Ciao belli,
HAPPY halloween!!!
This week was fantastic and right Now I am writing from the Amalfi coast so I will keep it short. But guess what? Dreams really do come true. More on that next week, but in the mean time, let me just say GREAT THINGS are happening in the city of my heart Caserta. These past few months here have been jam packed with miracles and we are finalmente seeing precious fruits from our Labors and we are super lucky to even be seeing them!!! I am so pumped to keep the fire here burning.
Lately I've been contemplated why we think we need so much to be happy. Why we think our circumstances has anything to do with happiness. Why how much money or success we have determines how much felicità we will have in this life. When really, happiness truly is about embracing the tiny moments. The little slivers of joy we can find in each day, and those are what build up to an eternal stock of true happiness.
It reminds me of the Mormon message "Flecks of Gold" and how the man is so mad that they promised him he would find gold, and then he only finds a few flecks. And it takes a more seasoned gold finder to point out to him that it is those flecks that over time become very very costly and priceless. But that doesn't mean the profit takes time to find. Just like happiness. Maybe we can't declare ourselves truly happy today, because we are only seeing the flecks are just flecks. But when we take the time to put them all together, to count them and cherish them, we realize how much they have all added up. And how maybe, all this time, we have had all this happiness right under our nose, we just haven't recognized it as such.
And I think that seasoned gold finder is our brother and our best friend Jesus Christ. He is our Savior, and he is magnificent. But more, he is the one who knows our hearts. He knows how it feels to be frustrated over flecks because we are expecting bars of gold to just magically wash up to our feet within an easy distance for us to pick up. And so he provides us with grace because he understands, above all, how we feel. He understands what it is like to feel like we have no one, or to feel like we are no one. And we aren't. We are someone. We are souls. We have always existed and we always will exist. Whether we choose to spend our days in misery or in joy. We know how to live in both ways. It is only a matter of which we choose.
I love being a missionary and I'm so grateful for all the prayers and the support! And everyone is fine from the earthquakes. Tutto bene :) they were near my last city, all of them, but we were hardly affected here. We saw our light fixture swinging back and forth but other than that we are all good.
President Gordon B. Hinckley said: “If you do your best, it will all work out. Put your trust in God. … The Lord will not forsake us.”
Our family motto doesn’t say, “It will all work out now.” It speaks of our hope in the eternal outcome--not necessarily of present results. Scripture says, “Search diligently, pray always, and be believing, and all things shall work together for your good.” This doesn’t mean all things are good, but for the meek and faithful, things--both positive and negative--work together for good, and the timing is the Lord’s. We wait on Him, sometimes like Job in his suffering, knowing that God “maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.” A meek heart accepts the trial and the waiting for that time of healing and wholeness to come. -Neil F. Marriott
Thanks for listening and I hope you all have the best week!!!
VVB
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