Dec
10
The Book of Mormon: flooding the Earth
December 10, 2008 | 1 Comment
Members of the Mormon Church should remember the great talk by President Ezra Taft Benson about flooding the earth with the Book of Mormon. I was reading that talk again today and I remembered the great movie that the Church produced, The Book of Mormon, How rare a possession, where it is narrated the story of Parley P. Pratt, and especially of Vincenzo di Francesca, that amazing Italian who found an almost burned copy of the Book of Mormon in the US in the beginning of the 20th century and was influenced by it long before discovering the Church who published it.
While reading the talk I wondered if someone had already posted that video on youtube and yes… I found it. Here is the entire movie, it is a little old but it is still great and inspiring. It has been split in 5 parts and it is not HD, but it still touch me to watch the story of this Italian convert.
Oct
4
Rome Mormon temple annonced
October 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment
During the opening Saturday session of the 178th Semiannual General Conference, convened in the Conference Center, Mormon Church President Thomas S. Monson announced five new temples will be built in coming years.
Currently, 128 temples are in operation, and today’s announcement brings the number of announced temples to 17. Once completed, the new temples will bring the worldwide total to 145.
The Rome Italy Temple will be the first to be constructed in the region where historic Christianity originated. It will serve church members from a variety of countries and greatly reduce travel time and expense to the Latter-day Saints living in the area, the release states.
The announcement of a mormon temple in Rome brought an audible gasp and smiles to more than 20,000 church members assembled in the Conference Center.
As an Italian who was baptized more than 20 years ago in Italy I cannot avoid feeling extremely happy and excited for this new development.
Jul
1
Our legacy: a son on a Mormon Mission
July 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Tonight I found a very interesting page on the Internet. In fact, it was a page about me and this blog that was created by someone who is of Italian descent.
It is titled “Testimony of an Italian Mormon Convert”
He made this comment:
I really enjoy these immigrant stories where someone comes from somewhere else and makes something of himself/herself and what they will pass on to their offspring and the magic of the whole process. Reminds of my great-grandparents who left Italy with their kids on a ship and started a new life in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. I am grateful for them because had they not done what they did, well, I simply wouldn’t be here or possibly even exist. The implication of that for me and my family would be astronomical.
I hope my kids realize it. In fact, this is a good opportunity to share a few pictures of my first son, Luca, who is serving a Mormon Mission in the Boston Massachusetts Mission. He has been in the Mission field for a little more than 6 months and from his letters we realize how much he has already improved his life.
We can feel from his letters that he is happy as never before. Since he went to the Missionary Training Center we noticed a change for better.
To join the Mormon Church in Italy, many years ago, was an important step not only in my life, but in the lives of my future kids (not yet born at that time). For this reason I always told my sons that it is their responsibility to go and find many other people like me, and baptize them, so that they will someway repay for the blessings they received in their lives, thanks to what two missionaries did many years ago in Italy.
This is him, when he received the mission call…
He is discovering where he will go…
Opening the booklet…
The Mission call….
The Mission call was saying that he would leave on February 6… but this is not what happened… infact, he left before that? Why, it is all his daddy’s fault!