Serving in Rome: Our First Week in Italy!

Hello from Rome!

We are getting settled in and organized in our apartment in Rome! We are happy to report we like our apartment. It is a one bedroom furnished (my the Mission) with a living room, bathroom, and kitchen. We are grateful the mission provides us with pots and pans and all the necessities that we need to set up our apartment. We are about a ten minute drive from the Mission Office. We are working in the Office everyday...but that will soon change as we will start traveling around the mission as of next week to visit all of the missionaries in the Rome, Mission.....we have a check list of things we need to check and make sure they are doing.

We were able to visit a really beautiful city called Bagnoreggio....it is an ancient city that dates back to 1300 years before Christ!!! This city is built on top of a hill and all of the houses and buildings are jammed together.....during World War 1 the bridge was bombed and also a huge earthquake in 400 A.D. that almost destroyed the whole city!!! We were able to go into a "house" that is carved out of the mountain and the floors, ceiling, and walls are all rock and dirt.

The City of Bagnoreggio, on the hill.

Anziano Krueger walking up to Bagnoreggio.

Sorella Krueger on the bridge going to Bagnoreggio.

Entrance to the City

Anziano and Sorella Krueger Entering the City

Anziano Krueger

Sorella Krueger

Inside the Ancient City

Views from the city

Inside one of the houses, there is a olive oil press in the background and they used rope nets to strain the olive oil. The press was

very large, probably 6-7 feet in diameter with a lot of ancient equipment still in the house.

The "Dining Room"

Anziano and Sister Krueger in the Ancient City of Bagnoreggio.

There is a open area in the middle of the town and this is the church....we went inside and it is very beautiful with high ceilings lots of carvings etc....(and they even have glass coffin with an ancient Priest dressed in robes).