Departing Missionaries

June 24, 2014

Preach My Gospel, pg. 10-11

You know you have been a good missionary when you:

*Feel the Spirit testify to people through you.

* Love people and desire their salvation

* Obey with exactness.

* Live so that you can receive and know how to follow the Spirit, who will show you where to go, what to do, and what to say.

* Develop Christlike attributes.

* Work effectively every day, do your very best to bring souls to Christ, and seek earnestly to learn and improve.

* Help build up the Church (ward) wherever you are assigned to work.

* Warn people of the consequences of sin.  Invite them to make and keep commitments. 

* Teach and serve other missionaries. 

* Go about doing good and serving people at every opportunity, whether or not they accept your message.

When you have done your very best, you may still experience disappointments, but you will not be disappointed in yourself.  You can feel certain that the Lord is pleased when you feel the Spirit working through you. 

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Five more missionaries have successfully fulfilled their missions in the Italy Rome Mission.  Each of them leaves the mission knowing they were successful missionaries and that this is a new beginning and not an end.  Each of them has unique talents that will be a blessing to them and to their wards as they return home.  We wish them well.  They will always be "one of our missionaries".

We had a "departing testimony" meeting (no more "dying testimony" meetings in this mission), ate one final Italian dinner which included Mozzarella di Bufala cheese, proscuitto, melone, green salad, and lasagna, sang Inno di Roma once last time, and then walked down the street to the gelateria for gelato.  As usual, everyone picked out their favorite apron to wear.  This group wore aprons to the gelateria. 

5:00 am breakfast

Loading the van

Don't forget my suitcases

Van is finally loaded

5:45 am and ready to leave for the airport

We will miss you!