☺Ciao tutti!
A lot of great things happened this week. I will tell you about a few of them!
We were doing finding in Città Alta and I had a huge stack of bigliettini (this is what we call pass-along cards), and I was determined to hand all of them out. At the end of the finding activity, we were speed-walking (like dignified missionaries haha) for the bus, and I still had like 7 bigliettini left. Once we actually got on the bus, I had 2 left, and I thought, "oh man, I wanted to hand the rest of these out..." and then I noticed a woman sitting behind us on the bus that I wanted to hand one to. I told her about how we are missionaries and pointed to the web address on the back where she could find a video about Jesus Christ. Then I said to the other missionaries, "Only one left, and I didn't do it!" Then the same woman tapped me on the shoulder and asked if I had another one that she could give to her friend. It was a perfect little miracle.
Also earlier this week we were calling old potential investigators-- people that missionaries have met and wanted to teach but have not been able to. We called one woman who told us that she is too busy all the time to see us and that she would tell us when she is free. This is a pretty typical response, so I asked if there was anything we could do for her and wished her a good evening, and said goodbye. We didn't expect a call from her, but the next day she called us. She was like, "I just wanted to call and say hello because you are always so sweet and say hello to me so I wanted to call you this time." It was so sweet
😭 I have hope for this woman. I love when little miracles happen throughout the week. Saturday lunch to Sunday lunch, we fasted to find people that we could teach, among other things. On Saturday night, I felt so hangry
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and was considering breaking my fast becaue I'm a weakling, but I was
like "no I shouldn't because I know something really good will come out
of this fast if I am this tempted to break it." So I didn't break my
fast early, and we went to church the next day. We received a referral
for a family that wants to be taught and baptized, an engaged couple
that just moved into the area from Ukraine that is already familiar with
the church, and the news that we could start seeing an old investigator
again (who we had to stop seeing for a bit because of home problems).
Basically we got 3 golden referrals. And I know with certainty that it
was because of our fast. That was another miracle that happened this
week. We visited an inactive that we see once a week, and she was watching Little House on the Prairie in Italian. My love for her grew probably one million times what it was before.
The end of this week was hard for me. This work is really emotionally exhausting, and sometimes I get down when things don't seem to work out, such as people not answering our contact attempts for days, weeks, or even months, or when it feels like the people we teach aren't progressing, etc. I have been praying a lot lately. And I have been blessed with the ability to see the tender mercies of the Lord more easily. People still don't answer their phones, but I am happier when I realize that the Lord's hand is truly in His work. David A. Bednar once said, "Sometimes we may ask God for success, and He gives us physical and mental stamina. We might plead for prosperity, and we receive enlarged perspective and increased patience, or we petition for growth and are blessed with the gift of grace. He may bestow upon us conviction and confidence as we strive to achieve worthy goals. And when we plead for relief from physical, mental, and spiritual difficulties, He may increase our resolve and resilience." God gives us so many opportunities to grow, but He never gives us anything we can't handle.
I am attaching a pic of the inside of a duomo at Città Alta and downtown.
Vi voglio bene!
Sorella Johnson
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