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
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Week #67 – Many Small Miracles

Hello Everyone!!Okay I’m starting off with our Thanksgiving FEAST because it was incredible. Shout out to Sister Palazzo and Sister Duffy who sent me some awesome Thanksgiving recipes! Thank you!! Alrighty so we ordered a 7 kilo turkey from a butcher. Dressed it. Seasoned it. Baked it.Came out perfect. Pulled off all the meat. Saved […]
Week #66 – An Amazing Lesson On Faith

Hello Everyone!!So do you all remember last week my ode to Mug Root Beer? Do you also remember how at the end I mentioned what it would be like if I ended up finding Dr. Pepper? Well I FOUND IT!!!Honestly it was pretty disappointing though. It came from Great Britain. Leave it to England to […]
Week #65 – A Paradoxical Human Being

Hello Everyone!!Well this week was quite the odd week and I’ll tell you why. Monday we headed out to Cosenza to play zone soccer which was super fun. I’m always done for some soccer and it’s nice to keep that skill up. Then that night we headed out to Crotone to do an exchange there […]
Week #64 – Take To Heart

Hello Everyone!!Did you guys know that cemeteries in Italy look like the neighborhoods we have in America? They have legitimate houses with all the members of the family stacked one upon the next in the walls. It’s pretty incredible. We did service at the cemetery Tuesday and Wednesday this week because in Italy the 1st […]
Week #63 – A Deeper Level

Hello Everyone!!It has been a great last 7 days here in Taranto. Quite another busy week again. Starting from Wednesday it was very hectic getting everything prepared for zone conference. Once President arrived he immediately started interviews and I headed off to Bari with Anziano Kelly to finally get the other companionship here in Taranto […]
Week #62 – Only Have Faith & Believe

Hello Everyone!!Alrighty, so if I thought that the previous several weeks had flown by. This week went to the next level because on Saturday I thought it was Wednesday. In any case I went to Rome this week on Wednesday and Thursday for a conference with President Nelson (President of the Quorum of the Twelve […]
Week #61 – Feelings of Inadequacy

Hello Everyone!!Well after another week passes here in beautiful Taranto, I am happy to report that all is well on the Italian front. In fact, I heard there were a series of small earthquakes here in Taranto but I felt no such thing. I claim that those who say there was an earthquake are crazy […]
Week #60 – Desire AND Willingness

Hello Everyone!!So I ended up staying here in Taranto and my companion was transferred! I have a new companion now who is named…guess…just guess! Anziano Andersen! Do you see the difference? First I had Anziano Anderson, then I had Anziano Anderson, and now I have Anziano Andersen pretty funny, huh??? I think it is. Anyway […]
Week #59 – Have Love

Hello Everyone!!I think few things can make a missionary happier than general conference weekend!! Seriously it was everything I needed it to be. I had the option of watching it English, but I preferred to watch in Italian in order to be around the members and investigators we had present. Oh yeah, we had investigators […]