Sorella and Anziano Gardanier

The Italy Milan Mission has the goal to memorize The Living Christ as we prepare to celebrate His birth in just a couple short months. Each week leading up to Christmas, we study and memorize one of the 10 paragraphs. Although our memory isn't as sharp as it used to be, we love the opportunity to strengthen our relationship with our savior Jesus Christ each day by studying and repeating every inspired word in this testimony from our living apostles. 

One of the missionaries summarized this week best when she excitedly exclaimed, "Dare to believe in miracles!" Many years of prayer and faithfulness from the saints in northern Italy combined with the consecration and hard work of thousands of missionaries over the years has been rewarded this past Sunday with the announcement of a temple in the Milan Italy area. The missionaries showed their faith by fasting and praying for this miracle the 40 days leading up to general conference, and it 'came to pass'. When we served here in the 90's we never would've imagined a temple coming here in our lifetime... let alone that we might be here when it was announced.  It was so special to see the raw heartfelt emotion from President and Sorella Wood. Watch the live reaction here : https://youtu.be/JKoTg8pCqy4

For the past 3 months, inspired by President Nelson's birthday challenge, the Italy Milan Mission has been working toward a goal of bringing 99+1 souls to Christ through baptism. We knew this goal would require faith, consecration and diligence from every missionary.