Where to start...

So this last week was really fun and I don't even know where to start. Well Anziano Chilvers left for Naples after serving with me for 4 months and now I'm with Anziano Carroll from Gilbert Arizona. He's young in the mission but he's a pretty cool kid. Hopefully we can take the work to the next level here. We also had a conference on sunday with the area authority of europe. They broadcast it to all the churches in western europe and we even got to hear from elder Christofferson. They also had a fun lunch after with all the wards in palermo for a sister who just returned from her mission. 

We had some good lessons this past week as well. We are trying to focus on getting more member referrals and meeting with all of our new contacts. We spent a lot of time saying goodbye to people for chilvers and now will get to spend time saying hello with carroll. Mike had a really good lesson with us this past week and he seems reinvigorated to move towards the church. Things are also looking really good for our boy Francesco Fillipone. We have been working with him since he's a new convert and he'll get the Melchizedek priesthood this next week. But the real news is we're helping him set up his lds singles account so be on the watchout all you single ladies!

For Pday we went to an island of Traponi called Favignana and it was gorgeous. We biked around the island with the anziani from traponi and it was a blast! We went over on a cool boat and got to see some really pretty beaches. The water looked really inviting but will save that for after the mission. Palermo is doing really well and I look forward to all of the work Anziano Carroll and I will be doing together helping people come unto Christ.

Vi voglio bene!

Anziano Whiting

That late night gelato with our stake presidency member