Wednesday, May 18, 2016

La benedizione d'imperfezione - Week 91

Hey everyone, once again we are back here.

This week went by decently fast sometimes it's hard for me to remember that I have been in Gorizia for six months now.

Anyway, we were able to meet with E., who has been coming to our English class, and were able to give her an overview of our church and our beliefs. We talked about the word of wisdom with her, and she really appreciated our desire to be faithful. She is a practicing Catholic but she really is engaged in what we are teaching her, and she expressed desire to learn more.

Saturday we had the unique opportunity to have a branch activity for a returned missionary. Not that often does a small city have a missionary serving from their branch, so this a special occasion. It was pretty nice, because when we met her, she just wanted to go out and teach with us, which we don't mind at all.

We had another great lesson with En. We were able to finish the plan of salvation of her, and were also able to explain the importance of the will of God in all things. Sometimes things happen that we don't understand. We don't get why God would allow this to happen. We use Isaiah's teaching that "God's ways are not our ways" to simply state the fact that we can't comprehend everything. I also like to use the fact that every thing that happens in our lives is meant for learning and growing. The challenge in life is to put our trust in God and to accept that he putting us in the path that will help us become the best that we can be.

P. is doing well, he has been busy with school, but we are happy that he gets to study and improve. He has been slowly reading the Book of Mormon and asking us questions to help him stay spiritually focused.

G. is also doing well. We were able to have him open up a little more on what his doubts were, and it gave us new ideas on how we can help him keep growing in his faith. He invited us to have a dinner with him this last week too for his birthday, which made us feel pretty special. He likes us just enough to celebrate his birthday with him.

Today we spent the day with the Bressans for M., the daughter, for her birthday. We do a lot with them, and thankfully being pday, it was the perfect day to do things with them. We made lots of food, and will be doing an activity tonight with some of the youth in the branch for her too.

Just to leave on a thought, I was thinking about how God blesses us with imperfection. When we think of imperfection, how could we ever see that as a blessing??? The blessing of imperfection is the ability to learn, grow, and become perfect. If God blessed us with instant perfection, we wouldn't learn anything, we wouldn't appreciate anything, and we wouldn't know true happiness. Because we are imperfect, we can learn from our mistakes, we can learn what sadness is, and in turn, learn what happiness is. We can grow, and become something great. The purpose of life is to become like our father in heaven, and the only way we can become like something, is if we start from imperfection. God blesses us because we try in our imperfections. He wouldn't need to bless perfect people. We get credit for trying and doing our best, and that is when God wants to bless us the most.

I know this church is true, and that we can become like our Heavenly Father. He has given us the tools to become like us, and has blessed us by making us the people we are at this moment. He guides us in everything we face. Have a great week everyone!!!

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