Sorella McCune Italy Rome Mission 2024-2025

Tuesday, July 29: talked with an apostle:)  Yesterday we received a message from our zone leaders asking us to be at the visitors center at 10am, ready in our best dresses. Turns out Elder Rasband had taken a 2 week vacation in Italy with his family and called a special mission conference on his last day of the trip. I felt so blessed and lucky to be one of the about 40 missionaries serving in Rome who got to attend in person. The first thing I noticed when I walked into the room in the vc where the meeting was being held is how strong the Spirit was. I am grateful for all the missionaries who prepared spiritually. Elder Rasband walked in after a session at the temple with his wife and 2 of his kids and their spouses. He was dressed in more casual slacks that didn't match the color of his suit jacket and he was wearing tennis shoes haha cause he was on vacation and said they wanted to pack as light as possible! I was invited to lead the music and we all sang "I Stand all Amaze...

 Wednesday, July 23: 😇 This week was so fun. Something I love about being Sorella Yardley's comp is how happy she makes life. She's the first to laugh at any little thing and always smiles no matter how tired she is. She's just what I needed this last month to get me on through haha.  We had 2 friends come to the baptism of a friend of the anziani, Innocent. Innocent is such a down to earth guy and adds "by the grace of God" to literally every sentence haha I love him. Sorella Yardley & I played a piano duet at the baptism and after our friend Margherita asking a member what temperature the water is in the baptismal font, she responded "Good, I want mine warm at my baptism." Stay tuned hehe   Tonight we went out finding at a park and started talking to a woman named Bruna. She has 9 kids and lives in very humble circumstances. Her kids were playing at the park and when we asked her if she'd like to talk about Jesus Christ with us sh...

Wednesday, July 16: last/first zone conference :( :) This week flew by. The bad news is that Thursday was my last zone conference (#depressed ) but the good news is that it was Sorella Yardley's FIRST! Yay! haha this transfer has been so funny- tons of lasts and firsts at the same time. We did it with 3 zone's combined which was hype and, as expected, President and Sorella Walker did such an amazing job. One little miracle was that Sorella Smith, Sorella Davis, and Anziano Hinton were all there, and since we were all in the mtc together it was so fun ending together too.  SIDE NOTE- Monica just texted me and she and Danilo were called as ward missionaries  their first calling!!!! so proud.  ok back to it-Miracle of the week!! My companion and I were on the balcony watching the sunset and responding to people when I saw this person sitting on a bench at the park across the street from our apartment. The Spirit told me "go talk to her!!". I had a couple doubts but I as...

Wednesday, July 9: Mini me  Ciao!!  My new companion arrived in Rome last Thursday and it's been the best time ever since. Her name is Sorella Yardley and she's from Cedar City Utah. Anddd we're basically the same person haha it's actually crazy how much we have in common. I love her to death!! (plus she goes on runs w/ me in the morning so she's already the best lol.) She has such a love and fire for missionary work already and just wants to learn anything and everything I have to teach her. She is gonna do big things in Italy and this mission! I'm so grateful to get to work with her for this last transfer.  Besides a gas station exploding in our area (luckily no one died) I didn't see any fireworks for the 4th of July but HAPPY 4TH EVERYONE MAN I LOVE AMERICA (rip celebrating my favorite holiday)  A sister I live with who's Australian kept saying "Happy 4th!" to everyone she came in contact with lol she got a kick out of that and ...

 Wednesday, July 2: incinta...di nuovo✌️   Nobody put that into google translate you might have a heartattack haha but we got our LAST TRANSFER CALLS yesterday (headed into my final one!!) and I'm training again!!! I'm soo excited to get to introduce another new missionary to the work and this time to my favorite place, the visitors center, as well! I just think it's the perfect way to end my mission and I'm so blessed and so grateful to do a 4th transfer in Roma 3 and in the vc with my girls. (How did I get this lucky?!)  This week was our new mission leaders, the Walker's, first week in the mission field! I cannot say enough good about this couple. They're so full of joy and energy. (See the jumping photo below hehe) I've only known them a week but they have already changed my life. Due to different exchanges I had to get done before the end of the transfer I was at the vc every single day this week (instead of every other day) and my feet hur...

Wednesday, June 25: The continuous Atonement HOWDY! how's life been treating y'all?  i'm running out of opening line ideas sorry hahaha.  Sooo... the Morris' left  They came to the vc on tuesday with our new mission president & his wife and we were all a mess oof. Goodbyes are not always my forte. Watching the mission leaders who have helped me work through the ups and downs of the past 16 months and been my parents away from home walk away to their flight home was rough but... The Walker's are INCREDIBLE. Plus they're from idaho so they get points right off the bat haha. But no, they're actually amazing and their daughter Alyssa who leaves in August for Brazil is soo cute and we're going to train her right up to be a vc sister with us for the next month haha! I'm excited to get to know them better.  I've been reading a book called "The Continuous Atonement" by Brad Wilcox lately. Definitely recommend to you all if you...