Thursday, May 26, 2016

I will tell about our experience last evening because I didn't take any pix.  We have been assigned to home teach 4 families, including the bishop.  We had our appointment at his home last evening.  Myrna made bar cookies and I talked about Pres. Monson's talk about Alice in Wonderland, which Italians have all heard of (at least our families knew about it.).  We had never been to their home before, which is in a relatively poor neighborhood, where we had a hard time finding a place to park, but we did. Their living room, furnished with fine couches and a large TV, also has the kitchen in the other side, with a dining table, etc, all in the same room.  I suspect they have one bathroom and two bedrooms, maybe 500 square feet.  They have 3 children, one daughter in her 20s working somewhere, a son 20, on a mission in Chile, and a girl, 15 at home.  The bishop is a caregiver at a 71 bed nursing home and his wife is a caregiver at another nursing home, 55 beds. (These are, by American standards, small nursing homes.)  They are both from Peru, but have been in Italy for over 20 years and speak good Italian. They do not speak English, although the wife's sister was there when we first came (she left with the daughter, who she was taking to the church for a seminary test), and she is learning English. He said it normally takes the daughter a half hour on the bus, with a 1.50 ticket, to get to the church for Seminary, but this time the aunt took her.  So the four of of us talked for about an hour, then we had dinner.  She served us a plate with boiled potatoes with a Peruvian white sauce on it (I discussed the concept of gravy, which this was sort of), and a large pile of flavored rice with a chicken leg (with skin, which we all ate) in it, and a fairly large salad, which we ate on our plate after we had eaten the potatoes, rice and chicken.  For dessert they first offered fresh fruit, but we all opted for the cookies Myrna made.  We drank water, and had a wonderful meal. They were very hospitable, and we didn't have a hard time communicating with them in Italian for 2 hours. We will enjoy going there home teaching.

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