We had a funeral last Wednesday that I really didn’t understand much of at all, but that’s OK.\u00a0 It was still nice.<\/p>\n
We had a lesson with a potential [investigator<\/span>] we stopped last week and she is awesome!!\u00a0 We told her we would only take 20 minutes, but she got off work a little late so then she said she only had 10 minutes.\u00a0 We ended up teaching a 40 minute lesson.\u00a0 We talked about the Restoration and she seemed really interested.\u00a0 I am excited to be able to see her again and I think we will be able to see her on Saturday and I think she will try to make it to church too!!<\/p>\n Thursday we spent most of the day getting to the hospital to administer a blessing to an elderly woman who a less-active lady named Linda takes care of.\u00a0 It was a long haul there and we ended up going to the wrong hospital at first.\u00a0 It was a nice experience for sure.\u00a0 The priesthood isn’t for the use of the people who hold it for themselves, but it is used to bless and serve the lives of others.<\/p>\n We had another English course and I just love to see the people there and they are all a lot of fun to teach.\u00a0 We have a couple of investigators from the course, but I hope to have the opportunity to be able to teach more of them soon.\u00a0 We always share a spiritual thought at the end and I think that they all really enjoy that.<\/p>\n Friday we had a lesson with a guy named Marcello [name changed<\/span>].\u00a0 He has trouble keeping the commitments.\u00a0 We are going to try to work with him, and it’s just hard for him to understand that the scriptures can still apply to our lives today.<\/p>\n We also had a lesson with a man named Mariano [name changed<\/span>] who is going through a lot of trials in his life, but really has a desire to do better.\u00a0 We had a another lesson with him yesterday and he accepted a baptismal date, but we want to be sure that he is fully ready for that so we will have to work hard with him.<\/p>\n Saturday we had a lesson with someone on the street that we had met.\u00a0 His name is Ahmed [name changed<\/span>] and he is from Bangladesh.\u00a0 He speaks a lot of different languages and is a very smart man.\u00a0 We shared the Book of Mormon in Bangladesh with him before that lesson and he has been reading!\u00a0 He really wants to find that right religion in his life and we talked about the restoration and he even got more interested.\u00a0 We haven’t heard from him since, but he is busy with work.\u00a0 We really hope that he will meet with us again.\u00a0 He is really awesome and super friendly.<\/p>\n Church was really nice Sunday.\u00a0 I still \u00a0can’t understand everything and so I feel like it is hard for me to totally focus the whole time because I have to really focus on what they are saying to fully get something out of it.\u00a0 I am getting better at understanding, but still feel as is if I can talk way more than i can understand.<\/p>\n We had a lesson with Martina and Luciana [names changed<\/span>] who are friends that live together and are both investigating the church.\u00a0 They are super awesome and super ready for baptism I think.\u00a0 They really understand things and Martina is already in Alma 7 of the Book of Mormon which is awesome!!\u00a0 Luciana is still trying to be better at reading but they both have a desire to do what is right and follow Jesus Christ.\u00a0 Martina said something I really liked.\u00a0 She likes how organized the Church is.\u00a0 I love that we can go anywhere in the world and the church is the same everywhere.\u00a0 The differences are very subtle such as language or order of sacrament and classes, but all the things we teach and our message is the same all over the world.\u00a0 I love that.<\/p>\n Monday we had a lesson with an elderly man named Riccardo [name changed<\/span>]and it went really well!!\u00a0 The only thing that is hard for him, he said, is having faith.\u00a0 Developing faith is really hard.\u00a0 It isn’t meant to be easy though.\u00a0 The Lord wants to make sure that we are willing to continue to act on our faith even after we receive answers to our prayers and such.\u00a0 It’s something that we continue to develop over the course of our lives.\u00a0 We have to have action to have faith though.\u00a0 Faith without works is dead.\u00a0 James 2:20:\u00a0\u00a0But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?<\/em>.\u00a0 We have to do our part and the Lord will bless us accordingly.\u00a0 I love Alma 32 on faith.\u00a0 We have to just do all we can to act on our faith and we will be rewarded as it says in Alma 32:41-43.\u00a0 As we nourish the word of god and we continue to read, pray, and do all we can to do right in our lives, we can taste the fruit of our labors.\u00a0 The harder we work the sweeter the fruit.<\/p>\n I can see that in my life with my Book of Mormon reading.\u00a0 That book has changed my life.\u00a0 I desire to do better in my life and I continually learn more and more. I love the Book of Mormon so much and I know that it can bring so much happiness in our lives just like this gospel can too.<\/p>\n Tuesday was the conference with Elder Bednar which was so super awesome.\u00a0 I could feel the spirit so strong there and it was just so amazing.\u00a0 He said so many great things and I will try to share some of those things with you now, but i am running out of time.\u00a0 We really didn’t talk about ipads much at all.\u00a0 We talked about our purpose as missionaries and he did a Q and A session, much like he did at the youth conference we had [a couple of years ago, when Elder Bednar’s son, Michael, was the stake YM President and Elder Bednar came to the conference to visit with the youth of the two stakes<\/span>].\u00a0 It was super friendly, warm, and cheerful.\u00a0 I love Elder Bednar.\u00a0 He truly listens to the needs of us and teaches through the spirit.\u00a0 One thing that I really enjoyed regarding testimonies was that we have to share them.\u00a0 He gave a quote from Brigham young “A man gains more of a testimony standing on two feet than he does on his knees.”\u00a0 I really loved that.\u00a0 It shows that, over time, we will know that bearing that isn’t only our work, but that the spirit is there with us.\u00a0 And that spirit is what teaches and testifies to others.\u00a0 We are just merely instruments in the Lord’s work to help bring that spirit to others.<\/p>\n I have a lot more I want to share on that conference that I will have to tell you all about Monday.\u00a0 Sorry!!<\/p>\n Yesterday we had miracle that I want to share.\u00a0 We do have miracles a lot too.\u00a0 It’s so awesome.\u00a0 So I was going to the bathroom at the church after we got a lesson dropped.\u00a0 After I came out I come to find that my companion is talking to a guy that walked into the church.\u00a0 I thought that he was member.\u00a0 Come to find out that he is from Nigeria and has been in Italy for 9 months and hasn’t been able to find the Church here.\u00a0 He went [to church<\/span>] in Nigeria on loves it.\u00a0 He talks about how it is one big family.\u00a0 He didn’t recognize the name of the church in Italian and had no clue it was our church.\u00a0 He lives right around the block too!!\u00a0 He works at the Nigerian Embassy and now he has finally found the church here!\u00a0 We met his wife too.\u00a0 So awesome.\u00a0 We are going to go see them tomorrow.<\/p>\n I have to go.\u00a0 Sorry I was short on time today!!\u00a0 I will tell you more about the conference on Monday and talk about what I did today on my p-day.\u00a0 Sorry for no pictures this week either!\u00a0 I have a ton too!!\u00a0 I will talk to you all on Monday!!!<\/p>\n Love,<\/p>\n Anziano Taylor Garrett<\/p>\n Note:\u00a0 Taylor did send one picture this week, the photo of Anziano Mika and him.\u00a0 It was taken at the mission conference on Tuesday.\u00a0 The other photo was from Sorella Marsh’s blog<\/a> and shows the missionaries ready to hear from Elder Bednar.\u00a0 Taylor is just to the left of the base of the pillar.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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