Activity for the Young Adults!

This is Marcos (left, who is the President of the Young Adults), Leandro and Stefano.  You might wonder why Leandro has a roll of toilet paper on his head.

This is Andrea, Denise and Diego.  These are all great young adults!  For one of our activities, we played a game called the "Mummy Game."

This is Gustavo, Emma the Mummy, and Alan.

We had three teams!  Marcos was mummy #1!

Denise was mummy #2!

Emma was mummy #3.

Each team was competing to be the most clever mummy in 3 minutes!

Emma was wondering if she would be able to breathe!

These guys were fast!!!  It looked like Denise was going to be the first mummy finished!

These guys were really good!

Poor Emma!  Gustavo was doing his job alone!  His partner left to go talk on the phone! 

The toilet paper was flying!!!

The final touches!  Denise is looking awesome!

This is Alan, Emma the Mummy and Gustavo.  They are finished!!!

Bam!  Diego, Denise the Mummy, and Andrea.  They are finished!!!

Marcos is finished!  Cast your vote!

Yikes!  Scary Mummies!!!

Hurry and judge the Mummies!  The toilet paper is falling off!!!

Baptisms in Rome!

Guiseppe D'Amore is 82 years old and he was just baptized!  

He is very sweet and soft spoken.  He was very interested in Eternal Families!

This is Sorella Perez and his family.

This is Lorenzo Loverde, (left), Michelanglo (on the right), who was just baptized a few months ago.  Lorenzo was baptized last November (2011).  I can't remember the name of the guy in the middle.....

This is Guiseppi Macario.  He was baptized a couple of months ago.  He is actually a young adult, but he just moved to Milano.

This is Floridana Flores.  She is from Honduras.  She has four children and they are all members of the Church.  She was never interested in the Church while she was living in Honduras.  In fact, the missionaries tried to meet with her and she refused to meet with them.  She would always tell them "no".  Then she moved to Italy, without her children.  She noticed something was missing in her life.  She couldn't figure out what she was missing.....until one day she had a feeling.....she was missing the missionaries!!!!  She took the missionary lessons and was baptized without telling her children!  After she was baptized, she called her children, and told them the happy news!!!

This is Alberto Garcia.  He has been attending our Institute classes for 5 or 6 months.  We have really enjoyed getting to know him.  He is an attorney!  Alberto is 28 years old and very sweet.  Anziano Krueger was asked to baptize him on October 20, 2012.  We had a wonderful day!

We are so thankful we are able to participate in these wonderful baptisms!  The people really do change and they are happier!  Alberto is kind of quiet, but when he was listening to General Conference a few weeks ago, the Tabernacle Choir starting singing and he had never heard them sing before.  The Spirit was so strong....  He started to cry!  This is the first time, Alberto had really felt the Spirit!!!

These are the missionaries that help teach Alberto.  (Left) Sister Clark, Anziano Davids, Alberto, Anziano Telaroli and Sister Heiner.

This is Anziano Krueger, Dima Scotchi and Marcos Bendezu'.  Both of these young men are young adults who come to our Institute class.  This picture was taken after Alberto was baptized.

This is (left) Sister Lovell, Alberto, Stefano Rosetti (who was just baptized a couple of months ago) and Sister Miles.

Our trip to the Island of Sardegna

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We were asked by our Mission President to go to the Island of Sardegna and inspect the apartments of the young missionaries.  We took a ferry and took our car with us!!!  We had to wait in a very long line with about 300 other cars!

While we were waiting, we found our new mission car!!!  Yellow is a good color!!!  We need a fast car to be able to get to our appointments on time!  Right?

Anziano Krueger looks pretty awesome next to this 599 Ferrari!!!  We were very impressed with the way the ferry came into port!  The "Moby Tommy" backed in very fast and lowered the ramp for the cars as it was backing up!

You can see all of the cars lined up on the left of this picture and the ships and ferries are waiting in the harbor.  We thought we were going to drive onto one of the ferries waiting right next to the pier.  But then....

Within minutes.....this huge ship/ferry backed into the harbor between the other ships!!!  All of the ropes were flying off the ship and onto the harbor!  We were so impressed!  

All of the people waiting by their cars were all watching and we thought this process would take a long time. We were thinking this would take hours.....the ferry pulled in 5 minutes before we were suppose to leave!

The ramp is lowering here and everyone was taking pictures and amazed how fast the ship came in.

These men were really top of things!  They caught the ropes exactly when they were suppose too!  The ramp started to lower, off the back of the ferry, way before the ferry was in port!  

We were surprised that the ferry was pretty nice.  There were a lot of people!  We were able to take the fast ferry over to the Island, so we were on the ferry for about 5 hours.

This is the first view we had of the Island!  It was starting to get dark.  

Sardegna is very beautiful!  The water is a beautiful turquoise color close to shore!

 Most of the beaches were rocky but beautiful!

We were very surprised to find a real Church built Chapel!  We have only seen two other Chapels that are actually built by the Church!

 This is Anziano Miller and Viglieti.  They are great missionaries!

This is Anziano Wright and Anziano Perera.  

This is Anziano Lemon and Anziano Bringhurst.

This is Sorella Camp and Sorella Openshaw.  Their apartment was about 150 degrees!!!

We met at the Church and had a very special spiritual discussion!

This is the ship we took back to Rome. 

This is the view we saw as we left Sardegna.  We traveled from Cagliari (which is at the bottom of the Island) to Civitavecchia.  Our trip was 12 hours!!!  We had to sleep on the ferry.....in chairs and on the floor.

These are our overnight accomadations!  These chairs were so uncomfortable I slept on the floor!!!!