What a good week!! I got some exciting news too
We got to spend a good amount of time with other missionaries on Tuesday after our district council. That was great to be around people.
We had a nice amount of outside service this week and that was so so nice to do some real work and to be outside. One family we did service is an awesome family and their oldest son just graduated from high school and we went to his open house which was super fun. It took some convincing to get my companion to go. He prefers to be in our apartment than outside and I couldn't be any more different.
Another family we got to visit with is new in our branch and they have 2 kids going out on missions within the next 2 weeks. We had a lesson with them in person at their new home, but not inside. We got some pics with their dog Figo and he's a big German Shepard.
I got my 2nd vaccine on Thursday and no side effects, which I'm super happy about. I'm really hoping covid restrictions in this mission will start to lift after this transfer. At least let us eat with members outside. What we can do is outside service and in person lessons, buuuut my super awesome companion doesn't like in person lessons so we've been doing most of them online. On Sunday I was talking to a bunch of members and said we can meet in person, which they're excited about so hopefully they'll start asking us to come in person.
For the exciting news... there's been some updates with me returning to Italy. If I can get my visa by the end of June, then I'm heading out here, but there's been some challenges with the travel office and so I'm hoping to get to Italy beginning of Italy. Either way, I know I'm going back so I'm super excited!!
Last Sunday, I gave a talk on reverence. To be honest, I never thought of reverence any more than a toddler. I was always thinking about what I'm gonna be doing, whether that day or throughout the week. Being able to study reverence taught me that its not only actions at church or in spiritual places, but its our actions and thoughts in every day life. Reverence is love and respect.
i am currently in the Minneapolis, Minnesota mission, hoping to go back to my original mission; Milan, Italy mission.
The best thing about being a missionary is getting to know and serving people.
As a missionary, i have learned that Jesus Christ will come to each of us in each of our circumstances. His grace does not require anything, because the full price of justice was met with each drop of blood from every pore of Jesus Christ. One thing i have learned is during his moments of unimaginable pain, He turned outward and focused on each of us. He has never left anyone behind and he never will. He walks with us down every dark road we wander down. There is nothing, other than the unpardonable sin, that will keep us from the reach of His Atoning sacrifice which he made out of love for each of us. His love is personal. His grace is priceless. His arms are waiting to embrace us when we turn to Him. He loves us all and has given us the ultimate example of love and charity, long suffering and forgiveness. He is everything, because without Him, we are absolutely nothing. Jesus Christ gave His life so that each of us can have ours.
My mission has helped me to repent, which enabled me to turn and face Him and to know Him. Because i know Jesus Christ, i know of the power in His Atonement, and i am forever indebted to Him.
Frisbee Golfing
Little friend at a member's home
Tacos from the open house
