So P.'s baptism is this Saturday! We are so excited for him, he has really come a long way for this. Anziano B. is going to baptize him. I realized he hasn't had the opportunity to baptize someone during his mission, and we both know it would be good memory for him and P., so I told them I thought it would be nice for them if he did. Something that I really admire about P. is how sincere he is when he prays. He really prays with his heart. He lets Heavenly Father know what his intentions are, and he lets him know what his true desires are. Needless to say, we are stoked for Saturday.
Another great bit of news. We are going to be working with a kid named G. who is the son of a less active family that recently started coming back to church. They want him to be baptized at the end
of the month so we are going to be working with him to make that possible!
This week we had zone training in Mestre again, and also had interviews with President Dibb. This was most likely my last interview with him because we do interviews every three months, and my last interview will actually be my going home interview, but President Dibb gets released two or three weeks before I go home, so my last interview was probably the last one with him. But it was nice, we really have been focusing on how we can become great workers with members of the church. We focus on teaching people so much, and members want to share the same thing. Many have served missions, but still most people sometimes just don't know how to go about it, so we are trying to figure ways to help members be missionary minded.
This week I also had the opportunity to go to Trieste to interview a teenager for baptism. It was great because it was amazing to see the growth of this person. Having just been a part of the development of
P.'s testimony it was awesome to see how everyone can go through the same spiritual change. Being thirteen years old this kid really knew the God loves him.
P. is doing well, she has been having some problems with her back, so we have been trying to help her out as much as we can at her store. We were able to meet with F. at the Tomasetti's home. We had a great time. The Tomasettis have been wanting us to start working with F. again, but we wanted to find a good way to break the ice, so we played some Italian card games, and asked her to teach us how to crochet, which she absolutely loved. We were able to bring her a good spiritual message, and she mentioned how much she missed hearing our message, so we are hoping to get deeper with her in the near future.
Well this week was general conference, and unfortunately due to our busy schedule we have only watched most of conference, but it was still great. If anyone have not seen conference, let me just say the family was definitely a focus point. But I would also just like to share one thing I liked from conference (I could talk forever about the talks, but I'll spare y'all the trouble) President Dieter F. Ucthdorf in his morning address talked about his home city in Germany. He mentioned a church that was the crown jewel of the city, and how it had been destroyed in the war. He explained that after, they took whatever remaining parts they still had and restored the church to its original form. He then said if a man could take rubble, broken pieces, and little sections of a destroyed object and turn it into something beautiful, how much more capable is Heavenly Father in helping turn us imperfect people, into disciples of Christ? It's true, we can rely on God to help us even when we are shattered and broken. If we seek him he will help reconstruct us into something amazing!
I loved conference and I love this gospel! Have a great week everyone!
Selfie of the week. Anziano B. didn't want to smile
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