The Living Christ

The Italy Milan Mission has the goal to memorize The Living Christ as we prepare to celebrate His birth in just a couple short months. Each week leading up to Christmas, we study and memorize one of the 10 paragraphs. Although our memory isn't as sharp as it used to be, we love the opportunity to strengthen our relationship with our savior Jesus Christ each day by studying and repeating every inspired word in this testimony from our living apostles. 

We add our testimonies that we know Jesus Christ lives and that he loves each and everyone of us. We know that it is through the miracle of His infinite atonement that we can live again as families after this life. It is this message of eternal joy that inspired us to come and serve our brothers and sisters here in Italy.

Invitation: Read The Living Christ this week (bonus points for memorizing it before Christmas)

Perhaps it is the excitement we are still feeling from the announcement of the Italy Milan temple at General Conference, because the celebrations continue. This past week we had 4 missionaries in our zone celebrate their birthdays. Sorella Gardanier saw this as an opportunity to try out some new recipes. Her Cocoa Tiramisu, birthday cake, and sugar cookies were all met with rave reviews. 

This week we had the pleasure of doing apartment ministering. Once every 6 weeks we get the opportunity to visit a handful of missionary apartments to be sure everything is clean and in good repair. We love it because it gives us a chance to take them out to lunch or ice cream and get to know them better. They all have such incredible stories and testimonies.

Don't judge us, but we skipped the incredible Italian food for one night and ate at this cute little BBQ restaurant. It was so fun to have a taste of home.

We were spoiled when our good friends from Highland Danny and Denise Ashworth passed through town. It was so fun to catch up over dinner in Milan and celebrate with gelato with 'gioia'.  They refer to the little cone on top filled with liquid chocolate as joy... and we couldn't agree more

You may remember in past posts where the Piacenza Sorelle assembled an Ikea desk while Steve relaxed with his feet up or doing a puzzle. This week the Sorelle got their revenge as they supervised him repairing a kitchen cabinet

We found a new Gelateria in town. It only took Steve a couple of minutes to convince the owner to show us how the gelato is made in the back. The next step is to convince her to create one of Steve's favorite flavors like Oreo or Cookie Dough