{"id":169,"date":"2015-04-16T12:29:59","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T12:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taylorgarrett.info\/blog\/?p=169"},"modified":"2015-06-19T12:53:10","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T12:53:10","slug":"first-day-in-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taylorgarrett.info\/blog\/?p=169","title":{"rendered":"First Day in Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Note from Family:<\/p>\n

Sister Waddoups posted many pictures on the mission blog<\/a> this morning.\u00a0 She also reported on the new missionaries as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n

We received a new group of eight missionaries from the Provo MTC and one sister missionary from northern Italy who is here on a temporary basis until she gets a visa to travel to her actual assignment.\u00a0 All of the missionaries received their checked luggage, but four of the elders had to check their carry on luggage because the plane was full and they didn’t get those suitcases.\u00a0 They should be delivered to the office today, but the missionaries have already left for their assigned areas.\u00a0 They will return to Rome in less than two weeks and can pick them up then.\u00a0 As we get closer to the busy summer travel season, we have a lot of interesting luggage situations.\u00a0 This one is actually a minor one and we’re grateful for that.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

We’re excited to have the new “greenies” here in Italy.\u00a0 They bring with them a renewed excitement for missionary work.\u00a0 <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

We don’t know if Taylor was one of those four (50\/50 chance) who will be without some things for a couple of weeks.\u00a0 Also, we don’t know where he is assigned, so we’ll have to wait until next Monday, when he can email, to find out all the details.\u00a0 On April 28th, Elder Bednar, of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, will be in Rome to train the missionaries on using their new iPads, so all of the missionaries will once again be in Rome for that, and the four who are missing luggage should be reunited with their suitcases then.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here are some of the pictures from Sis. Waddoups’ blog.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"On<\/a>

On the way to the metro<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Finance<\/a>

Finance and permesso (visa) training<\/p><\/div>\n

\"On<\/a>

On the front steps of the mission home, a.k.a. “the villa.” It was built by Mussolini for his niece.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"New<\/a>

New arrivals, April 15, 2015<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Ready<\/a>

Ready for a mission home meal<\/p><\/div>\n

\"They<\/a>

They like to sing in the mission home<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Singing<\/a>

Singing in the mission home<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Singing<\/a>

Singing in the mission home<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Singing<\/a>

Singing in the mission home<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Taylor<\/a>

Taylor opening his “golden envelope.” It says where he will go, and who he will be working with, for his first assignment.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Getting<\/a>

Getting ready to open the golden envelopes<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Note from Family: Sister Waddoups posted many pictures on the mission blog this morning.\u00a0 She also reported on the new missionaries as follows: We received a new group of eight missionaries from the Provo MTC and one sister missionary from northern Italy who is here on a temporary basis until she gets a visa to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,23,9,24],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-169","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-posts-from-italy","7":"category-places","8":"category-rome","9":"category-villa","10":"entry","11":"override"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taylorgarrett.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taylorgarrett.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taylorgarrett.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taylorgarrett.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taylorgarrett.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/taylorgarrett.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":361,"href":"https:\/\/taylorgarrett.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions\/361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taylorgarrett.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taylorgarrett.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taylorgarrett.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}