Hello Everyone! 8/14/2013
Buon ferragosto!!
Tomorrow is ferragosto here in Italy, and it is possibly the biggest holiday in Italy, I believe it celebrates the Madonna. So, everyone is gone, and so for us missionaries, it is one of the big cleaning days for our apartments! I am pretty excited because it has been a good while since our house has been cleaned, and with 6 missionaries living there, it has a tendency to get pretty dirty!
So this past week our mission president and his wife were out of town, so we got more missionary work done than we usually do! And we had the opportunity to teach our brand new investigator Laura for the first time! It was incredible, there is no doubt that she has been prepared to hear our message, every question she asked was just perfect! And we brought a greenie that lives in our house to the lesson and had him do the baptismal invite, and she led him right into it by asking the question "what do I have to do to be happy and have this light and this spirit that you all have?" It was incredible to say the least and the spirit was SO strong!
Also this week we found a less active man named Mario. He is getting close to 90 and is just the tiniest most frail man, but is so cool! So we ventured out to his house last week and in total it took us about 3 hours to find it! Luckily we have began to listen to talks while we drive ( I can't handle MoTab anymore!! ) and we listened to a talk that quickly became my favorite talk for the month! It was a talk by Anziano Holland at the MTC given a couple of years ago. And he spoke on the Atonement. It was one of the most powerful talks I have ever hear. He spoke about how everything we teach as missionaries, and in turn everything we believe in is just a branch off the Atonement. And how important it is in all of our lives, and how we are all in need of it, not just our investigators, not just missionaries, but everyone.
I have actually listened to this talk twice this week because I love it so much! My testimony on the Atonement of Christ is probably the part of my testimony that has grown the most on my mission, and it truly is incredible to have the comfort that Christ has literally felt every pain and difficulty that I face here in the mission. And when I mess up, He is waiting to forgive me! How blessed are we?!
So we visited Mario and it turns out it was just the perfect time! He had really been facing some difficulties in his life and really needed some answers to his questions. He has forgotten a lot what the missionaries taught him in the past so we are going over everything with him again and he is just loving it! So rescuing the lost has been a pretty big part of the work, which is one of the most rewarding types of missionary work to do!
This past Monday was our zone conference down in Napoli, and it went super well, it was crazy because they are in a district and so our mission president has to do all the temple recommend interviews. After the conference we got to go do exchanges with the missionaries in Caserta, they were super young missionaries, and we did finding with them for 3 hours and we got 10 numbers and handed our tons of stuff, it was super cool because it got them so excited about the work and we all really learned a lot from it. Also I saw one of my friends from the MTC at the Napoli conference, Anziano Carr came up from Malta and this was the first time I had seen him in the mission so that was super cool!
And we especially didn't get a p-day today because we had the Roma East zone conference. And guess where we held it..... L'Aquila!!!!! Wonder who had something to do with that!? It was my first time being back in 7 or 8 months and I did not want to leave! Made me really miss it! And so we just got back and I got to squeeze in internet on p-day which is always a plus! I love ya'll SO much and I miss ya'll and hope that everyone's week is just awesome!!
Vi voglio tanto tanto bene!
Anziano Bird
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