Buon Giorno!
Well, things are going great here in Italy. It's almost Christmas!!!! I am pretty excited for it, since we get to watch a disney movie, and my companion bought me "UP" for Christmas. So we are definitley watching that! :D But in other news...it actually isn't that cold these days, it has either warmed up or I am just immune to the cold due to my superpowers. (I'm pretty sure it's the latter, though)...It's been really hard keeping my superpowers a secret from my companion, but I'm hanging in there. ;) No, but no snow STILL! Man, all I want is a white Christmas! So pray for snow in Lecco :)
Our investigators are doing really well! Last week was kind of a bummer because we couldn't meet with a lot of them, and a lot are still gone to visit family, but this week we met with a lot more, and met with two, Fanny and Hassa, that we hadn't been able to meet for over a month! So we are really excited about that, they are both really great! Hassa invited us over to his house after our lesson at the train station to come teach his family one day, so we are trying to do that; and Fanny has read all the way up to Alma in the Book of Mormon, even without us being able to meet her due to work! It is amazing!
Martha is still doing really well in preparing for her baptism on the 29th, Dallin expressed his excitement that both me and him are going to have a "White" Christmas. Get it? White. :) Haha, I thought that was pretty great.
The Michael Family has been so blessed this past month or so, thank you all so much for your prayers. They still need them. But the husband bore his testimony to us the other day about the Lord's hand he has seen in their lives. He told us that people that they have never met before will ring the doorbell, and say "Is this the Michael family?" and they will respond yes, and they will give them a huge basket of food, or 50 euro in a envelope to pay their light bill, or something amazing like that and say "We just felt like we would stop by and see how you are doing" And then they just leave. and they have no idea who they are. Or he said that he will be out and about looking for work, and someone will invite him into thier house to eat a nice lunch, and he realizes that he has never met them before, but they say that they had some extra food and wanted to invited someone in. Or he also related an experience where someone (who he assumed to be working for the gas company) called him out of the blue, and asked him how much his gas bill was. He told them (it was like 100 euro or something), and the next day he called the company back to see how he was going to pay it, and it had already been paid! There are so many amzing miracles going on. I just sit back awe-stricken at it all. The Lord is so wonderful!
All our other investigators are doing well, we are working with a few others to get a baptismal date set; this truly is a time when the Lord is hastening his work. As our mission president said a little while ago: " The time of the planting seeds is over, it's now time to harvest!" And we have seen such a wonderful "Harvest" of souls this past month. November was the highest baptizing month I think the Milan mission has ever seen (If I understood correctly in the conference), there were like 60 people baptized or something amazing like that. It is so wonderful to be a part of all of this, and to see the true happiness and joy that the gospel of Jesus Christ makes in the lives of these people.
Miracle: We saw a really wonderful miracle this week. We went to a less-active member's house to teach a lesson with her home teacher from the ward, and about 5 minutes into our lesson about the Plan of Salvation, her boyfriend came over to visit. She invited him to come listen to our lesson, and said "Come sit down, and become a Mormon!" haha. It was pretty funny, but an invite nonetheless! So we started the lesson again, and went over the entire Plan of Salvation. He, Ferdinando, seemed genuinely interested, and as I looked at his face while my companion was talking about the resurrection, his face was so focused, and I could tell he was really listening intently. Fratello Pelucchi from the ward bore a powerful testimony at the end of the lesson about the difference that the message of the Plan of Salvation has had in his life, and we concluded with our testimonies about it as well. The lesson went really well, and we invited them to pray about the truthfullness of it, saluted them and then went on our way.
Two days later we were walking with two investigators to the church for an activity we had planned to help them meet a few members of the ward, and we were stopped by Ferdinando, who was on h is way to do some shopping! We spoke for a few minutes, exchanged numbers, and he told us to tell him the next time we go over to Francisca (the less active member) 's house so perhaps he can come! It was such a miracle and a testimony to me that the Lord places people in our path, even when we are least expecting it!
Well, it sounds like everything is going great at home! I am so thankful for all of you; for the examples you have been to me, and for your love and prayers in my behalf. I have truly been given so much, and I kneel down in gratefulness each night to thank the Lord for all I have been given, and ask him to provide ways for me to give back to others. Everything here is going just great, I love being a missionary so much!
Love,
Anziano Wilson
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