Festa Dei Popoli - Week 44

Hey everyone,

 I hope we all had a good week. This week was

actually pretty busy for us. On Thursday we went to visit Urbino, a

local college in the mountains, with one of our English students,

Roberto. It was quite a view. This college is like its own little

kingdom in the mountains. Roberto is a really nice guy and loves to

take us places and learn English. during this trip I thought that it

was time to ask him a little bit about the church. He was very

intrigued by our religion and I gave him a Book of Mormon in English

and Italian. I gave him a challenge to read the book in English first

and that if he finished it in English he would be able to speak a lot

better than he did before. He loved that challenge and asked if he

could come to church one day. We were more than excited to say yes to

him.

On Sunday, after church we were invited to this fair called the festa

dei popoli. We were invited along with many people of other religions

to be a "book". We were there for people to learn about our religion.

We got there and it started pouring rain. With that rain hardly anyone

came to learn about religions. But a really neat thing was the other

religions that were there to be "read" asked to learn about our

religion. It was really awesome to be able to share the simple

principles of our beliefs with them. We don't think anyone of them

would change their religion, but it helped them understand why we

believe what we preach. It was an awesome experience to be able to

share this and also learn about their beliefs. An amazing experience.

Darlington progressed a little bit this week, but hasn't been reading

as much as he should be. We had to go back and talk about the purpose

behind the Book of Mormon. It is truly here to help you know that, if

you believe the book is true, you believe that the prophet Joseph

Smith was called of God, that all the principles given by the prophets

are true. I really thought about this myself, and it can't be any

truer. How can you not believe the prophet is called of God if you

believe in the cornerstone of the gospel of Jesus Christ to be true.

I hope we all can read the Book of Mormon, and go back to our

foundations of our testimony. The Book of Mormon should be the base of

it, it is the only pure foundation that cannot be broken. I love the

Book of Mormon and its teachings. I love this gospel, and I love being

a missionary.

Anziano Chase