Wednesday, November 13: Charity is transformative
Wednesday, November 13: Charity is transformative
I'm halfway done with my mission.
WHAT?!?!? 
craziness.
craziness."The best is yet to come for those who spend their lives building up others."
Charity
is the pure love of Christ. Charity defines a peacemaker. Charity is
the answer to the contention in this world. It chases away pride- the
source of that contention. And it allows us to stand as witnesses of God
at all times- especially in tense situations! As we humble ourselves
and pray to God with all the energy of our hearts, he will give us this
gift! President Nelson has promised that as we seek for and demonstrate
the gift of charity, "the Lord will magnify your efforts beyond your
loftiest imagination." I invite everyone to ponder on how we can
increase our charity <3
We
had a HUGE miracle this week. Our friend Alessio accepted the
commitment to be baptized on December 1st! Here's the kicker- when we
went to put in his baptism date in the pmg app he was still in our
UNCONTACTED referrals!! Huh??! Ok storytime- Thursday night we got a
call from one of our members, Sorella Conforte. She told us that one
year ago she met a woman while playing hymns on the piano in the Milano
airport. Miraculously they were on the same flight and were sitting next
to each other! Sorella Conforte felt prompted by the Spirit to teach
the woman the plan of salvation during the flight, not knowing that she
had just lost a close relative. Flash forward to now, over a year later,
as God has been slowly preparing this family to receive the full
message of the gospel. Sorella Conforte said that the family was ready
to come to church and the woman's son, Alessio, wanted to take the
lessons from the missionaries. Friday night we did a video call with
Alessio and after teaching about covenants and our purpose as
missionaries we read Mosiah 5:7-8:
7
And now, because of the covenant which ye have made ye shall be called
the children of Christ, his sons, and his daughters; for behold, this
day he hath spiritually begotten you; for ye say that your hearts are
changed through faith on his name; therefore, ye are born of him and
have become his sons and his daughters. 8 And under this head ye are
made free, and there is no other head whereby ye can be made free. There
is no other name given whereby salvation cometh; therefore, I would
that ye should take upon you the name of Christ, all you that have
entered into the covenant with God that ye should be obedient unto the
end of your lives.
Later we asked Alessio his thoughts. He simply said "Vorrei battezarmi". (I want to be baptized.)
This
man is so prepared. The elect exist you guys, and he is living proof.
He said the closing prayer and me and Sorella Briscoe were both crying
our eyes out, the Spirit was so present. We've done 2 more lessons since
then and in every one he is so engaged and eager to learn and gain his
own personal testimony, it's so fun teaching him. I feel so humbled and
blessed to help Alessio prepare for his baptism and be a part of God's
plan for him. YAY!!!
We
got to go to Rome this week for zone conference and saw some of my fav
people:) always so fun being together with other missionaries and
feeling united- especially on temple grounds!
God is good! I love serving Him.
Sorella McCune
(photo from mission conference with Elder Stevenson a couple weeks ago!!!)
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