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Hey Family!!

How is everyone doing?? We have had a good week here and it has really just flown by. I feel like it was just the other day that I was doing my email. We have really had some good work going on here and we are very happy for this coming up week as many exciting things are happening. 

This past week went really well and especially english course. We have about 50 people or more that are coming to the course now but we have lots of people there that are very intersted in the gospel. 

On wednesday we really had a miracle happen though at our "family night" that we do mainly for the youth but now some older people are coming which is fine. We had a really cool experience there this past week. We started off by playing some games and just having fun then my comp and I did the spiritual thought. We did it about the gifts that each one of us have and how we can use them in our lives. We shared the video of a blind teenager who is an amazing piano player from the youth mormon messages! It went really well and the spirit was very strong as we explained it and bore testimony of how each one of us has gifts given to us by God, some people are good at some things and others are better at other things but we each are given gifts that help us become who we are to be. After we finished we asked if anyone would like to say the prayer (even though none of them are members of the church) and one lady said that she would like to. She started by saying dear heavenly father then she started balling and ran out of the room. She then proceeded to tell us how it was the first time she had said a prayer in more then 15 years. I stoped her on the street about 3 weeks ago and she has been coming to these activities and english course since that time. Her husband and her came to a ward activity we had last week on the American base and we brought another friend who knew them. It was an amazing miracle that they had so much fun and that they made so many good relationships there. She will come to church next week and hopefully everything will go well!! After the prayer she told us that the first time she came she though "can people really be that happy and is it true happiness" then she came the next few times to make sure we were not just faking it! She is really amazing and the Lord has blessed us with her this past week!!

A scripture that has been in my mind this week is Heleman 3:35 Nevertheless they did fast and pray oft, and did wax stronger and stronger in their humility, and firmer and firmer in the faith of Christ, unto the filling their souls with joy and consolation, yea, even to the purifying and the sanctification of their hearts, which sanctification cometh because of their yielding their hearts unto God." As we are humble, we have faith then we give our hearts to the Lord, He will bless us with the purifying and the sanctification of our hearts!! I love this work and everything the Lord gives to us. I can't imagine my life without it!! I hope everyone has a great week!!

 Love

Anziano Passantino