As many of you know, we eat our fair share of pasta, pizza, and gelato in this mission. As a consequence, we should be counteracting that with a lot of physical exercise. This has been a constant struggle for me as a girl who really likes the food and really hates the cardio. In these past weeks though, Sorella Brooks has written up an exercise plan to get the Sorelle of Rome 2 back into shape. I think she's trying to turn our house into her own mini battalion of air force cadets. Our poor neighbors probably wake up to the scene of Sorella Brooks barking exercise orders at three wheezing sisters. Has this strict regimen convinced me to cut down any of my pasta, pizza, or gelato intake? Absolutely not, sir.
Outside of just health benefits, Sorella Brook's military background has made our finding improve so much! She says good morning, good afternoon, and good evening to everyone. Everyone. And we've really had some cool conversations come from her friendliness. Our coolest experience this week was on Thursday. We were out finding, and as we walked out of our apartment, I had a weird instinct to walk the opposite way that we usually go. So we walked down, and I felt another instinct to walk into what looked like a very sketchy and very empty looking park. We walked in, and sure enough, it was very sketchy and very empty. We walked to the other end, and I saw two teenage boys facing away from us smoking. And I felt the strongest impression to go over to them. But I absolutely did not want to. So I turned to Sorella Brooks and said "the spirit is telling me to go over and talk to those boys in the middle of this sketchy park but I am so scared to walk over there. " And she said "sorella. You can't ever deny the spirit." And so we just marched right over to them, and I was dying of fear. But as we got closer we saw they were with two girls. We started to introduce ourselves, and immediately one of the girls interrupted us and said we had stopped her a couple days prior and invited her to see the temple. Just like that, we got to talk with four teenagers about the temple and the chance they have to go see it in the winter, and the blessings that come from the temples. It was so cool to see how the spirit really was guiding us and what blessings come when we follow those promptings. (Even when the prompting seems completely insane)
To finish off my email, I just want to bear my testimony about the power of temples. I am so grateful for all the work that happens in His temples. We can participate in the most important work that there is! We can be sealed to our families for eternity! And we can sit and think and ponder in the house of our Heavenly Father! I am so grateful to finally be serving in an area with a (almost dedicated) temple. The outer beauty is just a small reflection of what beautiful promises we can make inside. I love the temple and I love my Heavenly Father.
Lots of love,
Sorella Maxfield
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