Hey everyone, another week, another euro I'm not making, but saving
souls
means no complaining. I really don't know if that rhymes or
makes sense, but
I really have a better job out here right now -
bringing souls to
Christ.
This week honestly didn't bring up too much new adventure, but it
did
move forward in a good direction. Delfino spent a week in Bergamo
with
his aunt, so we focused our teaching efforts on his brothers
Pierre
and Prosper. Pierre struggles with his Italian but is really
intrigued
about our doctrine and the plan of salvation. Just yesterday we
spent
a good time with Prosper, who is the youngest at 16, talking about
how
our faith really can't be outdone by anything else. We don't need
to
see something to know its true. When we allow faith to guide us,
we
will get the knowledge we need to confirm it. With that, we had a
great
lesson with him, and now he is preparing to get baptized along
with Delfino.
We will be inviting Pierre next appointment, and we
really have high hopes
for these brothers.
Charles is being the same ol Charles, but this week
we talked about
ways we follow God and show our love by Christ. We talked
about the
Ten Commandments and how really in the world, 4 of the 10 are
widely
accepted still. No killing, stealing, lying, and honoring mom and
dad.
But the other 6 have become so regularly disregarded, and
almost
recreational to break. For the most widely accepted doctrine of
God
among Christians, how is it that we can't follow even 50% of the
Ten
Commandments? We really need to have our eyes open to he
simple
commandments God gives us. If we want promised blessings from him,
it
starts with following his commandments. We can't receive anything
from
God, unless he gives us something to do. Other wise there is no
just
way to bless one person over another. That is what allows God
to
freely bless us, when we follow his teachings.
Clifford has been
doing pretty well. We have been teaching him
alongside Terry, who has been a
great influence to him. We invited him
to be baptized and he told us he would
pray about it. He knows baptism
is sacred to God, and he has been baptized in
the past, so he wants to
be sure this restored priesthood is true. We are
going to address that
more in detail with him, because we know the Lord has
prepared him,
and that every step we take in life is just leading us to the
next
place we need to be.
We met another friend of Terry's this week
also. His name is Christian
and he is pretty new to Italy. Terry gave him
some pamphlets about the
church and he wanted to meet us so we explain these
things more to
him. We got through a pretty good restoration with him, but we
had to
cut it short because he had to leave for a meeting. We hope to be
able
to see him grow in his faith.
Saturday night we decided to stop
by a part member family, the Flores.
The husband, a less active member, is
engaged to a non member, and
they have 3 little girls. They are not so well
off, but love their
time together as a family. We stopped by and started to
teach. The
little girls, all being younger than 6 were quite loud and wild.
It
was a little hard to get our lesson across. But as we progressed
we
starting asking the little girls thought provoking questions they
could
answer. They wound down, and we started to have one of the most
spiritual
lessons I have felt in my mission. The mother testified of
her desire to be
baptized and about how we are all imperfect, but
Christ's love for us makes
it more than possible for us to come back to
him. The husband testified of
how being brothers and sisters in the
church really is a strength. There is a
love and fellowship that can't
be felt really anywhere else. There are not
many places that you can
have so many people rushing to help you when you are
knocked down, or
facing difficulty. It was truly a spiritual evening. We
really are
hoping that they can get there documents to be married, so the
wife
can be baptized, and the family united together.
This week my
companion and I studied a lot of stuff. We truly
expanded our knowledge of a
lot of things. Things I never really asked
myself, I started searching for
the answers to them. We were
discussing a lot of this and I started thinking
about how sometimes
the simple principles give us the most knowledge we could
ever
achieve. Why do we study the Book of Mormon, and the principle
of
faith multiple times a month? Why do we always repeat lessons about
the
restoration of the gospel, or the plan of salvation? It's because
we always
have things to learn from them. I think about my reading in
the Book of
Mormon. I've written down my thoughts, highlighted verses,
and felt
promptings. A few days after I've written my thoughts, I go
back and read the
same scriptures and this time something else hits
me. I still had a
remembrance of my previous thought, but now I was
learning another principle
from the scripture I didn't notice before.
Our room for growth is
incomprehensible. Our limit for knowledge we
can obtain is so large we
physically can't learn it all before we die,
even if we did study 24/7
everyday for our whole lives. We have a lot
to learn. God would not want us
going over the same principles, he
wouldn't ask us to always read the
scriptures if there wasn't more to
learn from them. I truly believe we will
always learn from the basic
principles of the gospel if we open our hearts to
it.
The gospel of Jesus Christ is true, and the church of Jesus Christ
of
Latter Day Saints is his church on the earth today. I know it, I
cannot
deny it.
Anziano Chase
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