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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