Week 11

August 10, 2015

This week was zone conference! Here in the Rome mission we are allowed to wear skinny ties, suits, pants, and shirts because that is what is classy I guess. So all the Anziani went to a place called the "tie cave" which is this back room in a store where they have ties for 5 euro and we all bought the same sock tie to wear.

The best idea we got from conference was to basically go up to people with a restoration pamphlet and start talking. Seriously - we have truths that will change their lives for eternity; why would we need to ask them if they are interested? Sure enough, it worked, this guy named Paolo was super curious and asked us when we could meet again. 

My companion is making me step up to the plate more for my training, which includes making phone calls. Unfortunately it's super hard to understand people over the phone so several people ended up incorrectly thinking one of the ward members was sick because "someone" miscommunicated with him on the phone. Whoops.

We had a scambia (exchange) earlier this week. We had like 5 appointments set up, and they all got cancelled! Uh oh. But I learned so much from my district leader, Anziano Beesley. The second person we talked ended up speaking with us on the street for 45 minutes.  Because we said a prayer and challenged him to meet us again, it counted as a lesson!

Referrals here are golden, so we were stoked to go eat dinner and teach a nonmember friend of the Manino's at their house. We tried to learn a few French words before he came since he speaks that and Italian and Sorella Manino speaks those plus English and Chinese. Unfortunately, he got home too late, and the lesson will be this week. But on another note it has been really fun to learn words in other languages (Bangla on the buses in Palermo, some Twee in church with the Africans, and an unfortunately large amount of Sicilicano, which some people here love speaking).

We reestablished a baptismal date with Lorenzo - he is getting so close to being ready! Missionaries have been meeting with him for a while now, and he has come so far. It's so easy to picture him in his baptismal clothes. We are getting pretty excited here.  The time goes so quickly that today neither of us even felt like we needed a p-day and we almost would have been OK just proselyting like normal. Thanks for your prayers!

Love, 

Anziano Cannon

Sorry I didn't take like any pictures this week! Here's the greenies of the Palermo zone though. None of them were in my MTC district but we have a special bond over the fact that none of us have a clue what we are doing!