The 20th, whatever that was, we had
every single appointement fall through for the day, so we're doing strada [street contacting] and not
having success, so Anziano[Elder] Locklear sits down and says "Let's do a popp chart,
then we'll get the miracles." Popp charts are something the mission president made up where we
teach a principle, ask inspired question, share scripture, and bear testimony [say what you know to be true]
all under 2 minutes. So we do, and then feel we have to go to Arcore, a couple of
stops down on the train. Get off the train in Arcore, see a man sitting there,
and teach him a lesson right there on the bench at the train station. Not the
most suitable environment conducive to the spirit with loud trains roaring
past, but left him with a Book of Mormon. Then did strada for a bit, got back
on the train to Merate, got off, and exact same thing. Well, didn't give him
a Book of Mormon, but set up a return appointement and he knows one of the members so 2
miracles right there.
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| View from the train passing Lecco |
Everyday we plan on looking for a person
in particular, and describe them in detail to show the Lord we're putting our
faith to work. I think I said last week I talked about finding the woman with
brown hair and pink tanktop. This one day we decide we're teaching a South
American man in a red polo, and we spend all day looking for him in particular,
nothing. So we sit down, do a popp chart, say a prayer that we can find this
man, and 10 minutes later we find a South American man ready to hear the gospel
and we have a return appointment. And had really good popsicles that day too.
Another miracle.
And had gelatto for the first time. You know I don't really care about
quality of food, but it was really good. And coming from me that's
impressive.
Then we go to a less active who hasn't
been to church in over a year, and we read Mosiah 2 with him and his girlfriend,
and it just so happens that (I might have written this last week but I don't
think so) she read the verses about unquenchable fire ascending forever and
ever, or something like that and we didn't even plan for her to be there. But
it had an effect becuase Sunday comes and he's there in church, and she's there
too which was really cool. Oh yeah, and had 7 investigators in church on
Sunday, no big deal.
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| Some local churches - We call the one on the hill the Nauvoo Temple |
And highlight miracle of the week, all
miracles are great of course, but a man phones us up Saturday morning and says
bluntly "I want to come to your church." He's never been to church before, he's
had almost no contact with the church, I think it was an old girlfriend who was
a member. So we say, "Oh, I guess we can maybe give you the directions" And he
shows up Sunday and the members are fantastic, everybody is coming up and
talking to him, and he gets invited by a family to dinner that night and he
accepted. It was kind of funny we needed to explain the Book of Mormon in 30 seconds when
we used it to look up a scripture, but he kept on asking questions and was
really interested in not paid bishops and aposltes and a prophet and how it was
the same in Christ's day and we're like "Yeah, that's because it is Christ's
Church on the earth today. It makes sense." So we're teaching him tomorrow,
he's just super cool and super elect. And Italian, which is rare, we're mostly
teaching Africans and South Americans.
Alot of other experiences this week and
just with personal revelation I've realized how perfect God has planned
everything out and we need to be in specific places at specific times. For
example, both of us don't know what the word for queen is, I ask during a
lesson, and later that night Anziano Locklear feels inspired to use it in a
blessing, which if it wasn't for teaching a lesson earlier that first lesson, we
would not have given. If that makes any sense. But just super cool to even
sometimes just start to fathom how it's all meshed together in perfect unity and
everything is planned out so perfectly. Sets an example for us, we need to plan
out everything before we do it because that's what God did. Anyways, that's it for
this week. I'm so
happy right now serving others. And so tired and hot and sweaty, but this is
what the Lord wants me to be doing right now, along with everybody else. We can
all do missionary work. The Furthering the work broadcast about missionary work
has been shown in America, but they're showing it on Sunday here, so looking
forward to that. Anziano Laceste said it was really inspiring. Thanks for all
the support, the church is true.
God Speed,
Anziano Berg
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