Serving An 18 Month LDS Mission

In the LDS church, when a girl turns 21 she has the opportunity to choose to serve an 18 month, self-funded mission. I have wanted to go on a mission since I was a little girl. My parents both served a mission in Rome in the 1970's. In 2001-2002, my sister Letty served as a missionary in Hong Kong and my brother Algot in the Philippines. As soon as I turned 21 I submitted my papers. The Prophet and 12 Apostles determine through inspiration which of the more than 300 missions worldwide each missionary will be assigned. I was overjoyed when I opened my mission call and discovered that I was called to Rome, Italy! I feel immensely blessed and I feel that God has been preparing me to serve the Italian people. Each week, while I am on my mission, I will send my sister Letty an email and pictures to post on the blog. I won't see this blog till I come home, so I will be unable to directly respond to your comments until then. However, the sidebar will always have a current street address for me, and I promise I will respond to your letters! If you would rather write via email, just email your letter to my sister and she will print it out and send it me with her weekly snail mail!

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

P-Day in Monopoli

Feb 27th We went to Monopoli. Yes I went to the game!!! :) It had a beautiful sea. And then we did a pit stop at Polignano again :)
 
Me at Monopoli. It was super windy that day but it was fun :)
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Letter #19 and Pictures from Bari, Italy

Hello Family!!
I have some news at the beginning. So we will have a new mission president. He will be arriving on June 30th and his name is President Waddoups. I am excited to meet him. It is so wonderful that we know that our leaders have priesthood authority and the Prophet, his counselors, and the 12 Apostles receive revelation from God. Because of this knowledge I do not need to worry about this change in Presidents because I know that God called President Waddoups to come to Italy and be our Mission President. What a wonderful surety!!
 
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Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Letter #18 from Bari, Italy

Hello Everyone,
 
Anziano Kent F. Richards of the Area Seventy came and talked to us on last Thursday. It was sooo good. He talked about soo many things. He was very nice and he is a great teacher. He knows the scriptures so well. He would just whip out scriptures left and right to answer our questions. I just want to highlight some of my favorites.
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Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Letter #17 from Bari, Italy

Dear Family,
 
Can I just say that our members are amazing!!! Our 40 day fast is filling up! AND all our youth want to do it. We just had Stake conference  - it was amazing. Saturday night they have a broadcast to all of the chapels in Puglia so that people would not need to come up!! They had recorded it before, and they had a telemonitor so the speakers could read their talks, and all the hymns were displayed on the screen. It felt like general conference!! I could not help thinking HOW COOL our members are!
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Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Letter #16 from Bari, Italy



Dear Family!!, I am so excited to write you. We received our transfer calls on Saturday. I have been asked by President Kelly to .... 

Remain here in Bari with SORELLA FULLER!!!! 
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