Bryan and Becky Gerritsen in Italy

June 18, 2022 Greetings to each of you.  These past two weeks have flown by.  We have been able to visit a few of the projects that we have open to see how things are progressing.  On June 6 we had an amazing Zone Conference in Verona.  It is the last one we'll have with President and Sister Browning.  They are amazing leaders and are loved by everyone here in Northern Italy who know them.  We have been blessed to have served under them for the past 4+ months.  Our Zone meetings are mostly run by the young missionaries, the Zone Leaders and Sister Leaders.  They taught by example and had the missionaries roll play various situations.  The Assistants to the President also taught and did an excellent job.  We wish we had a recorder for Sister Browning's talk and President Browning's talk.  They were inspired and compelling. One other inspiring thing about our Zone Meeting was the musical talents displayed by the missionaries. ...

June 3, 2022 Becky & Bryan, in Lovere, at Lake Iseo, NE of Alzano Lombardo Greetings from Italy!  At present, we are working on 13 Humanitarian projects for refugees in Northern Italy.  Four of these are specifically to help refugees from Ukraine.  Two of these are to help provide food for Ukrainian refugees--one project in Milan and one in Torino (Turin).  Two other projects are to help refugees from Ukraine with shoes, sleeping bags, backpacks, hygiene kits, and "Phrasebooks."  We thought that as part of our blog, we could introduce you to one partner organization (non-governmental organization--NGO) every once in a while.  This writing, we will mention Terre des Hommes, an NGO started in Switzerland, but presently in operation in Italy and many other countries.  It focuses on helping refugee children and mothers, but assists families and all refugees.  The project that we (Latter Day Saint Charities) initiated with them about a month ago, a...