Anziano Dallin Harrison: Portofino

11/16/2017

This week has been pretty good all things considered lol, we had a lot of bidoni again this week... We are working on that with our Africans. Mostly Nelly and Wilson so we will see how that goes. P-day last week was good! Really enjoyed it, church on Sunday was a little disappointing cause sacrament meeting started and we had 0 investigators there, then all of a sudden every single one of our Africans minus one so we had 5 show up and another one who we haven't taught a lesson to in a while! That was so good so in totally we had 6 there, but they all left after 2nd hour except Claytus he stayed!! He's been the one that has been really doing everything we have been asking him and is progressing really well! Oh I forgot on Saturday we met with Vincent who lives in a city north of Alessandria called Valenza we teach him normally in the train station and he has been doing really well too though! We didn't get to see Carmelo this week sadly but that's okay we will see him next week and on Sunday at church! Monday nothing crazy happened except for we played ping pong with a Romanian who was really good he isn't a member but his friend is one of the Phillipini in the ward so that was cool! Tuesday we had district meeting and that was good most of the stuff has been about the 3 missionaries that are going home before the new year, but I still enjoy it! We had English class at 8 and then went home. Wednesday we got up early and went to Milano for a new missionary training which was pretty fun! I got to see my MTC group and Anziano Rußbült everyone seems to be doing great! The work is going good! That's why today being Thursday you are all getting my email instead of Wednesday, next week will be the same way as well on of the quorum of the 70 is coming on Wednesday to speak to us so P-day will be Thursday again. Today we are going to this place called Portofino it is suppose to be beautiful on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea I will for sure send pictures from the hike and stuff besides that we aren't doing much today cause the train ride is pretty long to get there 2 ish hours so we will get there are 10 am but we have to be back in Alessandria at 6 for Italian class so we will see how that goes!

For the Spiritual side of my email this week I want to talk about Faith. It is something we have been working with our Africans a lot because the way they are when we ask them if they will come to something or doing something they will day "by the grace of God I will be there" or "do what you have asked" and then they never do it cause they believe faith is something you just need to believe in. I want everyone who is reading this email to know believing isn't the only thing you have to do in order to have faith, yes its a major part of it and you should still have it but it is a principle of action. In order for you to actually get anything out of your faith you must also act upon the things which people are asking you to do or that you want to find out you must search with faith that if you find the answer or whatever it may be that you will act on what you receive otherwise there is no point to your belief. I'm not trying to shake anyone's world up by bringing this up I just want everyone to understand how important faith really is and how you yourself can have greater faith in whatever you want! I just went on a rant I am sorry for those of you who found that boring I hope you didn't though! I love you all and hope all is well wherever you all may be!

Love,

Anziano Harrison

Don't run faster than your guardian angels can fly!