Hope everyone had a great Christmas and will have a great New Year's! Well
I had probably the most white Christmas ever this year, literally, and
spiritually! So on Christmas we went to and fro from a bunch of members homes
for various meals etc. It was a full day of just chatting and feeling at home
for a day. I then got to skype home and who is going to not enjoy that??? It was
a great relaxing day. The following day we went back to work proselytizing and
teaching people on the street. We honestly had a hard time finding people to
teach mainly because no one wanted to go out the day after Christmas (We also
assume the same will happen on New Years as well). But it was okay because we had
a baptism we had to prepare for. We woke up bright and early Saturday morning to
fill the font in the Padova church Building. We were not expecting the B. family to show up until 30 minutes before the baptism, but they were so excited
and showed up over an hour early! We got them dressed and all of the people who
were going to baptize them. It literally was a sea of people in white. I don't
think i will ever see a sight like that again (but i would sure like to). We
planned for about 40 people to show up to support the baptism, and over 60 ended
up coming!! The baptism went soo great, the family was so excited, and when I went to baptize the youngest son Eric, I felt a surge of energy fill inside me.
It honestly was too cool to describe. After the baptism we thought our white
Christmas was over, but as we were driving back from Padova with a member
family, it started snowing!! It was just a perfect combination for the day. A
baptism filled with people in white, and the rest of Vicenza in a blanket of
white!
I was so excited to see the snow, and quite frankly got sick because of it.
I walked outside in the snow for fun without a coat on and got under the weather
and was out of commission for the rest of the week. But I’m fine now so no
worries haha. Now that the B. family is baptized, we get to start preparing
more people for baptism so we are back on the streets looking for people who
want to hear the gospel. We hope to find some new people this week and give them
the same joy we feel.
Here is a little quote I like about the scriptures:
"None of this makes much of a difference unless it gets inside you. All of
this is just marks on pieces of paper bound together in leather; it has not
value, unless it becomes you. The purpose and essential blessing of life is to
be changed, to become more like the Lord your God, to realize the full measure
of your divine potential"
I hope we can all apply this to our lives and resolve to recommit ourselves
to being more like our Savior. There is not better time to start changing then
there is today. Happy New Year!
Anziano Chase
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