Buongiornoissimo!
What a wonderful week! We have seen so many miracles in this area! Especially as we prepare to see my companion off to the good old U.S of A, and welcome in my new companion, we have been seeing the area and the people prepared to receive this glorious message of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
This week we had a zone training...ABOUT IPADS!! We have finally received them to use for proselyting purposes. It is going to be such a blessing in so many peoples' lives. But with the implementation of these new tools come a lot of changes and more than anything, a need for a renewed sense of diligence and commitment. (not to mention trying to figure out how to set them up made me feel like an old geezer who had never touched technology in his life...that was difficult!) I welcome this new and exciting prospect, and can already see that this has been part of the Lord's plan from the very beginnning. It will help so many of our precious brothers and sisters to come unto Christ.
Timothy is doing really well...more about him later.
Paul is making some serious progress as well! He was preparing to be baptized on the 6th of June, but wasn't able to come to church this past week, so we had a meeting with him to talk about the importance of coming to church and partaking of the sacrament. He was really touched by it, and we are expecting to see some really great things happening in his life. It is such a blessing to be part of this whole process...to be able to see the changes that take place in peoples' hearts!
We also recently had a wonderful miracle, resulting from a miracle of the sisters! (Chain reaction!) They met a man from Brasil recently in a little town about 45 minutes away, who is a member of the church, but who had lost track of the church for over 10 years! He was so excited to see them, and to finally have the address of the church building that is closest to him. We recently met with him, and he is such a great man. He is the total definition of a mountain man. He lives up in the mountains in a little town where he is the only inhabitant left (there used to be 5 people, but one by one they all moved away). He has been faithful and diligent in living the gospel, despite not knowing anyone from the church, or knowing how to contact anyone. He expressed to us that he is in need of a ride to church, because he lives far away (about an hour)...but it turns out that he lives just a few miles from our Branch President! It is such a wonderful miracle! The branch has such a need of priesthood holders, and this truly is a heaven sent blessing.
On saturday we went up to Milan for Mission Leadership Council.. It was an amazing experience. We had a two hour discussion about the ways we can implement the iPads effectively, and it is amazing to me to see the wisdom that comes from a group of 20 year olds coupled with the Spirit of the Lord. Plus, on the way back, since we have a car, we were assigned to bring about 20 iPads back from Milan to Pisa (I hesitantly agreed to take that one for the team.....AND GO SEE THE TOWER OF PISA!!!) That was such an unexpected blessing! It is a really cool place.
Miracle This week we have had some really wonderful experiences, and have seen some great miracles! The one I would like to share is about one of our investigators, Timothy. He came to church again this past week and loved it! And to make the situation even better, we recently found out that despite the fact that he has been here in Italy for only a little over a year, he speaks and understands Italian really well! We asked a member to translate for him in sacrament meeting, and the member came up to us afterwards just glowing and happy, and told us that he is a special man. We met with him just last night, and he has been diligently reading in the Book of Mormon, and has arrived to the end of 2nd Nephi! He reccounted to us the story of Nephi building the boat, and how it was an inspiration to him of faith and diligence. He is really making some progress! What a miracle!
Everything is going well here in Montevarchi. We are seeing so many people placed into our path. I love you all and hope that you have a wonderful week! I remember you in my prayers always!
Love,
Anziano Wilson
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