Wednesday, June 27, 2012

NATIONAL CONFERENCE FOR YOUNG ADULTS IN SICILY

THIS PAST WEEK WE WERE ABLE TO GO TO A NATIONALYOUNG ADULT CONFERENCE IN SICILY!!!  WE WERE ABLE TO STAY IN THE HOTEL PERLA DEL GOLFO!  THIS IS A VERY BEAUTIFUL PLACE LOCATED RIGHT ON THE CLIFFS!

THERE WERE ABOUT 200 YOUNG ADULTS WHO ATTENDED THE CONFERENCE!  THE ISLAND OF SICILY IS VERY BEAUTIFUL AND WHEN LARRY WAS A YOUNG MISSIONARY, HE SERVED IN SIRACUSA AND MESSINA.  WE WERE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE ISLAND NEAR THE CITY OF PALERMO.

THE WATER WAS TURQUOISE AND VERY CLEAR!  THESE PICTURES WERE TAKEN IN A NEARBY TOWN CALLED TERASSINI.  A VERY SMALL TOWN LOCATED RIGHT ON THE WATER.

HERE THE YOUNG ADULTS ARE PLAYING TUG-O-WAR !  THEY REALLY HAD A GREAT TIME!

THIS IS THE VIEW FROM THE POOL AREA DOWN TO AN AREA WHERE THE YOUNG ADULTS WERE CLIFF JUMPING!

IN THE BACKGROUND, YOU CAN SEE THERE ARE LOTS OF MOUNTAINS AND CLIFFS!  WE WERE WALKING TO A BUS STOP, SAW THE BUS COMING, RAN AND RAN FOR THE BUS, AND IT WAS THE WRONG BUS!!!


HERE IS ANZIANO KRUEGER HARD AT WORK!!!

AS YOU CAN SEE, THIS YOUNG ADULT GOT THE BOOT!  EVERYONE IN THE POOL!!!

THIS IS THE VIEW FROM THE POOL OUT TO THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA!

THIS WAS A TOUGH ASSIGNMENT.....BUT WE KNEW SOMEONE HAD TO DO IT!

TIME TO DANCE!!!


WE HAVE MADE MANY FRIENDS HERE IN ITALY!  ANZIANO KRUEGER IS WITH (LEFT) DAVID, LUCA, DAVIDE AND RICCARDO.  RICCARDO IS NEWLY BAPTIZED FROM OSTIA!!!  LARRY HELPED TEACH HIM SOME OF THE DISCUSSIONS BEFORE HE WAS BAPTIZED!


THIS IS DAVIDE, EUGENIA AND MELISSA.  THIS IS THE CAFETERIA WHERE WE ATE EACH DAY WHILE AT THE CONFERENCE!


THIS IS ALAN, STEFANO AND RICCARDO FROM OUR GROUP OF YOUNG ADULTS IN ROME!
WE HAD A WONDERFUL TIME IN SICILY!!!
LOVE YOU ALL!