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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