Golf Italia - Week 82

I hope you all had a great week! This one was very nice. We have been doing a lot of good things lately. We traveled with a member of our branch presidency this week to Grado to move some furniture for an older sister in the branch. Grado is a very pretty place near the coast of the Adriatic Sea, and we were able to move some things for her to the disposal unit using the car of our branch counselor. After that we were able to go see the T. family in their home. They had both their kids with their significant others, and we had a great evening with them. C. is very Austrian proud, and loved showing us all his collections from 200 years ago. We had a great dinner with them and were able to talk about how important the family is to our Heavenly Father. They are an incredible family and families are meant to be together forever. We feel like we left a big impression on them from the evening and message.

 
 
 
 

P. is doing good. Still coming to church every Sunday, and is making his friends listen to our message. We just need to help him move forward for his official baptism. He knows it's true, we just need to get him to say the official I'm ready statement.

G. is being G. M. is being M. But we keep pushing both of them because we know that they know this is important. We are just looking for ways to get the message to be vital enough for them to hold onto it.

This week I had Anziano C. come and scambio with me all the way from Trieste. He is a hilarious guy from Texas and we were able to see man named A. He seemed very interested, and felt like we had something he was missing, so we are hoping to see him again. We were also able to have an activity with a couple of our less active young single adults. It went really well and S. and I. both are
starting to do institute now, and want to do things with us more. We really hope this helps them get fully integrated back, because they will be a great help to this branch.

Today we were able to be classy Americans playing Italian golf. We went to Grado, and launched a lot of balls at the driving range and practice fields. It was a blast. Being right next to the sea made it nice too. We made good friends with the workers there, and we might come back and play a couple holes with them.

 

This week my mind has been focused on strength in overcoming trials. I was thinking about how when we exercise faith, we receive the strength to overcome it. Elder Bennett of the seventy said, "Our willingness to take a step is not just met; it is exceeded by the Lord’s promised blessings... Strength is given to those who keep seeking and trying" When we do not know if we have the strength to overcome something, we need to at least have the desire to receive strength, and try. When we take a step the lord gives us an extra push to move forward. He gives us the momentum to keep going forward. As we do this we find the strength we wished we would have had at the beginning. Like it says in Ether 12:27 "And if men come unto me I will show unto them their weakness. I give unto men weakness that they may be humble; and my grace is sufficient for all men that humble themselves before me; for if they humble themselves before me, and have faith in me, then will I make weak things become strong unto them". We will find the strength, if we keep going forward in faith.

I know this gospel is designed to perfect us. It is the ultimate guide to become like our Heavenly Father. Have a great week everyone!

Our branch likes to call Anziano B. and myself cheeseburger (B., cheese, ya get it?) so one of them drew this when they heard we were doing a third transfer together.