Ciao tutti!!
So this week has been good! Next week
is the last transfer so I will be getting a new companion, and maybe moving
cities??? but probably not because it doesn’t make sense with my companion
going home. But I love it here in Ancona, and I really want to stay to help
this branch and the members grow! I have a real love for everyone here and I am
so blessed to share this time with them and grow in this gospel together!
The other good thing about this week
was conference! I LOVE CONFERENCE! To be honest before the mission I didn’t
really understand or get excited about conference, but being out here on the
mission, doing the lords work everyday, I have come to realize the amazing
blessing we have in these days to have a prophet and 12 apostles to give us
guidance in these extremely challenging days! I am so excited and blessed to
know that we have a prophet today to give us the guidance we need. If you think
about it, its awesome! I love it! (plus its in English so us missionaries love
it) but I have not seen it all yet but what I have seen i would like to share
some thoughts. First I loved what elder Hales told us in the very first talk
about General Conference, he said "the greatest blessing that will come to
us from General Conference, will come AFTER." meaning we have to act! as I
have said it is an amazing blessing to have this opportunity to hear the
message and the guidance from the prophet and apostles, but without action this
guidance is just another good story or uplifting thought! In these days we need
the guidance, and we have it if we listen and use the guidance we receive from
our leaders! So with that, what did I get out of conference that I need to act
on! well as Anziano Dube said, we should "never look back," but
" look at what we still have to do." i personally can get content
with what I do, or what I have done. But I need to remember that there is still
so much more to do. The work of God here in Earth is to grow his kingdom, to
every nation kindred and tongue. That’s a lot of people, but when we work in
the service of God and always have "faith looking to the future" as Anziano
Dube said, we can succeed! We will succeed! But we need to have faith and act,
not just listen! I personally hope i can stay worthy enough in my life that I
can continue to do the Lords work so that every people, kindred, and tongue can
feel the lords love! I will have faith and look forward to the opportunities I
receive to help others.
The other message I received and I
wanted to share is one of hope in this life. I feel many of the talks touched
on the struggles people can go through! Life is hard.... in fact it sucks
sometimes! For me personally I have seen many people that I love struggle,
hurt, and fall; but as Uchtdorf said, " we can always rise up. We can do
it!" Rise up and follow Jesus Christ" I know the reason we can do it
and rise up over everything is because we have a Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!
We have a literal Savior, that knows each one our struggles and pains
personally! i love the quote from Anziano Holland " If the bitter cup does
not pass, drink it and press on!" Our Savior, Jesus Christ, drank of that
bitter cup. And he pressed on through every trial in this life, and he did it
perfectly! So when we fall, rise up, and know that you can do it! Trust in
Christ, Trust in the eternal atonement that he has finished for us! I know that
through the guidance of our apostles and prophets we can come closer to our
heavenly father and Jesus Christ! and I know that as we come closer we will
find hope and we will find faith to look forward and press on, because that’s
what they want for us! Through faith, prayer, and repentance we will overcome
any and all trials, I know this! I have a testimony of the love Jesus Christ
has for me! I am so grateful for what he has done for me! He is our savior! And
the church that i am a missionary for, is his church! The Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter Day Saints!
I hope you all enjoyed conference as
much as I did! and I hope you take advantage of these blessings that can and
will come after conference if you act in faith! i love this church! i love this
mission! I love you all!
ciao!
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| He did't caption these. I think they speak for themselves. Oh TYTY. |
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| Ty....this is a little...weird? We still love him! |
