Zone Conference and other outings

Notes from Zone Conference – November 5, 2010

• Improve our prayers. Do we realize what a privilege it is to pray and approach the Lord and to ask for His strength? In the strength of the Lord we can achieve things we could never do alone.

• Leadership is all about relationships. People like people who like them.

• Work smarter. Busy is different from being productive. Planning = spiritual creation. Nobody is greater because they have more time – we all have the same.

• When your investigators (people you love) have problems – rejoice! Christ came to the sick. God can show forth His miraculous powers in their lives. Have faith that He can do His work!

• Many of us view prayer as a vending machine – demanding the result or the blessing we want. Have faith to ask, faith to work, faith to trust that He knows what is best for us.

• Obedience is the key to all blessings.

Serving lunch on the roof. We attended our first "opera" in Rome if Beauty and the Beast counts.
Click on this website to view a video clip from the production and to hear the beautiful music sung in Italian. http://www.labellaelabestia.it/tmpl/template2.aspx?page=home

Walking back from the theater we see Basilica of Saint Mary Major.

Daytime photos compliments of the internet. Founded in the 4th century, the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore is one of the five great ancient basilicas of Rome.

Back door view of same church....
Villa Torlonia is a villa and surrounding gardens formerly belonging to the Torlonia family. Disused for a time, Mussolini rented it for one lira a year to use as his state residence from the 1920s onwards. It was abandoned after 1945, and allowed to decay in the following decades, but recent restoration work has allowed it to be opened to the public as a museum owned and operated by Rome's municipality. An outing with Sister Kelly and Sister Marcucii...



Sisters' Kelly and Marcucci peeking through the window.
The “House of the Owls”, can be visited as part of the museum. The twenty rooms include 54 pieces of stained glass replaced, after restoration, in their original positions...
Outdoor and indoor photo of same window.

The Casina delle Civette (House of the Owls)