Cagliari Transfer 2, Week 6!

Ciao raggazzi!

Hey ya'll it's your Italian missionary here! It's been another pretty

great week here in Cagliari and I'm a little sad that I will most

likely be losing my companion next week :( Transfer calls are next

week and so we are both super bummed! But I am also super excited to

be getting a new companion! I hope we get along as well as Anziano

Segura and I have!

One of the things that we did this week that I really enjoyed was on

Wednesday night. We set up a movie night with the youth and the young

single adults and some of our investigators to watch the movie "17

Miracles" and we bought popcorn and Aranciata (Fantaish) and the

sisters made banana bread and we had about 20 people come! It was

really cool!

For those of you who do not know the movie is about a handcart company

that traveled to Salt Lake City from Nauvoo in the 1800's. They were

being persecuted in the East and needed to escape and had to do so in

the Winter. They fought many hardships and many many people died, but

they recognized 17 incredible miracles that showed they were doing the

right thing in following the direction of the Prophet. These people

suffered so many hardships, many froze to death, others starved and

others got sick and suffered for weeks before passing away. But it was

their knowledge of the Plan of Salvation that helped them to persevere

and make their way to the Salt Lake Valley. It was also their faith

that helped them to know that their families would be blessed for

doing what the Lord had asked. This was a really good time for

reflection for me on the amount of faith that I have. The decision to

serve a mission was obviously not easy. However, I have plenty of

food, health care, and as I write this email on an iPad I understand

how blessed we are to be missionaries now and not pioneers 150 years

ago. Our faith can be measured by our action. So my invitation to you

all this week whether you are a member of the Church of Jesus Christ

of Latter-day Saints or not is to reflect on your own faith and see

how much faith you really have! Maybe you will surprise yourself,

maybe you will find some room for improvement! Then take that faith

and put it into action. Ask the missionaries for a copy of the Book of

Mormon and write your testimony in it and prayerfully choose someone

to give it to. If you aren't a member of the church but would like to

learn more talk to my family and get a Book of Mormon from them and

read it! If you haven't read your own copy of the Book of Mormon in a

while pull it out and blow the dust off and search for some answers

and remember the promise in Moroni 10:

3 Behold, I would exhort you that when ye shall read these things, if

it be wisdom in God that ye should read them, that ye would remember

how merciful the Lord hath been unto the children of men, from the

creation of Adam even down until the time that ye shall receive these

things, and ponder it in your hearts.

4 And when ye shall receive these things, I would exhort you that ye

would ask God, the Eternal Father, in the name of Christ, if these

things are not true; and if ye shall ask with a sincere heart, with

real intent, having faith in Christ, he will manifest the truth of it

unto you, by the power of the Holy Ghost.

5 And by the power of the Holy Ghost ye may know the truth of all things.

God will answer! He always does, not in our own time but in his! So

there's my little plug for missionary work! Just as I'm out here in

Italy there are missionaries in every one of your hometowns looking

for people to invite unto Christ, give them a hand! 😃😃😃

On Thursday morning we went to this park and we saw this cave so we

thought we would check it out. Turns out they had turned it into a

museum. The cave was man made and housed many people during the Second

World War. Like I said it is now a museum and art gallery. It's free

and open to the public and we talked to the lady that was working

there and she was super nice. She said she was atheist which most

people I have noticed here don't really understand. They say atheist

when they mean agnostic... So after she said she was atheist I said

"So you don't believe in God?" And she said "Well of course I believe

in God I just don't believe in any one Church." AKA Agnostic... But

she was really nice and said that she would love to attend our English

Course!

Saturday we spent the morning baking... Well I baked and my companion

made phone calls. We have been going through our area book and calling

people who have been interested in the past and so he made a lot of

phone calls while I made banana bread and homemade brownies! They both

turned out really well and we brought them to our investigators and

the families that we home teach! They were all so impressed that we

could cook haha apparently the young kids in Italy aren't interested

in cooling especially the guys (Ragazzi) we had some really nice

visits especially with our less active families that we home teach!

Sunday is always a wonderful day! Sorella Cabras actually called us on

Saturday and said that the Ravioli we had last time was store

bought... I wasn't even mad because they were soooo good anyway! But

they had spent Saturday evening making homemade pasta and homemade

ravioli for us! Some of them with just normal ricotta cheese filling

and others had spinach in them! They were so amazing and they had

lemon in the filling which was really different but definitely a

positive thing! So I was excited for Pranzo all the way through

Church.

We had a really good Gospel Principles class on the role of members in

the Family. It was really interesting to liken our parents to our

Heavenly Parents and see how we as both Children of God and Children

of our wonderful parents should act in accordance with the Gospel. It

was also interesting to discuss how one day we will be parents and

should do so in harmony with the Gospel. It was a great day full of

the spirit. None of our investigators came to church after all of them

promised us they would but there's always next week right!

Today has been a really great P'Day! We were supposed to go hike this

trail called Devil's saddle but we took the wrong bus and ended up on

the other side of the peninsula. So instead we explored the ruins of a

bunch of old castles and bunkers and had a picnic with all the other

missionaries! It was really fun and the whole time we played the games

like "If Anziano Bellucci was a car what car would he be?" we decided

on the Porsche Cayenne... Which I am totally okay with! Parents if you

want to get me a car when I come home there's my top pick! Now it's

email time and we are chilling at the church and talking to our

families! Hope you all have had a wonderful week!

Love,

Anziano Jacob Bellucci

P.S. There's still the blog that Jill is doing and you can always send

me an email or a voice recording and I can look at them throughout the

week!