Mission call 2.0

We submitted our mission application papers on March 25 and three weeks later received our call to serve for 18 months in the Italy Rome Mission. This is something we have dreamed of doing together for decades -- we are still both fluent in Italian from serving in Italy just over forty years ago.  

Our mission assignment will be to work with the Young Single Adults (YSA, or GANS in Italian) at the Institute center in downtown Rome. Generally we will be serving/teaching at the Institute every weekday from 1-9pm. We will be known as Sorella (Sister) and Anziano (Elder) Whiting.

On September 9th we depart for the LDS Missionary Training Center in Provo, finally arriving in Rome on September 22. Our son Rich will be staying in our house and taking care of things here. We should return home in March 2019.

The scripture we selected for our missionary plaque is Mosiah 16:1 -- "The time shall come when all shall see the salvation of the Lord; when every nation, kindred, tongue, and people shall see eye to eye and shall confess before God that his judgments are just"

As you can imagine, there's still a lot to do before we leave!

"No other success can compensate for failure to visit Rome"