Sorella Madison Pitt

Ciao a tutti! I survived week 2 and lemme just say I finally understand what missionaries mean when they say the days are so long but the weeks fly by! I feel like I've been here in Colorado for 5 years but also 2 seconds at the same time HA (nothing better than a good exaggeration). Anyways, this week was good and I finally feel like I'm getting the hang of everything! We had a zone meeting on Wednesday which was fun because I got to meet all the missionaries in our zone. The ZLs talked a lot about having spiritual power and being recognized as representatives of Christ. It's amazing to think that I am literally standing in the place of the Savior. Doing His work and inviting others to become like Him. SO COOL! We also talked about Facebook finding and how to act natural and friendly over Facebook--lol instead of just scaring everyone off by stalking their profiles and asking random questions like: "I see you like to ski! I love to ski too! Anyways do you believe in J...

CIAO A TUTTI AND HOWDY Y'ALL! Coming at you live from Firestone Colorado...a small little town with more corn fields and cows than actual people😅 My first week in the field has been great! Harder than I ever thought, 500 years long, but all together wonderful. My trainer Sister Aiono is the greatest. The second I walked into the room of trainers on the first day I saw her and literally said a prayer that she would be my comp! She's so sweet, hard working, Christlike and most importantly POLYNESIAN. I couldn't have dreamed up a better fit for me:) She's from Taylorsville Utah but her family is Samoan. She served in Australia for about 2 months before Covid and has only been in Colorado for only 1 transfer! Yet she's training me and doing amazing. Also she always tells me I'm polynesian at heart which makes me happy. BIKES. I've never had such a love-hate relationship with anything before. We live about a 45 minute bike ride from our area and we have to make ...

CIAO A TUTTI! I hope everyone is having a bomb summer and doing lots of boating and swimming for me! This week was probably my most favorite week of the MTC so far. L'ultimo settimana...the last week:/ I honestly had no idea that I would be this sad to "leave" the MTC (aka log off of zoom for the last time) *tears!* I couldn't have asked for a better MTC experience and I wouldn't change a single thing. I know that I was supposed to meet every person in my district and learn from each of their testimonies. We all became best friends and had the funnest times. I know that I needed to be taught by my wonderful teachers, Fratello Nordgran and Fratello Young--who I'm convinced were the greatest missionaries of all time. I learned so many lessons and principles from them that I will never forget. I know for a fact that I was supposed to be in my Power Trio with Sorella Kroff and Nydegger:) I'm forever grateful for our unbreakable friendship and can't wa...

First month down as a missionary WAHOOO I feel like time has flown by but at the same time I am more than ready to get out of my house and start teaching in the field! Quick update of the past 2 weeks:  I got temporarily reassigned to the Fort Collins Colorado Mission! I am super stoked to go and feel so blessed to be leaving on July 21-just three days after I finish the MTC. I feel great about this reassignment and know that there are people in Colorado being prepared to meet me! I'm still hopeful to get to Italy soon, but happy to serve the Lord wherever he needs me. I know that the gospel is needed everywhere and every person deserves to hear this wonderful message. We taught another Italiano lesson to Matthew and it went great! Besides the fact that he wanted to know about the Plan of Salvation but we haven't learned any of the words for that lesson yet....showbiz baby! We taught him a great lesson about how the gospel brings us happiness, even duri...

Ciao and aloha mia famiglia! Thank you guys so much for coming today and supporting me! Honestly, I was pretty sad when I found out I wouldn’t be able to have a farewell talk, but we decided that this is the next best thing! And let’s face it, we all hate sitting through that final speaker anyway! Also, I’m so glad none of you showed up in masks so I can actually see your smiling familiar faces! Like you all probably know, I have been called to serve in the Italia, Milano mission. This week I got temporarily reassigned to the Fort Collins, Colorado mission and will leave on July 21! I have been participating in the Online MTC for the past month and it has been amazing. Even with the weird circumstances that I am currently in, I truly love being a missionary. Ever since I was a little girl I have always wanted to go on a mission. In fact, I didn’t even know that girls had the choice of not going! My mom never missed an opportunity to talk about missions. Looking back now, I’m pretty ...

I'm halfway through the MTC WHAT?! It's weird to think that if I was an English speaking missionary I'd be leaving to go to the field next week! Time flies when you're working hard and learning a lot:) Had my first Italiano TRC this week and it actually went great! I only understood about 20% of what the guy said but that's progress! I've realized that all I can do about the language is work & study hard and eventually it will come. Also, I will most likely get my reassignment this week so that is exciting! It's kinda fun cuz I get to have a second mission call. What are everyone's guesses?? I'm lowkey praying I go to Sacramento so I can see Presty;) The longer I am in the MTC the more excited I am to get out into the field and teach!  This week consisted of learning a lot of Italian, teaching lessons and studying the Doctrine of Christ. As a class, we have focused on a different principle each day. It's been so awesome to study...

What's up everyone! Well I just finished up my first full week at the MTC and I can confidently say that I've learned more in the past week than I did in my whole 2 semesters at BYU Hawaii, hahahahah! Seriously though, I feel like my brain is completely fried and I can't possibly memorize another vocab word...until I remind myself that I've still got 5 weeks left and a long way to go!!  This week had a lot of ups and downs for sure but overall it was great:) My classes honestly go by way fast now and I feel like there is never enough time in the day for all the studying I need to do. This week my teacher had some of his friends from his mission (including one of his converts in Italia) zoom into our class so that we could practice teaching them! Of course the person I was assigned to teach was the actual Italian 🙃   Me and my comps tried our best to piece together an Italiano lesson for him but let me tell you it was ROUGH. We would ask him questions and he ...