Love Thy Neighbor

 

When a lawyer asked Jesus which of the commandments was the greatest, He could have chosen any of the many commandments from the Old Testament, from the law of Moses, or from the Ten Commandments. Instead, He summarized all of the commandments in these two:

“Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment.

And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself” (Matthew 22:37–39).

We are blessed to live in the same apartment with Christ-like, neighbor-loving people. This past week our upstairs neighbors visited our apartment to get to know us better and then treated us to dinner the following evening. They even offered to wake up at 4:00 am to drive us to the airport so we wouldn't have to take a taxi.  We have a lot to learn from these incredible people. 

Invitation: Find a way to serve your neighbor this week (and extra blessings if you offer to drive them to the airport at 4 AM).

Laura made some sweet treats to celebrate our neighbor's 82nd birthday. He really lives up to his name Felice Stella (happy star)

These two cute sorelle from Mexico have been waiting months (one of them a year) to get an Italian Visa. We were fortunate to get to pick them up at the airport and celebrate their arrival with their first Italian pizza and gelato. Bienvenido a Italia

We are always so uplifted at zone conference, and this week was no different. We have grown so close to these valiant missionaries. Meeting together as combined Milano East and West zones means we get to show our love by cooking a lot of food.

Automated gadgets really bring out the kid in Steve. Now that we have discovered this dry cleaning pickup vending machine Steve is quick to volunteer to pickup everyone's dry cleaning

We are happy to report that Steve has officially tasted his very first persimmons. He said it looked like a tomato, had the texture of a plum and tasted like an apricot mixed with a mango.