I promised Zac I would be more diligent in putting pictures up for you all to see. :) Thanks for the reminder Zac, OK... here we go...
Italy is a very beautiful country. It is very green and from the freeway the hillsides are well kept and you see farms and vineyards. It's hard to get pictures from the road but my favorite view is of the hill top towns that can be seen along the way. We visited this town one Saturday afternoon.
Civita di Bagnoregio
A few pictures from inside the village.
Italian Pottery... I love it!
And one more...
"Our group": the project managers and our good friends.
Take One:
Carl and Barbara Champagnie & Ramon and Lorena Lopez
and Take Two...
but Lorena always looks good!
... take one was better!
Barbara is from Brazil, Carl is from Preston England , Ramon and Lorena are from Madrid Spain.
Barbara speaks, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian and a little English, her husband Carl speaks English only! Ramon speaks Spanish, English, French and a little Italian, Lorena speaks Spanish and her English is getting really good too. So one way or another we all communicate. But it gets pretty funny at times.
Ramon is the new project manager for the PARIS FRANCE TEMPLE so they we will be leaving us after Christmas... We will miss you but are very happy for you Ramon.
Barbara and Lorena will follow their husbands to whatever city or country is getting a new temple. Which means they will probably never live by a temple!!
"Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop" michelangelo
Last Saturday David and I took the bus downtown because we had heard of a statue Michelangelo had done of Christ that was in a church down by the Pantheon.
We found it and here it is: Il Redentore
The physique is stronger than most depictions... We really enjoyed seeing this statue. I will be talking a lot about the statues that will be going in the Visitors Center here at the Temple site in Rome. Stay tuned.
On our way to church
Love and miss you all. Take good care! Thank -you to everyone for your prayers and support.
Hello Anziano & Sorella Finn! I just found your blog and love it! We trained the Valentines and love them so much! We served from Aug 2009-July 2011 (all five of our children had babies while we were on our mission!). If you are interested in viewing our mission blog here is the link: http://kingstonburts.blogspot.com (start at the oldest post and work backwards).
ReplyDeleteSince you are the temple historian you have probably already checked out this site which gives details to the story Norma told you about the fast from the members when the site was examined for Roman ruins (under the heading "Temple Site"):
http://www.ldschurchtemples.com/rome/
We are waiting for our second mission call. Our papers have been in for two weeks!
God bless you both. Love, Claudette Burt
burtclaudette@yahoo.com