This week we had the
zone leaders down in Malta for a scambio! They came all 700 kilometers
to get here from Rome. The whole two days were packed with miracles. As
we boarded a bus during our trip to the airport, we saw M. and HER MOM! M. is the very mature 9-year-old who has been coming to church for a while
now. We were so excited to finally meet the mom, now we can go back and
start teaching them finally.
We also brought A, who recently received his call to go to the London south mission. We recognize that we are going to play a major role in his mission preparation, and took us with him the whole day. He did SO WELL. We knocked on a few doors and kept asking him when he would take a turn to introduce us. Finally, he got up the courage to do it, and from there he sped walked around the street, talking to person after person as fast as he could find them. What a champ! That evening we were let in and taught a mom and her adult son, A and B! They are so cool. She doesn't speak any English. Holy cow I am so grateful for every word I know in Maltese. A and I did our best but Anziano Ridd didn't speak ANY Maltese, so it was a little chaotic, because either with the language or mission experience, all three of us were greenies in some way or another, but they were so happy to learn from us and I can't wait to go back. We also got to teach H. It was super good. She felt like God called her back to Him when she met the other elders on the bus.
Well, there is a lot of pressure on us here to baptize! Our branch president discusses where our throngs of investigators will go to for Sunday school. The church facilities management has offered to pay for a hotel whenever we baptize here (which should be the end of this month by the way). And the First Presidency themselves have at least evaluated but not gone through with the idea of a Maltese Book of Mormon. These things are all related to us finding new people to teach! Wow! Good thing all we must do is "talk to every living soul (we) see" as a friend put it. And then we've done our job, which PS is a super cool job.
I learned a good life lesson this week. It's hard to tell, because I love every area I have been in, but I would say that Bari and Malta definitely take the cake as my two favorite areas ever. What makes it interesting is that those were the two areas that I was devastated when I got sent to. It's really cool how God is a whole lot wiser than we are.
Love,
We also brought A, who recently received his call to go to the London south mission. We recognize that we are going to play a major role in his mission preparation, and took us with him the whole day. He did SO WELL. We knocked on a few doors and kept asking him when he would take a turn to introduce us. Finally, he got up the courage to do it, and from there he sped walked around the street, talking to person after person as fast as he could find them. What a champ! That evening we were let in and taught a mom and her adult son, A and B! They are so cool. She doesn't speak any English. Holy cow I am so grateful for every word I know in Maltese. A and I did our best but Anziano Ridd didn't speak ANY Maltese, so it was a little chaotic, because either with the language or mission experience, all three of us were greenies in some way or another, but they were so happy to learn from us and I can't wait to go back. We also got to teach H. It was super good. She felt like God called her back to Him when she met the other elders on the bus.
Well, there is a lot of pressure on us here to baptize! Our branch president discusses where our throngs of investigators will go to for Sunday school. The church facilities management has offered to pay for a hotel whenever we baptize here (which should be the end of this month by the way). And the First Presidency themselves have at least evaluated but not gone through with the idea of a Maltese Book of Mormon. These things are all related to us finding new people to teach! Wow! Good thing all we must do is "talk to every living soul (we) see" as a friend put it. And then we've done our job, which PS is a super cool job.
I learned a good life lesson this week. It's hard to tell, because I love every area I have been in, but I would say that Bari and Malta definitely take the cake as my two favorite areas ever. What makes it interesting is that those were the two areas that I was devastated when I got sent to. It's really cool how God is a whole lot wiser than we are.
Love,
Anziano Cannon
(It is SO hard to write in Maltese. Apple doesn't have a keyboard for it!)
(It is SO hard to write in Maltese. Apple doesn't have a keyboard for it!)
Scambio Magic!
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