Rendiamo grazie a dio - Week 58

Ciao tutti. Spero che tutti di voi state preparando di sentire le parole questa weekend. Non è spesso che abbiamo questa opportunità di vedere i incarichi di tre apostoli. Io so che riceveremo un spirit dolce se ascolteremo alle parole da loro.  (Translation: Hello everybody. I hope all of you are preparing to hear words this weekend. It is not often that we have this opportunity to see the positions of three apostles. I know that we will receive a spirit sweet if we listen to the words from them .)

New transfer calls came in this week and my companion Anziano M. will be leaving. For being a young missionary, I know he is going to do great things, as I learned so much from him. My new companion will be Anziano C. from Los Angeles, for which I'm pretty excited about. He has been on his mission only for 3 months but is a great missionary. Seeing him at our zone trainings, he is always a happy guy and we have already become friends just at these trainings, so I believe we will do some great work together.

The week was mostly set with goodbyes but it was still a productive week. The sisters in our area had a baptism for a girl of 11 years of age that we all had been helping out. We made sure we would get the whole ward involved in this baptism because we wanted to bring as many investigators as we could to see the baptism. The ward responded gladly and a couple of our investigators, including her dad who isn’t a member, got really emotional during the baptism. The spirit could not have been any more present than it was at that baptism. The Sunday confirmation was quite stressful, but ended up being perfect. Our mission president decided to attend our church for the confirmation and we got a lot of our investigators to commit to coming to church. As my companion and I were sitting down next to some members, we noticed church was about to begin, but the girl who was recently baptized, our investigators, and the rides for our investigators still weren't here. I then got a call from the girl’s mother saying their car wasn't working and they were stuck. So at the beginning of the meeting I had to sneak up to the stand to inform the bishopric that we needed to get them here. One of the bishopric members then raced off to pick them up. As time went by, we saw two of our investigators show up. But time was running out for sacrament meeting and the confirmation. I was praying super hard that they would show up.  Our mission president was in our ward, we had investigators in church, they just had to show up. As the last speaker was speaking, I noticed he was going a little longer than usual and out of the corner of my eye I saw the family with the bishopric member. She was confirmed just before the end of sacrament meeting. The rest of church went fantastic. Our mission president helped teach our investigators, and I just knew the lord has blessed us immensely.

T.G. (I finally asked him to write his name down for me because I could never understand it fully. I then realized it was literally "Thank God" #Perfect) is making tremendous progress. He knows what we are teaching him is true. He always wants to be around us so he can let the word of God sink into his heart every day. I truly know he is being prepared to be a great person.

C. is making great progress as well. We are focusing on "are we better today then we were yesterday?" as a guide towards the gospel of Jesus Christ. The gospel of Jesus Christ is meant to be an eternal progression; we can never stop bettering ourselves. Once we notice we can better ourselves, and ARE bettering ourselves we can notice the gospel working in our lives.

P. is doing great, he really enjoys young mens and asking questions. He really understands the need to be more like the savior Jesus Christ. If we follow his example we will know what we need to do to return to him. I truly think he is being a great example to his peers and will accept the gospel in his life.

I know this gospel is true. I am a witness of Christ. I have seen Him work in me for the salvation of others, and acts as a perfect example of our Heavenly Father. He has given us the way back, and suffered for our sins so we may return to our Father above. As we listen to conference this week I hope we all have questions in our hearts, and seek for inspiration. I promise the spirit will speak individually and teach us all the things WE need to hear.

Have a great week everyone

Anziano Chase

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