"In the name of Jesus!"

Oh hey all. Another full week. As always, life is good, life is crazy, and life is interesting!

We did a 2-day scambio this week. There are 4 sorelle in Roma 1 and 4 here in Roma 3, so 2 of us went there and 2 of them came here to do scambi (exchanges), and finally nothing happened to prevent scambi from happening when we planned it! I got to go to Roma 1 church and do scambi with Sorella Clark on Thursday and Sorella Christensen on Friday...learned a lot from both. It was so much fun to be with Slla Christensen becuase she took my place in Mistretta, so I got to catch up on all the small-branch drama and it was oh so fun!! With Sorella Clark I got to meet their new convert, Janus, who is 17 and Filippino and such a cute young guy. I love meeting new members. The great thing about the scambio was that it also made me love my collega even more! Sorella Openshaw and I work really well together and President told us we might be together for a third transfer (we'll find out for transfer calls on Saturday already - my last transfer...who else canNOT believe that???? AHHH). Scambio also made me love my ghetto area of Roma 3 even more than I already do :) I'm right where I'm supposed to be!

Saturday went absolutely not how we planned at all. One of those days. We were going to go far out of Rome with th eother sisters to see a member family, but we missed the bus becuase of various reasons (we weren't too happy about it either), and while we were disappointed about that we were able to get other things done that we needed to. Sometimes that is a really nice thing.

We met Daniela on Sunday! So, Daniele is the daughter of Sorella Tomei, who is a newly re'activated member. When I first got here the anziani were working with her, but they gave us to her with the referral of Daniela, her daughter, who was apparently interested in learning more about the church. It took us awhile to see Slla Tomei again becuase her phone number we had was wrong and its far away so we didn't want to go without an appointment, but one day we just went anways and we met Daniela. But...it was a DIFFERENT Daniela. Like 3 months later almost we have gotten it clarified that there are TWO Daniela's, and the one we had already met was her son's girlfriend hahaha. My gosh. The lightbulb turned on real bright when we figured out that one. But yes. We finally met the daughter Daniela and went to her house and met her kids and had a great little lesson and she very much wants to learn. She's adorable. Working with members and teaching their families is the greatest way to find people to teach! I'm really excited to see where things are going to go with Daniela and her family :)

We finally saw Dexter, the newer convert baptized in August, and after his lesson he came out with us and tried to find an inactive member with us. It was so great that he wanted to be involved and do work with us. Sadly the person wasn't home, and we didn't have more time after, so we introduced him to hot chocolate and went on our way.

Yesterday was Blessing's birthday and we went to Africa (aka - the refugee camp where she lives) and had a party with them and ate more African food. The joke of the week has been "In the name of Jesus"...the other sisters were at McDonald's last week after scambi and a Nigerian lady came up to them and they started talking and after a long story that I don't want to write all out (sorry), they said a prayer and they said her name in the prayer. Afterward she told them "WHY did you say my name? I do not need to you pray for me. I pray for others but you should not pray for me. I reject this prayer in the name of JESUS!" Ok...picture it all in an African accent that I will reinact for you all when I get home, but doesn't that just sound hilarious?? So when we were at Blessing's party yesterday they had some music on and there was this one song that seemed like a preacher saying all these things like "All these things are turning around for your good, in the name of Jesus!!" Legit.

Maybe this email was everywhere, but there ya go! Buona settimana a tutti! It's almost February!

Love, Sorella Sobeck

Andrea - I got your letter awhile ago and I'm in the process of writing you back. Thanks pal :) Love you!!!!

Fotos!!!

This would be my district. Pday last week at Tivoli when it was freezing cold.

Blessing's birthday yesterday and we went to another party with lots of African food...we are becoming master fufu eaters

This is Billy. He's legit and has a really cool hat.

After 3 transfers together in Mistretta, we're still friends :) Fun to have Slla Comollo up in Roma.

Big FHE for Roma 3 investigators

Haha her chair broke

We love Anziano Davids!

Promoting the Ritz crackers

Villa Adriana

We must kiss the lucky eggs

Pday with Michele

Cool statues

BOBBY

Jamaican beanie with BOMBE

This week!

Ciao tutti!

For starters...Blessing got baptized!!! It was a pretty dramatic baptism, but it happened. She is a great example and her testimony after the baptism was really strong. She's already quoting from the Book of Mormon. "Now that I am a member of this church I can never go back to my old ways." :) Change...changing for the better is what life is all about and that is what the gospel does!!!! Picture below!!

This week we've unfortunately dropped almost all of our other investigators...mamma mia. We have 2 solid progressing investigators now, Dario and Daniel, both of who want to be baptized and we're trying to set dates with them. It's a really cool story about both of them:

Dario. He has been an ENglish course student for a few years. His dad, Michele, started coming consistently about the time I got here to ROma 3, and he came to all the church activities and even to church. He's a basic student, which the other sorelle teach, so they started teaching him, and me and Sorella Winward wanted to teach Dario who was our student in intermediate. Michele has been making AMAZING progress in the past months and comes to church every week and goes to baptisms at the other wards etc. He set a baptismal date just yesterday for February 3rd :) :) With Dario, he wasn't really moving fast at the beginning, but the past month or so he comes to church every week too and we always talk about baptism with him, his issue is the word of wisdom, but we asked him if he wants to get baptized and he said yes :) So we're working to set a date with him!!!! We love these 2 guys sooo much, and they love all 6 of us missionaries haha. It's like a big group effort really. We had an FHE with them last week with all of us, and another corso student, Giovanni, who also loves us but has no interest in joining the church. It was so great! Picture also below.

Daniel. He's from Sierra Leone in Africa and we love him! We found him on the bus about a month or so ago. We asked him to be baptized with a date his first lesson, and while he didn't say yes to the date and its been a bit rocky since then in some ways, we're a lot closer with him now and he wants to be baptized. He goes to another church and does some missionary efforts there, so he has only been to our church once. It's hard to argue against a good thing with someone. But after the baptism on Sunday I called him becuase he didn't come after he said he would, and he was really sad that he hadn't made it...and he said he had finally decided that he wanted to come to OUR church from now on :) It was a miracle phone call, and I really look forward to seeing his progress now!!! 

YAY FOR MIRACLES!!! We are excited to find lots of new investigators, and also have more time to meet with more members since we haven't had ANY time for that the past 2 months.

Missionary work is incredible!!! It's all about changing yourself and watching other people change too. ANd all for the better. IN Daniel's last lesson he was really worried about offending God because he's already been baptized twice in his life, and he doesn't want to make a mistake or do a bad thing. I told him "Daniel, we would never ask you to do a bad thing." It's all about moving forward in the faith and becoming members of Christ's church!!! Doctrine and Covenants 22 is a really good answer to that question about being rebaptized, which I found this morning. Yay scripture study!!

I love being a missionary! The work is true! I hope you will recognize more miracles in your life this week!!!!

Love, Sorella Sobeck

Andrea - I got your letter and I will be sending one back your way :) 

Finally the long awaited pictures!!!!!!!!! 

We went to Gandolf's castle!

Knocking on the Pope's summer house!

Cleaning the font...we look so tired!

Blessing's baptism!! MIRACLE :) :)

All 6 missionaries in Roma 3 with 3 of our investigators (Michele - red, Dario - back right, Giovanni - left of red) and our ward mission leader (Vincenzo - yellow)

Buon Befana!

Ok, so I didn't do anything for Befana, and I still don't really understand what it is or why they do it, but its a holiday here and its over now which means the holidays are over finally!!!!!

We are teaching a ton of Africans and its the best thing ever. It's actually been weird to teach in Italian when we do it haha because we've been teaching so much in English lately. Blessing is all ready to be baptized on Sunday (switched from Saturday)!!!!!!!! I'm sooooo excited and grateful that I've been able to be a part of this process. Teaching people and watching them progress increases my testimony so much of the gospel. I know its true. And I love when other people know its true too. Pray for Blessing!!!!!!!!!

We've been really busy and trying to find out how to fit everyone in that we need to see. Prayers are answered, sometimes in very sad ways though, because we ended up dropping several people who were not progressing. It is sad, but its amazing to see how the work evolves and goes forward. For some of these people its just not their time yet, but I believe it will be in the future.

I love new converts SO MUCH. Their faith is incredible. With Dexter we've gotten a lot closer with him lately. He had some problems but he really trusts us so we've been able to help him and realize that the Atonement is real. I'm SO GRATEFUL for that. It helps every single person who wants to use it. Dexter is realizing that and holding on to it. We also had a mini'lesson with Doris this week at the camp, and she is struggling with some health problems and hadn't been to church in a couple weeks. But she came on Sunday and I helped her fill out her tithing slip. Talk about faith. Talk about example. Love them.

I gave the training in district meeting on Monday and with everyone's participation it went really well. My district is a lot less tense now (last transfer there were many many problems but with transfers a lot of things are so much better now), and I gave a training about God has His way of doing things and it usually isn't man's way of doing things, but what are some things that we can do to change ourselves to do things His way? There are several scriptures to show it, but it was just a great little meeting. And afterwards my companion asked for a blessing from the anziani, and she asked Anziano Wolzl (he's from AUSTRIA and is a greenie and is awesome!!!). He did the blessing in German, but then wrote down a translation afterwards, and during the blessing even though we didn't understand a thing he was saying we all felt the spirit so strongly. The priesthood is real. The power of God is so strong! I love blessings.

I hope everyone has an amazing week full of miracles!!! Vi voglio bene!

Sorella Sobeck

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

When we had to come in early for New Years Eve, this is what we did inside :)

BUON ANNO!!

Can't believe its already the new year. I spent the whole year of 2012 in Italia as a missionary and it was great :) It was a great year and a year of many learning experiences - lots that I didn't want at all but all that helped me as a missionary but most especially as a person. I'm grateful that Heavenly Father knows me and what I need more than myself. I know that after my mission these experiences won't stop either...life is all about growth and its not about being easy but about becoming more accepting of the will of the Lord. Good thing He loves us a LOT and wants us to always come out on top. :)

I'm grateful to have a new transfer ahead of me! Sorella Openshaw and I are staying together and we are working hard together. We have a baptismal date for next Saturday for Blessing and it truly is a miracle. Our relationship with her is growing and her testimony is growing. She looks soooo happy every week when she comes to church and she loves the things we teach her. She has a ton of faith, like all Africans, and she knows she needs to act. On Saturday when we went to their house they fed us fufu...mamma mia...it was a fun experience haha. Theres lots of different kinds, but they made it with delicious cow intestines! I drank lots of juice... :) :)

Christmas was so much fun. On CHristmas Eve we were with a member who is from Utah actually and is just here working for a little bit. Andrea fed us baked potatoes with delicious chili on top and we were all about to explode from being so full. We had permission to be out until 10:30 on Christmas Eve, but when we left Andrea's house we realized that there were no buses running...so...we had to walk home from her house...we didn't get home until 11:15 hahaha walking in the ghetto - it was a bit scary and there were definitely some CRAZIES outside, but we made it home in once piece. We were praying reeeeally hard :) On Christmas we went with all the missionaries to the Perego's house outside of Rome - Ugo is Italian but served a mission in California and lived with his American wife, Jenna, in Utah for 10 years before they just barely moved back to Italy this year. They are AWESOME - Ugo is practically American by now and has the great sarcasm we all love and use. We watched a Bug's Life with their 5 kids, they gave us Root Beer/Dr. Pepper and DORITOS(!!!!!!), we watched the MoTab CHristmas program from a couple years ago with David Archeletta, ate lots of other delicious food including turkey, and we SKYPED WITH FAMILY!!! It was soooooo great to see my family and talk to them! I love them! We were at the Perego's all day long and they gave us a ride home which was wondeful, considering the night before haha. It was really great to have a couple days and just chill for Christmas. And then the next day on Pday we got to watch another movie and we watched Kung Fu Panda 2 and hung out in the church playing games all day - good times.

New Years was also really fun - we got to clean our apartments! Happy Holidays to us! We were getting down and dirty with all that black mold that decided to grow under our sink...fun times! And Roma on New Years at midnight beats any firework show I've ever seen for the 4th of July in America - there were about 20 firework shows around our apartment that random people just set off - we set our alarm to wake up a bit before midnight to celebrate the new year, but we didn't need that alarm haha because it was SO LOUD! We were on our balconey watching the fireworks for awhile.

THings are going really well with the work, even though its been really slow with appointments and such the past couple weeks with the holidays. We have some investigators that are making really really good progress and we're so excited to watch it!!! SOme of my favorite things about being a missionary are hearing a person pray for their first time with us and when they start reading the Book of Mormon everyday. Best feeling EVER! WE're so excited about Blessing and we have a couple other solid progressors that I look forward to seeing what happens with them.

Thats all I have time for today. Hope all is well, Happy 2013 to everyone!!! The church is true!!!

Love, Sorella Sobeck

Service at the Caritas

Xmas Eve at Andrea's

BUON NATALE!!

Our Christmas tree from the Chinese store

Christmas at the Perego's

Hahaha Acquaman 

Fufu

So we left the country today...

I learned that the Vatican is its own country. I thought it was its own city, but apparently its even bigger than that! This morning we went to the Vatican Museum and I got to see some cool history book stuff - the Sistine Chapel with all of Michaelangelo's paintings that he didn't want to do, the Pietà statue in the Basicila, statues by Bernini, lots of tapestries and art from many time periods, etc. It was a pretty cool Pday in Roma experience! We're doing internet in centro today instead of right by our house...and everything costs more in centro haha.

I can't believe its almost CHRISTMAS again!!! My 2nd Christmas as a missionary, and I can almost say that I spent all of 2012 in Italy on my mission. We already have transfer calls again on Saturday, Christmas (and SKYPING FAMILY!!!) on Tuesday...New Years coming up after that and the bazillion Italian feste that happen. We are very busy lately though which makes me soooo happy!!! Being busy is the best present I could have right now :)

This past week has had lots going on. We have had some bad luck with doors on the trains...we went to Anagni (FAR AWAY) to see one of our investigators, and the train stop is pretty small, and as we were trying to get off the train the door we were at wouldn't open! And then we realized there was a sign that said the door was broken (yeah, didn't see that in time), and by the time we tried getting to a different door the train started moving again and we missed our stop. So we got off on the next one, which thankfully was not far away. Sgrugola. What an awful name...but very appropriate for the literal HOLE IN THE WALL this place was...there were no train times posted, no waiting room, a big chunk of plaster fell off the wall before our eyes. And these days the transportation people like to go on strike randomly, so there are lots of cancelled trains...so we were waiting outside in the really cold for 45 minutes before the next train going back towards Termini came, and we had NO IDEA if it was going to stop at Anagni hahaha...we hoped. And we were saved!!!! We got to our appointment in one piece, very late, but it ended up being a great lesson with Diana with the spirit really strong. Satan has not wanted at many appointments this past week, becuase lots of things like this ended up happening haha. But anyways, that was a fun little adventure/detour in Sgurgola.

We had a great lesson with Dario this week! We've been teaching him together with his dad, Michele, who is the other sorelle's investigator but who all the missionaries love to pieces because he's an English course student and comes to church every single week and activities. But we know that they need to be taught separately because they're at very different levels so we finally got a lesson alone with Dario and it went really well! We talked to him about his belief in God, who he isn't really sure if he believe in Him or not. He does believe in God, he is also a little confused though. But we challenged him to come to church becuase he never comes becuase he always goes out dancing until like 5am Saturday night, so we're like "Dude, come to church with your dad! Make him wake you up!" And on Sunday he came with Michele!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He was at Sunday school AND sacrament meeting, and we were talking to him afterwards and he said on Saturday night instead of going out dancing with Giovanni (another english course student and almost'investigator!), he stayed home. He was feeling sad about not being out, so he read the BOOK OF MORMON to feel better, and it gave him comfort. We were like "YOU'RE THE BEST!!!!!!!!!!!" It was so great :) :) :)

We have a new investigator named Daniel from Sierra Leone in Africa, which I don't ever remember hearing about haha but thats where he's from. He's the one who approached us on the bus last week and wants to quit smoking. We had our first lesson with him and it was legit. We taught him the Restoration and asked him to be baptized at the end of January and he said he'd pray about it! We had another really short lesson with him last night (because he was an hour late...ahhhhh) and he's reading in the Book of Mormon and he said he thinks he wants to be baptized!! LEGIT. We'll see how it keeps going with him, to see if he ends up coming to church and such, but he came to the church for our lesson last night and we're really excited to see what happens. Africans are the best. Couple more stories with them...

Blessing is doing well and seems to want to be baptized. She's still very quiet, but she asks great questions. We taught her the Word of Wisdom yesterday and she asked "How do I resist temptation when I want to do those things?" She's so great! And we teach her with a recent convert, Doris, who I love to pieces her and her family (her husband's name is Monday...Nigerians have the best names!)

We also met Mercy this week, who's son is in the hospital and that's why they're here from Nigeria. Her son (his name is SUCCESS! Seriously, best names ever) had a sickle cell transplant and is not doing that well...we went to see him in the hospital and it made me really sad...he turns 12 two days after Christmas. But Mercy is great and we gave her a Book of Mormon and she wants to learn more. Pray for them because they need them.

We saw 2 baptisms on Sunday and we went to the Roma 1 church and Giovanni (our almost-investigator) and Michele (other sorelle's investigator) both came and it was great! One of the baptisms was the husband of a member. Sorella Ivory was who he needed, and it was really amazing to see him give her a huuuuuge hug after he was confirmed - Slla Ivory was with me in the MTC and it's incredible to think about how long ago that was and all these people that we've been able to help and serve. That family is going to the temple to get sealed together in a year. Incredible. :) The other baptism was a man from Egypt. The gospel is for EVERYONE!!!

No more time. HAPPY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE! BUON NATALE!!! We're going to an American family's house for Christmas which will be so much fun!!! Vi voglio bene!!! :)

Love, Sorella Sobeck

Sorry the picture thing isn't working either - I want to send pics but the computer doesn't want me to...

Thanks for the Christmas wishes!!! And congrats to Sean and Sarah for their new little baby!!!!

SGURGOLA...stupid train

Hole in the wall

...but it paints music!!

My glasses hahaha

Basilica

Vatican museum

DaVinci code?

Love my sorells :)

Crazy bus people!!!

Ok...so being in the ghetto of Roma...there are some really sketch buses. We had a cool experience yesterday on the 105 (there are always more foreigners than Italians on this bus...ALWAYS) where an African approached us becuase he saw Jesus Christ on our nametags...started talking about how Jesus is his personal savior, and he apologized that he smelled like smoke becuase he wanted to quite smoking, how he met missionaries in Sweden a year before...yep. That was really cool. We told him "Yeah...we can help you." But then later on that same bus there were a bunch of high people who were shouting at each other from across the bus...one in particular was really funny...he kept touching the bus - the ceiling, the sides, the windows. Oh my. Don't do drugs.

We gave a Book of Mormon to the husband of one of our investigators. He is now an investigator too. We taught them the gospel of Jesus Christ, and at the end Diana left the room and we were talking to Adalberto, the husband. We tried to give him the book, and he said no thanks and started talking for 20 minutes about why he believed what he did, that he didn't read books often like his wife, etc., etc. But then at the end of his monologue (that is usually how Italians speak - very one-sided haha), he looks at us and says "Give me that book. I'll read it." Sweeeet. Later he showed us how he wrote his name in it, and he promised to read some. Hahaha I love the mission so much and all these cool and funny expereinces where people really start to develop trust in you when you just listen to them and what they have to say, and then respond with positive feedback adn solutions.

We got a new invesitgator named Blessing! People from Nigeria have the best names. She is the wife of a member, and their neighbors are also members who we see regularly becuase Doris is a new convert as of the summer. So we are now teaching Blessing and she's been to church 4 weeks in a row and she loves it. She's really quiet but is starting to open up more and ask good questions. We invited her to baptism and tried to set a date, but it was her husband, Ike, who said he wanted her to wait longer. But we are pumped to have a solid progressing invesigator in the works.

I had to go to the Questura again last week and I hope it was the last time I ever have to go back there! To be legal missionaries have to get a permesso di soggiorno, and usually they're only good for 1 year. So this is my second time around doing this process - it takes a lot of time. You have to go the post office one time to turn in a bunch of papers and then get an appointment for fingerprinting. They you go for your appt at the Questura, often a couple months later, and then a couple months later you have to go AGAIN to pick it up when its ready. It's a long process. I don't think mine will even be ready to pick up by the time I leave Italy haha, which is why I'm hoping that was my last time there. Vediamo. It was freeeeezing cold when we had to go really early to get my fingerprinting done. At least it was really well organized at the Questura...its just always waiting for the bus that takes forever here in Rome. Man. But...it all worked out. And we came home and drank some good hot chocolate..

On Saturday we had a Mormon Helping Hands service project! It was legit to be able to participate with the Rome stake and help clean up a park and a trail - it reminded me so much of stake service projects at home cleaning up by the Clovis trail. We had to leave super early, and it was a bit chilly, and then we were outside all day raking leaves and sanding/painting park benches, finding beer bottles, etc. It was a really fun day and there were people who weren't members who saw us all working and decided to come help us and wear the Helping Hands vests too! Cool experience!! I LOVE service projects. Always have, always will - I think they're so much fun and a great way to get involved.

On Sunday we got to watch the Christmas devotional from the First Presidency which was really good. I love the church :)

It's been a good week. It's geting so close to Christmas time already and things are going to be busy with activities and at the same time probably slower with the work, but we'll see what happens. I heard that an investigator that I worked with the whole time I was in Mistretta, Giuseppe, has a baptismal date for December 22nd, so I'm praying really hard for him and that he'll do it!!! I'm so grateful for the gospel and for seeing people change for the better when they realize how much God really loves them and wants to answer their prayers.

Have a great week!!!!

Love, Sorella Sobeck

Andrea - Ciao! I'd love to hear from you! My address is::

Sorella Sobeck

Piazza Carnaro 20

00141 Roma (RM)

Italia

Oh dear...SNOW

Helping Hands

:)

It's getting cold.

So I know I'm not in Siberia, but man its been a bit chilly this week.
I bought these thick tights from a Chinese store and I wear them all
the time...December has arrived and with it winter and lots of rain.

I've enjoyed this week. I feel like we've been running around like
crazy people (but what else is new, especially in Rome when we have to
take the buses and such everywhere from one side to the other). I did
scambi (I think its called exchanges in English) with Sorella Smedley
on Thursday adn it was fun to work with her for the day. We even got a
bidone and then bought some coke and soccer stickers to make us feel
better haha. We had a party with English course on Thursday evening
also to celebrate Thanksgiving with them (a week late) and we all
wrote things that we were grateful for :) I love that holiday.

Our ward is soooooo diverse. WE have members from so many different
countries, and there are many people from South America. On Friday
night we went to see a less active member who is from Brazil and
married to an Italian who isn't a member. We ate dinner with them and
it was a good experience. She's legit. We weren't planning on eating
with them, so we ended up getting home really late, but the COOLEST
thing happened on the way home. We left her house at 9.00 and headed
to the metro. We got on and it was really crowded and we were
standing. I saw a guy reading a book and it looked a lot like the one
I was holding in my hand. I motioned to Slla Openshaw, who was on the
other side of our compartment and told her to look at him...she got
the funniest look on her face. I started talking to the guy to see his
book, the BOOK OF MORMON, and asked if he was member. He's not. He was
given the book 1 year ago, has read it twice, and said he reads it to
feel calmer...he's going through a pharmacy program now and went on th
emetro to read it to feel better because he doesn't read at home.
Coincidence?? HECK NO. I will never believe in those again after my
mission. He wouldn't give us his phone number, but I know we were
supposed to come home late that night so we could get on the metro and
remind him that there are missionaries who want to help him understand
that book a whole lot better, along with a bunch of other things.
Really cool experience.

And it was followed by another one the next day when we were waiting
for the ghetto yellow train to go near the church. There weren't many
people around, but there was a creepy older guy and a younger girl.
The young girl was looking at us, and I wanted to invite her to
English course, but then SHE approached US, started talking to us in
English to see if she could stand by us and not by the creepy old guy
(umm, yes please), then asked if we were Mormon. Apparently she lived
in Las Vegas with a host family who is Mormon for a year, went to
church with them, has been to a temple open house, and has a BoM in
English. Now she has one in Italian :) SO COOL. She also wouldn't give
us her number. But from these 2 experiences I really know that
Heavenly Father puts people in your path that he wants to have contact
again with the church...we were the first missionaries she had ever
seen in Rome, and she lives super close to the church. Again, no such
thing as coincidences.

We had Zone Conference yesterday. I love being in Roma. All the
anziani from the Napoli zone come up, and we got to have zone
conference at the church and then all go (in 2 groups since there were
so many of us) to the Villa to eat lunch. Legit. The best thing was
that while walking there we all got caught in a rain storm. I'm sure
we were quite the site...a big group of missionaries running the
streets of Rome to get cover becuase none of us had umbrellas haha.
Hilarious.

I love the mission. It's full of wonderful experiences and memories.
During Christmas time its so great to be able to concentrate fully on
Jesus Christ and what He did for us...and to bring that message to
others. It's hard to be away from home, but wonderful to help other
families feel that joy. I love my Savior!!!

Have a happy week everyone!!!!

Love, Sorella Sobeck

Late night chip run??

Zone Conference at the Villa

Sorelle in Roma 

A bunch of us who would be finishing the mission in March

TEMPIO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hahahaha Smed

Hot spots on the kitchen floor...falling asleep during exercise...whoops

Crowded trenino and creepy blue-hood guy haha

MY FAVORITE

Love Valentina!