July 17, 2013

Ciao tutti!

These last two weeks have been very busy sorry I didn't have a chance to write a big email for you all last week.  So to begin with the highlight of these last two weeks was we had a missionary activity for the youth of the stake called MTC and it went great!  What happened with this activity was all of the youth for one day came to Torino and we all went to the city center and did missionary work with them!  It was super cool.  They split us up into groups and we went with them to talk to people.  The leaders asked us not to say much but if we saw that they were struggling to give them a hand.  At the beginning the kids in my group had a hard time talking to people they were super nervous which is normal so finally one of the girls says guys we need to pray!  So right there they said a quick prayer and then split up.  After that happened one of the first people they talked to stopped, listened, and were able to receive a book of Mormon!!  It was amazing as well because this woman asked some tough questions but they were able to answer all of them!  Super cool experience I would say all of the youth that came had a good time and alot of them want to serve missions now.  At the end of this activity we went to Piazza Castello (City center) and the youth sang hymns.  Many people stopped and the full time missionaries were able to walk up to them and talk a little bit more about us.  It was a nice to hear them and you could definitely feel the spirit as they sang.  

The day after we had another activity put on by the missionaries which was a multi culture activity.  Since we have alot of people in our ward from around the world we thought it would be a good idea that they would all come with a traditional plate, dance and something interesting about their culture.  The activity was nice and we ended up finding a new investigator from it.  Lots of Peruvian food, African, different types of food from all over the world.  I really enjoyed it.

This last weeks miracle is basically a testimony of service.  It reminds me of how Ammon served the King of the Lamanites and saw some success.  What ended up happening was one day we were doing some finding work and we get a call from one of the inactive people that we've been trying to reactivate.  Anyway he asks us to come to his house as soon as possible because he had a few things to move.  We go there move some furniture and the daughter of the less active and her boyfriend we there as well.  The boyfriend (whose not a member)  ended up asking us a few questions about church (why don't you drink coffee/tea) questions like that and in the end we invited him to church.  The next day he came and loved it.  In the last hour I was sitting by him and he whispers to me, "where can I write my name?"  I was confused but what he ended up wanting to say was I want to be a member!!  Haha so I told him this next Friday we would come to his house and talk to him about becoming a member.  Really cool miracle.  As of the work right now it's going pretty good we are still looking for new investigators but we have alot of new converts and less actives as well.  This week as well we went to Novara and Mustafaraj interviewed someone for baptism and he passed.  Also last week I went to the Alps again.  Really cool because we got to see 3 castles and it was just beautiful everything I couldn't believe that I was there.  Today not much going on we are just going to rest but next week I could be transferred I'm not sure though we'll see hope all is going well with you at home love you all!

Anziano Thomas