February 18, 2019

Hello! So last week I was helping with the open house for the temple so I did not have time to write on my blog. 

But last week there were sooo many people from all over the world here just to see the temple. 

I had to introduce what temples were and what the tour was going to consist of and I spoke either Italian or English for that. It was very tiring. 

Some Brazilian people came to see the temple and I was able to speak to them in Portuguese and answer a few questions. 

But that whole week was basically work, work, work, to get people into tours. 

This coming Saturday will be officially the last day for the open house. 

Then today was for my free day. We were in Rome and we went to the center; we even were on a four man bike. We biked in this beautiful huge park and we took many pictures. We even went to the Spanish steps. It was amazing! 

It was soooo pretty. 

We also ate this really interesting pasta that was kind of spicy and didn't even have any meat, honestly it wasn't good. 

But then we got gelato, I had dark chocolate with a different chocolate, and it was good. 

The temple brings blessings. I do love the temple. The temple is a place where we can be sealed for all time and eternity with our families, it is not "till death do we part".

Just like baptism is a covenant and a step for us to get closer to our savior so are the covenants we do in the temple. In the temple we make covenants which are promises with God that are other steps into coming unto Christ. We make promises to follow Him, and live a moral life, we learn more about His plan for us and His love for us. 

I love the gospel and I love our Heavnly father and how loving He is and wants us to return to be with him. 

Rome week 2

So this week was very interesting. It rained a lot and was kind of cold but it was okay. We had one family feed us Cena (dinner) and it was the first time I had actual real Italian food made by an Italian and it was a different kind of noodle type soup. All I know it was very good and we got to share a good message with them. 

 We tried visiting the less active members but we found out that their house or numbers don’t exist or they don’t even live there. One family lived at least 30 mins away and it was kind of frustrating. 

Also we did a lot of finding this past week. We found a guy from Equador who was interested in our message so we taught him and his kids the Restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and they wanted the Book of Mormon. The next lesson we will teach the Plan of Salvation, this will be on Friday. I am excited. They said they loved the beautiful message of Christ and it made me so happy. 

Oh, I also had my first Italian pizza this week and the woman who owns the restaurant is named Anna Linda which was named after her two grandmothers just like I was. She already has the Book of Mormon so we invited her to the temple, and she really wants to come. Also, she wants us to come back. 

The temple is a blessing. We stop people on the street and invite them to the temple and they get so interested. We have gotten so many numbers from these people who want to go to the temple or talk to us more about it. 

Today we went to the Vatican and we went to the top of the Dome which was super cool. The Vatican was very pretty! We spent most of the day there. There were so many American LDS members who saw our name tags and wanted to talk to us about the Rome temple and were so excited to see us there. 

Then we went to eat pizza and gelato which was very very good. It was a great time. Today was like the warmest day in Rome I have experienced it was so good. 

I hope everyone had a great week

 The third picture is the family we ate with one night. The fourth one was my first pizza here. The second picture is with this really yummy dark chocolate from Italy that a member at church just gave me. The first is my companion and I in the car.