Date: Wed, May 13, 2015 at 9:39 AM
Mother's day was awesome. It felt only a little bit silly talking to my family that I just recently came from. I understand that it was important, but not too much has changed at home.
You might hear me complain of the heat. But here 'Fa Caldo', and missionary attire makes it hard to walk around in the sun all day. The mission work goes well as it can, even if it is all done in the shade.
Last P-day after email, we visited Le Colonne di San Lorenzo and just walked around down town. Not much else.
Thursday, was hot, and we just did a ton of finding near or in Parco di Cave.
Friday, we looked and searched, and contacted, and nothing. Really hard day of heat and no success. We wonder as a companionship why there is no trust or work... Is it the EXPO or the sudden flood of immigrants or something? We have no clue, but nobody will even stop sometimes.
Saturday we went to Como. The ward of Como invited our district, to do missionary work with their missionaries and members. We were assigned a member (ours was 16 yrs and named Giacommo) and we were assigned areas to visit inactives (we got 6 names, and went to Chiasso). Turns out, Chiasso is in Switzerland, another country visited for me! Como was beautiful, and the whole area was stunning, but none of the inactives were actually living at the addresses we had, so in the end it was just heat and walking again. That night, back in Lampugnano, we met Chris and his son, they speak English because they visit America often, and we gave the whole first lesson. Chris didn't give us a number, but they have a Book of Mormon, and our number... pray for them to call us!
Sunday was Mothers day, so after church and lunch with members, we did our family message home. And that was great! The family's home we did our contacts at are American, the Crisciones, so it was fun to just talk and hang out with them too. The father, 'Gio' works at the Expo and that night promised all the missionaries free tickets. Whoa! (usually 39 Euro)
That is the reason we are doing Email later today is because we just got back from the Expo.
The Expo was huge, a massive covered area of a mile long (or longer) with pavilions linning both sides, it was massive, and even with our time we only managed to visit a few. The Expo has a theme of Agriculture and Food Technology, so I knew to expect tons of Enviromental stuff but, I actaully didn't like it too much. Sis. Criscione had a stroller, and toured with us so it was cool to also skip a few long lines. hahah, nothing like disneyland though.
-Mexico Pavilion- History of Beans and Products in Mexico, or something... Lots of people, too much to read..
-South Korea- A cool building filled with pots, they talked a lot (100%) about fermenting food in these special pots, and then eating it healthy... Hmmm.
-Uruguay- showed a video about how natural they were, how healthy, and how enviromental they were, it was strange and they just tried to appeal to Mammon, (if you don't understand, translates as Worldly things...) They left no impression other than confusion and sorrow for the world.
-Belgium- The most impressive of them all. Showed a plant-fish cycle and it was some cool ideas. The plants rotate over water, and around light, the fish in the water provide for the plants... it was cool. Belgium also talked about eating insects as protein... hmmm
-China- What? That's always the question with China I think.. What? They had a short display of history of China, and silk. Then told us to eat healthy, and then showed us a video that made no sense. It had no words, and just showed lots of random scenes of laughing heads, fireworks, creepy old lady, a chef, a pianist, a chemist, and a bullet train. They were in honestly no apparent order, and babies were crying in the watching audience. It was frightening and applied to nothing in any culture.
United Kingdom- Their theme was that the UK was leading the world in creativity and fixing problems... the hive of the UK. Worst ever... we walked through an empty elevated garden (no displays and nothing to see) then we went under a mesh of metal poles broadcasting Bee sounds, and then you could go on top, where there was a bar, and nothing else but mesh and bee sounds. If I were give it a theme, I would say ''United Kingdom, we hum and spend money on metal and gardens... 1% creativity?''
USA- Lots of politians talking about farming and Food Bill stuff (they are really good at talking) They introduced drip farming, with sideways gardens that follow the Sun and tilt and turn. A good idea to conserve water and use a lot of electricity. Cool idea for Skyscrapers...
CocaCola pavilion- Gave a free bottle of Coke, ew... and talked about recycling... ok.
Pavilion Zero- Gave us a history of agriculture of the whole world, kindof, and then used the scare tatic of scary sounds and fake piles of garbage everywhere. Lots of projectors and sounds, challenged to Waste zero percent.
That was all...My overall experience was saddening, wish I could see more country's displays for cool stuff not just uncool stuuuufff... but oh well. If they had instead spent these billions dollars for world hunger instead of the Expo, probably would have been better.
Oh well! Off to do missionary work. Pictures next time!
Worry about salvation and charity, not food. The food comes with righteousness, but a man cannot live on bread alone.
Questo vangelo può cambiare il mondo per il bene!
Ci Vediamo!
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You might hear me complain of the heat. But here 'Fa Caldo', and missionary attire makes it hard to walk around in the sun all day. The mission work goes well as it can, even if it is all done in the shade.
Last P-day after email, we visited Le Colonne di San Lorenzo and just walked around down town. Not much else.
Thursday, was hot, and we just did a ton of finding near or in Parco di Cave.
Friday, we looked and searched, and contacted, and nothing. Really hard day of heat and no success. We wonder as a companionship why there is no trust or work... Is it the EXPO or the sudden flood of immigrants or something? We have no clue, but nobody will even stop sometimes.
Saturday we went to Como. The ward of Como invited our district, to do missionary work with their missionaries and members. We were assigned a member (ours was 16 yrs and named Giacommo) and we were assigned areas to visit inactives (we got 6 names, and went to Chiasso). Turns out, Chiasso is in Switzerland, another country visited for me! Como was beautiful, and the whole area was stunning, but none of the inactives were actually living at the addresses we had, so in the end it was just heat and walking again. That night, back in Lampugnano, we met Chris and his son, they speak English because they visit America often, and we gave the whole first lesson. Chris didn't give us a number, but they have a Book of Mormon, and our number... pray for them to call us!
Sunday was Mothers day, so after church and lunch with members, we did our family message home. And that was great! The family's home we did our contacts at are American, the Crisciones, so it was fun to just talk and hang out with them too. The father, 'Gio' works at the Expo and that night promised all the missionaries free tickets. Whoa! (usually 39 Euro)
That is the reason we are doing Email later today is because we just got back from the Expo.
The Expo was huge, a massive covered area of a mile long (or longer) with pavilions linning both sides, it was massive, and even with our time we only managed to visit a few. The Expo has a theme of Agriculture and Food Technology, so I knew to expect tons of Enviromental stuff but, I actaully didn't like it too much. Sis. Criscione had a stroller, and toured with us so it was cool to also skip a few long lines. hahah, nothing like disneyland though.
-Mexico Pavilion- History of Beans and Products in Mexico, or something... Lots of people, too much to read..
-South Korea- A cool building filled with pots, they talked a lot (100%) about fermenting food in these special pots, and then eating it healthy... Hmmm.
-Uruguay- showed a video about how natural they were, how healthy, and how enviromental they were, it was strange and they just tried to appeal to Mammon, (if you don't understand, translates as Worldly things...) They left no impression other than confusion and sorrow for the world.
-Belgium- The most impressive of them all. Showed a plant-fish cycle and it was some cool ideas. The plants rotate over water, and around light, the fish in the water provide for the plants... it was cool. Belgium also talked about eating insects as protein... hmmm
-China- What? That's always the question with China I think.. What? They had a short display of history of China, and silk. Then told us to eat healthy, and then showed us a video that made no sense. It had no words, and just showed lots of random scenes of laughing heads, fireworks, creepy old lady, a chef, a pianist, a chemist, and a bullet train. They were in honestly no apparent order, and babies were crying in the watching audience. It was frightening and applied to nothing in any culture.
United Kingdom- Their theme was that the UK was leading the world in creativity and fixing problems... the hive of the UK. Worst ever... we walked through an empty elevated garden (no displays and nothing to see) then we went under a mesh of metal poles broadcasting Bee sounds, and then you could go on top, where there was a bar, and nothing else but mesh and bee sounds. If I were give it a theme, I would say ''United Kingdom, we hum and spend money on metal and gardens... 1% creativity?''
USA- Lots of politians talking about farming and Food Bill stuff (they are really good at talking) They introduced drip farming, with sideways gardens that follow the Sun and tilt and turn. A good idea to conserve water and use a lot of electricity. Cool idea for Skyscrapers...
CocaCola pavilion- Gave a free bottle of Coke, ew... and talked about recycling... ok.
Pavilion Zero- Gave us a history of agriculture of the whole world, kindof, and then used the scare tatic of scary sounds and fake piles of garbage everywhere. Lots of projectors and sounds, challenged to Waste zero percent.
That was all...My overall experience was saddening, wish I could see more country's displays for cool stuff not just uncool stuuuufff... but oh well. If they had instead spent these billions dollars for world hunger instead of the Expo, probably would have been better.
Oh well! Off to do missionary work. Pictures next time!
Worry about salvation and charity, not food. The food comes with righteousness, but a man cannot live on bread alone.
Questo vangelo può cambiare il mondo per il bene!
Ci Vediamo!
Anziano Isaac Benge
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