With Real Intent

Buooon Giornoooo!!!

Thank you so much for all the emails!! I love reading about what's going on in all of your lives. I am so excited for baby Carolyn!!! Are the three youngest gearing up for NC? Are Ceci and Sophie going to girls camp again? It sounds like another packed summer for everyone!

Things are going great in Collegno! We really feel like our prayers are being answered to find new people to teach. This week we have more appointments with new investigators than we've ever had before! Collegno has different challenges than Milano, being a smaller city, but we have seen so many miracles and run into so many elect people. Last Sunday walking home from a lunch appointment with a member, we walked past a nice looking Peruvian lady who seemed very friendly and smiled at us as we walked past. A little ways down the road we heard someone yelling after us and it was the same Peruvian lady that we saw. Apparently she has been inactive for about 15 years from the time she left Peru and when she saw us walking past, she recognized us and knew she had to talk to us. Yesterday we met up with her again in that same area and when she saw us she ran up and gave us a huge bacio (kiss) and hug. She is so eager to regain her spiritual life and to come back to church! She told us that her soul was hungry for something. I'm so glad that we ran into her!

This past week at zone conference, President Wolfgramm talked a lot about real intent. I feel like that's one of the most important things we can teach investigators, and also something we can put into practice ourselves. He used the example of Billy Peck, a veteran who had lost his left arm and leg in the war. Despite this loss, he was determined to live a happy, successful life and because he had overcome that experience he knew that he could accomplish any task he was given in life. He was determined, even if the task seemed silly at the time to follow through on his word. It is a perfect example of real intent. When we truly desire something we will do anything and everything we can to acheive it and we will never give up! It was the same real intent that Joseph Smith had when he decided to pray to God to obtain the wisdom that he was lacking. He knew he would receive an answer because he had read the promise in the bible. He went to God in prayer with a surety that it would be answered and it was in the most miraculous way! We can all believe in miracles if we have this same real intent and put our will in line with the will of God's. I have such a strong testimony of that!

Well, time's about up. I hope you all enjoy reading these emails. I sure enjoy all of yours! Siete tutti bravissimi! Vi vogli bene!

Love,

Sorella Lyman