Week 56

I love this soo much, oh my goodness!  I'm soo happy, it's hard to describe! I have truly been blessed by serving on my mission.  I have been able to understand many things and have a better attitude about everything, Even though I am a year into my mission, I am still learning things about how to be truly happy, and how we can choose to be happy and it's not up to others or outside circumstances!  We can also learn from others regrets in life! So this week was really good! We were able to meet with a few members from our branch and they were really excited to help us, in fact there are already some appointments set up with our members for this week which is really good news!  I have also just tried to focus on being the best I can be, being the happiest I can be and still focusing on serving others! It's much nicer to lose yourself in the work than to be stressed in the work! In fact, I have realized that I am a natural leader and that when I do things then others will follow, and so I have really just tried to take that knowledge and bless the lives of others as much as possible.  Also, a really cool miracle that happened was that after district meeting in Palermo this week, everyone asked me where we should go to eat, I don't know why they look to me to make the decisions because I have been serving the last 5 transfers in Trapani, not Palermo, but nonetheless they asked me and I chose this good sandwich place! We walked into the restaurant and there was this lady sitting behind us, of course seeing ten missionaries walk in the room speaking Italian but looking like Americans draws some attention and some questions... so this lady, Katerina is her name, looked over to me and asked who we were! That's my favorite question to answer! Anyway, we set up an appointment to meet that night with her and her kid! The sister missionaries met with her twice last week and she even came to church, they then asked her if she would be baptized on november 7th and she accepted, easy as that! So the sisters will be working hard with her to prepare her for that. I have just seen lots of miracles due to righteous actions and our example! I hope you all have a great week thanks for the letters and emails they are great! 

Anziano Goode

P.S. Nathan is getting huge! He looks like a man already! and Ty looks so happy and healthy!