Buon giorno tutti!
Wow! What a great week! It has been crazy so far, but so wonderful! The mission is so busy...I am dead tired...and it's P-day...not looking good for the rest of the week! No, I know that the Lord will help and bless me with health and strength to do his work.
The weather has been SO good! It's at the point where it is warm enough to go out with just shirts, but cool enough that we aren't dying of heat stroke as soon as we hop on the bikes. I love it!
Our investigators are doing really well! Unfortunately, Davide has been having a few problems, and so we had to postpone the baptism indefinitely by request of the parents, but he is a great kid, and I'm sure things will get better! Morris and Peter are doing really well. It is so special to see and hear the testimonies of the people that the Lord has already prepared for the gospel. They seem to know eveything even before we teach them! It is such a blessing to be able to bear testimony about the love that our Heavenly Father has for each one of us. It is just such a great thing to know! :) We are working hard to find more people to teach....and it's been tough! But I know that the Lord has people out there prepared for us...we just need to find them!
We had a great activity with the branch last night...even though we were so busy that us and the 2 sorelle missionaries ended up planning it in like 10 minutes...But luckily I have a bit of experience at "winging it"...thank you highschool! haha :) It ended up going really well though! We had a demonstration of how to teach about the Restoration in five minutes, using the awesome pamphlets with pictures that the church makes for the missionaries, we talked about the importance of the Book of Mormon in answering any question, and about the real reason we even share the Gospel anyway. Because we love our brothers and sisters and want them to have all the happiness and peace and joy that we have found, especially in this world that is becoming increasingly difficult and sad. We ended by singing the Milan Italy mission hymn (which is the coolest hymn EVER!), and we were all inspired to do more effective missionary work!
I am SO excited for General Conference. It is like a missionarie's only excuse to watch T.V! Haha, just kidding! I am so excited to hear what God's messengers have to say to us in these times that are so crazy and difficult. I have downloaded around 200 general conference talks, and put them on my USB, and so I listen to one almost every day while I'm cooking breakfast and getting ready for the day. Those are inspired words. What a blessing it is to have a prophet of God, and Apostles in our day!
Let's see...we also used a lot of our P-Day time to start to make a "General Authority War" card game. It is basically the greatest thing I have ever seen. I'll show it to you guys when I come home!
The work of the Lord is so wonderful. It really is just such a blessing to be here. The life of a missionary is so....great! I don't have to worry about any of my problems; just how to solve other peoples'! It's so great! :)
Miracle: We had a very tender and wonderful miracle this week. While out doing casa Sunday evening, we met a man on the street named Alberto. He was headed to mass, but invited us to come back the next night to speak with him. So we returned the next day and rung his citofono, but there was no response. We remembered learning that the Lord always sends His missionaries to places for a reason, and so we started ringing the houses of all of the others that lived in the apartment complex. After just 2 or 3 rings, we were invited in! We were met by a wonderfully kind man named Giuseppe, and he led us to his apartment, explaining to us that things have been very hard for him and his family in the past few years. He explained that they have 2 young boys, ages 6 and 7, who are severely autistic-to the point where they don't talk or anything. As we walked into the room and sat at the table they were running all around, and jumping off tables chairs, and everything else you could imagine. But you couldn't help but notice a feeling of love and peace that was in the home, despite all the noise. It was amazing. We sat down, learned that he and his wife, Maria, had met with the missionaries over 20 years ago, and that he had kept in touch with one of the missionaries for many years, but now he is married and with 5 children, and they have slowly lost contact. He had also met with President Caramia, our district President, and told us to say hello to him for them! We plan on following up with that! They are VERY catholic (Surprise...haha), but have a Book of Mormon (have never read it...), and are interested in talking more about the church! We were able to bear our testimonies to them about the glorious Plan of Salvation, Resurrection, and the eternal nature of the family. It touched my heart to see the patience and love they had for their two sons. They invited us back on Saturday night for dinner, and we are very excited to see them and their precious sons! It is such a blessing to be a missionary!
Everything else is going so well, I hope and pray that all is well with you all at home! I love you all and am very thankful for your love, support, and prayers! Have a great week everyone! Love,
Anziano Wilson
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