07/13/2018
As our missionaries we want to share with you the unexpected, but wonderful news, of the opportunity extended to us by the First Presidency to serve as President and Matron of the Rome Italy Temple. We are extremely honored and very humbled at this opportunity. This notice has just been publicly announced on https://www.ldschurchnews.com/callings/2018-07-12/new-temple-presidents-called-to-serve-in-colombia-and-rome-47568.
Given the special place you hold in our lives, we desired to share this wonderful news with you more personally now that we are permitted to do so.
We have no details about our service yet as we were just called and our training is not scheduled until October after General Conference. But we’ll keep you informed as we learn anything that may be of interest. We also don't have any information about dedication tickets. We were told that any who would desire to serve in the temple as ordinance workers or as sealers should contact the Temple Department directly.
As has been previously published, the Rome Temple should be open to the public starting on Tuesday, March 19th following the dedication.
We have always been blessed with the knowledge that our Heavenly Father loves us and desires us to be filled with joy throughout the eternities. The realization of those hopes are made possible by the receipt of all the temple blessings available to us. We are so grateful that during our lives we have seen so many temples built including this beautiful edifice in Rome. To serve in one of Their Holy Houses, in the same area that Peter and Paul walked, is indeed a wonderful blessing. It will be a further blessing to see and feel the heavenly power exercised in the uniting eternally of husbands, wives, and children using the sealing keys promised to Peter in Matthew 16:19 and later given to him and all the original twelve apostles. How blessed and grateful we are for a loving Heavenly Father, a Savior who has no desire other than to do the Father's will and bless our lives even to the point of giving His own life for us, and then to live when actual prophets again walk the earth and represent heaven to us all.
Thanks for being such a special part of our lives and hopefully we'll see you sometime over the next 3 or so years in Rome. What a wonderful time to find ourselves united on the "covenant path!!"
May our loving Heavenly Father, and His Holy Son Jesus Christ, bless you richly with peace, understanding, and the knowledge necessary to return to live with Them once again.
Love,
Presidente & Sorella Julie Anne Metcalfe Pacini
https://www.media-mormoni.it/articolo/craig-pacini-sarà-il-primo-presidente-del-tempio-di-roma