Hey everyone!
This week went by incredibly fast, I don't know where
to
start. We met a lot of new people and it just is going good.
So we
had the great privilege of having Elder Kearon of the quorum of
the seventy
come and visit our mission. He is our new area president.
He gave a great
teaching to us. I could talk about so many things he
said, but I will
simplify my thoughts to about how we need to become
the message that we
teach. We teach so many great principles, and the
best way for people to
understand them is if they see it in us. He
also gave a lot of thanks to us
about what we have already done.
Missionary work should be happy work, and
that we cannot forget about
our new converts. He said "twice in white" and it
is true. True
salvation can only come when we are baptized and go through
the
temple. It's never a one and done thing in the gospel. Anyways it
was
just a great conference. On to the work.
We received a referral
from the Varese Anziani about a man named
Mercy. He was with a friend that
was being taught in Varese and
wanted to know more. It just happened that he
lived in our area. We
set an appointment with him, and as we went to meet
him, he was there
and brought a friend named Joel, who also wanted to know
more. We had a
great lesson with them and we are going to be seeing a lot
more of
them.
We were walking through a park one afternoon, after
church and we saw
fFank, one of our investigators that left for vacation in
August. We
greeted him and started to talk about what we had wanted to
teach
him before he left. He asked us to finish the lesson, and as we
were
teaching his friend, Desmund, came. We had a spiritual lesson on
the
plan of salvation.
One of our new investigators, Christian, came
to church with us because
his friend, Terry, one of the members in Busto,
kept telling him how
great church is. He came and during priesthood we
decided to teach him
a lesson in another classroom. As we were teaching him,
it was as if
everything he would reply in my questions went along with what I
was
about to teach him. He had been so spiritually prepared before
I
taught him. Terry bore a bold testimony, and when I asked him if
he
believed these things to be true, he proudly said yes. Now we
are
helping him progress so he can be baptized soon!
Prosper and
Delfino were busy this week, but we were also, so we hope
to have a good
lesson with them in the very near future.
For family home evening I had
the privilege of teaching
everyone how to make American cookies. Boy were the
people excited! We also
decided to use the cookies as a parable for a lesson
about how
to make cookies, we need ingredients and a recipe. We need
different
things to put together a testimony of faith. Once we put
our
"ingredients" together we need to nurture them in the oven, allow
it
to solidify, and then watch our cookie dough ball become that
delicious
cookie.
I also had the privilege of giving some instruction to my
district
this week. The desired subject asked by the assistants was to
talk
about what we learned at the conference with Elder Kearon. So I took
a
lot about he taught us to have faith in our work, and molded it into
a
training that assists it. We always talk about how we need to find
more
faith in what we do, and that is absolutely necessary, we can't
grow without
it. But my focus in the training was to help us realize
the faith we already
have. Sometimes we spend so much time wondering
why we don't have the same
firm faith as others, that we disregard our
own testimonies. My two questions
of focus were, "what has God already
done for you in your life?" And "what
have we already done for God?"
Our testimonies are always growing, and the
most common way they grow
is through experiences, what God has done for us,
and in turn what we
did for him. When we notice what we have done for him in
the past it
is able to assure of us the faith we have expressed. If we truly
want
to build our faith, we have to build it off of the faith we already
have.
So why not make an account of the everything that has made you who
you
are today. I know each and everyone of us have stronger
testimonies
than we give ourselves credit for, and when we stop and realize
the
things that have already happened in our lives we can have the
faith
to increase that faith we had.
I know this gospel is true, I
know God loves us. He lives, and he
loves each and every one of
us.
Anziano Chase
I was playing the piano and my companion decide
to have some fun
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