Cara Famiglia,
Well the news is that Anziano Webb and I are staying together for a third transfer! It is kind of unheard of, but the crazier thing is that our district leader is staying in Varese for his fifth! So our District will be mostly unchanged again. Anziano Anderson is actually going to open up a new coppia in Mestre, a.k.a. Venice! I am excited to stay with Anziano Webb though, he is a stud and we are both growing a lot together.
This week was really good! We didn't quite reach the goal of 20 lessons, but we did some good work. Highlights include that we were finally able to come in contact with an investigator named [Janelle]! She is American, married to and Italian guy here in Italy! And she is awesome. She first met the missionaries about the year ago and is basically half-Latter-day Saint/half-Catholic. She is a really cool lady and is really truly honestly seeking to understand whether the Book of Mormon is true. She really recognizes it's importance and definitely has the faith and everything to get an answer. She just needs to read and pray about it! She says sometimes she feels 'foreign' reading it though, I think just because it's a new book of scripture, but she committed to read as much as she could and keep praying. She is sooooooooooooo golden though! Another highlight is we came in contact with a referral from Belgium, a 16 year old Ghanaian kid named [Saul]! He is a stud! He had an Italian Book of Mormon already from the missionaries in Belgium and had read about 14 chapters in 1 Nephi! And he is basically just awesome; at the end of the lesson he asked "So when are we seeing each other again?" We are also helping Umberto make some progress, he's feeling kind of unworthy to pray and feels a lot of anger in his heart over past situations he's had to go through, but we had an awesome lesson last night with a member who bore some solid testimony and helped him realize he needs to pray! Anyway, the work is going great here in Busto and we are really excited to keep working together.
This week I would like to share as a spiritual thought basically all of Mosiah Chapter 4! It is amaaaaaaazing! Such good stuff about how the Atonement works and what blessings it can give us through the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I know that the Book of Mormon is a true book of scripture, and I am so grateful to have it in my life and be able to read it every day! I know that Jesus Christ is the Savior and Redeemer of the world and that the Atonement is real. I love you all a lot!
-Anziano Benjamin Smith
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