tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70504469778674979352024-02-19T18:30:45.071-08:00Reflections over Ravioli: The Missionary Blog of Anziano CannonEthan J. Cannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03285832280472491593noreply@blogger.comBlogger73125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7050446977867497935.post-779195926020216682017-05-08T15:11:00.001-07:002017-05-08T15:11:30.881-07:00There and Back Again: A Missionary's Tale by Elder Cannon<div class="MsoNormal">
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years! I use that adjective in lots of my emails because there is no other word
that better describes the huge array of emotions and experiences I have been
through, from getting a headache trying to understand the Sicilian language and
a stomach ache trying to eat their enormous portions of food, to trying not to
stress out having to give big lessons with no preparation at all, to the sweet
joy of walking into a baptismal font that was warmed up by the Spirit. There is
no other way I would have spent this time. Every sacrifice has already been
repaid tenfold. It has been a course correction that will affect me for
eternity. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I am grateful for every
sweaty, exhausted, awkward, uncomfortable second that has spiritual edified, or
built up, me or someone else. I am grateful for Bagheria, Rome, Bari,
Ladispoli, and Malta and everything each one of my eleven companions have done
for the work there. I am grateful to have seen the hand of the Lord at work in
two special countries. I have been grateful to have been able to work for the
salvation of others and invite them to come to Christ. I am grateful that the
Gospel is simple.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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be conquered, charity never faileth, hearts can change, sin can be overcome,
and the good will win in the end. I know that the very ground I stepped on was
sacred, for others because of the importance of my calling, and for me because
of what that calling meant to me.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br />
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<span style="background: white;">This last week could be accurately summed up by
the scripture Helaman<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="aqj">3:25</span>!!!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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prosperity of the church, and so many the blessings which were poured out upon
the people, that even the high priests and the teachers were themselves
astonished beyond measure.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br />
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<span style="background: white;">I know that the Lord’s work is going forward. In
the words of Henry B. Eyring, it is "without fanfare". It is not
often trending on Twitter or on the front page of the newspaper. But it is
truly glorious!</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">I'll end with some of my favorite words in the
hymn book, which are so true for all missionaries:</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">"Fear not, I am with thee</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">O be not afraid</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">For I am thy God and will still give thee aid</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">I'll strengthen thee, help thee, and cause thee
to stand,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Upheld by my righteous omnipotent hand."</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">If you are not a member of our church, I invite
you to do something to come closer to Christ.
If you are a member, I invite you to consider the meaning of an
"every day missionary". If you
are a missionary and especially if you are nearing the end of your mission, I
invite you to take a BYU cross country motto to heart and "finish strong"!!!</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">-Elder/Anziano/Anzjan Ethan Cannon<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Ethan J. Cannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03285832280472491593noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7050446977867497935.post-30027542776298961762017-04-24T10:04:00.001-07:002017-04-24T10:04:10.181-07:00Week 98 "Ours is better"<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">That’s what a lady said
to us at her doorstep yesterday when she found out that our church is not her
church. I scanned through preach my gospel this morning but there was nothing
listed to combat that in the "witty comebacks" section.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br />
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<span style="background: white;">What an awesome time! Elder Burgos is the bomb.
He is a super hard worker and he makes me laugh all the time. I'm so glad he
got sent to Malta.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">One of my favorite lessons this week was with M,
a friend of ours in the south area that we taught while still in a trio. He
understands everything so well, the Spirit has really opened up his mind and
heart. He even wants to translate the Book of Mormon into Maltese!! Well, we
are happy for his desire, and hope one day it will be fulfilled.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">One cool thing I learned this week was yesterday
talking to a man from the Philippines. He hasn't been to church in a while. He
is from the same region as my companion but thankfully they decided to speak in
English, not their dialect! Anyway, as we taught him I realize that he (but all
of us, really) needed to fix himself, not his circumstances, so he could come
back to church. In Italian, there is the verb "circondare", to
surround. I told our friend that it is a great miracle that our salvation does
not depend on the things (or circumstances) that surround us. A loving God has
provided a way that our salvation and our happiness are determined by the
choices and attitudes that WE have.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Wow, time flies! I can't believe I am over
halfway done with my mission!*</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Love,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I got my first taste of
watching women's conference this week when I called up a friend who doesn't
come to church and invited her to attend conference. She told us she could come
at<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="aqj">11:00</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>on Saturday (when in Europe conference
isn't going on) and I made a split-second decision to say that yes, she could
come and watch conference then. So, we did. She also brought her genius and
awesome 10-year-old son, who we really hope can join the church.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br />
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<span style="background: white;">The mission right now is putting a big focus on
finding young adults. We are doing that
here on Malta, and one day found ourselves at the university talking to people,
when we passed by the theology department. Elder Grizzell and I had previously
gone to try and make an appointment to teach about our church in some way or
another. But the previous time, no one had been there. This day, we were
greeted by a professor in her office and spoke to her about what we were hoping
for. I'll just say the Spirit took over because the situation was very intimidating.
I haven't even attended college in a couple of years, and this lady seemed like
the type that would know English as her second language better than I do as my
first. But it went quite well, we ended up talking about presenting "The
Family: A Proclamation to the World", and she was interested in it!</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">We had another good lesson with A. He had
unsuccessfully tried to change his work to finish at<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="aqj">4 am</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>on Sundays instead of 6 to be able to
come to church, but he will try again. And yesterday, we hope he attended
conference on holiday in Sweden like he had wanted to!</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Love,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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incredible. We got a great addestramento [training] from my cousin, on the Book
of Mormon. The assistants always seem to
know just what we need. I also got to go on scambio with Anziano Boerne. I was
super excited to hear he was moved to be our Zone Leader this transfer. I
actually played an intramural basketball game with him at BYU (in the which we
got destroyed) but had never served with him. He was really inspiring and
awesome. He's not the most outgoing, loud person ever, but it is clear that he
has made the decision to be a good missionary and the Lord has helped him to do
so. He took every single opportunity possible to talk to people about the Gospel.
At zone conference, we got Books of Mormon that we were supposed to give away
before going home, and we gave both of ours away without even doing any planned
"finding". One of the biggest things I have taken from that
experience could be summed up in a scripture I recently read where the Lord
speaks to Nephi and gives him the sealing power: "And thou hast not feared
them". Sometimes on buses I'll talk quietly to someone so nobody hears or
gets annoyed or whatever, but I've enjoyed this weekend trying to speak
(almost) obnoxiously loud as I talk to people on buses in the hope that someone
else hears and might be benefited!</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br />
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<span style="background: white;">I really love our members. Saturday night our
friend H brought her kids to dinner with the O family. I was really surprised
that brother O had made lasagna just for M, the nine-year-old who really loves lasagna.
I wouldn't have even thought of that!</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Our plane back from zone conference was at<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="aqj">9:30</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>at night. It had been a long day, and
I knew I smelled bad. So, I used a practice from my former life and used the
free test cologne from the Emporio Armani stand in the airport. It was the most
expensive and good smelling thing I had ever put on myself!</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Two new friends came to church in the south
branch yesterday. We are super stoked about the growth there!</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Love,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Elder Cannon<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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went home so we've been in a trio. On Wednesday I will get a new
companion, Anziano Burgos from the Philippines! He's a really good guy and I'm
excited to work hard for a week and a half with him and hopefully get him up to
speed on the work. I hope he can help with the Filipino less actives and the
part member family that came to church yesterday for the first time since I've
been here!<br />
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In DDM [district meeting?] I challenged the district to follow spiritual
promptings. I felt like I was able to do that when I met a guy on a bus who was
a born again Christian. He invited us to attend a church breakfast on good Friday.
It sounded weird, but I felt to go for it. It was weird being the one that
everyone was trying to fellowship and welcome.
Just a few nights later, at a branch farewell for A, I was reminded once
again of how stressful parties are for missionaries as you try to help every nonmember,
less active, shy person, new convert, etc. feel comfortable. At the service and
breakfast, I was able to sit next to one guy who just so happened to not be
super grounded in that religion. Now, it's obviously not a good idea to do proselyting
inside other people's churches, but I didn't really do much of anything. He
told me he lives a couple minutes away from the church and had gone with his
wife to try and find a schedule of when we hold our services, but hadn't found
it and gave up. I was super excited! We didn't try to preach to him or
anything, he already wanted to come.<br />
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I learned a lot about charity this week as we taught with the Hancocks, a
former senior couple serving on Malta. They returned this week and spent their
time visiting old contacts and members. We went with them to see J, a man who
hasn't come to church in a while. Elder Blaylock and I had visited him a few
months ago, and he seemed a little closed off. However, the Hancocks have
formed a great relationship with him and he was a lot more receptive with them
to spiritual things.<br />
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They take Easter pretty seriously on Malta. Without having planned it, I ended
up being where Christ comes to visit the Nephites in my personal study. I'm
grateful for His gift of life to all of us.
And while everyone on Malta knows about Him, they certainly don't actually
know Him, and what He can help us to do in this life and the next. So, I'm
super lucky to tell them! And so are you!<br />
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<span style="background: white;">My new companion is Elder Redaelli, from Milano!
He is my second companion from outside the states and my first Italian. It's
been great to relearn Italian in conversation with him without sacrificing the
Maltese I speak with the natives. He is also my first convert companion. His family
was baptized when he was nine. He spent some of his life inactive, but now is
spiritually strong and mature (literally as well - he is physically strong and
almost 24).</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">This week on the bus we met a member from
Brazil! It was the third member we had randomly met who was living on Malta in
the past couple weeks. The fact that he hadn't gone to the work of looking up
the location of the church on the Internet didn't bode well for him actually
coming once we told him. But I was super
surprised because before church on Sunday morning he called and told us
"the bus still hasn't come yet...don't worry, I'll call a taxi!" He
did and he showed up! We were stoked.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Yesterday was a miracle. I taught Maltese gospel
principles on my own. My companion was
S, a Maltese member. O, who was baptized a few weeks ago, basically helped
co-teach. We talked about the plan of salvation, and I was really amazed that
for the first time in Maltese I really felt the spirit as I spoke. It was so
cool. On a side note, I really do love O. My love for him has grown as I am
able to communicate with him better and better.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Quote of the week: "I want to get baptized<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="aqj">on Sunday!</span>"
From a former friend of ours in Bari that we met at a gesso [street contact]
and who we taught once but was NOT ready at the time for the lessons. He had kept his Libro di Mormon and
remembered us. He called the
missionaries up just recently and asked to be baptized. Obviously, his wish was
not granted, but he has been preparing himself for that event.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Another cool thing: we got off a bus and met two
super cool French kids about our age. Their mom used to take the lessons and
they know Mormons really well. So, they invited us to come over! We had an
appointment but will visit them this week. As we were talking to them, a couple
came up to us and asked "hey Elders, when is sacrament meeting<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="aqj">tomorrow</span>?"
It was a British couple on vacation. We felt super overwhelmed and happy about
all that.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">I hope you all prepare for, learn from, and LOVE
general conference!</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Love,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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one bit the dust yesterday as my companion elder Grizzell couldn't take the
heat of working with me (just kidding! he honorably finished 2 years as a
missionary and went home to Chicago)! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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was fasting yesterday which turned out to be quite helpful for being more
spiritually in-tune because I was on the spot having to do a lot of stuff. We
stayed in the other elders' house the night before (miracle of the day: I have
never slept better on couch cushions) so Elder Grizzell could get to the
airport in the morning. The next morning,
I spoke in the south branch sacrament meeting. Next, I taught Sunday school in
Maltese with the branch president, and then spoke again in the north sacrament
meeting. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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church, we went to a couple investigators they have in the south. I was super
impressed! One was a family of nine people!!! The kids are all young adults and
are very well educated. Teaching in a trio went surprisingly well, and hopefully
the Spirit did most of the teaching anyway. Later we saw another family. It was
a Maltese man and a Filipino woman. They were really great people. Their faith
was incredible, I rarely see anyone who understands the Restoration and accepts
it so quickly. But they did! Then they gave us spring rolls and an envelope
with 10 euros to help with transportation costs which we had to refuse three
times!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Maltese, the words for "winner" and "spring" are almost the
same. I know it sounds weird, but this really touched me when I discovered it.
I love springtime because we get to celebrate the biggest win of all time, when
Jesus Christ conquered sin and death through His miraculous atonement!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">First of all, a shout
out to my five-year-old sister Elissa who would do a way better job
fellowshipping some of the friends we are working with right now than I do.
Last night I showed a picture of her after she lost a tooth to B, who is her
same age and has her first loose tooth. They asked is Elissa might ever come on
holiday... Yea, we'll see about that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Miraculously we were able to get both her and her brother to say prayers for
our lesson, and, at the end of the lesson, M asked if he could come to our
church on Sunday! That was super awesome, because our church is not the
coolest or most fun place for your typical 9-year-old boy to go on
Sunday. I'm grateful that the Spirit was
able to touch him, too.<br />
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As a follow up about the FHE dinner from last Monday, unfortunately, O had car
problems and was super sad he couldn't come. So, we were there with the Swiss
visitors and a non-member woman who comes to church with her son. The food was
great, I tried rabbit and sword fish for the first time. If any of you know how
fast I can eat, this time it came back to bite me because I also had a dessert
that I thought had included "cherry" but really was "sherry"
and by the time my chef companion found out, it was too late.<br />
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On Friday we had one of the best lessons ever, with A. We taught the
gospel of Christ and it came out like melted butter, totally with the Spirit.
He basically invited himself to be baptized and we were so impressed at how the
spirit taught him during the pauses. You really can be the smartest person in
the world and use every analogy or object lesson to convey a point, but if the
Spirit doesn't teach it to them, they will never learn.<br />
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The Sabbath day! "The Sabbath is a sign between me and you... That ye may
know that I am the Lord that doth sanctify you." (Exodus 31:13) So the
Sabbath is not just a sign we make to the Lord of our obedience. It is also His
sign to us that he can sanctify us. I know there is no cleanliness or renewal I
can receive on a weekly basis that at all measures up to what I feel during
sacrament meeting or on Sunday in general!</span></div>
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"and that's one reason why I love my church!" This week. Invite them
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of those days you have a couple times in your mission where you have no
scheduled appointments. So we thought and thought and prayed about what we
could do for finding. And then, boom! The idea came. Scriptural horoscopes,
taken from the bible but mainly the Book of Mormon! So that afternoon we found
ourselves handing out "scriptascopes" in Valletta, the capital city,
on one of the craziest holidays of the year called Karnival. The place was
packed with costumed people and floats. But we had a great time and met some
really great people! As a side note, my favorite costume by far were a couple
of young teenage girls who had black, long-sleeved shirts which said
"modest and perfect" in French. I'm glad there are still people like
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baptismal interview. He proudly told another non-member friend who comes to
church: "I'm getting baptized on WEDNESDAY and YOU'RE
next!" <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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smaller than it sometimes has been but I was quite impressed. Little M totally
remembered the story of the Tree of Life which we had taught him and his mom using
the illustrated Book of Mormon! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to go home from church, I didn't see many people to talk to, and ended up
sitting near a lady who looked asleep. I said hi but she didn't respond. After
my companion and I talked for a couple of minutes, she woke up and told us she
"used to be Mormon". Well, she still is by our standards ha-ha. She
had prayed earlier that day that God would send her someone to heal her. I felt
the pressure of what God has sent us to do but gratitude that, as a missionary,
cool stuff like this happens every day. In a polite way, I said "look lady
we can't do anything for you but the Gospel is the best medicine you could ever
take!" We hope she comes to the baptism on Wednesday. It will be the first baptism in Maltese in a
few years! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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thinking about a phrase from the Book of Mormon. I used to think that you had
to come to church on Sunday having repented of all your sins. Then I
would get frustrated when I would do them again the next week. I realize now
that repentance is important, but it often takes much more than just a week. If
we have a "favorite sin", then we aren't fully repentant yet, because
when we are really there, we will have <i>no more desire to do evil. </i>What
a great state to be in! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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giant leap for our friend O when he got baptized<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="aqj">on Wednesday</span>!
There are pros and cons to doing a baptism in a hotel. One pro was the Polish
women who were watching from behind the glass wall and who we invited to come
in. They didn't speak much English but enjoyed it and in a typical European way
took nonsensical pictures of themselves with the papers that had the music
lyrics on them. Whatever. The downside
was that the hot tub every once in a while, made a ferocious sucking noise and
then there was the general atmosphere of being in a sauna. But a baptism is a
baptism! He was so happy to finally take the step.</span><br />
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family with five boys! They actually
come from my aunt and uncle’s ward! We were excited to have lots of new faces
but then I realized that the Maltese people had gone upstairs and didn't have a
teacher since the branch president was gone with his son as he received his
endowent. So, we just ran up there and started teaching on the spot (about the
gift of the Holy Ghost which O was about to receive). After brother V arrived
to take over, we went down stairs where a primary teacher told us she hadn't
prepared her lesson so could we please do sharing time instead? Once again, and
in a very different language, I feel like the Lord filled our mouths with what
to say and to teach the kids about prophets. A third instance of this happening
was in sacrament meeting, where my companion and I bore our testimonies in
Maltese, English, and Italian to accommodate the needs of our friends who had
come.</span><br />
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and H. It was super cool. Being the
typical African mother that she is, she made sure her kids behaved well, but I
think they did fine by saying things like "this is the best day
ever!"</span><br />
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friend from the bus last week. We called her yesterday and the first thing she
said was "where are you?" We happened to be in her city so she had us
come over immediately. We told her we couldn't be in her house without someone
else there but she had no problem, she just set two chairs out in the hallway
and sat on the stairs while we talked! It was great!</span><br />
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the opportunity to study it a good bit. I think fasting shows us how we are
supposed to live. Alma 34:28 explains in
depth the scripture "blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain
mercy". Often, we think of fasting as a way to magnify our prayers, and I
would agree with that. When you are fasting,
you are usually involved in activities where you are taking care of others such
as paying a fast offering and doing Sabbath day service. Heavenly Father is
then more able to answer your prayers to Him. Isaiah 58 also talks about how we
should be happy to fast. Fasting shows
us how even when we don't have our temporal desires (such as food), we can
still be happy if we have a Christ-centered life!</span><br />
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Yesterday, a mom and her daughter came to church from Switzerland. They are
super cool and into missionary work and tonight they are taking us to a buffet
dinner with them and our friend O at their fancy hotel! So cool! I feel kind of
guilty :/<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;">Yesterday was super crazy though. We had to do
member splits because we wanted to be in seven places at once. In primary we
joined the circus and gave everyone personalized name tags. The idea came from
little M, who told us he would listen to our lesson with his mom on Tuesday if
we would give him one of our name tags to wear. My companion then taught gospel
principles while I snuck in a Preach My Gospel lesson with O and a member. He
is so awesome. This week people have been looking around for a hotel to baptize
him in on March</span><br />
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because she almost didn't come! She is going through really hard stuff right
now and it is a miracle that she is reading the Book of Mormon when she can't
sleep, trying to tranquilize her kids at church, and being the one to set up
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It is sooo pretty. It's unreal. It was a huge miracle that we found one of the
two members on the island on the ferry ride there! We were able to teach her
during the boat ride.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Sometimes we feel like we are on a different
planet (Tatooine, for example). It's just funny cuz there is a famous type of
fish here and when our friend O first said the name it just sounded like we were
really living in Star Wars. It's
pronounced "lampooki". Just repeat that and tell yourself again that
Malta isn't really that far away.</span><br />
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other family members. It's so
fascinating how sometimes you will tell some people about the restored gospel
and the Church of Jesus Christ being on the earth again and they'll say
something like "thank you. Yes. It's so true." Sometimes it’s because they're not listening;
other times people will just not understand. But these people show incredible
comprehension. One of the kids (who are all in their 20s), told us something
like "this could change our lives". And I was like "um yea it
could! Thank you!"</span><br />
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Ethan J. Cannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03285832280472491593noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7050446977867497935.post-23132588121598985402017-02-06T15:05:00.004-08:002017-02-06T15:10:43.787-08:00Week 88<div class="MsoNormal">
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zone leaders down in Malta for a scambio! They</span> 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
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<span style="background: white;">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</span> his mission preparation, and took us with him the
whole day. He did</span> 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.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background: white;">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</span> <span class="aqj">Sunday</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> school. The church facilities
management has offered to pay for</span> 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.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background: white;">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</span> 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 </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">we are.</span><br />
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Ethan J. Cannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03285832280472491593noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7050446977867497935.post-42494094198858932682017-01-30T14:55:00.002-08:002017-01-30T14:57:42.837-08:00Week 87<div class="MsoNormal">
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there's nothing I'd rather be doing than being a missionary, but that's
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">For one, yesterday our
friend H. who the other elders found on the bus and gave to us came to church
with her son M. and her daughter B.! Feel free to ask my parents for their
names, they are hilarious and awesome. I feel like in most places in the world,
it's kind of rare that the missionaries bring a family to church on their own,
and the members should be (and were, in our case) smart enough to just dive on
them. It was great, we went up to relief society (which is the first meeting)
where sister S. practically hugged H. into her seat. Meanwhile sister K. was
rocking it in the rapidly expanding primary that now includes three Nigerians,
a South African, Filipino, American, and Russian-Maltese who are the most
energy packed kids on the island of Malta. They will be a good way for the
older members to learn patience ;) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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FHE tonight and we will teach her on Wednesday when the
zone leaders are here for a scambio! </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">(We hope) O. is going
to be baptized on February 25th! Woohoo. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">Some of you may have
heard about some changes in the missionary schedule. Basically, my companion
and I aren't changing anything at all. The simplified key indicators are genius
though, I love it. </span></div>
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zone conference. It was great! Last transfer at zone conference we were sort of
homeless, but this transfer I had the idea to call up the GANS [youth] center
elders - cioè [that is to say] my cousin Anziano Spencer! So, we went on our
first scambio [exchange] ever, it only lasted like an hour but it was good
anyway ha-ha. </span></div>
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annoy them too much! Poor people, they were so nice to us! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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scambio with Anziano Pineau while the other elders attended branch council. I
started out by calling several people who I didn't expect to answer and they
ALL DID. We were on fire so then I called one other person, an investigator who
self-referred to the church but has been offline for a couple weeks, and he answered
too! We met him on Friday and taught a good lesson. Unfortunately, he
couldn't make it to church because he worked till 6 am on
Sunday morning, but we'll work on that. After the lesson, we joined the
other members for... </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">haggis night. If you have the stomach for it, you
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and I'm not even sure I spelled it right. But it wasn't bad. I was given the
last-second task of giving a back-handed speech of "complimenting"
the "lassies" in the room as a toast. They didn't give me words or
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every single lesson and talk discussed missionary work in some way or another.
I love it! This branch is awesome, I wrote on the whiteboard calendar
that next Monday is "(Not being) transferred calls"
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"Miracles every day".</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br />
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<span style="background: white;">This week was probably the only time ever I
could walk into a Maltese convenience store and hear the Mormon Tabernacle
choir singing. Ha-ha, I was kind of surprised when it happened.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">I was sick all week but today is beautiful
outside and I am feeling somewhat better. I did feel protected at times, like
miraculously being able to sing at branch conference and not sound like a dying
cow, or not needing to hack up a lung while I was getting an ultrasound of my
knee.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Conference was great!!!!! One of the highlights
was President Pickerd meeting with O. I use the analogy of a Christmas
tree: sometimes, if you have two people who have both been craning their heads
for a few weeks to try and see if a Christmas tree is straight up and down,
they could both be wrong. That seemed to be the case for us, as President told
us repeatedly how he believes O. is significantly more prepared for baptism
than we have been treating him. He has
shown quite a bit of faith coming to church every week, even the times when he
is the only non-English speaker there and there is no translation; he comes just
because it feels good to be there. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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taught him... On our own!! It was super hard but we've really been blessed with
the gift of tongues and when our member couldn't make it things worked out ok.
Here is an insight into my language speaking right now: I said my first only
Italian prayer in a couple months with President Pickerd during my interview.
And it was a STRUGGLE. Its shockingly hard to do it in Italian as oppose to
Maltese these days. Yikes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;">In his talk, president DeCarlo recounted many of
the great things that have happened in Malta this year. His son will be the
first ever Maltese missionary. An apostle wrote a letter to the Maltese
saints. At the dedication of the great
building we currently use, a representative of the president of Malta and the
vice mayor of Mosta both came to support us. The branch presidency felt
inspired to give them a copy of "The Family: a proclamation to the
world". <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Mosta loudly protested this support. The responses of these officials to that
criticism show something quite special. President
DeCarlo believes it shows that both guests had actually read the proclamation,
specifically the part that speaks about calling officers of government to
protect the family. He believes that this gave them the courage to stand up to voters
and defend completely their decision to attend the dedication, saying that the
people could learn a lot from our church. In my opinion, it is no coincidence
that both have since been elected to higher positions in the government. The
Lord has blessed them.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Speaking of good people, there are tons of
people here who have the Terrestrial kingdom locked up. They are just great
people. I feel we are getting so close to finding some of the right ones who
will lead the church here in Malta. Part of that has already been happening as three
men were advanced to the Melchisedek priesthood<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="aqj">on Sunday</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in our tiny branch! Yay!</span><br />
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Woohoo!</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Love,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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better, I got</span> sick, and T minus five days till President Pickerd comes to
Malta! Time to get all our stuff up to snuff!<span style="color: #222222; line-height: 107%;"><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Well I'm really glad that the unity thing sank in
last week. I was really impressed with the other elders when we had to
call them and</span> say "you know that really cool new person you
received as a</span> self-referral? That's actually OUR really cool new person,
because he lives in our area". They handled it like champs and we
got to return the favor when we found out that the wonderful Nigerian
girl (who has become super comfortable here in the branch very quickly)
is actually in their area. The good news is they are all in the Lord's
area!<br />
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<span style="background: white;">This week O. showed up early for his lesson, so I
got to try to converse with him on my own. I showed him pics of my
family. He is so</span> teachable and humble; I concur with our branch
president those are some of the things that make or break a baptism.<br />
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<span class="aqj">Tonight</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white;"> </span><span style="background: white;">at FHE we
are speaking on the family proclamation. One thing I</span> used to wonder is
"If families are so important in the gospel, why do</span> the scriptures
hardly ever talk about them?" Later I realized that EVERYTHING in
the scriptures talks about families, in the sense that all we learn in
them is meant to be applied in our immediate family, as well as with our
brothers and sisters who are children of God.<br />
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<span style="background: white;">bl-imħabba,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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of the craziest and most miracle filled of my mission. It's been really wonderful to have such a
great companion that pushes me when I push him. After all that I have studied
over the past nearly two years, to me the biggest indicator of a good
missionary is having a desire to talk to everyone. And we've been doing that
together. He's helped me be super bold
in talking to people in every possible circumstance and not being lazy at all.
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<span style="background: white;">The members of the branch are getting really
optimistic and excited. It's kind of
scary because I don't want to let them down. But as we prepare for branch
conference with President Pickerd in a couple weeks, everything seems to be
falling together miraculously. People are coming back to church and getting
temple recommends. An old investigator
walked in; O is progressing. Probably my
favorite was that our friend M who has been getting more and more active and
this week went home teaching as well and accepted an invitation to speak in
branch conference. He also brought his seven-year-old
daughter for the first time since I've been here in a beautiful pink dress. Her non-member cousin, who just moved here,
also came and Sister K taught her to pray and to sing "I am a child of
God"!</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">We are even singing as a quartet of missionaries
for branch conference. One of the songs is "The Hymn of the
Restoration", a song in Maltese written by Marty Rivers, our branch
president which will be included in the new hymn book that he is beginning to
translate!</span><br />
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unity. A couple thoughts on this topic that seems to be one that makes or
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efforts. Unity is not the act of spending time together but of sacrificing for
a common cause. Only in righteousness is
there true unity. The wicked can maybe "get along" for a time but in
the end are always self-centered and will never have the outward focused
motivation it takes to be united! That only happens when we are righteously
serving the Lord.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">It has been FREEZING here, though it was
supposedly the coldest week of the year. The wind and humidity make the not too
cold weather frigid, but after seeing pictures from home I'll count my
blessings.</span><br />
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Christmas! Because it was Sunday and because of the direction of our new
mission president, it was a lot more outward focused than last year. We did a
TON of caroling between the 23rd and 25th at rest homes, care units, and
stores. I really got better aquatinted with the Christmas hymns and learned to
love, "Help us to sing with our hearts and voice!" From "Far,
Far Away on Judea's Plains" because that's what we needed to hit those
high notes after a few go arounds. I was nearly laughing as I sang because it
was fun and so difficult. At the end our ward mission leader was sad that
Christmas was over, he had had such a good experience going with us. I was also
grateful at a home for people with mental disabilities that many years ago my
family went to visit the Alzheimer's unit once a month, so that I had no fear
afterwards to go shake all of their hands and try to talk to them. And if they had wanted to drool on or kiss me
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<span style="background: white;">I felt so much joy yesterday; I overheard one of
our few Maltese members speaking to our investigator O. I thought she was
talking about her temple experience, and it turns out she was! She was finally able
to attend the temple in England for the first time and LOVED it. She was happily telling O. how when he goes
to the temple for the first time she will be sure to be there with him.
Yay! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;">We had the Christmas party this week! I'm not
sure what the non-members thought of the African gospel music that got sung or
the rendition of a Christ-centered "All I Want for Christmas is You"
complete with the Teachings of Gordon B. Hinckley manual and angel costumes,
but at least they came! We also were blessed that a less-active member brought
a few friends, and some other cool families and friends!</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">We did a gesso [street contact] with the
question: "What does Christmas mean to me?" I am so grateful as I
thought about it last night that for me, Christmas means peace, joy,
forgiveness, repentance, and a whole lot more. They are all cliché things but
the good news is that they are all true! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Blaylock and Haroldsen go home today. I'm so grateful for the two of them. They
are such good elders and I have been really blessed with a great, united
district which is important when we are so isolated.</span><br />
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said goodbye to our companions and then Elder Pineau and I got to work, and it
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<span style="background: white;">We went to see a contact who wasn't at home.
Outside his house there was someone talking on his phone so we just stood there
for a few awkward minutes to ask him if he knew our friend. Finally, he asked
us, "are you anzianos?" Turns out he was an investigator from Rome
who just moved here to Malta!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;">We also got in contact with C, a member I worked
a lot with during my time in Rome 6!! He moved to Malta. It was so great to see
him. I think he'll be a great strength to the African LDS community here on Malta. We want to help them strengthen and activate
each other. We could have like seven or eight of them in church each week.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;">We taught O, which went great! We can only give
him a copy of the Illustrated Stories from the Book of Mormon since that's all
we have in Maltese, but he has already gained a testimony of its truthfulness.
And C, our member fellowshipper, is reading it as well so we can all be on the
same page. We are really happy to be helping the two of them simultaneously.
Wednesday went so well that I wondered who had had the better day: me or my
brother who got married ;) <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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before in Bari. He is a transfer older than me so I might kill him [send him
home] as well. On our first night together he told me how none of his
companions have ever wanted to go running with him in the mornings, but if I
wanted to we could. I just about started crying on the spot. He is a great missionary.
He speaks the language better than any missionary I've ever meet and is an SYL
monster.</span><br />
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Blaylock has been sick this week. I came down with it too yesterday
morning. Our senior Sister Thompson gave
me the advice that this is the Lord's work and I can't do it when I'm sick, so
I need to do all I can to get better and ask for a blessing. I did and this
morning I woke up feeling fine! Yay! I have been so blessed with health during
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<span style="background: white;">This week we flew to Rome.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">We got to the apartment of a companionship of
Rome 1 elders. They were just recently put in a trio and already were short on
beds but they had planned to sleep on cushions and couches and have US sleep on
the two beds! I was shocked. One of the elders got ready to begin cooking us
dinner when we arrived. Honestly I've never seen anything close to that kind of
generosity my entire mission. I really love the idea of reciprocal generosity.
In Bari there is a cruddy bathroom and a nice bathroom. Usually an elder
switches to the nice bathroom once he is the older companion in the area. I
decided to take the opportunity to do my companion a service by staying in the
cruddy bathroom my whole time there. I just wonder how much happier and
Christ-like our mission would be if every missionary started in the nice
bathroom, then voluntarily moved to the bad one after a couple transfers. You
still get the nice bathroom for the same amount of time, but with such a better
feeling accompanying it. In the same way, if half of your exchanges you are
going to sleep on the floor anyway, why don't you make those the one where it's
YOUR home? Just food for thought. Anyway I love those guys and that was one of
the first things I learned at zone conference...</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">...which was great!! It was nuts to see the
departing testimonies of six missionaries including two of the four Malta
elders. They have each had such unique missions but it was super great to hear
their last words.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">V IN LADISPOLI STARTED COMING TO CHURCH! AND HE
READS THE BOM EVERY DAY! Woohoo!</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Also, our Brazilians are doing great, they are
coming to church each week and teaching lessons with the Rome 1 elders who we
passed them to!</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">After zone conference we had the afternoon free
since we flew back the next day. So we volunteered to go to Rome 1 and fill up
the font for the Ladispoli sisters' baptism! When I get there I found my old
Rome 1 Ward mission leader there doing the job. It was great to see people from
my old areas of Rome 1 and Ladispoli that night. I was able to put together a
dinner with them and a less active I used to teach. Unfortunately, the less
active in the end couldn't come, but boy was that good food (see below).</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">The FHE went fantastic, we had I believe 17
people there, which was almost as many as had come to sacrament meeting the day
before. We had lots of fun and had a great lesson. I was on scambio with
Anziano Pineau, who had had like zero preparation for what we were about to do,
but he did really well!!</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Well, the prayers worked last Monday, so please
pray for our lesson <span class="aqj">tonight</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>with a couple. The husband used to
translate church materials into Maltese, but has never actually joined... Until
now!</span></span></div>
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who hadn't come to Church since I've been</span> here. We called to set up an
appointment and he just said "I'll come to church<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="aqj">on Sunday</span>". So there he was, In a suit and everything! That's cool, sometimes it doesn't take a lot
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<span style="background: white;">We have a few members from Nigeria and Ghana. None
of them are super strong in the gospel, and we figured they would do
really well to meet</span> together, and strengthen and teach one another
through a family home</span> evening. So we planned to do that. Our branch
mission leader wanted to tag along, and before you knew it got announced
in church yesterday! Seriously like the whole branch is coming. I am so
happy to do it because like zero of the people here come from those
picture perfect nuclear families you are used to in the States. From what I gathered I doubt anyone
was doing FHEs. So we will need your prayers that this first one goes
well but I can't wait to help the branch in this way.<br />
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<span style="background: white;">We actually taught one of these guys, C, last
Monday evening. It's getting better, but at correlation and district
meeting we normally</span> sound like Gollum from Lord of the Rings when we
sing. I'm no super star myself. But
we were talking about the temple and I felt like we should sing "I Love
to See the Temple". So at first I thought: "all right, I'll just
read the words". Then I thought: oh, man up! So at the end I said that my
companion and I would be singing a song about the temple, and we did, and
the Spirit totally came into the room. It was great!<br />
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<span style="background: white;">O is doing well! He is like a teabag that has been
soaked in Catholicism his entire life. It just shows that the Lord
prepares</span> people because miraculously he is humble enough to accept what
we teach. But that doesn't mean it's easy. One member from Ireland
jokingly told us how he thinks it takes four generations of Church membership
to purge all the old traditions people have that they bring from other
religions. So we are chipping away.<br />
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<span style="background: white;">This week we have zone conference! I'm sad to be
leaving our island for a couple days because we have so much work to do
but it'll be so</span> great as well to go back to Italy. Hopefully I can do an
exchange in Rome 1 or Rome 2 and see old investigators and members!<br />
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<span style="background: white;">imħabba, (that's with the guttural "h")<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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miracle! Sometimes missionaries get a little lazy and put on causal clothes
every p-day. I was really proud that we were in our white shirts because this
morning as we walked to the bus stop. As
we crossed a busy street as a Filipino couple crossed in the opposite
direction. I don't know if they would have recognized us if we had just had on
our name tags. But I ran back to the other side since she clearly recognized
us, and she told us she is a member that she just got here a week ago! It’s
great too because we have several Filipino members. The man isn't a member.
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<span style="background: white;">"I've been here for two years and I haven't
met a missionary who could answer a real question in Maltese" – Brother
Vassallo. He is an older Maltese man and is super nice. He wasn't saying it to
criticize, he was just making an honest observation in a way that made me crack
up. But silently I promised to change
that. It's very easy to just give up Maltese and rely on English, but for me
learning the language is a sign of love for the people I serve, and plus it's
necessary now more than ever! (See next paragraph)</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">The same brother Vassallo translated our first
lesson with O! It went great, except for the awkwardness of having a
translator. "He thinks he doesn't
want to be baptized"<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">"Oh wait, he said
he thinks he doesn't want to have to have to wait a long time to be
baptized". (That legitimately happened).
So yea this guy was standing outside of church a year ago and a member invited
him to come to the service. He has been coming faithfully ever since, but has
never been taught! We hope to baptize him in January. He is so humble and loves telling us
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<span style="background: white;">Quick note about our branch: it's crazy, but I
love it. Yesterday was an incredible testimony meeting, I loved hearing the
amazingly unique stories of how the members found the gospel to be true (all
are coverts except an American family). We have a couple old guys from Scotland
and Ireland who made livings as a professional chef (and we are talking,
professional here) and a kilt maker (he made the kilts for the movie
"Braveheart").</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Sorry to bring this up again, but we did another
gesso [street contacting] in Valleta, and this time I ordered first: "can
I have a hot date?" The ladies at the counter started laughing a bit, and
I joined in because I usually do, and I thought it was funny cuz they notice we
are coming to their stand often. Then they asked "how many?" And
without any knowledge that this would seem weird I said "one for each of
us" to the two 30ish year old women at the counter. I seriously didn't
even understand why they thought it was so funny until afterward. I guess their
English is better than I thought.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Malta is great!! Anziano Blaylock and I are
doing really well together, we have lots of fun and work hard! He doesn't even
Bible bash, I'm really impressed cuz we taught a referral that could was really
asking to bash, but he and our member did a super good job.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">One is Maltese... So we have this guy, O., who
has been coming to church for a while, and in the Maltese<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="aqj">Sunday</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>school class the teacher invited him
to be baptized on the spot and he said yes. But for some reason that may have
to do with the fact that he doesn't speak English, the elders didn't set an
appointment up with him till I got here. He came to church yesterday and we
planned a lesson through a translator! Ah! Imagine that! I can't even talk to my
investigator!! The idea of going super
hard with the language and studying for like three hours a day has passed
through my head to be honest. But anyway we are hoping he is as ready to be
baptized as everyone says and he can do it on Christmas Eve, which would be
awesome because it would also mean the zone leaders have to come down to
interview him and do the exchange with us they weren’t able to get permission
to do!!</span><br />
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<span class="aqj"><span style="background: white;">Saturday</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white;"> </span></span><span style="background: white;">night I had a hot date! Read that again, I'm serious. We went to do a gesso [street contacting with
a large chalkboard that they can write stuff on] at the capital, Valletta. It
went great except that I have no idea what to say in English, but it was really
good. Maltese are super cool people. As we walked to the bus stop we passed a
few vendors, one sold this delicious fresh date pop-tart thing [his “hot date”]
that was super yummy for just 30 cents.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">We don't have much by way of youth in this
branch, but we love working with A, the branch president’s son who has put in
his mission papers (and as far as I know will be the first Maltese missionary
ever). He has a friend who wants to meet with us that we are excited about.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">I am learning to love this place and these
people. And, oh boy, is this the nicest weather EVER!!! Have a great week,
#dawltad-dinja #siiunaluce #lighttheworld.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Love,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;">Yea, that's right. I am currently on the island
of Malta, where Paul is said to have been shipwrecked. We got the call Monday
evening that I would be leaving. That night I went out on the porch to pray and
cry. The next morning, I cried again. That like never happens for me. It is highly probable that I will finish my
mission here and never serve in Italy again. Goodbye to the people, the
language, the mission in general in some senses.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">But I've warmed up to the idea, in my heart and
physically (it's so warm here!) The good
news is that it's not that hard to learn to love a people. All you have to do is work super hard and
serve them and it will come. I am
basically serving another mini-mission in the United States... Except I'm not.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">We are supposed to be learning Maltese, which is
derived principalmente from Arabic, with a bit of Italian and English mixed in.
Malta was colonized by Britain, so people drive on the left and the wheel is on
the right. A lot of people speak English, but a LOT DON'T. So I am planning on
really seeking the gift of tongues, even though no missionary ever comes off of
Malta "really" speaking Maltese. People here are of every skin color
imaginable. There are also places like KFC and other American stores. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;">Our house is a MANSION. I have no idea how much
the Church payed for it. I literally have to run down the hall because it takes
so long to get from one side to the other.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Fun fact – my new companion Elder Blaylock is
dying [going home] right after Christmas. He was in my mission prep class at
BYU. And his twin brother tried out for the BYU cross country team with me over
two years ago. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;">Yesterday there were 27 people in church plus
four missionaries. It's an interesting branch. There are awesome couples from
America, Scotland, and Ireland as well as some Maltese. We sang one Maltese hymn,
which coming out of me sounded like "was harsh shagash". <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;">Couple cool miracles: Transfer day is<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="aqj">Thursday</span>. My
plane left<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="aqj">Friday</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>morning. So<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="aqj">Thursday</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>I got to be with my zone leader and
friend Anziano Vrska and help missionaries get places (Rome is the center of
all transfers so it's pretty hectic). We also were miraculously able to meet
with Grazi, one of the Brazilian new converts who was in Rome getting her
permesso, and say goodbye to her. They are struggling to find time to read the
scriptures, and we had a lesson idea, but right before I decided instead to
tell her the scripture the Lord showed me when I asked for understanding of why
I was going to Malta, and I felt like he was talking straight to me. It was
great! <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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the Rome 2 elders, which meant I got to return to my English group there! They
live with the assistants, so the next morning one of them stayed home while I
went running at<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="aqj">4:30
AM</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>with Anziano Whiting!
He is a CHAMP! It was his idea, I was so
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Heark, all ye nations! There is a lesson here for members about boldness! We
had been over to see Fratello P. once before and he had spoken to us of his
friend V. who lives in the same apartment complex. He invited him to the activity we had a
couple weeks ago. When V. didn't come, and we asked him about it, Fratello P
told us he didn't want to bug his friend and would wait till the self-sufficiency
course restarted and invite him to come to that. Thursday night, V.
got on his computer and went to LDS.org and requested that missionaries come to
visit him and bring him a Book of Mormon. He then told Fratello P. about his
self-referral and told him a little about how "I might want to become part
of your church". Talking to our friends about the Gospel is just like
asking a girl to dance, you don't have a 100% chance of success, but you will
never know unless you try.<br />
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On Monday the food was soo good. Our brownies were rock solid in the pan,
but luckily the Italian family brought a huge pan of tiramisu. But it got to be time to go and we hadn't
taught them, so Jonathan pulled the plug and we went home. But on the ride home
the dad took us and was asking when we could meet to learn about our church, so
that's good.<br />
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Jonathan also came to our lesson with Patrick. It went so well, we never ever
explain "pregare per sapere la verità mediante lo Spirito Santo" [pray
to know the truth through the Holy Spirit] well enough but we talked about it
and his questions and responses were perfect. Hopefully that witness from the Spirit
comes soon. <br />
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We went to the L. family, our accidental house to house contact. Basically what my family does of taking whole
wheat muffins to the new family in the neighborhood is not considered normal
here, so Sorella Dini Ciacci referred the family back to us. Once again the husband
was sleeping but we found out it was because of his work schedule and the wife
invited us to come back. So we'll see this week what's up.<br />
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When we were in Rome we would always laugh at the pizza places that noted they
were of "Alta digeribilità". Who cares if it's highly digestible?
Being here in Ladispoli where there are only pizza places run by guys from the
Middle East or North Africa and bars, we see why. Literally we are in the "pizza
ghetto". I seriously couldn't finish my pizza the other week, after a
while it just becomes terrible.<br />
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miles we walk, but I bet over the course of two years we give the pioneers a
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">Yesterday at zone
conference my sisters [missionaries who were in the same MTC group] gave their
death testimonies [their last testimony before going home].</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">Wow, the Spirit was so strong, I am sad to
see them go. I will be a wreck when that day comes for me. One of them, who
also served in Bari, was really happy to hear during the conference that an
extended family is now joining the church. This in a town outside of Bari where
there had formally been only one active member. It is an incredible story how
my friend found their apartment on an ancient map with markings of where
investigators lived. They went to see these people, one of which had taken the
lessons in 1993 and was wondering where the missionaries had been the whole
time. The rest is history.</span></div>
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<span style="background: white;">We have been planning an awesome activity! Our ward
is great; we should have about 30 or more members come. When we got here the
plan was sort of a church tour, but Anziano Jorgenson and I wanted to work in some
of what we learned from General Conference: rather than explain the differences
and similarities of our church from theirs, just teach the plan of salvation! So,
we will have a pre-Earth room, an Earth life, and a post-mortal life room. We
are hoping to get many non-members there!</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">This week we went to see the Dini Ciaccis. We
had the street name but had to ask someone if they knew the family, since we
couldn't specify the house. He pointed us where to go and we rang the button. A
little kid came out and asked who we were. We responded that we were the
missionaries. I could see inside that the dad hesitated when the kid told him
who we were, but then had us come in. IT WASN'T THEM. This guy said he loved
the Bible and would love to share a tea with us. He always welcomes missionaries, but
unfortunately, we were so off balance that we politely refused the opportunity,
saying we had to get to our appointment. Here's the thing: I know that the Dini
Ciaccis go super hard on missionary work, and these were their next-door
neighbors, so I assumed they had been invited umpteen times to take the
lessons. But we learned after we had found the real house, that these neighbors
were new, and that the two families hardly even know each other! So, we are
definitely following up with that.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">We are stoked to see president Nelson on
Thursday in Rome. We are sending our investigator Claudio to the session on
Wednesdays night for the members that we aren't allowed to go to.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Love,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;">Help! Does anyone speak Portuguese? These two
new converts from Brazil showed up in church this week. During sacrament
meeting whenever someone referenced a scripture or talk I found it on my iPad
in their language, but they will need a lot of spiritual nourishment as they
are so young in the Gospel and plus don't even speak Italian.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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some awesome, awesome, awesome stuff. It was a little General Conference as we
also got to hear from President Kearon, Elder Hallstrom, and their wives. I
don't feel the need to share some of the most spiritual stuff with all of you,
but here are some funny things: he told us how he has new scriptures he got in
May. With his old ones, he said, he could just think about a scripture and they
would fall open to the correct page. These ones aren't "broken in"
yet. I believe it – he once asked everyone to look up a scripture. He commented
after the first person found it: "not bad, for an electronic device".
He had been there for a couple seconds already.
He told us how when he got the scriptures he wanted to read every word
contained in the standard works. "Two weeks later, I had finished...along
with adding all of my annotations and cross references from previous worn out
scriptures". It's funny because it would sound straight up prideful out of
anyone else, but you know he is completely stripped of pride so it's just
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<span style="background: white;">Well, we have had like no time this week. It
started last p-day, I didn't get to email, and we've been running around
everywhere, literally not a moment to spare, ever since. Sunday was so nice, we
actually got to sleep in until<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="aqj">6:30</span>. Literally, it is such a miracle how the Lord sustains us
as we live lives where our physical and emotional health sort of fall by the
wayside sometimes.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">A lot of it had to do with the activity. We
worked super hard on it. In the end, we
had over 40 members there, but only 3 non-members, two of which were English
course students! But one of them was Fabio, who was already a potential in our
minds. We are pretty excited for him. There was also a Mongolian lady and her son
who the sisters are visiting this week. Her husband is Nigerian and speaks 10
languages. I can't wait to meet him!</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Pat is making nice progress. He is in the golden
age and shows every sign of it based on the questions he asks. HOLD YOUR HORSES
we'll get to that In a few lessons! He's great though.</span><br />
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scambio with Anziano Castillo. It went great! He is from the Philippines and
started it out by making us fried rice for lunch. Then we went on our bikes to
find an old investigator, but the chain came off his bike several times, so we
had to go back. I was super bummed, no one wants that to happen on your
scambio. We were walking the bikes back to the store when we got a call from
Sorella P, who we had only met once in the pharmacy. She doesn't come to
church, and had had to tell us "Hey elders! I'm Mormon too!" We like
to be bold but hadn't planned on talking to the lady in front of us at the pharmacy.
But she wanted us to give her a blessing right then. It worked out perfectly. We later realized that had we gone to the old
investigators house we never would have made it in time. She was really touched
and grateful, and yesterday she came to church for the first time since I've
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apartment inspection at<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="aqj">10:30</span>. We were just walking back to our apartment when the
Thackers (senior couple) called us to say they would be a few minutes late. So,
we decided to go see this other old investigator in the couple minutes we had.
We rang the doorbell and just then she came out. Not to talk to us, she was
literally leaving and had we come a minute later we would have missed her! We
have been working on unity with the sisters and were then really glad to give
her as a referral to them. They had their first appointment last night and said
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<span style="background: white;">Pat is a stud and wants to be baptized but he
will be returning to live in Torino and later move to Caserta. I'm hoping to
hatch a plan to pass him off to Anziano Cunningham (from my hometown of
Medford) and Anziano Cutrignelli (his greenie who I knew in Bari) if that goes
through!</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">The joke I talked about with a couple of my
college friends who are serving missions called "trick or referral"
is actually taking life, much to my surprise. Don't worry, it's not as bad as
it sounds, but we are going through with it tonight :)</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">If you want to say a prayer for someone, make it
for the referrals we are working on! Sorella Gambi was a stud and found an
African guy at store who wants to know the purpose of life, and the Dini
Ciaccis are working on the family we stumbled into the other week. We are really excited because they are not
committed or anything to the Jehovah's Witnesses, they are just investigators
for now, so we hope to be able to veer them to a different course.</span><br />
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Jonathan, our awesome ex-missionary friend, got up to bear his testimony of
missionary work. He practices what he preaches, and tonight we have a dinner
and restoration appointment with six people! Pray for us! The last time I got
this many referrals was Bagheria and that was with a bunch of old Catholic
ladies! You know how some testimony
meetings have themes? After Jonathan's talk, Yesterday's turned into
"explain why two missionaries changed your life". I sat back and
loved it! Side note: do you take notes in church? Why would we not? I have
gotten so much inspiration that I am sure wouldn't come if I didn't appreciate
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<span style="background: white;">We were very blessed that we were inside doing
language study when an incredible wind picked up. I looked outside and saw
furniture blowing off balconies. When we left, everyone was outside. A bunch of
trees had been uprooted in Centro so traffic was diverted onto our street. The
street of the church was the worst off; there was rubble everywhere. A tent
type thing blew over the wall into the courtyard, and a family came to get
their mangled laundry rack from their house 200 meters away. But the Lord takes
care of His servants, and the only damage we incurred were two plants on our
balcony that fell over (like literally they just fell over on their side). It
felt really nice though and I do love our members. We got a couple calls making
sure we were ok.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">One morning we planned to go do finding at a
park and found the place literally deserted. Pretty discouraging. So, we felt
to go back to Centro and passed by the church. We talked to a lady who wasn't
interested in our survey, but were able to open her up after asking her why she
was holding a pizza. She was going to see her husband in the hospital. She
wouldn't commit to taking the lessons but told us "it as if two angels had
just stopped me!" Kind of cool how the Spirit works with people. She
wasn't at zone conference! How did she know we are supposed to be Angels!? This
kind of thing happens often.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">I don't remember if I told you this, but we had
gone to see Matt last Sunday night. We basically pulled out exactly what
President Uchtdorf talked about- we NEED you! Well, he showed up at the youth
activity Friday and came to church<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="aqj">Sunday</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>for the first
time since we've been here! Also, Sorella P from last week came again!</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Pat lives in a barracks in Rome so we are still
working on getting him to church, but he has read a lot of the Book of Mormon.
As I read in a talk recently, you don't have to tell them how normally Mormons
need a study calendar and stuff to get through the BOM. To them it's just a 500-page
book, why would you limit them to just the introduction or something when they
are capable of so much more?</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Another bike I took lost its chain repeatedly so
we had to walk it back... Until I had the excellent idea of "sailing"
it. Basically, I stuck one foot on one pedal, leaned to the side, and pushed
myself forward with the other foot over and over until that leg got tired and I
could switch. It actually worked. We were moving!</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">What?? This just in! There was a little kid that
was like 12 years old who we met in Bari that asked us for a Bible. I was like
"you are 12 years old? Why do you want a Bible? Let's teach you!" But
it didn't work out. I just heard he has been coming to church every week and
wants to be baptized, but his parents aren't letting him yet. Wow!</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Love,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Ethan J. Cannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03285832280472491593noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7050446977867497935.post-25325997887829160322016-10-21T13:33:00.004-07:002016-10-21T13:49:06.049-07:00Week 70 and 71. <div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;">After one session of
conference, we did a split and I went to help an old lady in our apartment
complex who needed our help. She needed us to go to get her groceries. It was
an excellent lesson in patience. To be honest it was kind of a weird sight to
see Anziano Ruiz going to replace the 1.39€ wine for the .89€ wine on a Sunday
at the grocery store because she couldn't afford it. A couple times I wanted to</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal;"><br />
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we could be at the church in time for the conference, but I felt not to. After
we left her, we ran to the bus stop, and soon after Syv (changed name) walked up.
"Are you late to see the prophet?" he asked. After we responded
affirmatively, he replied "me too". So, we got to go with him to conference!</span><br />
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Kearon told us to and underline actions we plan to take because of this
conference. I made up my own Italian saying, "<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="OLE_LINK46">c'è chi
fa ma non sa, è chi sa ma non fa</a>" [translated roughly as: who does but
doesn't know, and who knows but doesn't do]. Basically, I've noticed that a lot
of excellent disciples are pretty new to the church and sometimes uneducated,
but they live the gospel 24/7. Sometimes there are others who know it all, but
don't follow through with the basic stuff. So let's do it! We were so happy
that Clytus, our less active new convert, came. I've really tried to take him under my wing
(no one else even knows his correct name).
Yesterday everyone was telling "Clever" to get in the picture)
but with my love for Africans it was easy to want to work with him. He heard
two Book of Mormon talks that gave him a wake-up punch.</span><br />
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us tonight with Diego, our first referral here! We were so excited, that isn't
very common. I went on a scambio with my old friend Anziano Vrska. I was so
happy to hear how my favorite unit in the mission is doing- Palermo 3, the
international branch. I love the priesthood service that Fratello Mannino gave
as he clearly groomed his counselors to take the reigns of the branch. He was
called to the stake presidency since I left and Joel Kefas is the new
president. I've heard rumors about them being the highest tithe-paying unit in
Italy and the stake president telling them that this branch, which was six
strong in 2014 and had over 20 active members when I was there, will be a Ward
within a year or two at its current growth rate. We also saw an awesome miracle
as we stayed to eat fufu after teaching a new convert and got to meet the
incredible land lord couple who agreed to start taking the lessons because they
love the way the missionaries act and treat our friend.</span><br />
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Ladispoli. I said "we" because basically Anziano Jorgenson and I got
sent to another city to be companions again. Good thing we like each other ha-ha.
Ladispoli is pretty close to Rome, normally the zone leaders buy your tickets
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spent a few hours today and whatever time we could find in these past few days
to clean it up. It was pretty filthy in
addition to the straight up problems it has like how you have to turn on and
adjust the shower with a wrench, and the elevator we stopped using because it
makes you sick like it were the Hollywood tower of terror. But these are all
things you can for the most part just laugh about.</span><br />
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">I told the assistants on Monday that the phone
would be on silent that night when we taught our referral. I wasn't kidding. I
felt the phone vibrate as they called give us out transfer calls, but we had
more important things to do with Diego who is awesome and I think will be
baptized!</span><br />
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Ladispoli is an interesting place, it is a very
small city compared to Rome, but the missionaries have done good work here,
plus it is the home of the translation center for Italy where about 12 people
work. In other words, our ward is
STACKED. Elder Dini Ciacci, the stake president I knew in Rome, who is now an
area 70 wasn't even at church yesterday.
But there are so many other great people, including Gianni, who I used
to know as Anziano Calvagna from this mission, and Dario, who I knew in Rome 1
and is literally the most jaw-droppingly good teacher in lessons that I have
ever seen. We are really excited for the ward unity and strength and will be
working a LOT with that this transfer.</span><br />
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">I'll let you in on our secret plans: obviously,
all of us missionaries loved the talks by Elder Andersen and Elder Oaks, but we
want to pull a little from President Uchtdorf as well. The reality is that each
member in the ward is an Amulek. We need them; we always have. But in a city of this size and with the plain
statistics of who is most likely to stay active, we really are going to be
pleading with them to</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">make missionary work an attitude rather than a
program.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Cool analogy: probably my favorite part of our
house is the mirror in our study room. Why? Because the way it is positioned, I
can only see Anziano Jorgenson – and
Anziano Jorgenson can only see me. What a great model for humility and
selflessness.</span><br />
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Super exciting announcement:<o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;">After one session of
conference, we did a split and I went to help an old lady in our apartment
complex who needed our help. She needed us to go to get her groceries. It was
an excellent lesson in patience. To be honest it was kind of a weird sight to
see Anziano Ruiz going to replace the 1.39€ wine for the .89€ wine on a Sunday
at the grocery store because she couldn't afford it. A couple times I wanted to</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal;"><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">leave her and drop the bags off at her house so
we could be at the church in time for the conference, but I felt not to. After
we left her, we ran to the bus stop, and soon after Syv (changed name) walked up.
"Are you late to see the prophet?" he asked. After we responded
affirmatively, he replied "me too". So, we got to go with him to conference!</span><br />
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Which was AWESOME… like always. I encourage us to all go back like Elder
Kearon told us to and underline actions we plan to take because of this
conference. I made up my own Italian saying, "<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="OLE_LINK46">c'è chi
fa ma non sa, è chi sa ma non fa</a>" [translated roughly as: who does but
doesn't know, and who knows but doesn't do]. Basically, I've noticed that a lot
of excellent disciples are pretty new to the church and sometimes uneducated,
but they live the gospel 24/7. Sometimes there are others who know it all, but
don't follow through with the basic stuff. So let's do it! We were so happy
that Clytus, our less active new convert, came. I've really tried to take him under my wing
(no one else even knows his correct name).
Yesterday everyone was telling "Clever" to get in the picture)
but with my love for Africans it was easy to want to work with him. He heard
two Book of Mormon talks that gave him a wake-up punch.</span><br />
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Rose is taking a break right now. But pray for
us tonight with Diego, our first referral here! We were so excited, that isn't
very common. I went on a scambio with my old friend Anziano Vrska. I was so
happy to hear how my favorite unit in the mission is doing- Palermo 3, the
international branch. I love the priesthood service that Fratello Mannino gave
as he clearly groomed his counselors to take the reigns of the branch. He was
called to the stake presidency since I left and Joel Kefas is the new
president. I've heard rumors about them being the highest tithe-paying unit in
Italy and the stake president telling them that this branch, which was six
strong in 2014 and had over 20 active members when I was there, will be a Ward
within a year or two at its current growth rate. We also saw an awesome miracle
as we stayed to eat fufu after teaching a new convert and got to meet the
incredible land lord couple who agreed to start taking the lessons because they
love the way the missionaries act and treat our friend.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;">Well, we got transferred to
Ladispoli. I said "we" because basically Anziano Jorgenson and I got
sent to another city to be companions again. Good thing we like each other ha-ha.
Ladispoli is pretty close to Rome, normally the zone leaders buy your tickets
for transfers but they told us this time just to find our way to Ladispoli by
getting a train whenever we wanted.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal;"><br />
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Walking into the apartment was interesting. We
spent a few hours today and whatever time we could find in these past few days
to clean it up. It was pretty filthy in
addition to the straight up problems it has like how you have to turn on and
adjust the shower with a wrench, and the elevator we stopped using because it
makes you sick like it were the Hollywood tower of terror. But these are all
things you can for the most part just laugh about.</span><br />
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">I told the assistants on Monday that the phone
would be on silent that night when we taught our referral. I wasn't kidding. I
felt the phone vibrate as they called give us out transfer calls, but we had
more important things to do with Diego who is awesome and I think will be
baptized!</span><br />
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Ladispoli is an interesting place, it is a very
small city compared to Rome, but the missionaries have done good work here,
plus it is the home of the translation center for Italy where about 12 people
work. In other words, our ward is
STACKED. Elder Dini Ciacci, the stake president I knew in Rome, who is now an
area 70 wasn't even at church yesterday.
But there are so many other great people, including Gianni, who I used
to know as Anziano Calvagna from this mission, and Dario, who I knew in Rome 1
and is literally the most jaw-droppingly good teacher in lessons that I have
ever seen. We are really excited for the ward unity and strength and will be
working a LOT with that this transfer.</span><br />
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">I'll let you in on our secret plans: obviously,
all of us missionaries loved the talks by Elder Andersen and Elder Oaks, but we
want to pull a little from President Uchtdorf as well. The reality is that each
member in the ward is an Amulek. We need them; we always have. But in a city of this size and with the plain
statistics of who is most likely to stay active, we really are going to be
pleading with them to</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">make missionary work an attitude rather than a
program.</span><br />
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Cool analogy: probably my favorite part of our
house is the mirror in our study room. Why? Because the way it is positioned, I
can only see Anziano Jorgenson – and
Anziano Jorgenson can only see me. What a great model for humility and
selflessness.</span><br />
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celebrated his first re-birthday: he was baptized one year ago. He is a studly
missionary who will just call missionaries'</span> contacts to see how they are
doing and anyone he knows who didn't come to church. He is also very humble. He's 29 and refers to
a 40-year-old Nigerian member as "Uncle George". He's really just
grateful to everyone who played a role in his conversion.<span style="color: #222222; line-height: 107%;"><br />
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<span style="background: white;">In other news, I made pizza for the first time
this week. I was using expired yeast. Learn from the mistakes of others.
The thing about us</span> missionaries is that we always think "well, I
don't want this food</span> item, but maybe the next elder will". Do that
a couple times and I start finding stuff that went bad in 2014. The
yeast, in my defense, had been approved by a senior missionary. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;">Rose got to lift some spiritual conversion weights
this week as she got offered a job<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="aqj"><span style="z-index: -1;"><span data-term="goog_24643190" style="z-index: 0;" tabindex="0">on Sunday</span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> that she really could use. We are still</span> hoping
she will be ready by the 8th! Apparently all of her Pakistani</span> friends
were super stoked to come to it so we'll see.<br />
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<span style="background: white;">I got to go on a scambio with Anziano Ruiz this
week. He kind of defies the description of greenies. Maybe it has something to do with</span> the
work he put into become a state champion track athlete but so far he
thinks the mission is too... easy? We had a great time and got sidetracked
from going home to lunch by the Spirit helping us to find a new investigator!<br />
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<span style="background: white;">Love,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Anziano Cannon</span><br />
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transferred! I am no longer serving in Rome 6.
Yesterday, the stake presidency came to join Rome 2 and Rome 6. What had
happened is that a year or two ago they had created Rome 6 so they would have
enough wards to split the stake. Since then, many families from Rome 6 have
moved away, while other units that had been branches have become wards, so the
need for Rome 6 no longer existed. Plus, several American families have moved
in recently, so we are very blessed to now have Sunday school and
third hour in English.<br />
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We met with Will this week, unfortunately it was at a bar since he was in a
rush. But this guy, who initially wanted us to teach him English, apparently
frequented our church with his family for two years in Venezuela before
returning to "il mondo Cattolico". We hope well because we aren't
sure he ever worked with missionaries while he was there, they may not have had
them in his unit.<br />
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Thursday we had a mission conference with President Kearon of the Seventy!
Elder Sabin was also there. The conference was held in Rome 1, my old church.
But I tell people Rome is its own country for a reason. Anziano Jorgenson left
early to practice a musical number, but it was quite the miracle that we did an
exchange and had me leave later with the other missionaries to help them find
the church, as you'll see. I was happy to host the Cagliari elders, among which
was Anziano Chugg! We took a metro ride to centro and then had to switch metros
– we saw some companions from Rome 3 on the metro, but there was no room. That
came into play later as about halfway through the metro we fit on it broke
down. We got off and decided to take a bus (it was pouring rain), but the first
bus that came after 15 minutes was too packed to get on. We finally got on
another one after 15 more minutes, which was also packed. We then walked the
rest of the distance to the church, and got there at 10:15 after
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Anyway, they said some incredible things. President Kearon remembered meeting
me in February I believe! Crazy stuff. He quoted Elder Holland saying "it
takes a great conference to last past Tuesday" in relation to making goals
based off spiritual impressions and what we learned from the conference. I
certainly did and think we should all apply this with General Conference in a
couple weeks.<br />
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I guess the biggest news is Rose, who had an obstacle preventing her baptism
but she prayed after one of our lessons that she would receive an answer. The following morning, and at 6 am, she
got her answer. Her date is October 8th! She bought a notebook to start
taking notes of what she learns in church and from the Book of Mormon.<br />
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Love,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to be read in church... On the 25th we
are fasting in gratitude that the temple is moving forth at full speed
again!!!!! These days I have stopped praying that the temple will be completed
but instead that the Saints' hearts will be prepared, because I know that when
they are ready, the temple will be too.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><br />
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<span style="background: white;">President Pickerd is a champ. Even though I'm
here in Rome I never see him, but his influence is felt. He "fulfilled the
law" in my opinion with the old standards of excellence and made a simple,
new one – one baptism per companionship per six-week transfer. It goes right in
line with the Europe area plan, which has been called the best in the world for
its simplicity. We really are working to get Rose there for </span><span class="aqj"><span style="background: white;">October 8th</span></span><span style="background: white;">, the last Saturday of the transfer. This week she has
been reading every day, and says that her friends have noticed a big difference
in her in the past three weeks. She tells them two angels were sent to her.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Yesterday I translated sacrament meeting for
about 30 Americans who came on a tour. They are so nice but all I want to do is
speak to our members in Italian ha-ha. There are a couple American families who
live here whose dads are working on the temple and who are studs. But one thing
I forgot since I have been in Italy is how normal American teenage kids are.
One thing I love about Italians is that right off the bat you and the youth can
be good friends. With the American kids we are going to have to win them over a
bit. We'll definitely be using them; there is a strong nucleus of about 30,
most of which are new, that are going to an international school here.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Love,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Anziano Cannon</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Sorry no pictures... Hint for next week, you'll
see a picture of something from the British Isles that is coming here to Rome!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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