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Today's talk comes from pastor Ben Stewart.

Well, when I was coming right out of college,

my sister asked me to meet her in Italy for a vacation.

She was living in Europe at the time and said, man, why don't you meet me over there, but I haven't

made any plans, so can you sketch out an itinerary and just meet me in Rome.

And so I went for the next several days,

pulled out all these different books,

and began to study Rome, because I wanted to see all the ancient sites,

and I was trying to sketch out an itinerary

for a few days in Rome, a few days in Florence, a day in Chiquitera.

And so as I was doing that, it dawned on me, wait a minute, I have one buddy that's been there.

And he's journeyed through there.

Let me ask him his experience of how to

maximize my time visiting all these amazing ancient sites and so I sat down with

him and I said man show me how to use my time he's like no problem dude he was

like Rome you're gonna want to give it at least three days.

He said, in the first day, you're going to go to the pantheon.

Pantheon was an ancient temple to the gods, finished by Emperor Hadrian. you're going to want to show up there and walk past it and take a left because there's a gelato spot there.

And they got rice-flavored gelato and you're going to want to make sure you try it.

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