This week was full of a lot of miracles! It all started when we went to the social services building in Ragusa (it was actually a huge miracle that we found it and right on time because we went early and ended up going to the wrong building and if we wouldn't have gone early we wouldn't have made it on time....miracle). The man that talked to us about serving was so kind. He was so honored and content that there were two people here asking to help and wanting to serve and he said it doesn't happen often so he wants to put us to work. The only problem is they have to organize something for us to do so he said he will call us after the holidays in January so he can have some time to plan and organize something for us to do, so let's hope for the best!!
Then we had a lesson with a member present!!!! WOOT WOOT!! We had a lesson with this really kind lady from English course. I don't know how interested she is in the gospel though. We taught her the restoration and invited her to read and pray and come to church and she agreed to all of those things! However, she mentioned that Sorella Bicchierri had tried teaching her the lessons before, so that kind of made me curious why she wasn't already baptized haha. She said she had read the Book of Mormon and prayed about it and that she didn't get an answer so we just bore testimony about the promise that Moroni gives to all who read the Book of Mormon and tried to help her understand how to recognize the spirit. Then we talked to Sorella Rushton (sorella Bicchierri's companion before me) and she said she remembers teaching someone from English course and this lady gave them back the Book of Mormon which is super sad so hopefully this time she is ready to receive the restored gospel. We haven't had the chance to see her again since that lesson.
On Wednesday we went to this older couple's house from the ward haha. The Micozzi's. They are a little bit crazy and it was a very funny experience. The husband has been sick and they haven't been able to come to church so we thought we would visit and hopefully bring a little bit of the spirit with us. When we got there I asked fratello micozzi what was making him feel sick and he responded by telling me that it was his prostate, and then he asked me if I knew what that was hahahaha. Yikes!!!!! Then we shared a message and asked if there was anything we could do to help them. Sorella micozzi said, "well I actually haven't been able to do my Christmas tree yet" and I jumped on the opportunity to do service for someone and insisted that we help do it and she accepted!!!! So we went back the next day and put up her Christmas tree. It was so fun!!! And also funny. When she made us tea she just put the tea bag in the pot that was on the stove and the string caught on fire because it was hanging in the flame of the stove.......luckily it stopped because the top of the string was wet, but it was a bit scary. Sorella Demann and I were dying laughing because she had no idea and I'm pretty sure she doesn't have the greatest eyesight anyway.
On Thursday we saw another miracle. We made a goal to show the siiunaluce video with at least one person while doing finding that day. We made sure that Heavenly Father knew of our goal and went out to find the person He wanted us to share it with. We walked for a while and there were literally no people on the streets!!! It's a little bit hard to show someone a video when there is no one to even ask if you can show it. So after a while we decided to just go in a store that didn't have anybody in it and ask the owner if we could share it with her, but she said no. We decided to just start making it to our appointment and we found this 13 year old girl walking her dog. We asked her if we could share this video and she agreed. And it may just seem like something small, but for me it strengthened my testimony that Heavenly Father truly does know and love us. He is aware of us and He hears our prayers and answers them.
This week I was studying in my scriptures and I don't usually do this because it doesn't usually work for me haha. But I opened my Book of Mormon and started reading. I had opened to Helaman chapter 13 and started reading. This chapter tells the story of Samuel the Lamanite.
v 2-4
Samuel goes into the city and starts preaching to these people and they don't want to listen to him so they cast him out, so he decides to start heading home. However, the voice of the Lord comes unto him and tells him to go back and preach to the people again the things that come into his heart. So he does exactly that. These people of Zarahemla don't want to let him in so he climbs up and stands on the wall and teaches them the things that are put in his heart.
v 39
He tells them that he hopes the anger of the Lord will be turned against them, but knows that it cannot be unless they repent.
This story really inspired me to want to be more like this courageous man. He is commanded to go back and try again after he has already been cast out. He doesn't say to the Lord that the people don't want him there, that he already tried, and that they won't listen. He just obeys. And when the people don't let him in, he finds a way to do what has been asked of him. And he ends the chapter by showing love to these people who were absolutely nothing but rude to him. He desires their salvation and that is true charity and true conversion.
Sorry if this is super long, but this is the last thing I wanted to share. We got the opportunity to watch the Christmas devotional and there was a talk in it that really helped me to understand Christmas and why we celebrate the birth of Christ. I had never before realized that there would be NO CHRISTMAS without the plan of salvation. He had to come to earth so that we could have someone to save us from our sins. Without His atonement and His resurrection, we wouldn't be able to make it back to our Heavenly Father. We shouted for joy in the premortal life because there was someone who would make this whole plan of happiness possible!! It was the Savior's sacrifice that made Holy that silent night in Bethlehem. The gift that makes the Christmas season sacred is His very life, which He gave that we might have everlasting life.
I love you all and hope you have a wonderful week!
Sorella G 🇮🇹🎄🎁❤️️
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