The first piece of news is that I'm staying in Busto with Anziano Webb for another transfer! It is good, we work really well together and are seeing a lot of miracles. Our zone almost stayed the exact same actually. One change is that Anziano Kimball is going to be the new zone leader in Como though! He's a stud.
Also the big news that I foolishly forgot to mention last week is that this Saturday Rafael is getting baptized! He passed his interview on Saturday so he's good to go. It's gonna be excellent, like I said before he's already set to go to the temple with the ward in October. We're really excited! In other news, Wilson the Brazilian is also still awesome. Every time we teach him his responses to questions make him seem like he's already a member. The only problem is his ridiculous work schedule that makes it hard to have appointments. But he's reading and praying and really getting a testimony. Angelo, another awesome investigator should also be getting back from vacation this week, so we're really excited about how the work is going.
This week we had a tender mercy from the Lord. It was Sunday night and we were struggling at the end of a difficult week. We had been having statistically our worst week of the transfer and were kind of bummed out. So we were doing some casa and hoping for a miracle. And it happened! We got in and taught an awesome Restoration lesson to a family of five Italians! They are so awesome. The mom was super interested and the dad was cool too, and they have three daughters. We challenged them to baptism right then and they said that if they know it's true they will do it. We were stoked! I really think they are promising, and we are really excited to go back and teach them tomorrow. We also found this awesome guy on the street the other day named Mohammed! He is a non-practicing Muslim guy from Morocco, but he gave us his phone number and address so we decided to go see him. Turns out he's super awesome and really receptive to the Book of Mormon and our message. He even prayed correctly at the end of the lesson! So we have high hopes for him as well.
This week in my Book of Mormon reading I started the war chapters in Alma. I really liked how it talks about the causes of why the Nephites and Lamanites were fighting. In Alma 43 it talks about how the Lamanites were simply fighting because they were inspired and stirred up to anger by the wicked leaders, and that they were fighting 'like dragons.' But then in verses 45-46 it says:
45Nevertheless, the Nephites were inspired by a abetter cause, for they were not bfighting for monarchy nor power but they were fighting for their homes and their cliberties, their wives and their children, and their all, yea, for their rites of worship and their church.
I really liked the idea of being inspired 'by a better cause.' As missionaries it seems sometimes like we're at the forefront of the battle against the adversary, and he definitely fights like a dragon sometimes. But it helps a lot to remember that we are inspired by a much better cause, the best one in the history of the universe. I know that the message of Jesus Christ that we bring can overcome any opposition and as we are here working to find the elect the Lord is helping us. The gospel is sooooooooo true. I love you all!
-Anziano Benjamin Smith
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