Sorella Ashlyn Henderson: How can we raise our personal spirituality?

Ciao tutti! This week was kinda crazy! We definitely had some ups and downs as well as preparing our training for zone conference and doing a scambio, but that is the life of an STL! Yesterday was zone conference, and the theme was about raising our individual spirituality. We gave our training about prayer, and luckily it went really well. This weekend we had a scambio with the Sorelle in Como, and I got to meet some Protestant missionaries doing a mostra! They invited me to do a prayer circle with them, which was very interesting but also very spiritual at the same time. Not at all reverent or how I think Christ set the example for us to pray but it was still cool to do once haha.

So María is supposed to get baptized this Saturday, but unfortunately her and our new convert, Mily, got in a big fight about their jobs and money and now María's daughter doesn't want her to get baptized and María didn't come to church because of it and hasn't met with us since. So that's been hard because they keep calling us to complain about the other twin and we are just stuck in the middle but can't really do anything but tell them to read their scriptures and pray. But Mily said she received so many answers in church this Sunday and that things are better, and we have an appointment with María for tomorrow. So hopefully we can set a new baptismal date with her!

Last p day we did some shopping and went to an art museum in Milano. There was so much famous artwork! It was so cool. I'll attach a picture of the most famous, called "The Kiss." It's supposed to be Romeo and Juliet and apparently it's super famous but I dont know anything about art history so I took Sorella Reeder's word on everything.

To finish I just wanted to include a quotation that we used yesterday in our training from True to the Faith:

If you have a difficult task before you, Heavenly Father is pleased when you get on your knees and ask for help and then get on your feet and go to work. He will help you in all your righteous pursuits, but He seldom will do something for you that you can do yourself.

I have found this to be so true in my mission! I know this mission is to bless others, but as I have come to learn, I am also a part of this crop that I am trying to reap. My personal testimony is important to God as well, just as much as the people that I am teaching. And I know that I wouldn't grow nearly as much if the mission was easy. He will always guide us in our righteous pursuits, but He will not do anything for us that we can do alone. If He did, we would never learn.

Vi voglio bene! Have a great week everyone and enjoy the fact that you're not living in humidity as thick as jello