Chapter Five: The 6th Epistle of Anziano Stewart to the Sicilians

It's the 7th of November and we still sleep with the fan on....

Man, mom, you just overloaded my head!!!  Too much crazy, amazing, strange news!!!  Abby decided to start her papers next month, Brynn is going to China, James is getting married, Adam is going to Chicago on a mission, Jessica is a mom, and missionaries are getting mission calls to Taiwan temporarily until they can go to China!!!!!!!!!!!!  HOLY COW!!!!!!!!  I'm not sure how to take all this information!!  I guess just say hello to everyone for me, tell James I expect an invitation even if he knows I can't come. =)

Milazzo

This week flew by just like every week, but that's not new...yesterday we were part of one of the most profound miracles that I've ever seen.  For about a month, there has been a family that has been coming to activities in church and yesterday we felt very strongly that we needed to call them and see if we could meet to start teaching them the lessons.  When we called she was crying and started to tell us about all of her problems, but in the end she told us that we could meet.  Well later on in the day we went to see them. (Which was kind of difficult to find their house) We got to their home and said hello and everything, then right after we said the opening prayer, their mom just started bawling.  It turns out that she was so hopeless and desperate because of all their problems and difficulties that she had decided to take her life that very morning.  

But because we called (and it was the very last thing that she expected) she decided not to do it.  Then, throughout the lesson we found out that more or less the whole family is at their last thread.  But by the end of the lesson they were very optimistic and happy and excited even to learn about the restored gospel and for the blessings that await them.  It was really an amazing experience.

About the Mostro dei Mostre (the monster of street displays) it went really well!! The first day there was a flood!!!!! it rained a ton!! But we were still out there (under a pavilion of course) but the other days there were clear skies and a ton of people.  It was very tiring to be out there standing, stopping people etc. from 10 am to 8 pm, but it really brought fruits.  We have upwards of 30 people who want to know more and even more who are interested, and we wont even talk about English course.  It was amazing.  The city hall will allow us to do it 2 other times before Dec. 31 so we're going to do one for Christmas time and another just whenever.

We have 2 dates right now, one with Nicole and the other with Pina.  It's almost sure that Nicole’s will go through, but for Pina's, we're really going to have to work.  She has to just bite the bullet and buckle down.  She knows what she needs to do but she just doesn't do it.  It's maybe the most irritating thing to see.  Because I understand if some people don't know or understand certain things so they do wrong things but she knows that she needs to come to church and that she has to stop smoking but in the end that's not what she does.  However she does want to be baptized, a lot! So hopefully that will be her motivation to do it.

Everything else here is great; I absolutely love missionary work!! It's such a blessing to be able to help in this great work.  I know that it's the Lord that he is at the head of all of this.  Tell everyone that I love them and have a great week!!

Alma 34:38 =)

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"Look inside yourself, you're more than what you've become.  Remember who you are."  The Lion King 

Anziano Stewart