4 March 2008

Hello,
So this week I was privileged to see another baptism, Giovanni Cichella was baptized at age eight by his father, who was quite the excited and proud papa I might add, it was fun.
There was not a lot of commotion or extra excitement this week, it was pretty standard. Although it was rather funny during fast and testimony meeting, one of our ward missionaries whos preparing to go on a mission got up to bore his testimony of the work. He has the opportunity to work with us quite often and he was talking about some of these experiences. As he went on he mentioned that we talk to lots and lots of people and get lots of rejection, he continued to mention that quite often and not uncommonly the people will say, gesture, shout, or whatever something mean or rude and not too uplifting. He then in reference to us the missionaries and the work said, "I don't know why they do it." Promptly everyone in the room looked at us with a slight giggle, we simply shrugged our shoulders.
If only there had been time to tell them that we do it because we love the Lord, because we know the Church is true, because it's the only way by which we can return to live with our Father in heaven and we wish that all of our brothers and sisters will return to Him. There's nothing better that we could be doing at this moment in our lives, it's what the Lord has aksed us to do and it's that simple.
Have a great week, love you much

Elder Miles Marsala