Fuddruckers??? - Week 49

Hey everyone, 

So you're probably all wondering why Fuddruckers is my title. So, I used to go to Fuddruckers a lot back home, after every trip to Knott's Berry Farm, and even for one of my birthdays. I love their burgers and the cheese dip for their fries. We were at district meeting, talking about the things we love about America and I brought up this place. Anziano Squire, who serves in Varese where we held our district meeting says, "you know, the only Fuddruckers in Western Europe is here in Varese". I flipped out! I refused to leave Varese that day until I saw it for myself. It does indeed exist here! I was so excited I just bought a big meal, and was way too happy! Happiness can come from a good burger joint haha

This week started out a little rough, but really ended on a high I think. With August in arrival, vacationers are starting to come from around the world. That also means that everyone in Italy is preparing to leave themselves for vacation.  August has a name for itself, because no one is ever home here. We haven't quite hit that month, but more and more members and investigators are starting to be gone. With this realization, our work goes down. It becomes harder to see people. There are plenty of tourists and vacationers to talk to, but when it comes to actually teaching people for the long run, it becomes more of a challenge. That being said, we had a lot of people gone this week. However, we did not let that get to us, and we still had some pretty good success.

Charles is making some real progress on his Book of Mormon reading. We read about Nephi following the promptings of the lord even though he didn't know where he was suppose to go in Jerusalem. We then talked about how faith is an action. There can't be any faith, if a change/action isn't being made. We can say we have all the faith in the world, but if we don't act on the faith we have of that thing, it will never make a difference to us. Nephi had faith, he didn't know what was going to happen, or what to do, but he acted. He made a choice in his faith, and that faith led to blessings. Charles really liked that discussion, and really is reading for understanding and truth.

Frank made some huge progress this week. We brought him a Book of Mormon and had a discussion about the restoration. We talked about prophets, and he asked us if there truly could be more prophets than Jesus, because he believed there were. We talked about the prophets in the bible and Book of Mormon, and then we talked about Joseph Smith and Thomas S. Monson. He was so excited to know there was a prophet who could help us out today. He accepted our invitation to read the Book of Mormon, and wants to know a lot more about the gospel.

Also today we went to the city Como. Now I'm a beach type of guy, but this city with its mountains and lake is pretty dang cool. I hear Switzerland is even better, but Como blew me away. It is like a dome of mountains surrounding a lake and city. It was very beautiful. We hung out with the zone leaders there and it was quite a nice day.

I've been studying a lot lately about love. For the ward family home evening my companion and I were asked to teach the lesson, so we talked about love being an action, and how WE CAN CHOOSE to love. It is easy for us to look at the simple things that we don't like about others, but when we do that we are choosing to not love. The great commandment of God is to love, and something one of the members commented I really liked. It is difficult to love everyone, but not impossible. We all have our free agency

And now remember, remember, my brethren, that whosoever perisheth, perisheth unto himself; and whosoever doeth iniquity, doeth it unto himself; for behold, ye are free; ye are permitted to act for yourselves; for behold, God hath given unto you a knowledge and he hath made you free.

Helaman 14:30

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.

1 John 4:7

Love should always be our first and most desirable choice with others. Whether they have done you wrong, or refuse to better themselves, God has asked us to love them. He loves all of us, more than we can imagine, and as we are all his children, we should do the same.

I love this gospel and really know of its truth. I hope everyone has a great week!

Anziano Chase

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