Carissimi,
200 years ago, in 1818, Giuseppe Taranto, a little toddler at the time, waddled off of a boat into the beautiful Sicilian seaport, Palermo. He would spend nearly all his youth in the city, and it shaped him into the man who would one day accept the gospel, and change generations, and generations of Taranto children.
Flash forward to Thursday, 20 Sept. 2018, when his great-great-great grandson stepped off of a plane, blinking under the Sicilian sun, and reclaimed his place on pride rock. I was beyond excited to come back to my Sicilian home, and am positive when he's not working on his family members on the other side, he's walking the streets he knows so well right next to Anziano Zanini and I.
Anziano Zanini, my wonderful new missionary, fresh from the MTC, hails from Rio di Janeiro, Brazil, which means I have the chance to help him learn both English and Italian. Luckily, he's already a wizard at both, so I don't have to do too much in that regard!
We're serving in the Palermo 2 Ward, and Palermo 3 International branch, which means we have a lot of work to do, members to know, and area to cover, but we're already getting started, and it's already been a blast!
Un saluto caloroso dalla Patria,
Vi voglio bene,
Anziano Toronto II ❤🇮🇹
