Buon Natale!
This week has been a good one. From picking up my new trainee,
Anziano May, to teaching some pretty awesome people, it's been a full
week. We went to Milano early thursday morning with the Zone Leaders to
pick up our new companions from the Milano 2 chapel. It was a really
cool experience because Anziano Nielson (my trainer) was going to be
training again, so as the APs introduced us they pointed out the cool
"family ties." It's really a great opportunity to have to train a new
missionary. You learn all sorts of new stuff (or you remember all the
good stuff you shouldn't have ever forgotten).
Anyways, this week a girl named Cecilia came to Church. She was a
referral from a member, and had some interest in learning our message.
She has a boyfriend that is serving a mission in Peru right now, plus
her mom was about to get baptized in our church about 15 years ago, so
she had some questions. Unfortunately, her mom was never baptized.
Anyways, we taught her the message of the
Restoration and Joseph Smith, then introduced her to the Book of
Mormon. She seemed hesitant but said she would read and pray to God.
She is evangelical and it seemed like she had more intent to read to
prove the Book wrong than to actually read to know if it was true.
Anyways, we met with her again last night and did a quick review of the
Restoration. She said she read the first 4-5 chapters of 1 Nephi and
believed that it was the Word of God. After, we watched the
Restoration film to let her understand more about his story and search
for the truth. When the film was over the Spirit was super strong. She
told us that before coming that day, her intentions were to tell us she
wasn't coming back anymore and that she was done listening. However,
she said that when she entered the Church she changed her mind. She
said, "Prima, volevo dirvi che io non sarei venuta più. Adesso
non ho voglia andarmene." In English, "Before, I wanted to tell
you that I wouldn't be coming anymore. Now I don't want to leave." I
believe her.
-Anziano Proctor
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