Hey everyone. I hope you all had a good week. This week has still been wet,
we scarcely get a day without water pouring down on us.
So this week has been busy. Thursday we went and did more work for the
Codarin family. I love working in the fields with them. It's a different type of
work than I'm used to, but missionary work means service, and I enjoy this
service. We are really close with D., the father who is not a member. He
acts like a member, but for some reason is not baptized. We have been trying to
figure out what is keeping him from this step, but we know the spirit is working
hard on him.
P. is doing ok, he's been busing traveling, but still is reading from
the Book of Mormon. G. is doing good, we watched the Mormon message about
leaving behind old dirt that has been transformed into something better. (I
think I translated that right. In Italiano il titolo è Redenti) we all make
mistakes, but the atonement helps clean us, and we are able to "recycle" these
things to make a pure field, a pure body.
We had to go down to Mestre this week to do an exchange with the zone
leaders. We also have to travel two more times this week, and it takes 3 hours
in train to get there. So we have been on trains for 8 hrs so far this week, and
have another 12-16 to go... But we are able to sit and talk with people more
freely. We met this one lady named S.. I won't lie, she might have had a
couple of loose bolts and screws in her. She's from Ukraine, and we spent two
hours with her on the train. We taught her many of the lessons, and then somehow
at the end of our train ride, she had given us jewelry, taken our pictures,
given us postcards with her address in Udine, and Ukraine, and had answered so
many strange questions about religion... But hey at least it's a strange story I
won't forget.
Our exchange with the zone leaders was nice. It was pouring rain, but we
were able to talk to a lot of people. A lot of people in Mestre are stranieri or
tourists who visit Venezia (which once again we didn't go see......) but we were
able to get the zone leaders a couple of potential people to teach.
Due to traveling and being in Mestre, we haven't been able to see a lot of
people, but the days have felt useful and full. This week my mind has been
focused a lot on the commandments. When we think about the 10 commandments, we
believe them to be logical, which they are. So that being said, it is easy to
follow them. But then we look at the word of wisdom, some people have trouble
finding the logic in not drinking coffee or tea. We can go all scientific and
dive into the details of whether or not coffee and tea are technically bad, but
that still causes debates. When I think about the commandments, I have to blot
out the logic of why a commandment is given. I do believe that there will be
given revelation as to why coffee and tea are not good in the future, but the
scientific reason should not be my reason to follow the word of wisdom. When
Abraham was commanded to sacrifice his son Isaac, was that really a logical
commandment? When the lord commanded Joshua and his people to walk around the
walls of Jericho multiple times in order to capture the city logical? They
honestly are not. But what we learn is, by our faith in keeping
any commandment, we will be blessed, and I believe we sometimes need
illogical commandments to test our faith. we can understand the blessings of the
commandments, after the obedience to the commandment. It is not bad to ask the
physical or logical reason why we follow a commandment, but it is more important
that we follow the commandments, because of our faith in the almighty.
I have a testimony of this gospel, and of the following of the
commandments. They never lead us astray!
Cinnamon Rolls
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