Cara Famiglia,
We are working hard here in Busto and Legnano, although we are still struggling to find new investigators. We have really improved our work with the Book of Mormon and our inviting, but we can definitely still improve. Keep praying for these people! Giuseppe is becoming a little flaky, his compagna is kind of holding up his progress. We haven't seen him, or any of our other investigators, in about a week. We taught 18 lessons last week and got some new investigators but they kind of dropped off. This week we have taught eight lessons the first two days and we have two for tonight, but they are mainly with members! Which is not a problem, but we are doing a lot of finding to harvest the elect. We unfortunately haven't been able to contact Elvis since we taught him in his house last week, but we did pass by and drop off a couple of copies of the Book of Mormon in Albanian for him and others in his family to read. But hey, even when the investigator pool is low the mission is still awesome! We see little miracles every day just to show that the Lord is preparing people. Yesterday we taught this lady a lesson on the street and talked all about Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon. And then we challenged her to baptism, and she accepted! It was great until she didn't give us her phone number. But she was really elect, and I'm really praying she reads the Book of Mormon and prays and receives her answer.
We're emailing later today because we went to Milano for P-Day and saw a castle and a smaller version of the Arch of Triumph(sp?) from Paris. I love serving in Italy, everything is awesome, including the people!
This week's spiritual thought comes from Romans 8, which is probably one of the best chapters of scripture I've ever read! In verse 18 it sums up pretty well one aspect of patience:
18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
The sufferings we have in this life are 'not worthy' to be compared with the glory that awaits us if we are following Jesus Christ! It's a pretty humbling thought. I think sometimes we lose sight of the hope of better things, which is one of the easiest traps to fall into. However, we should be constantly hoping and searching to always move towards eternal life with our Heavenly Father. I know that this church is the true church of Jesus Christ, and that it is led by a living prophet of God. I know that the Book of Mormon is true. I love you all!
-Anziano Benjamin Smith
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