Friday, August 19, 2016

Weeks 62 and 63

August 8, 2016

What happened when we went to this service agency to do some volunteer work this week? The guy there told us they wanted to do an article on us and put it in the "Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno" – the Bari newspaper. And they let us write it! So we started working on that. Did I paraphrase a quote by Gandalf from "The Hobbit"? Absolutely. Don't worry – it's a good article ;)

But anyway, the one guy who we work with closely at this agency is actually a former Catholic who has never found everything he is looking for in any of the churches. He asked us to bring him a Book of Mormon next time we come so I am so excited to make him a new simp!

We had to calm V. down last night. In the sense of telling him that repentance comes before baptism, he'll have to wait for that reason until September to go for it.

We took a trip to go see Sam again with the Fitzners. He brought his guitar and played some the coolest gospel music he had written I had ever heard (ask my parents for a video). As we sat there eating lunch we saw a cloud coming over us just like the trade confederation's shield in "The Phantom Menace" – uh oh.

That afternoon we went to go find a person and Anziano Haws decided to man it up without an umbrella which came back to bite him when the rain started pouring much harder than the water that comes out of our shower. We were walking along the highway and had to duck into the nearest gate we could. We saw a nice brown skinned boy and asked him if his parents were there. As he left to get them, I noticed the posters hung up in Arabic. We had walked into a mosque (not quite IN yet because we saw the place where you have to take off your shoes). The dad came out (he is the Iman) and I could totally see the light of Christ in both of them.  They let us stay for a bit and we talked to another guy who was there.

Super cool seeing John's conversion. He told us the other day some of the peer pressure he has been under lately to "take a break" from the Word of Wisdom but he responded proudly "I used to drink more than any of you. You are the ones who need to take a break from your alcohol!”

Love,

Anziano Cannon


Zone calico




August 15, 2016

Such a cool miracle, last week my companion felt to call G, a single man who was baptized a few years ago and ask him if we could meet. At first he said no, but then called us back and responded he had changed his mind. Outside his door, we decided what to talk about. "Temples" I thought, but didn't want to say it because that is quite a commitment if you live in Italy. "I think we should talk about temples" Anziano Haws said. Turns out, G made the commitment to go to the temple (just for baptisms this time but still an awesome first experience) and there was an opening of one spot on the bus for when the ward makes the trip in a couple weeks! He is going! Awesome.

Many of our investigators have been out of town this week for Ferragosto which is a big bummer but we've found some new ones too. Anziano Borough and I went on a scambio this week and found three right near the house in the morning. It was great to be with him, he is just full of faith.

We also had some cool stuff happen like a cool guy named A. who showed up at church just because we invited him and F., an inactive who came for the first time in many years! I taught them all the gospel principles lesson 100% on the fly but when you're a missionary God helps you to do stuff like that.

Love,

Anziano Cannon



District meeting with the family (Ethan's cousin, Tristan)









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