Hi!
Another great week in Cagliari. Only one month to go. Yikes! We have a new investigator named Vera. She’s from Nigeria and is a referral from Dennis (who still isn’t doing too well, by the way). Vera is great. She has a beautiful little boy named Benny who is so cute.
No-longer-inactive Susan is doing so well! We’re helping her get ready to go to the Temple to do the work for all of her ancestors. She is living the commandments and has the Spirit with her so strongly now. She’s so happy!
Saturday we did a finding activity with the Elders in centro. Sister Nelson and I were at one spot but felt like we should go to a different one. We ended up talking to a lot of people at the new spot! No one gave us their phone number, but most of them accepted pamphlets that we gave them. This whole time there was a tour bus parked near where we were. After awhile of us working there, a Chinese lady came off the tour bus and asked us what we were doing. We ended up having a wonderful talk! She accepted a Book of Mormon and gave us her contact information, which we sent to the missionaries where she lives!
Maurizio is doing pretty well. We’ve been able to see him a few times lately. He thinks very deeply about the things we talk about and asks great questions. He is scared to commit himself, but we’re helping him see that he’s way more ready than he thinks he is. He’s great! We’re meeting with Ilaria and Alfredo, the other two of the 3 musketeers, tonight.
Roberta is also doing much better lately. She has missed a couple weeks of church, but we had a great lesson with her on Monday evening and she said that she feels really empty because she didn’t go to church and hadn’t been praying for awhile. She also has a lot of fears but is so ready for baptism. After our lesson, we stayed with her for awhile and helped her with English class homework. She loves any ounce of affection we give her and is so adorable!
Other than that, we’re still busy trying to find new investigators. It’s a lot of work sometimes, but we know there are people out there who are ready for the Gospel.
I recently read the end of Moroni. This is part of a letter from Mormon to his son. In this letter, Mormon writes about the destruction of his people, their wickedness and their hatred. It’s a depressing message. But he ends saying this:
Moroni 9:25 “My son, be faithful in Christ; and may not the things which I have written grieve thee, to weigh thee down unto death; but may Christ lift thee up, and may his sufferings and death, and the showing his body unto our fathers, and his mercy and long-suffering, and the hope of his glory and of eternal life, rest in your mind forever.”
Life can be hard and depressing. There are a lot of things that happen that aren’t always fun. But through Christ, we can be lifted up. Because He suffered and died for us, we have hope. That’s the entire message of this Gospel. It’s so beautiful!
Have a good week, everyone. Vi voglio bene!
Sorella Hawkey
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