Sorella McCune Italy Rome Mission 2024-2025

 Thursday, May 29, 2025:  the pope's summer home?   Hey hey hey! It's hard to believe it but we're headed into transfer 11! woah when did that happen?? I'll be staying here in the visitors center with my girl Sorella Fitzgerald yayy best news ever.  One of my favorite member meals of my whole mission was this week with the family of Andrea & Estefano. They are less active but came to the vc a couple weeks ago as their first step to come back to church. We watched the Because of Him video with them and Andrea really opened up to me about her story and I encouraged her that Christ was inviting her to come unto Him again. We went to dinner with them this week with the sorelle in their ward and it was sooo fun. They kept us laughing the whole time and I got them hooked on cocacola floats even though Andrea's cousin Lee was a little skeptical at first haha. I felt the Spirit and the love of God so strong in their home and I'm so glad to have met the...

 Wednesday, May 21: mullberries & homemade pasta  HEY it's your favorite italian missionary back againnn  After 464 days I'm honestly impressed and love you for the fact that you're still following along on my mission journey haha. You're the best. This week's italian adventure took place in a little country town called Sabina, an hour out of Rome. We went to visit a member and when we pulled up to her little yellow cottage she handed us mason jars and told us to go pick mulberries off their two mulberry trees. It was so green and their 2 acres of property were beautiful. Then we came in and made fettuccine noodles by hand! Complete with a sauce al ragù it was perfect. The member, Sorella Guidara, told us that if she or another grandkid had a stomach ache, her grandma would always say "a plate of pasta solves everything" and would make them a plate of fettuccine al ragu. haha i love italians. Anyway, night of our lives making pasta...

 Wednesday, May 14: God bless the usa🇺🇸 WAHOOO ladies and gentlemen we have a new pope Good ol' Pope Leo. Everyone has been texting us congratulations and asking us if we're happy cause he's american haha. Should be good for the work here though, hopefully people are more open to talking to us americani!  In other news... our friend Margherita accepted our invite to be baptized!! Originally for May 25th but it will probably end up being in June. I'm so excited for her! She has such a beautiful soul and wants to come closer to God.  Other than that this week was pretty normal besides some dancing in the vc mcdonald's runs and a few broken plates lol   Oh also we got absolutely DUMPED on walking back from the mall today after pday hahaha but we got to go to the temple and do an endowment session which was so amazing. I love the temple!!!  Love y'all  Sorella McCune  Temple with the District McD's run Sorelle talking to Claire! Wet Sorelle ...

 Wednesday, May 7: my people This week was so good. I got to hang out with a ton of my favorite people.  Monica&Danilo, the Felt family + the rest of the Pescara ward who came to do baptisms at the temple, the coppia Hartshorn (my day 1s) who just finished their mission in Catania , Amanda&Diego from our ward who made us yummy breakfast, the Campbell family who loaded us up with american food including trader joes mint oreos ( ) and my girl Amali who joined me at the piano bench in the middle of sacrament meeting .  I will be forever grateful for my mission, if not for anything else, for the people that it brought me in contact with. I LOVE THEM!!!! My heart is so full. I've probably shared this before but my mission scripture is Omni 1:26 26 And now, my beloved brethren, I would that ye should come unto Christ, who is the Holy One of Israel, and partake of his salvation, and the power of his redemption. Yea, come unto him, and offer your whole souls ...

 Thursday, 1 May: mini bible study anyone?  Hey hey hey! This week was a little crazy, complete with a broken blender, 2 exchanges, and getting locked out...for the 3rd time (I think we've got a problem lol) but another one under my belt!  ok I'm going to get a little vc nerdy on all y'all so bear with me but I'm obsessed with Paul's story. If it's been a minute since you've taken a look at the book of Acts I'll give you a little refresher haha. So we start off with Saul. Basically a terrible guy. Like the worst of the worst. When Paul is telling his story to the people in Galatians he says that he persecuted the church of God "beyond measure" and "profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in my own nations", which just means he was the best in his class. Noone stood a chance against this guy. He would hunt down innocent men and women trying to worship God, put them in prison, and vote for their deaths. Prett...