July 23, 2009

I cant believe that next week is my last week to email. That is so crazy! The time sure does fly. I am excited, looking forward and ready to come home but at the same time i am going to miss the mission and the many blessings that come from it. I love my mission and am so very blessed to have worked with the Lord to bring his people back to his presence. The work is moving forward! I love this ward. They have their challenges and difficulties that they need to work out but they are such hard working and faithful saints. Half of them are south americans and they are absolutely wonderful. We prayed our first day together to find 3 families that we could work with and ask them for referals. While we were looking through the list the Aranda family stook out in our minds. It was nice that they were at the beginning of the list! We set up an apointment with them, had a great spiritual thought and invited them to bring to our next appointment friends s that we can share our message with them. They agreed. We met on Monday and there they had Her sister's husband and daughter that arrived 2 day prior from Peru. They didnt speak any italian, so we bore our strong testimonies while Sister Aranda translated and then we watched half of the Testaments. We hope that they liked it and understood it. They were exhausted so they were doozing for a little bit of it, but i am sure that they felt the spirit. They are coming to our ward FHE on Wednesday. That was 1 miracle. On Saturday we had the Baptism for Marilena (Stella) Spagnolo. She is the fieance of our ward mission leader Fabrizio Salza who is incredible! By far the best ward mission leader that i have ever had. I love that man. The baptism was so spiritual. The theme was trials, tempests, afflictions and through the Lord we can overcome it all! It does not mean that the trials wont come actually it means that more will come but we will be able to withstand them and not give into them. There Omar (a new convert) brought a friend Fernando from Mexico who is amazing. Sad to say he lives out of our boundaries but the Rome 3 elders are working with him. Sunday at lunch we had a great apointment with Jacquelin who is a new investigator. We taught her the plan of salvation. She is great. She is the only one of her family here in Italy. She has been here for 2 years and is great friends with the barrocal family. They have been friends for short time but have made a great friendship they seemed like life long friends. She came with us after to the once a year sacrament meeting in spanish. It was incredible. I have to learn spanish when i get back. I am going to try to take a class in college. Last night we had a breaking box correlation with all of the leaders. We have a lot to change in the ward and with Fabrizio we are able to do it. I just love Rome. Every day i run into someone i knew a year and a half ago. I have loved seeing the members again. I am so surprized that they remember me and that they love me, i sure do love them. The mission is incredible! I love the Lord and know that He prepares us for what we need to do. Love, Elder Beau Brewster

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