Visiting Apostles

Elder Madsen

Hey! Sorry I didn’t email yesterday! On Monday we got new schedules and we have started this Pilot program that the Church is going to do from now on. We have to teach in Italian a lot more now. Anyways that is why I didn’t email yesterday because my P-day is now on Wednesdays. So I hope you get this before next week. A lot is going on! We got the new Italian missionaries today, and that means we have only 3 weeks till we will be in Italy! Crazy! Our travel plans are supposed to come in soon so we will know what other cities we will be stopping in, and we are all excited for that! Last Tuesday after I emailed you we had our Tuesday night devotional and we had Elder Richard G. Scott come talk to us and then last night we had Elder Dallin H. Oaks come speak to us! We got to listen to 2 Apostles in 8 days! That was really cool! Both of their talks were powerful and I’ll share more in the letters!. It was really cool to see how quiet the room got after an Apostle entered the room. The Spirit was strong in the room. Elder Scott asked how many people in the room were learning a new language and he blessed us with his Apostolic keys with the gift of tongues! He then talked about how a broken heart and a contrite spirit are defining adjectives that allow the spirit to teach. My favorite thing he said was,"Don’t judge your own potential by the past. You must trust the Lord that he can make a powerful servant of you." Ever since that talk I have felt a lot better about the language and everything. Elder Oaks gave a talk on how to effectively use the preach my gospel. It was great too! There was so many good things that were said in both of them that you could barely look up from writing everything down. So as you can see Easter was really good here! I hope Easter was good back at home! Thank you so much for all of the treats! They were great! I have to leave early cause I guess some of the new Anziani need to use the computers but I will try to get my letter off to you soon! Love you tons! Bye! And Thanks!