Hello!

So this week we've been wrapped up warm and trying to be inside for most of the day! But we've been blessed, tremendously. On Monday we had Zone Meeting, where all the Missionaries in Piemonte (basically the patch of land by France) came together to meet. The miracle was that while on the train to Alessandria, the Sister Missionaries from Torino met a young lady coming to study in Alessandria, who prayed only two days before for help from the Lord, and recognised her answer in the form of the Sisters on the train, and the Elders that are working in Alessandria! She has to be one of the most prepared people I've met, we didn't even teach her anything, I'd ask a question at the beginning of each principle asking her what it meant, and she'd give back a perfect answer, with no need for us to add anything. Being thrown by the lack of need to teach, I'd repeat for the next principle. We had to explain a little with Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon, but even then she understood, and seemed to believe everything that was said! She even said that God has been preparing her for this point and has been working with her for a long time. It's amazing how every little thing that happens in our lives prepares us for our greater destiny. I recognise it in myself, and in all thei nvestigators that got Baptised so far, God's been working hard, preparing these souls to come unto Him, and then there's lucky Anziano Nelson who just stumbles in and reaps the benefits! It's reinforced my testimony that every thing happens for a reason, for our eternal happiness. It's grown my testimony that there is always a reason for hope. For every tear the Lord permits us to shed for sadness, we'll shed a hundred for joy, as Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin said. I exhort you to recognise this in your own lives, reflect on how everything has made you grow and bring you to where you are now, and how even the little things have made you the man or woman you are today.

I love you all!

Anziano Nelson