Dear recipients of this letter,
So this week was a little harder than
last week. It was filled with a
lot of talking to Italian strangers
about Jesus and most all of them
not wanting to listen. I mean with all
the rejection I guess when I
get home and lots of girls say no to
dates I'll be able to take the
"no's" a lot better. This is
just practice haha.
Anyway, so this week besides just going
door to door and talking to
people on the streets we did some other
stuff. On Wednesday we had a
worldwide mission training session which
was pretty cool. Basically
the people in charge of missionary work
for the church, including Neal
L. Anderson, David A. Bednar, and Dallin
H. Oaks talked to us about
how we can basically be better
missionaries. It was pretty cool even
though the Internet at the church was
slow and it took an extra hour
to watch a 2 hour broadcast, it was
still cool.
Let's fast foreword to Sunday. After
church Sunday we went to a
members house and had lunch which was
cool but the cool part was that
we played a game of monopoly and I won
so I'm basically the champion
Entrepreneur. Swag. Then Sunday night
had some good fun. We did dinner
with our landlord Danilo. He told us the
week before that he wanted
some American food so last night we made
Barbecue Bacon Cheeseburgers.
We like that. We found some cheddar
cheese for the burgers, some thick
cut bacon, we caramelized some onions,
and then I made some of that
good barbecue sauce cuz I'm that good.
But lemme tell you what, them
burgers were #freakinggood. Honestly I'm
pretty proud of how they
turned out haha
Speaking of pride though, I've been
thinking about it a little bit
this week. Honestly, going from house to
house to talk to people about
Jesus is a little tiring. People aren't
super excited about it usually
and then sometimes you disturb them
because it's 7:30 PM and way to
late to be knocking on their door so
they yell some mean words at you.
Which happened and after tbh I got a
little pissed. I was like "I'm
literally trying to help you right now,
lady. I came all the way from America
to make YOUR life better and ya don't
even want it?!?" Then I sat down
and realized that God might be letting
these people tell me I need to
humble myself.
That's the thing about pride. It's
sneaky, it comes upon us even when
we are trying to do the right thing. But
I guess we need to more fully
understand what pride is, according to
Ezra Taft Benson:
"Most of us think of pride as
self-centeredness, conceit,
boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness.
All of these are elements of
the sin, but the heart, or core, is
still missing.
The central feature of pride is
enmity--enmity toward God and enmity
toward our fellowmen. Enmity means
“hatred toward, hostility to, or a
state of opposition.” It is the power by
which Satan wishes to reign
over us."
To be honest for a moment and a couple
moments after I had a little
bit of enmity toward that women but I
quickly learned something,
"Selfishness is one of the more
common faces of pride. “How everything
affects me” is the center of all that
matters--self-conceit,
self-pity, worldly self-fulfillment,
self-gratification, and
self-seeking." I was selfishly
sitting there in my own self-pity
trying to tell myself it was her fault.
In the end pride is sneaky,
it'll getcha if you're not careful. So
watch out. Anyways, love you
all. Hope you have a good week :)
Burger Night with Danilo
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