This week certainly was one to put in the memory book.
Our mission had the privilege of having Elder Bednar of the Quorum of the 12
Apostles visit us. Every missionary in our mission went to Milan on Monday to
have a conference with him. We spent 6 hours together discussing many subjects.
It was great to see him in a more casual environment because he was more relaxed
and had fun with us. He and his wife would joke about each other and it was just
so pleasing to see. I was able to ask him a question myself and get a great
answer. A couple of things we focused on were how we need to be agents and not
objects. When we are objects we allow things to act upon us and control us, but
when we are agents we are the ones who are acting making our own choices. He
also mentioned how we need to use personal revelation more. We shouldn't only
rely on answers from apostles and prophets, but we can go through prayer to
Heavenly Father and ask him directly. Revelation in short definition is thoughts
to the mind and feelings to the heart.
The Duomo in Milan
With all the information we learned from Elder Bednar, we are all pushing hard these next few months to increase our desire to work and share the gospel. One of the many ways we are going to be pushing forward is through sharing the gospel in every way, through personal face to face, and sharing the gospel through online methods. Our mission is going to be adding in some additional ways to share the gospel with the Italian people through Mormon.org and other sites where we can message them online. So many people these days go straight to the internet to find answers to their questions, so this will be a great way for us to be there to answer questions and find more people this way. We hope it will help us reach the society that we now essentially live in, the digital age.
With the Bednar Conference taking up most of our time we
were not able to visit everyone we wanted to teach, but we were able to go on a
stake activity hiking in the mountains. We brought an investigator named Moret
with us and I really think he enjoyed the fellowship given to him. We hiked in
the Tuscany mountains to a peak that overviewed many hills. It was certainly
amazing to be able to get out in the forest and view another part of
Italy.
I know this gospel to be true. I love it, and want others
to know that. Everything we have is possible through the Atonement of Jesus
Christ. We need to give thanks to him daily. I hope everyone has a fantastic
week!
Anziano Chase
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