April 14, 2015: You are hereby called to serve as a missionary of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. You are assigned to labor in the Italy Rome Mission. It is anticipated that you will serve for a period of 24 months. You should report to the Provo Missionary Training Center on Wednesday, August 19, 2015…
“For the natural man is an enemy to God, and has been from the fall of Adam, and will be, forever and ever, unless he yields to the enticings of the Holy Spirit, and putteth off the natural man and becometh a saint through the atonement of Christ the Lord, and becometh as a child, submissive, meek, humble, patient, full of love, willing to submit to all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon him, even as a child doth submit to his father.” ~ Mosiah 3:19
Called to Serve: August 2015 ~ August 2017
Recent Posts
Week #105 – Infinite Things
Hello Everyone,It’s likely that most would look at the length of this letter and skip over it, so I’ll put what’s important at the beginning. These last two years have taught me infinite things and while I am grateful for the people I have met, the relationships I have made, the lessons I have learned, the […]
Week #104 – Please Desire It
Hello Everyone,I would say this week we are back in the swing of things. President Pickerd has returned and it is great to have him back because now we can look ahead and move forward with the upcoming week. I will dearly miss President Euvrard and all he was willing to sacrifice to come here […]
Week #103 – Make All The Difference
Hello Everyone!This week was full of surprises! Last Monday we had a skype call with President Pickerd and Sorella Pickerd and President Euvrard. We talked about several things we needed to plan out and discuss further for the upcoming weeks. It was so great getting to see Sorella Pickerd! I love her. Then afterward President […]
Week #102 – Fully Pour Out Your Heart
Hello Everyone,As you may have already guessed it was in fact a very busy week as usual except this one was particular seeing as it was transfer week which means that all of the missionaries finishing their missions come into Rome from all over the mission on Monday and we play taxi service all day […]
Week #101 – Prepared By The Lord
Hi Everyone,On Saturday Daniel was baptized! It was such a wonderful ceremony. He was so happy. I have been thinking a lot about his journey to this moment and it caused me to realize an interesting characteristic of the Italian language. In Italian, the verb “to baptize” is reflexive which directly translates “to baptize oneself.” […]
Week #100 – How Wonderful A Mission
Hello Everyone,This past week I had one of my favorite days that I have had in a while. So I’m about to go on a little rant about that and then I’ll do a quick overview of the rest of the week. It was Thursday and we were doing a scambio with the Rome 1 Anziani, […]
Week #99 – Unselfishly and Wholeheartedly
It’s been an interesting last 10 days. I think I have learned more of what it means to unselfishly and wholeheartedly serve others, despite one’s own circumstances, this past week than I have in my entire life.Starting from two Sundays ago, I woke up very early to make our flight to Palermo. The Pickerds were […]
Week #98 – Willing To Set Aside Time
Hello Everyone!We had 4 conferences in 5 days. Bari, Taranto, Napoli, and both Rome zones together. Starting from the top, after a 6 hour bus Sunday afternoon we arrive in Bari and I stay with Anziano Wiggins and Anziano Osmond who are both awesome. I missed Anziano Wiggins so much!Monday at Bari zone conference I […]
Week #97 – I Count My Blessings
Hello Everyone!So right now I’m sitting on a bus headed to Bari because this week begins a stretch of zone conferences that won’t end until we’re back in Rome Thursday night. So next time I write you I should have plenty to talk about!The past week was one for the books. We had a bit […]
