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Temple Day

 Last night I had an idea. What if we got Azure 2 braces? This would allow her to swim in one and then have a dry one when we were finished swimming. Ammon and I thought we could order them on Amazon and have them dropped off at an Amazon locker, but apparently we have to have a Rome address to do that. So instead Ammon found a medical supply store online that is fairly close to our place here. So this morning we left Cormac and Lucette behind and the rest of us went on a walk to see if we could get Azy a brace. We were successful. She is so happy to be able to shower without assistance and a bag over her arm. It also was great timing as we had planned to visit the LDS temple here in Rome today and to have the kids do baptisms.

We returned to our Air BnB and picked up Cormac and Lu, then we struck out. It is a really far distance from where we are staying and we had to take 2 metro lines and a bus to get there. While Ammon, Cormac, and Azure went inside Lucette and I took a few pictures and then headed into the blessed air conditioning of the visitor center.





We spoke with some sister missionaries who told us some neat things about the visitor center. For example, this room is the only visitor center that has Christ as well as the 12 apostles represented together. It was a really awesome room.














We also learned about this stained glass artwork that had over 30 stories of Christ represented. In addition, there was an actual seashell from the Sea of Galilee, actual coins from Christ's era, and a mite all embedded in the stained glass.


Money used over 2000 years ago when Christ was on the Earth.

A mite that is 2000 years old.


Once they were done with baptisms Azure, Cormac, and Ammon joined us and we looked around the visitor center a little more before getting a recommendation for lunch from the sister missionaries.



We went to the recommended place and had the best pasta we have had so far. The sisters also tipped us off that the place next door had really great gelato. So after our lunch we grabbed a cold treat to eat while we walked back up to the temple. The kids all hung out in the visitor center and Ammon and I went into the temple do sealings. It was all done in Italian which was a little hard to follow at first, but eventually we got the gist.




We made the long trek back home after the temple. Ammon is working. I'm about to make dinner and then log on to meet with clients. The girls are watching a movie and Cormac is devouring yet another audiobook. It was over 100 degrees today, so spending the day in awesome AC as well as doing much less walking than we have been doing was a great thing. 

On the way home we saw a mother miss the metro that her son had gotten on. It was awful. Thankfully, he seemed a bit older. She was on the train with us and had calmed down, we hope they were reunited with no problems. Experiences like that have given us the opportunity to have good conversations with our kids on how to respond to various scenarios like that. I told Cormac that tomorrow he gets to navigate us to the Catacombs. He thought I was joking at first (and obviously we will help him), but I think it is important that the kids learn how to get around. These are important life skills that these kids are learning. 

Comments

  1. Mark DahlJuly 11, 2024 at 4:01 PM

    Sounds like you had a wonderful day. Glad you could get another brace for Azure. That temple looks beautiful. Sure love your posts.

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  2. Marianne JohnsonJuly 12, 2024 at 7:35 AM

    What a lovely day!

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  3. Olivia CobianJuly 12, 2024 at 2:22 PM

    Beautiful!

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