Cagliari Transfer 2 Week 7

So I couldn't pick a title for this email... My three options are as follows!

1. Conference is like Christmas for missionaries!

2. We're going back to Rome for a conference with a Member of the 12 Apostles

3. Let's go to the Beach, each let's go get away!

So that's my week! Haha it's been a really busy week and this is my

last three days with Anziano Segura! We're avoiding talking about

it... Haha but it's ok because change is good! I'll find out tonight

who my companion will be and I'm pretty excited! It's official though,

I will be staying here in Cagliari for at least another six weeks!

We had some great lessons and found some new investigators! We found

this guy named Andrea who works at this store that his Dad owns. Half

of what they sell is segways like those ones that they have allover

college campuses and they're so cool! Anyway he told us that they're

like 900€ which is about $1,000 so we decided President wouldn't

approve that expense and decided on teaching him the restoration

instead of buying a Segway. Their store wasn't open so we went in and

started teaching the restoration in the middle of the store and then

his Dad came in and so we went to the back supply room and finished

the lesson! It was a really cool lesson and I have been taking the

lead in our lessons so it's been a little more stressful!

We had our activity on Thursday night and it was soooo successful! So

we organized it around the movie Meet the Mormons with little segments

and made it an airplane ride. Our invitations looked like boarding

passes and we also dressed up like flight attendants and had some

members be the pilot and co-pilot. We set up the chairs like an

airplane that traveled allover the world watching the different

segments. Between each segments we divided the groups into stations

where one group learned about prophets and was invited to General

Conference and the other group learned about temples and Family

History. We had about 50 people show up to the activity and it was a

huge hit! The last segment in the movie is about a missionary that

leaves on his mission and it shows leading up to it and packing and

driving to the airport... Made me cry haha but it was a good cry! I'm

so glad to be here!

Friday we got a call from the Santoli family, they are a member couple

in their 70's and they invited us to Lunch at their house on Saturday.

It was a great meal and they asked us to set up their computer so they

could watch General Conference. They got out their laptop and I got it

right to the website that counts down the time so right as the stream

started it would begin! She was so happy and then said, "Anziani, my

email hasn't been working since January... Think you could try to fix

it?" So we got her password reset and everything and her outlook

popped up and she had 1,066 unread emails! Again she was so happy and

she pulled out her phone and said "I'd like to get all my pictures on

my computer so I can see them better!" So she got us the cord and I

uploaded 6,000 pictures most of which were screenshotted recipes from

Facebook that she wants to make onto her computer. I'm only explaining

this because it reminds me of my technically challenged Roxy who I

always help with her tech troubles! I thought of Roxy and Mom the

whole time! She also shared her conversion story with us which was

absolutely beautiful. Her husband was baptized in I think 1966 and she

wasn't baptized until 14 years later. She went to church with him

every Sunday and even had a calling in the Family History Center but

she was Catholic and would go to Mass every Sunday after attending The

LDS church with her Husband and kids. She slowly gained a testimony

and was baptized like I said 14 years later.and one year after that

they were sealed in the Frankfurt Germany temple. She still tears up

telling the story!

Conference is always great but I feel like it's even better when

you're on your mission. It's 8 hours delayed from Utah time so the

morning sessions start at 6 p,m. and we got to watch that on Saturday

from 6-8 and then they space it out so its played in the chapels over

Sunday. We watched the Priesthood session on Sunday morning at 11.

Secondo me, the Priesthood session was the best, we heard from Elder

Holland, and all three of the members of the First Presidency. It was

an incredible session and I really enjoyed Elder Holland's talk about

Home Teaching and the effect we can have on the other members around

us when we faithfully serve as Home Teachers AND we allow our Home

Teachers to come and fulfill their home teaching responsibilities.

There are still some sessions that we haven't watched yet but it was

an incredible conference! If you watched it what were your favorite

parts? Who spoke to you the most and did you get your questions

answered? I hope so! I would love to hear your insights!

After the Priesthood session Fratello Caravagna made all the

missionaries Pranzo but we didn't know about that and had an

appointment for Pranzo at 2 with the Cabras family. Italians take it

really personally if you don't eat their food so we ate Pranzo with

them rice and pesto pasta and breaded pork chops and French fries and

went right to our appointment to eat again! We started with minestrone

soup that had chick peas in it... It was pretty good but I was full

already! Then they brought out a whole pig again! It was so good and

then salad and fruit and gelato. Then we watched a session of

conference with them but it was in Italian so I was nodding in and

out. I'll have to watch that one again! Then they made us Seadas again

which are those things with the lemon cheese inside and they're fried.

I was going to explode. We had told this investigator couple of ours

that Anziano Segura would be leaving this week so they wanted to have

us over for dinner. Of all days I wasn't sure I could even look at

food. Ruth is Philippino so she always makes something a little less

Italian. We had ham fried rice to start with and then fried chicken

and mashed potatoes. It was real different that what we've been eating

lately but it was so good! Again feelings of explosion. But we

survived!

In the middle of all this we found out that we are having another

mission conference on the 20th of October! Mission conferences do not

happen very often in this mission mostly because of the size, in fact

the last one before the one we had two weeks ago was in March of 2015!

At the end of the conference a few weeks ago President Keuron said

"You have all prepared yourself spiritually for this conference and I

can tell that you were all ready to come here and be taught. But if a

member of the Quorum of the twelve apostles comes I want to ask you to

double your preparation." It turns out he said that for a reason! On

October 20th President Russell M. Nelson, of the Quorum of the Twelve,

Elder Donald L. Hallstrom, of the Presidency of the Seventy, Bishop

Gerald Causse, Presiding Bishop, and Elder Patrick Kearon, Europe Area

President will be in Rome for our Mission Conference! We are all so

excited! We will have the President of our Mission, the President of

the Geographical area, the Presiding Bishop, the President of the 70

AND the President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles! That is the

President of every organizational level of the Church starting with

mission President all the way up to the Quorum of the twelve! How cool

is that??? Can you tell we are excited? We only have three weeks to

prepare so it's a little stressful but it will be a once in a lifetime

experience!

Today has been a great P-Day! We started by getting ready really fast

this morning and driving to the church for personal and companion

study because we wanted to watch General Conference! Then as soon as

it was over we went home, went grocery shopping really quick and

headed to the beach with the sister missionaries! Poetto is world

famous and it is absolutely beautiful but we aren't allowed to go to

the beach from April to October, but it's finally October! So we still

aren't allowed to swim but we walked on the beach with our feet in the

water and it was amazing! The water was nice and warm and I have to

admit it puts those Florida beaches to shame! We had a picnic and

played some Football and tried to fly a kite but today was literally

the only day without wind so that failed! I got a little sun on my

face and more than anything it was really nice to relax on the beach!

Now it's obviously email time since I am writing this and we will be

headed to Family Home Evening in a little bit! I will have updates on

my new companion for you all next week! Stay tuned! I hope you have

all had a wonderful day and an incredible conference weekend and I

want you all to know that I love ya! I want to invite you all to look

for miracles in your lives, I promise if you look for them you will

find them. They are all around you, God is in the details and he loves

you!

Anziano Jacob Bellucci