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| Anziano Spencer, Anziano Gay & Anziano Ridd |
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| Anziano Ridd & Anziano Stratton, on a scambio in Castellammare |
Good
morning, America! And...good luck.
Hey
family!
So this
week was pretty okay. I have been kinda fat recently and just started to run
again. So at the beginning of the week - when I wasn't running - I was way tired
at the end of the day. Lesson learned was “run.” So yay!
Anyways,
with that outa the way, I'll talk about the week. As for district affairs, on
Wednesday I taught our addestramento at ddm. It went really well. I trained on
a specific topic that President Nelson discussed in the conference. He pointed out
the pattern of how the Lord teaches. The pattern is: The Lord tells who He is,
then tells them who they are, then He teaches them. As for missionary work,
this is really important. I can't tell how many times I was teaching someone
and then I realized that these people don't realize these basic things: Who
they are (children of God) and then, who we are (messengers of God). If they
don't understand that, then they don't understand our purpose and we aren't
taken seriously. So I think it went well. I enjoyed my study of it.
Districts
happenings #2 - The scambio with Anziano Stratton. So the same day, we did a
scambio. I hit up Castellammare. It was super good and fun. Anziano Stratton is
in Anziano Youngblood's group and he is a beast. He comes from Oklahoma and is
another football player. We have an awesome district.
Investigator
happenings - More people had to be put on the back burner this week, sadly. But
it happens. That's what it takes to fulfill our purpose and the Lord's goals.
So we met with a bunch of new people. Well, we wish we met with more, but now
our phone is almost clean of contacts. So we can start fresh with that. We taught a lot of interesting people, including a deacon in the Catholic
Church. That...is not recommended. Testa dura. The cool thing is I have been
growing my testimony of the Apostasy.
Then C.
He is pretty awesome, but he let me down hard this week. We met with him on
Tuesday. It was a REALLY long lesson, but really good. We taught about our
purpose, and why we do what we do as missionaries. (He is kind of a missionary
too.) Then we talked about baptism. I learned more about baptism than I ever
have before and maybe I'll share a bit. But with him, we shared Doctrine and
Covenants 39. We related it to his life and offered the privilege of baptism.
He said that he knows this church is the true church of Jesus Christ restored
on the earth today. He says that he learned that from the Spirit, and is not
sure about baptism because he is not sure if it's the right time. So he
promised to do all he could to receive the answer whether to be baptized or
not. (At least on the day we talked about). He said he would read the Book of
Mormon more, pray, and FAST and come to church. Well. He didn't come to church
this week, and that was super sad. We will meet him again on Tuesday. I can't
wait for him to feel the joy of strengthening his relationship with
Christ.
On Sunday,
F had us over for lunch. It was amazing, and we also met her son, G. He is 21
and is studying languages. So we got along super well. We ended up talking
about the differences between America and Italy, and other things of the sort.
He then declared that Napoli is the capital of disorder (title explained). I
love their family, because it is like an extension of my family, hahaha.
A lot of
thought went into baptism this week. So I thought I would share a bit about it.
The common concern has been brought up to me this week. "Why is it so
important to be baptized?" Simply answered, Jesus did it. He did it and he
didn't have NEED of a cleansing of sin. He did it to be obedient to the Father.
If that example doesn't please you, I would like to put it another way as well,
(I do also want to note that Jesus sought out John the Baptist to do this
sacred ordinance, because John has the Authority, or Priesthood, to do it). Ok,
my answer. The answer is the same as the answer to the question, "Why do
we get married?" That just leads to more questions, but I'll just jump
into why - because we love someone. When we love someone, we want to give them
everything - our hearts, minds, and everything in our power. But that's not it.
If it were just that, it wouldn't be love. We want to commit. As with dating
someone, if we want to further our relationship, we want to commit, or get
married. If we want to further our relationship with our Savior, Jesus Christ,
we commit and get baptized. Simply put, without commitment, the relationship
between us and our Savior can't progress. Jesus Christ, the only person to come
to the Earth and live a perfect life, lived it for you. He was abandoned,
betrayed, and felt every single kind of sorrow, pain, affliction. He felt
anything you have personally felt. He knows you, and did it for you. He died
for you. He did this so you can return to your Heavenly Father, and have
eternal joy. He loves you. This is true. I leave this truth in Christ's name. Amen.
I love
you all!
Anziano
Ridd
PS - I
got a beast companion.
Shout out
to Anziano Gay who leaves after this week!!
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| Loving the Napoli pizza! |
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| Anziano Youngblood & lunch |
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