We asked our Produce friend if is okay to know his name? He said yes, Antonio. He told us our favorite clementines are almost gone, the ones we bought today are the  last.

We also went to continue our permesso application today, license to teach and preach. We went and were measured for height, (I think our weight was guessed) had our finger prints done twice by two different departments along with our hands and palms which were then scanned into the computer and printed onto our growing file. The Italy Government knows a great deal about us. There was a line at the doors when we arrived 30 minutes early, and waited with people from India, Africa, China, and other countries?  When the doors opened, one of the men from Africa ran up to hold the door open. There were several people ahead of us but when I walked in and thanked him, he said BIG, Very BIG! We had been standing next to some men from India and next to them I did look very BIG.

 Our first part went very quick, we were told it would take hours to complete by other missionaries, the next step & the second set of prints took longer not bad though, and so we waited in one of the waiting rooms. If we could have filmed what we witnessed you would have thought we were on a TV set with Mr. Bean. Brother B and I turned to each other and said, Mr Bean should walk in any minute. Everyone was very kind to us and tried to hurry the process along back it was really comical to be in the middle of the “SET”. We did complete that step and got a thumbs up from both of the personal who were very helpful!  The next step will happen in about 40 days.  Many great events happened in 40 Days. We get to start our first day on our 40 day wait at Zone conference and see a new part of Italy. Mama Mia! Mama Mia!  What a beautiful land. (And yes they say, ‘Mama Mia” all the time.)