Great week, mainly because Ferie [holiday month in Italy] is over and people are on the streets again. Met a bunch of people this week who knew about the church already too, like "Mormon was a prophet, right?" so that was really cool.
Also went to Arcore, and they have a park there, do a lap and not a lot of people are out, nobody is interested, we sit down to take a break, and a man walks up and sits down and we talk about religion, that was a super cool lesson. He's a pastor of a different church and says he casts out devils, but we can work on that. Miracle lesson right there. And he and a couple other people we met this week asked the perfect question, "So what makes your church different than others?" And we can explain Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon and prophets today.
Same thing happened 2 days later with the question, we're walking past a playground and a couple approaches and say "You look like you speak english" and then the question and we explain what we're doing and what we believe. They said we just look American, regardless of accent. I'm not sure if that's a compliment or insult, but they were really nice and left a really good impression on them.
Our record for lessons taught in one day so far was 4, smashed it with 6 today. Ironically Sept. 1, Ferie ends Aug. 31. But we try to set a goal of 15 lessons a week, and we're at 13 lessons at 8:30 at night, we just taught our neighbour on the same floor (which is another miracle, they're Muslim but open to us sharing our beliefs, just started teaching them last week) and we desperately need to update the area book, so we're thinking of doing that. But we're so close to 15 lessons, get back out on the street and teach 2 street lessons in an hour. Super miracle, I've never done that before. And one of them we're doing our usual route, and we both feel we need to go another way, we do and less than a minute later we teach this man.
Big news here, Anziano [Elder] Locklear is going to Busto to train [be companions with a brand new missionary] again and I'm staying here with 2 missionaries, making a 3some. Big changes in the apartment too, no idea where we're going to put an extra bed, but taking the train to Milano centrale tommorrow morning for transfers. Anziano Hillyard I know from Muggio, and don't know Anziano Greene. But I'll be in my 3rd tranfer [generally 6 weeks], and them in 4th and 5th, so fairly young I can't say companionship, but you know what I mean.
Went to eat with E., our great investigator, and he talked the whole time, even during the meal, about doctrine. Didn't talk about sports or the weather or anything else, wanted to know more about the priesthood, so we read sections of D&C 20 with him.
And Anziano Locklear was the district leader, don't know if I said that already, challenged the district to read the Book of Mormon in this transfer, so I finished it this week and I prayed about it again, and felt a spark start in the middle of my chest and spread outward, all the way down my arms and I just couldn't stop smiling during the prayer. I love the Holy Ghost, the feelings I get from it when he testifies are so unique and cool. No doubt in my mind if the Book of Mormon is true, whenever I read it and pray about it I just feel so good and so peaceful.
That's all for now, folks. Thanks for all the prayers and support. Read the Book of Mormon and pray about it, you'll receive an answer. Ciao ciao all, same time next week?
Thought I was going to end on a spiritual reference, but I just thought of Megamind right then [Mom mentioned a favourite quote a few weeks ago as an inspirational thought] .
Communque,
Sinceremente,
your favourite missionary,
Anziano Berg
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