Wednesday January 20, 2021
This week was so awesome!! At the beginning of the week we set goals and made plans to be able to find two new people to teach and to schedule 15 tours at the Visitor Center, making sure that at least 5 of them were from Italy. We worked really hard and we not only reached our goals, we exceeded them with 20 tours at the Visitor Center. I went through my friends list on Facebook and messaged all my friends who are Italian asking them if they would be interested in a tour. I was able to set up 14 tours by doing that! Not only were we able to stay really busy at the Visitor Center but I was able to see a lot of members, friends, and investigators from my past areas here in Italy! It was so much fun! I also had the pleasure of giving my trainer in the Mission, Olivia, and her new husband a tour and that was a lot of fun! It was so good to see and talk with her! Out of all the tours we did, one of them was with an English Course student and he has a desire to learn more so he became one of our new people to teach. The other new person was a referral from a member. We went to her house to have pranzo(dinner) and she told us that the start to her life was rough because she really didn't know who she was and always felt like the real her was being suffocated. Then she met a really good guy and got married and for 20 years it was wonderful. However, now he is handicapped and she's had 10 years of taking care of him and feeling very alone. She said because of this she feels like she has lost herself again. She shed some tears and as I bore my testimony of Heavenly Father's love for her and that we could help her find her purpose again, I shed some tears as well. It was a wonderful day with her and she became our second person to teach. My companion and I are working very well together and have been having so much fun. She really is an incredible blessing for the last transfer of my mission. I'm so happy to be with her and for all the wonderful blessings the Lord has been giving us. I am really doing all I can to enjoy every single moment for the next 6 weeks. I was also reading in the Infinite Atonement book and came across a quote that I really, really loved. It touched my heart and really made me ponder a lot. I want to share it with you as well;
". . .'Make no mistake,' He says, 'if you let Me, I will make you perfect. The moment you put yourself in My hands, that is what you are in for. Nothing less, or other, than that. You have free will, and if you choose, you can push Me away. But if you do not push Me away, understand that I am going to see this job through. Whatever suffering it may cost you in your earthly life, whatever inconceivable purification it may cost you after death, whatever it costs Me, I will never rest, nor let you rest, until you are literally perfect-until my Father can say without reservation that He is well pleased with you, as He said he was well pleased with Me. This I can do and will do. But I will not do anything less.'"
I know that our Savior loves us so very much and he is always there for us to help us along the way and lift us up. All we need to do is accept Him and allow Him to carry us.
I'm so grateful for all the Savior has done for me and for the opportunity to bear testimony of Him every day!
Love you all!
Ciao, Ciao
Sorella Acton
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