care of the rest. 

Wednesday-Saturday:

A bunch of other really cool things happened this week (but I won't go into detail about all of them or we'd be here all day) including eating spicey pasta with Juliet, getting new investigators whom we're excited to teach (one was a potential in our phone who ended up being an ex-investigator found a year ago, and the other is that english course student that we went to visit with the ex-sister missionary who came back to Crotone like a month ago) and getting to finally go out to visit a family in our ward. I've been trying to visit them since I got here (in January) but they always cancel on us. We finally made it out there and it ended up to be a really helpful visit for both us and them. We also taught our english class the song Mary Had a Little Lamb and made them sing it to the other students at the end. We told them that we were teaching about the culture hahaha it was fun. 

Two sad things: 1. We still don't have any hot water..it's been over 2 weeks now and we have no idea when they'll finally fix it.. It's hard to remember what a warm shower even is anymore (lol jk) we love the ghetto life! 2. I made some curry for lunch on Friday and it tasted great as always, but then the next day we woke up super sick. We didn't eat anything else that day so it must have been that.. I don't know what I did to cause that..whoops!

Sunday:

We did a gesso with the elders and invited some ward members to come and help us too! Precious (our new convert) and Vittoria (a 10 year old who wants to serve a mission) came! We promised Vittoria that we'd buy her a gelato next week if she passed out the entire stack of english course cards that we gave her. At the beginning she was really discouraged and nervous, but after having her do it with me a few times, she ended up giving them all out by the end of the night! 

Today:

We've had a really chill day that was much needed. I even had time to try to take a nap this morning around 10...but of course the one time I try to take a nap they are doing constructon in our building..haha! 

I took Sorella Zapata to a big fruit market that we have by our house and she was in heaven. We bought soo much fruit and vegetables and even some fresh fish! Then we went home and she taught me have to clean shrimp and fish and then we made a fried shrimp and peppers rice for lunch. It was restaurant worthy. Funny story: When you buy fish here they still have the head attached and all so before Sorella Zapata cleaned it she was messing around with the head she opened the mouth and it slapped shut and she essentially got bit by a dead fish! She started bleeding and everything, but don't worry, she's good, it was really funny. 

Okay.. now, I saved the best miracle for last. Are you ready to be totally blown away like we were?

On Tuesday afternoon (during the exchange) we got a phone call from Graziella (the english course student that we just started teaching.) She wanted to see us 30 minutes before english course to read The Book of Mormon together because she struggles to understand it. We sent my companion and Sorella Rhodes to that lesson because they would be the ones to english course that night as well. That night our companions were bursting with joy as they told us of the most amazing miracle of my mission. 

Midway through their lesson with Graziella someone rang the citofono. They were teh only ones in the church so Sorella Zapata went to answer the door. In walks a 16 year old kid that she had never seen before (named Antonio.) He proceeds to pull an old Book of Mormon from his backpack and the first words that he says to her are, "This book is amazing. It is the greatest book I have ever read." He handed the book to my companion and explained that he found it on his dad's bookshelf and remembers the missionaries teaching his dad more than 10 years ago. Sorella Zapata looked through the pages and found tons of markings and notes, she said, "Wow, your dad must have really loved this book." He told her, "No, that was me." She asked him why he started to read this book and he told her that he had alwasy been looking fro God and read the Bible to come to know Him, then he found this book and told her, "I found in this book what I have been searching for." Sorella Zapata asked if he would like to join the lesson that they were having with Graziella. During the lesson he asked, "How can people not believe that this book is true?" 

They finisehd the lesson and asked if he'd like to stay for english course to which he did. Afterwards he stayed a little while talking to all of the missionaries just asking about hwere they were from and such. Then he looked at one of the Elders and asked, "How long have you been following Jesus Christ?" He told him, "for my entire life." Then Sorella Zapata asked Antonio, "How long have you been following Christ?" He said, "I've always wnated to follow Him and read everything in the Bible to know all that I could about Him and find the right path to follow. Then I found The Book of Mormon and have learned so much more." She asked, "Do you feel like you have found the right path?" He said, "I hope so, When I pray, if I get an answer that this book is true then yes."

Hearing this the anziani asked if he'd like to talk for a little bit to learn more. They went a did a long, very in depth, restoration lesson with him. He said that he wants to be baptized when he recieves his answer. After the lesson he told Sorella Zapata that he really loved Jospeh Smith's story and could totally relate to him because also he was searching to turly know Christ, and that through the Book of Mormon he had found the answers to all of his questions. 

As my companion reccounted this story to me that night, tears of gratitude came streaming down my cheeks, knowing just how much this amazing miracle means to our small, struggling branch. (Right now the only fully active priesthood holder is the branch president.) I thought about how his conversion story will reignite the testimonies and conversions of our members. I thought about how he will be an exampole to his family (he is the oldest of 4) who will hopefully join the church shortly after he does. I thought of the blessing it willl be for this branch to have a missionary out in a few years, and of all the lives that he will touch in the service of God. We have been going through a little bit of a drought in Crotone but as the tears fell from my eyes I thought of the scripture that I actually sent in last week's email (D&C 58: 2-5), knowing that after a long and dark period of tribulation fro us and for the brnach, God was finally pouring down the blessings that he had been long before preparing for us. 

I got to meet Antonio at english course on Thursday. He has been meeting with the missionaries every single day since that first encounter. You can just see that he is so hungry for truth. He has a baptismal date for the 1st of July, but he is so prepared that they'll probably going to finish the lessons with him this upcoming week. 

We were in the Church on Saturday just about the leave when he showed up about 15 minutes early to the lesson so the elders weren't there yet. We talked for a little bit and then out of nowhere he just goes, "Che bello Il Libro di Mormon." (How wonderful is The Book of Mormon.) He pulls his out and asks, "Do you want to hear my favorite verse?" He turns the to front of the book where he had rewritten 3 Nephi 18:15. He started The Book of Mormon less than a month ago and is already through 3 Nephi!!! There were definitely so more tears that I couldn't hold back as we walked out of the church after that conversation. 

He was so excited to come to church on Sunday asking what he should wear and where he should sit. He lives a little bit outside of Crotone and the buses don't work on Sundays so this kid walked for more than an hour that morning to get to church (keep in mind we're in the month June and Southern Italy is not the coolest of places.) Then after church he asked the elders, "so, are we going to see each other later today?" They told him that they didn't want to make him walk all the way back here and home again and he's like "it all depends on you guys, if you can do it, I'll be there." Not to mention the fact that after finding out the he studies music in school and has been playing the piano since he was like 12 our branch president basically extended the calling of branch pianst to him! (I finally won't have to do it anymore! woohoo!)

So, the work is moving forward here. Miracles upon miracles are happening here in Crotone, All I have to say is that God truly does prepare his children to receive the restored gospel. As we patiently go about doing all that is in our power to carry forward His work by planting the seeds, God does His part by getting them ready for the harvest.

With love, 

Sorella Bonzo

Cosenza gesso (this was only half of us) 

Scambio! 

This is Angela. She's only 24 years old and was just called to be the relief society president. She served her mission in temple square.

Vittoria at the gesso (don't mind my hair..it was windy) 

Haha her cut from that nasty fish 

The best book in the world 

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