Our cleaning lady, Sorella Cano, has worked for years to become an Italian citizen and finally made it. Myrna made her a cake and the mission bought pizza for everyone in the office. This is President and Sister Dibb with Sorella Cano and cake baker Myrna.
These are the missionaries in the office that day.
On Saturday (yesterday) we went to Como, a city about an hour north of here. It is on a lake, which is shaped sort of like a V, with Como at the bottom. The lake starts in Switzerland, and a few weeks ago we went with the president and the office elders to Bellagio, a little town at the top of one of the fingers.
We easily found a parking garage downtown and parked on the 6th floor for almost 7 hours and paid 9.50 euoro, which was a good deal. We went to check out this town to see if Amy and family want to go there. They should, it is cool. We walked toward the duomo, always in the center of any Italian city. We went in the duomo and saw they were having a service, which the usher said was an ordination of new priests and would last another two hours. I did get to hear the organ and choir, which were very beautiful. When we got home I googled and found a Youtube of a similar ordination that day in the duomo of Milano, which you can find by going to Youtube and putting in ordination of new priests milano italy 12 june 2016, so yesterday must have been the ordination of new priests day.
We went to the lake, only a couple of blocks away from the duomo. The history book says that Julius Caesar found the area around the lake swampy and ordered it drained, so the city was built up next to the lake, so this must be the equivalent of Nauvoo in Italy. This was a father swan carefully guarding his wife who was sitting on four eggs.
We walked a few blocks to the funiculare, or tram which runs up the hill. It took about 6 minutes to get to the top and cost 10 euros.
Where we could see the city of Como.
After about an hour on top we came back down on the funiculare, which goes and comes every 15 minutes.
We went into the duomo and found they were having a very well attended and impressive service. I got to hear the organ and choir and learned it was the ordination of new priests, which lasted almost 3 hours. When I got back home I googled to see what I could learn about it, and learned that at the same time and day in the duomo of Milano they were ordaining 24 new priests, which was all on Youtube (already), so yesterday must have been the graduation of seminary and ordination of new Catholic priests day in Italy, maybe in the world. (We had seminary graduation in our stake this week too, but the priests were already ordained, and we graduated girls too.)
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