New Lidl route

Wednesday morning we got to stay at home mostly. I did walk down to Conad and got some produce for home. Then at 11:30am we went grocery shopping at Lidl on the way to the Institute. Usually we have done that at the Lidl near home, which is a different direction from the Institute, so we tried the other one downtown, which is more or less on the way. It worked out well, having figured out how to enter the parking lot correctly this time, and we like that store much better. It is bigger and fresher, with sharp employees, and it has well-lit underground parking with two nice elevators. We will make this run more in the future. Our big cart was completely filled with a bunch of stuff for upcoming meals, as well as stocking up on staples such as flour, sugar (white and brown), eggs, butter, etc. It took two full loads up the elevator with each of us carrying several bags.

I spent a bunch of time on lesson prep. Friday we are going to Ostia to hold class there, and I want to make sure that my lesson is extra good. We are trying to attract the kids from there to come to the Institute more often; it takes them an hour to get here on public transit. 

Dee worked on dinner for Friday and for our upcoming Thanksgiving meals (three in one week, as you will see, but none on the proper day). It was P-day for a number of the missionaries, because they had been asked to help at the temple on Monday, so we had some of them at the campus during the afternoon. Our location is central, with WiFi and a bathroom, so it works well for them. Three other pairs of missionaries came by to practice a musical number for the mission leadership conference (MLC) on Friday, and they sounded really good! Two Sorelle also came to teach a missionary lesson to Chiara, a friend of Franz, who is investigating the church.

Our Wednesday night activity was to watch Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, which none of these kids had seen. I bought the DVD set of the whole series (four movies), and we used Italian audio with English subtitles. I had ripped the movie onto my laptop which I used to project onto our big screen TV in the library. The group was smaller than we expected, so we may not do movie nights much in the future (last time there were even fewer kids). However, we all very much enjoyed the great movie, which has a fun mixture of adventure and humor. We put out popcorn which got eaten happily. 

From my WhatsApp group "ad" for the movie

Linda, Dee, Vincenzo, Joyce, Francesco, Junior, and Alessio