We are serving in Italy on the island of Sicily with two
other senior couple missionaries.
Anziano Joel and Sorella Carolee Scoville from Littleton, Colorado and
Anziano Stanford and Sorella Shelly Smith from Idaho Falls, Idaho. President Pickerd told us that he only sent
the “cream of the crop” young missionaries to Sicily because they were so far
away from Rome they needed to be independent self-starters with great skills. I am confident that same criteria was used to
assign the Scovilles and the Smiths to Sicily.
We traveled to Palermo to attend our first senior couple conference and
learn new skills from both. The Smiths
are Young Single Adult Missionaries and the Scovilles are Humanitarian
Missionaries add our Military Relations to the mix and we cover a broad
spectrum of needs on this island. We
were able to dialogue late Tuesday night about things that work well and things
that take a large amount of time without much return. We all had interesting stories about learning
on the run. We now have some new skills and ideas to implement!
We traveled to Palermo on Tuesday morning, it takes about
two hours to get there and back to Catania on Wednesday night. Interestingly enough there are pretty amazing
things to see between here and there!
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| Mosaic tile floor pattern in the Plazzo dei Normanni in Palermo |
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| Mosaic tile arches in the Plazzo dei Normanni in Palermo |
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| Beautiful Norman intricate mosaic work! |
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| Palermo Cathedral |
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| Andersons, Smiths and Scovilles at the Teatro Massimo |
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| Six levels of box seats. |
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| The ceiling painting ventilation/fan system |
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| Curtain call for the entire cast! |
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