Buona something!
Greetings and salutations! I don't have a whole lot to say this week, so I will probably end up just rambling on and on in some kind of run-on sentence with a whole bunch of words and phrases (and parenthetical asides...if that's a thing?) but at the end of the sentence not really even say anything of great importance. ...but hey! My typing is getting a lot better! I'm gonna be prepared for writing all the papers in college when I get home! But anyways...
So this week has been pretty alright. Don't get me wrong, I love being a missionary, but this week was a little tough. It just feels like all of our investigators are falling off the face of the map! And when we go out to talk to people on the street they just yell at us saying we are crazy or think we are JW's and basically run the other way. I don't get what it is! It must just be a Rimini thing, because the same thing is happening with the sisters... you know what, I bet it's the World Cup! EVERYONE is watching the World Cup! There are TVs set up in the middle of centro and like everyone when the games are on. Italians and their soccer...
But! We are working hard and we know that this is just a "miracle fence" ( I wish I could draw what that is...) but basically it is a line that goes down and down until it hits the lowest point, and then it shoots up with a miracle and goes way up, and then unfortunately sometimes repeats! But I know that there are great things in store for this place, and we are on our way to a miracle!
This month of June for Europe (maybe in the US too...?) is the month of invitation, where the First Presidency has asked all of Europe's members to search and pray especially hard to find someone or be able to invite one of their friends to come with them to sacrament meeting! We have been working hard with the ward, and have an AWESOME activity planned for the 24th....despite having less than a week's notice, it is going to be awesome. Let's just say there will be blindfolds, lots of food, and... LOTS of FOOD! ...we are planning a food cook-off (with us missionaries taking one for the team and being the judges)...since Rimini has 5 professional cooks in the ward, it should be pretty good!
Cristian. Oh Cristian. He found work, which is a great thing, but he has just become so "weefy" and cancels appointments with us like every time for the past 2 weeks. But we won't give up on him, he is so close! And he has read all the way through Alma in the Book of Mormon! That's farther than I've gotten in Italian already!
Miracle: Despite all the hard stuff, we had a really wonderful miracle this week: We finally established contact again with Morris! Finally! We hadn't been able to speak with him or see him for about a month or so, due to several reasons, but we finally were able to meet with him, establish his concerns and ours, and we are now beginning to work through it again and he is on his way to baptism in July! We still have a few things to clear up with him and make sure are totally clear, but we played the whole "Anziano Mata'u is new here and much more experienced than I am in these things" card, and had him conduct a little one-on-one interview with him....that seemed to really help him a lot realize why the authority in this church is so important.. and he came to church! So we were really excited about that! We'll see how things go with that.
So yeah, we have had a bit of a tough week with maybe not a whole lot of success...but there have to be down weeks for there to be up weeks! :) We are still working hard and trying to get more progressing investigators so we can involve the amazing members we have here! Our plans for the month of invitation are to ask all of our investigators (that we can meet) to invite another person to come to church; and we are planning an awesome activity for the 24th so the members can invite their friends!
I hope everything is still going well at home, I am really loving it here even when it's hard. The hard times really don't matter to me at all...because I know I'm trying my best and that the Lord didn't send His missionaries to Italy to fail. Someone has been touched, and I am thankful for all the time I have left here to try to make a difference!
I know that the work of the Lord will go forth to all the corners of the earth, all in His time, and I am so thankful to be a part of it. There are precious children of God here that need what we have, and I am thankful for the chance we have to try to make the world a better and happier place!
I love you all a ton, and am so thankful for your support and prayers and the great people you are! I pray for you all each night!
Love,
Anziano Wilson
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