Buona Pasqua a tutti!
This week has been...great! Every week as a missionary is great! :) Even though it went back to pouring rain off and on (basta così)!, it has been good anyway! We have been working hard and really seeing some awesome miracles. We are doing all we can to help Cristian stop smoking (he is having a really tough time), but we have high hopes for him! He is really such an elect guy! We brought a new member, fratello Zinchenko (from Ukraine), to a lesson recently, and after we walked out, he said, simply enough, "that boy is special".
We had an AMAZING Easter Sunday lunch AND dinner! First we went to the Canuti's to eat an italian pasta, salad, barbeque meal.....all I can say is wow. I won't even go there. SO good! It was super fun to watch how Italians cook it, too! Nothing like it. Plus, they had like 2 kilos of extra meat left over (which is pretty pricey in Italy, so we almost never buy it), and so we have had steak every day for lunch since! It's like a one year subscription to the Jelly of the Month club! ("Clark, that's the gift that keeps on giving the whoooole year long"...)
Then we went to the branch President's house for dinner! We had homemade gelato and pizza! Doesn't get much more Italian than that! The way they make the pizza....it's just an art. ...We tried (emphasis on tried) to make pizza and gnocchi last week. It was...an experience! haha, I still have a bit to learn! The gnocchi actually turned out pretty good...relatively. But after seeing how the Italians do it, we are going to give it another shot!
As far as missionary work goes, it's going! The members in Rimini are so great, and so motivated! The Lord is preparing souls...we just need to find them!
Miracle: We experienced a wonderful miracle this week while on the train, on our way to a district meeting in Ravenna. A wonderful family (a mother, father, and 3 little boys) sat across from us on the train, and were excitedly talking about how they were on their way to an amusement park in Ravenna. After a few minutes of thinking about and praying for a way to strike up a conversation naturally with the, we began to talk! We joked about roller coasters and talked about our families, and how important they are to us. We had a wonderful conversation for about 30 minutes, and at the end we gave them a pass along card and invited them to attend church on Sunday. As they read the address of our church, Via Del Capriolo 12, they smiled at each other and laughed, and then looked at us and said "We live on Via Del Capriolo!" What a "coincidence!" They accepted the card, and we hope the invitation, and we went on our way. What a blessing it was to meet with them! On top of that, the mother's name is Celeste (which means celestial)! It's meant to be! :)
Everything else is great! We had a bit of a difficult week in terms of helping our investigators progress, but I know that the Lord has a plan and a time for everyone! The time on the mission is a time when you really learn a lot about the gospel, obviously, but also a lot about yourself. I have already been stretched and grown a lot, and I know that there is plenty more ahead! Bring it on! :)
I hope everything is well at home, you all are always in my prayers! Thank you so much for your prayers for me and the Lord's precious children we are called to serve. Love you all!
Love,
Anziano Wilson
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