This week went by so fast! We had the opportunity to meet a cute family in our ward this week. They made us dinner and we got to know them. We then played a spiritual game with them. In this game they saw 4 cards with random things written on them and as a family they had to decide what they could live without. At the end they had to pick what card was the most important... it was having a testimony of Jesus Christ because we have everything thanks to Jesus Christ and his atonement. We need to have our own personal testimony of the savior and not of others. I love Helaman 5:12 in the Book of Mormon which tells us we need to build our foundation on Christ. We then invited this family to bare their own testimony of the savior to one of their friends.
CORONA VIRUS: So I am sure everyone has heard that the Corona Virus is in Italy. I would just like to clarify that it is in Northern Italy, up by Milan. Yes, missionaries that were ending their missions in April or May left their missions early due to the Virus and are home now. My mission is in the south. In Rome we have not heard about very many cases and all the missionaries here in the Rome Italy Mission are currently still serving. We, of course, are taking caution and, we have been instructed to wash our hands, always carry hand sanitizer and to not touch too many people. No matter what, the Lord's work still prevails. I have a sure testimony that the Lord will bless us while we are serving Him.
CONCERT: This week we had a concert filled with a variety of different types of music and instruments. We had jazz, opera, latino, hip-hop, classical. It was such a blast! I was asked to and had the opportunity to play my trumpet. I played "La Bamba" and "The Mexican Hat Dance". It was very fun. An elder played the accordion while I played the trumpet; someone was on maracas and piano. It was really fun! We invited everyone in Rome to come and see. It was very very good. I really enjoyed it.
SUNDAY FUN DAY: Sunday was very good. I had the opportunity to translate what the speakers were saying into English for the English speaking visitors. I usually do this every Sunday and during Sunday school I translate too. I love doing it because I am more focused on what the speaker is saying in order to translate, hahaha.
Usually on Sundays at the visitor center we do not get very many people who come in that are not members but this Sunday we really got a few.
We first met a father and her daughter who came in asking about the temple. We took them to the temple model and told them about each room and what we do there. The daughter's eyes shined when we talked about eternal marriages and she asked how she could be able to one day enter into the temple. We explained to her the process and that it is possible for her to enter one day. She was very excited and decided to continue to look around the visitor center.
Later, a random American couple walked in from Virginia. They weren't members of the church but their sister is and they came to learn about the temple and take pictures of the visitor center. They were such a cute elderly couple. They loved how we can be with our families for eternity due to the blessings of the temple. They were really content with their visit at the visitor center.
An Italian couple also walked in and told us that they have always wanted to come visit the temple because they had seen it being constructed and this was the time they had to go together and that they had invited a friend that they were waiting for. We were able to show them the temple model and the Book of Mormon room. They were very amazed on how we view the Savior as our one and only person that we depend on for salvation and especially that we do not pray to saints. They thought it was incredible that we believe that we as people can become like saints therefore we do not need a mediator during our prayers to speak with God. We can talk to Heavenly Father whenever we want and He will listen to us. In the end they all wanted their own copy of the Book of Mormon and they said they would come back again.
This week was full of a lot of good experiences and loads of interested people.
Sorella Hyatt🇮🇹
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