Ciao!
This week has been absolutely amazing! It has been 3 days in the MTC and I'm loving every second.
I've gone from being super bored in quarantine to feeling like there aren't enough hours in the day to accomplish everything I need to - even with a 6:30 wakeup!
The online MTC is awesome. It is way different than I was expecting but everything I needed it to be. It is crazy how the Spirit can be felt even from a screen. My teachers are the best, Fratello Ross served his mission in Milan and Sorella Ellison served in Rome, they do a great job of making class time interactive and fun while keeping a strong spirit throughout class.
My online collega, Sorella Growald, is awesome. She is from Fort Worth Texas and is the only other Sorella in our district called to serve in the Milan mission. Having a companion is like having a built in friend and I love that- all seven missionaries in my district are becoming my good friends, too.
For pday this week, I got out in the great outdoors and hiked, with the best companions ever, my family, to Deep Lake. It was good to get outside and mix things up a little. It was the recharge I needed.
I didn't realize just how crazy it would be to learn a language in six weeks until the second class- they have us dialed in! It is so hard, but such a cool experience to really rely on the Savior.
My teacher shared a cool quote in class that said, "Without hard work, the only thing that grows is weeds." One thing we've really focused on is that the Lord loves effort- and He blesses us when we are trying our very best and working our hardest to do what He has asked us to do. Sometimes what He asks us to do can be hard or overwhelming-- I am feeling that way right now with learning to become a missionary and learning to share the gospel in the Italian language-- but He wouldn't ask it of me, or of any of us, if he didn't know that we could do it... WITH his help. So that is one of my goals this next week: to give Gesu Cristo my very best effort, and to ask for his help in making the difference.
It was really great to get the ball rolling this week, learning to get into full missionary swing has been an adjustment, but it is teaching me so many things. One time talking with Sadie she said, "nothing great ever happens within your comfort zone". I'm not sure that I always agree with that, because I really like my comfort zone :), but these experiences that I am having are stretching and growing me in so many ways and it is a blessing. I'm so excited to for this next week and just pumped to be a missionary.
amore,
Sorella Miller
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