La vita è bella - Week 54

Hey everyone,

So the end of the week started to pick up with people and work, so we feel like we are running full steam ahead again. So I had the opportunity to do an exchange in Varese with
Anziano Mastino. They have been trying to pick up the work in their area, so we hit the streets looking for people who were interested. We used the question, "what is the purpose of life?" as a thought provoking intro to people we would stop. Naturally as we were stopping people, they would say they didn't have time or were not interested, but right as we were about to finish our street contacting, one woman said just the best response, she said to be happy. We got so excited to hear someone say that we threw our hands up in the air, and said "that's the perfect answer!" She laughed and we started talking more about it and she wanted to know more. After that we really had a renewed fire in us to stop people. This time we wanted to change our question to "how does God help us find happiness?" and we really got a lot of good response to that question. God is the master of all things, he knows exactly what we need to be happy. He gave us the Plan of Salvation aka the Plan of Happiness. He gave us his gospel, ways for us to receive blessings, and he never leads us down a path of sorrow. I really put that into perspective this week.

Prosper, he is a stud. He really understands the gospel of Christ. We were teaching him the principles of the gospel, and he just applied it to himself right away. He is only 16 years old too! I really believe God gives us so much wisdom and that no matter how old we are we can receive knowledge we never thought possible. Prosper just embraced our lesson and really took it upon himself to apply the teachings. He is making great progression.

Charles is continuing on slowly but surely. We had a great talk about the purpose of fasting and tithing, and with fasting we were able to talk about how it is another way to receive knowledge from God. We invited him to give it a try if he truly wants an answer. That if he has the faith, he will receive an answer. He said he will think on it and maybe give it a shot.

We met a new girl named Roberta this week. She is 20 from Brazil, and she speaks Portuguese, and a little bit of English (no Italian). She recognized my companion and I in our missionary clothes, and told us her mom in Brazil is a member that feeds the elders. We talked with her and she told us she was wanting a change in her life. We invited her to receive the lessons from us and she said yes. We had a powerful lesson about Jesus Christ and how through him we can return to our Heavenly Father. If we want council or are in need of guidance, prayer is the way of communicating our needs to the Father. She told us what we were doing is a beautiful thing. We really enjoyed teaching her, but she will be learning from the sister missionaries for now on. I am sure she will notice a great change in her life, and with the spirits guidance she will know of gods love for her.

I was thinking about how life can be rough at times and a scripture came to mind that just made everything better. 6 Now ye may suppose that this is foolishness in me; but behold I say unto you, that by small and simple things are great things brought to pass... (Alma 37:6) I was thinking about how God asked all the ancient prophets to write down their spiritual promptings in a book. It really is nothing big, but after thousands of years it became the bible and Book of Mormon, which are huge things. The same thing goes with everyday life. A simple smile really goes a long way. A short testimony given to someone may have been simple for you, but made a big change in someone else's life. God doesn't ask us to build an ark these days (well at least not me anyways) but he asks us to do small and simple things, because it is the everyday little things that make really difference. I told Roberta that life isn't a walk in the park, but gosh darn it, it's worth it. We don't have to create the first artificial human, or solve cancer to bring forth good things, we just have to do the little things that God asks us to do, to receive an everlasting joy. Almost every testimony starts from a little thing, everyone has a seed in them, and through nurture and care, it grows into a forest of a testimony. I know this to be true, the gospel is simple, and it's requirements small, but it's rewards are great.

I hope everyone enjoys their week!

Anziano Chase

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