The Silver Lining

We had an exciting week of transfers, Anziano Bourne was sent to Rome and Anziano Silver is now my companion. He's from salt lake and we're super excited for all of the work will do together. And to celebrate all the guys leaving this past week we bought some lobsters and cooked them with steaks haha! We've become quite the grill masters these past couple weeks. Or we've ate least ate a lot of steaks ha.

We had Anziano Raimondi with us this week so we did a lot of splits with members again. We had a good lesson with Letizia again and they have a big trip coming up so we hope she reads he Book of Mormon with her husband. Edoardo is such a stud and he has changed so much since his baptism it's incredible to see. He's so much happier and so much more enthusiastic. Prince lucky was also a stud passing the sacrament this past week! I'm so grateful they've been so faithful since their baptisms.

Their was a chocolate festival here in Cagliari which means the streets have been flooded and not just with chocolate! We met a lot of new people and are excited for all of them! We had a fun lesson in Oristano with the guy named Stefano and he is super ready to be baptized! They had me give a talk last week on why people should serve a mission and he kids seemed to like it. The GANS I wanted to have hear it didn't seem to pay much attention but oh well. Special shout out to dad for turning 25! It's about time a man with 8 children got that old. ;) Vi voglio bene Anziano Whiting

The chocolate stands

Spring Fever

I've had a pretty exciting past couple days here on the island.

Roberto and his wife Mariella both made tons of progress and all of the sisters in the relief society have gotten super excited for their wedding. It's in about a month and it should be a party. We also got to see Letizia again after not seeing her for a couple weeks and she is still doing great. Super nice still they just struggle because they work on sundays so will have to see if we can't come up with a way for her to come to church.

We got some incredible referrals from the Ancis family and they all came to church! All four of them loved it and want to meet with us this week. Lots of other investigators came and it was great for all of the members to see so many non members come to church. Probably one of the greatest moments of my mission was getting to teach our friend Davide last week. He's from Brazil and I just have to say that all the rumors are true, Brazilians are chosen.

We had a fun pday out at the beach playing volleyball. It was a nice throw back to the mtc days. We've been blessed with lots of success finding and are pretty stocked for this next week. We did get dropped by some kids which was kinda sad but we found some guys to fill there spots thankfully. We saw Andrea Boi, the old investigator of President Pickerd and we're working with him on a baptismal date now so will have to see how he progresses. Spring is coming and so are the miracles!

Vi voglio bene

Anziano Whiting

The District

Us chilling with the boys

Paradise City

We had another great week here in the city of Cagliari. President and Sorella Pickerd came for zone conference and it was really good. We had the chance to learn about a lot of the new initiatives we have as missionaries. Mostly just using technology and focusing on GANS age kids. President was sick for most of the time but he was still happy to come out and do some lessons with us and try to help the work in any way.

I got to go on a scambio with Anziano Raimondi and it was really fun.

He's from Torino so we had a blast finding his native Italians. One of the biggest miracles of this week was Roberto Pulina making it out to church for the first time. It was a fast Sunday so he got to listen to some great testimonies and the ward seems excited that he's came.

Roberto Fisichella also finally got his marriage figured out and it should be at the start of April.

We had a fun zone calcio and most of the elders really enjoyed it.

Stefano had another good lesson with us on the restoration and it seems like he wants to start taking things seriously. The members have been showing lots of support and we've had some great lessons with them. The best was probably when we walked into the ancis house and they had friends over to chat who got invited to stay for our spiritual thought. They were super cool!

Vi voglio bene

Anziano Whiting

Zone Conference

At the Beach

Moving Along

This week was filled with lots of chances to do service. The biggest was helping Roberto move his house which is kinda a nightmare in Italy haha since everyone lives in apartments. So we ended up taking the fridge and dishwasher up 5 flights of stairs. Almost the whole ward showed up to help and it was really cool to see everyone get behind Roberto. We also had a good stake conference this past week.

We also had another scambio and I got to go with Anziano wog again! We did scambi a year ago in Ragusa and now again in Cagliari. It was really fun and we had a good lesson with our friend Roberto pulina. We had good lessons with all of the new converts this past week and everyone is doing really well. Alessio got a calling, Edoardo and prince lucky will be getting the priesthood this next week and there all progressing so well.

We were privileged to go meet this English speaking class and lots of them seemed super interested. We also started teaching this student named Daniele and he is super cool. We've been really blessed with all of our investigators. Lesson highlight was probably teaching Edoardo about the temple and him just looking at us and saying at the end "I need to read the Book of Mormon to understand this". How true.

Everything is going really well and we are excited for march!

At the Move

The Zone