Today was really neat in that we got to visit Milan and tour
around the city center! There are endless stores and restaurants and touristy
spots around it, like the Milano Duomo. There is a famous restaurant called
Luini's right in the heart of the city center that makes amazing panzerotti!
Panzerotti are basically small pizzas folded in half and deep fried, so you can
imagine how amazing that would be haha.
As far as my new area goes, however, I am loving it! There
are some really great members of the church here and some amazing investigators
that we're working with. We had a really cool miracle with a family that we
found this week. A few weeks prior, a man named Edward came to church out of
the blue with son, Kevin. They gladly accepted the invitation to have the
missionaries come over to their house and teach them, so they missionaries at
the time got his contact information and address. Some time passed and the
missionaries couldn't get in contact with them, so Anziano Engen and I thought
we'd try to pass by the address.
We found the house and looked at the names listed on the
outside of the apartment building only to not find anyone with the name Edward
listed there (which is a super common thing, since no one updates those lists).
So we figured we'd try to ring everyone's doorbell and ask each person if they
knew the person we we're looking for. But no one seemed to know anyone by the
name of Edward. We had rung about half of the doorbells when a lady and her
daughter came up to the front door of the apartment building. We asked them if
they knew Edward and the woman's response was basically, "Yes, that's my
husband, why do you ask?". Seconds later Edward and his son came walking
up to the door too. We were amazed at the timing of their arrival!
They invited us in their home and we had a great lesson
about Christ and His role as our Savior. The whole family was involved and
there was a special spirit present during the whole experience. It was a
miracle in our eyes that we could be in the right place at the right time just
to run into them and share that message. They invited us to come back this next
Sunday and we are more than excited to see them again! They are such a
beautiful family and a great bunch of people.
The Lord has a way of putting us in the right places at the
right times if we are sensitive to the promptings of the Holy Ghost. He can
make us tools in His hands to help uplift and bless the lives of others and
spread joy and happiness. It's such a privilege to be called to serve His
children in Italy for two years, but even if we aren't serving full-time
missions we can still do our small part to brighten the world with service and
compassion!
Hope you have a great week! A dopo!
-Anziano Jake Wilkinson
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