Buona sera famiglia!!
This week has really been great! It is so wonderful out here! The work
is really going well, I am so excited to be a part of it! Our
investigators are doing really well. So some exciting news: I'm getting
transferred! (yay!...?) haha. Out here in the mission field apparently they
call it a ''Pink-wash'' , when the Anziani move out of the city (there were
4 of us), and the Sorrelle (sisters) move in and take their place. Haha my
companion was hilarious. ''Pink-wash!? Man, are you serious! I had
nightmares about these day!'' hahaha. I don't understand what the big deal
is, but apparently no one wants to get ''pink-washed''. Lol. So anyways,
my companion and I will be going to Lecco! I don't know much about it, but
apparently it is FREEZING there. And luckily we will be arriving in the
winter time, so I will be sure and pack my sunscreen and tanning oil and
everything for that. No, but seriously, thanks Mom for the coat :) haha.
But I am actually really excited to go to a new city, despite how
hard it is to leave this city and members and investigators that I have
grown to love. Especially since we were doing so well here! We had so
many great plans, and a ton of progressing investigators. For example, we
had a baptism for a man on the 12th of October scheduled, and all planned
out and everything. He was doing great great, but after a lot of prayer
and thought, my companion and I decided to postpone it for the 26th, just
to make sure he was ready for this crucial step. WE didn't exactly know
why, but only that the Lord wanted us to wait. So yeah, it is pretty hard
to leave after we have been working with him for 6 weeks to prepare for
this. He even asked me to baptize him, which I was pretty excited for. But
hey, that's life. Besides, as long as that wonderful, worthy man gets
baptized, it doesn't matter who does it :) I'm excited and will go wherever
the Lord wants me to go!
On a lighter note, there was a pretty crazy rally car...race?
This week. Haha I'm not totally sure what it was because obviously we
didn't go, but all week there have been these crazy suped-up rally cars
with numbers on their back windows flooring it around the city making a ton
of noise; it has been pretty intense. Also, I saw a Ferrari, a Maserati,
AND a Lamborghini this week, and all 3 times I didn't have time to take a
picture of it before they drove away! Bummer, huh? But yeah, there are so
many nice cars around here lately, it is basically like real life Need for
Speed. But we definitely give them a run for their money walking, we are
getting quick! Haha.
Well, that's about all that's new, I guess I'll leave you with the
miracle I saw this week!
Miracle: We had a wonderful miracle this week. As we were out doing
strada a few days ago, we found a couple sitting on a bench and started a
conversation. We talked for a while, and the husband seemed interested,
but the wife didn't seem to be. We talked and bore testimony of principles
for a few minutes while the wife stood a few feet away, listening, and then
asked for a return appointment, which they politely declined. So we left
them a card with our number on it. The next day, we were out walking and
ran into the wife again on the street and started talking. We were
surprised (but delighted) to hear that she had looked up a lot of
information about our church, and was interested to learn more! So we gave
her a restoration pamphlet and set up a formal appointment with her this
last Monday. That lesson went very well; she had so many questions (which
was great!) that we were happy to answer, and we bore powerful testimony
about the truthfulness of this gospel and the Book of Mormon. We invited
her to say the closing prayer to which she answered ''Do I have to?'' But
after we assured her that it was simple and that God truly wanted to hear
from her, she offered one of the most beautiful prayers I have heard. As
she closed the prayer tears were in her eyes, and she said ''I haven't felt
this way in a long time...'' What a humbling experience that was for me, I
sincerely hope that all goes well with her this next transfer, and am sure
the Sorrelle will take great care of her. It is such a blessing to be out
in the mission field, to see so many of these miracles. I am humbled every
day to be out here.
I know I sound like a broken record, but it is just such a
blessing to be a missionary! Every day is so hard, every day I am so busy
and so exhausted, but every day I see miracles. This truly is the Lord's
work, and as one called by Him through a prophet to declare the truth to
the people of Italy, I humbly testify that ''no unhallowed hand can stay
the work of the Lord'' ; that He is always wary of the progression of His
kingdom here on earth. He will help us, and He will never leave us alone.
Never. I am so imperfect, I have been truly humbled this week in so many
ways, but it is such a blessing to me to know that the Lord looks past our
weakness, and helps us to develop strengths. The Lord will not leave us
alone, and He will not rest until His work is finished, for truly, ''He
that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep'' -Psalms 121:4 How
blessed I am; how blessed we all are, to have the glorious gift of the
gospel of Jesus Christ in our lives.
I love you all and wish the best in all you do! You're in my
prayers!
Love,
Anziano Wilson
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