He Shall Prepare a Way

Ciao tutti! This week was sort of just like any other in Italy. We had zone conference yesterday (which is why my p day is Thursday this week), interviews on Friday, scambio (exchanges), and a lesson with Ayisat and some less-actives. Ayisat's progress wasn't as awesome this last lesson (she couldn't sit still and listen the whole time), but her husband finally stayed and participated for a lesson! So we are hoping to teach him too. The sad thing is, they are getting kicked out of their house and have nowhere to go, so we can only teach Ayisat in member's homes now, and the odds are that Akeem won't actually be there at those lessons. But hopefully they find a house soon... The problems with the refugees here are really serious right now and a lot are homeless and without work.

The weather outside has been so nice this week! Sorella Berrey and I did our studies outside during our scambio! Thank goodness the snow is finally gone...

I would say one of my highlights from this week was visiting a less-active member from Albania. We received an email from her daughter who lives in America asking to go see her because she had just moved to Italy and has a hard time getting to church due to health problems. Well we went, and it was one of the most interesting and spiritual lessons I have ever had. Her English is so-so, but she talked all about her overcoming breast cancer, and now has brain cancer. But she was soooo happy when she saw us that she started crying! She really is the sweetest old lady ever and has amazing faith.

I wanna share with you all a little spiritual thought that I learned in Zone Confence yesterday. I'm sure a lot of you know the scripture 1 Nefi 3:7, that says, "I will go and do the things which the Lord hath commanded, for I know that the Lord giveth no commandment unto the children of men, save he shall prepare a way for them that they may accomplish the thing which he commandeth them."  Nephi had such amazing faith! I think sometimes this amount of faith seems unreachable in us "normal human beings." But there's another scripture a chapter back in 1 Nefi 2:16, that says, "wherefore, I did cry unto the Lord; and behoold he did visit me, and did dsoften my heart that I did belive all th words which had been spoken by my father..." So we see here that Nefi's faith wasn't instantenous! He prayed for it, asked for it, and took some courage for him to believe it. But the Lord softened his heart, and he was able to do the hard things that he was asked to do. I know that if we will do the same thing, that we can have a similar experience! God will answer all of our prayers, and we can exercise the faith necessary to do anything that God asks of us because we know that He will prepare a way.

Okay so I didn't mean to go off on that long spiritual thought haha. But I love you guys! The Book of Mormon is awesome so keep reading and praying about it! That is something I'm trying to do every day. Vi voglio un sacco di bene! Ciao!

Sorella Henderson

zone conference March 2018

sorelle of Bologna (transfer 3)

Bologna district (March 2018)