Bryan and Becky Gerritsen in Italy

  May 16, 2022                Becky, delivering clothes to Ohlia and her daughter Kate, in Lecco.  They are refugees from Ukraine. The past two weeks have kept us busy working on projects for refugees and the poor.  We especially focused on helping organizations that are assisting refugees and the poor near the Slovenia border in NE Italy, in central Italy, and in NW Italy.  Some of the specific items for the refugees this last week were about 230 pairs of shoes, 200 backpacks, about 70 sleeping bags, several thousand hygiene kits, and about 5,000 Euros of food.  We are so grateful for kind people who donate to Latter Day Saint Charities (the "Humanitarian" fund).   We were also able to take some time to do the apartment inspections for young missionaries in 5 different cities--4 in Italy, and 1 in Switzerland: Bergamo, Merate, Lecco, and Como Italy, and Lugano, Switzerland.  We did these on three diffe...

 April 22-May 2, 2022                                                        Becky & Bryan, in Torino (Turin), Italy, 4.25.22 On Saturday April 23, we had the opportunity to take  two Sisters who work in the Lecco ward, to an area of the ward that they have difficulty getting to, because of long distances.  Sisters Baker and  Schow have a huge area to cover, including some cities at least 2 hours north and east of Lecco.  We took the sisters to Sondrio, visiting several members and having lunch with a young Bolivian family.  We traveled east from Sondrio to a members home high in the mountains.  After many hairpin turns and near misses with other cars, we arrived at the home only to find the member was in Sondrio where we had been.  We returned down off the mountain...