We discovered a significant Italian connection a few days ago in the mission home. As many of you know Jim is a descendant of Giuseppe Taranto, the first Italian member of the church. (Giuseppe is Jim's great grandfather). Giuseppe Taranto and Lorenzo Snow were missionary companions in the 1850s in Italy. And now we have President Toronto and Anziano Doxey (Assistant) serving together in Italy. Anziano Doxey's great, great, great grandfather was Lorenzo Snow!! It is a small world!Here is Sister Toronto standing in the doorway of one of the missionary apts. It is affectionately called the Hobbit Hole because the doorways are short and the walls curve into the ceiling. Now Sister T. is all of 5'4" tall. We have missionaries living there who are 6'5" and some in the past have been even taller. We moved the missionaries out this week--not because of the size of the doorways but because the environment is conducive to mold--it is growing very well!!
The last picture is a picture of the daffodils that are growing in our yard. They are beautiful
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3 comments:
oh mommy. i miss you. seeing you in that tiny doorway just makes me want to give you a squeeze. dad sure looks handsome with that young missionary....what an AWESOME connection! cool beans. ti amo.
Hi, I'm Suzy Toronto, married to Al Toronto, Wallace (Wally) and Martha's son. We live in Tangerine, FL.
I was looking for one of my kids websites, thought it was torontofamily and stumbled across yours by accident. How cool that you are in Italy as Mission Pres. I had no idea!
Al went to Czech this past year with the rest of his brothers and sisters and had a wonderful time reminiscing about growing up in the mission home there.
We now live in central Florida where we have an art marketing/licensing business. (See www.suzytoronto.com for our site.
I hope to meet you someday... Al has told me much about Jim!...
Suzy Toronto
suzy@suzytoronto.com
Hi diane and President surfing with my daughter and asked her to find your blog for me. Sure do miss you both wierd huh???? Hope this finds you both well wnd happy
Nancy P
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