Week 49

May 2, 2016

AHHHHH MY RELEASE DATE IS ONE YEAR FROM TODAY!!!! HOLY COW WHAT IS GOING ON?  THE TIME FLIES SO QUICKLY!!!! 

Ciao belli [Goodbye beautiful]!!!!!!  That is the salutation we received from the second cutest four year old girl I know after we left lunch yesterday. It was a pretty cool experience. Brother V asked us in the car on the way home after church what we had planned for the spiritual thought. I said that we would be talking about charity.  He responded, "how about we go for the Restoration instead?"  Then explained how his inactive daughter and her non-member husband would be there with their two kids. After a delicious lunch we went for it. Their interest in the Restoration itself was not super high, and I might have been disappointed if this was not incredibly parallel to another part member family I once knew: Mauro, in Rome! That took a miracle to work out, and this will too. But if we can help them build their faith, I think we could see a miracle.  The lunch literally played out exactly like the movie "Finding Faith in Christ" which starts with the unbelieving son.

Samuel gave us a determined promise to try to read the Book of Mormon.  John's interview is next week, and we are going to work super hard this transfer to find new investigators. 

We got some new sister missionaries. I only say this because it has been a bit of a shock.  Our last ones were super experienced in the mission and each about 24 years old. Now I'm the most senior missionary in our ward and we are doing our best to help these sisters as they get blown in. At this point they hardly even speak each other's language. Well, I guess there is a refiner's fire for everyone. They are handling it really well. 

This week... We taught an investigator from the Anziani of the other Bari ward. And it was completely unintentional. 

Friday morning we were blessed to be able to take this old man to his doctors' appointment. It was incredible, how, after the doctor worked on his foot, he was so happy to be able to take a couple inching steps forward on his own with the help of a walker. It made me very grateful for what I have. It was pretty cool taking him there through Centro, we were able to cross the middle of the street in ITALY without any one honking at us, and I loved how even the Jehovah's Witnesses gave us a nice long stare. Yep, that's how we do it.

Love, 

Anziano Cannon 

I highly recommend you all learn how to play mountain cricket. It is to outdoor activities what bananagrams [a board game similar to Scrabble] is to indoor games. The rain didn't stop and neither did our fun. 

Being the naughty companions that we are, Anziano Saffer and I both independently thought of the idea that we could switch nametags at the train station and fool his greenie into thinking I was his trainer. The joke lasted for about 20 seconds.  [Note the "Elder Cannon" nametag]