July in Sicily

Here is a picture of the lastest group of missionaries to leave us (including a picture of Sorella Hunter who had to go home a a few weeks early for medical care). What an amazing group of missionaries! We love them and wish them well!














A new group of 14 excited, wonderful missionaries came just hours after our other missionaries departed. The first evening they were in Sicily I took them on a "fieldtrip". We walked up the hill into Santa"Agata to a spot where we could see the lava flow down the side of Mt. Etna. It was great fun! Looking at this photo though reminds me of Mr. Popper's Penguins. . . .

On our way back to the mission home we stopped for gelato (yum)! We also made a new contact with the people who ran the gelateria. So this served several purposes: 1) to keep the missionaries awake, 2) to have gelato, 3) to do missionaries work, and 4) to see Mt. Etna and real live flowing lava!!!

It is Hot!

These are the fine group of scouts that gathered above Siracusa for scout camp. The temperature was 45 degrees C. (that is over 100 degrees!) They did have a stream, some tents, a grove of trees, mosquitos, and watermelon. That's all you need for a scout camp isn't it??










We brought them ice cream to cool them down! Did I mention it was a hot day. . . !













Diane got a day at home. Since she was 6 months behind on her scrapbook, she worked all day to catch up--in the cool basement!

July in Italy

Jim takes the couples (Stinebaughs and Eagars) to a local ice cream place (Ernestos). We taste all the vanilla flavors until we find just the right one, and then we order glasses and make rootbeer floats with real A&W rootbeer! Happy 4th of July!!














You don't think you can get away without another shot of Etna, do you? Etna continues to "leak" from one side. If we are in the right spot in the evening we can see the orange glow of lava coming down the side. This was at sunset. A beauty!



Diane is having a "shoe shining party" with the missionaries. Their shoes were looking a little gray. . . .