Ciao Tutti!
I hope that everyone was able to have an awesome week! We are still working really hard to meet with a lot of people and we are seeing a lot of miracles with the work and just trying our best to really help people progress. We are really loving it here in Tràpani and are really excited to be able to stay together and keep working with one another. We really work well together and we are really trying to do our best to be who the Lord would have us be. We were able to have a couple of lessons this week and one of them was super cool!
We were finding last week with the white board and talking about the most important event in history and we stopped this guy that was walking his dog, who he said was named Spanky. He stopped and we had a good conversation and he said that we could stop by some day at his house and talk with him about the Book of Mormon. Sweet! So we headed back there a few days later in the evening and we couldn’t find his name on the citofonos so we kept searching and decided to check this one last house and we finally found it. So on the citofonos (the things you ring to talk to them at apartments) if you double tap the button it is the symbol of someone that is a friend or family member or something. So we double tapped it and they just unlock it (only occasionally happens). We go up to the next one and double tap it again and it is once again unlocked with no questions. So. Now we are in business. We walk up to the door that is opened and are trying to introduce ourselves with all the unfamiliar faces of a grandmother and granddaughter. The dog comes out which is the indicator that this is the right house. I explained that we had met this guy on the street with the dog, “Spanky right?” Well needless to say that wasn’t the dogs name which was a good start. We get to talking and then the guy walks out and they just invite us in. The wife was super nice and was excited to have us in. They really wanted to know about what we believe and we were able to share the Restoration lesson with them and it went really well. The wife asked super good questions and was really interested in knowing more. It went really well, but she talked about how she could never change. That is ok though! She is super excited to read the Book of Mormon which is super awesome with us!
They wouldn’t give us a day that we could come back so hopefully we will be able to stop by again this week and see where we can go from there.
We had another good lesson with the family that we met last week and were able to read out of the Book of Mormon with them. It went really well and we read 1 Nephi 3&4:1-7 which went really well! They are super awesome, but they weren’t ready to totally commit to baptism right now. We really hope as they continue to read in the Book of Mormon, which the wife is already at Jacob, that desire will be there if they are reading with that real intent to act on the knowledge they would receive. Look forward to getting to see them this week.
Something that I really enjoyed from my study this past week was reading and article by Elder Richard G. Scott from August 1984 Ensign called “The Power of the Book of Mormon in My Life.” It was super good! It really helped me make sure that I am always rooted in the Book of Mormon no matter what. It is a book that invites a spirit unlike any other into our lives. It really is able to help us be sure that we are doing what we can to continually improve ourselves and learn more of the gospel of Jesus Christ. I am so thankful that it can become a lifeline for us. That we can turn to its pages for answers that it will continue to offer for the rest of our lives. I know that the Book of Mormon is true that it offers us so much as we pick it up each an everyday. I love this verse form the Joseph Smith Translation of Matthew.
37 And whoso treasureth up my word, shall not be deceived, for the Son of Man shall come, and he shall send his angels before him with the great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together the remainder of his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
We won’t be deceived as we treasure up the words that the Lord has blessed us with. I love you all and hope that you all have a wonderful week!
Love,
Anziano Garrett
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