Monday, July 25, 2016

My Italian Adoption

OK, if I can't be with my grandkids I'll have to adopt and I've found the cutest little guy to be my Italian grandson.  His name is Giulio and he comes to me becomes he likes my magnetic name tag. Molto dolce!



Sunday, July 24, 2016

IT"S HOT!!!!

Oh my goodness it is hot in Bari right now.  We are learning how to cope with it but the young missionaries have it much harder than we do.  At least we have air conditioning in our apartment--they just have fans...They walk around most of the day getting to appointments or trying to make appointments and we travel in our air conditioned car.  When we came out of church today at 12:00 this is what our car showed us.........Once the car got going it went down to 36 so --no problem!

When you have temperatures like that you get to see things growing like this:


Olives and grapes EVERYWHERE!  And these pictures were taken just off the side of the road we were driving on yesterday..  beautiful!!


Primary activity/GANS Barbeque

The Primary asked the GANS (Young Single Adults) to assist with their summer primary activity so Claudio, Valerio, Giuseppe, Gabriella and Gionni  stepped right up and took care of things. Here Claudio is teaching how to do a relay-- hoola hoop pass down the line without using your hands.


Next is wet sponge dodge ball--they loved it--it was so hot outside!


A few of the older Primary kids (and some no longer Primary) 


Then...water balloon catch

The GANS had a barbeque and we were in charge of doing the hanburgers.  Chris tried to clean up a couple of really rusty barbeques to use but ended up just buying one.  How do we get THAT on the plane home??  These aren't the best pictures of a barbeque but they just finished playing basketball outside and were trying to cool off in the air conditioned church.  Didn't take a picture of the  great food we had (my mother would be ashamed) but it was a great time.  The missionaries also came and it was PDay so they are all on their tablets writing home. 

 This is wonderful Mima who has a daughter on a mission and next to her is a missionary that served in Bari a couple years ago and now teaches Italian at the MTC--Sorella Preston.
 Below is Claudio, Valerio and Giuseppe.  Claudio is leaving in September for the Milan mission and Valerio just got his call to England.  We sure love these ragazzi!