Ciao a tutti miei amici
Io spero che tutto e’ benissimo.
Earlier this week Anna left us, which I must say is quite the bummer. I do not dig. If you by any chance see her tell her Brandon, the one she knows in Italy says, “Come back now!!!” But you don’t have to put the exclamation marks. All that to say, Anna left, but it was wonderful to have her out here as she encouraged us all greatly; and you can tell her I said that as that makes me look like a really, really good person, (Brandon, you pharisee lol). Okay. Okay, you don’t have to tell her I said that. :-) But here’s a cool story, at least I think it’s cool. One of those, I just totally saw GOD guide all of life to get working even more for you good, and His glory sort of things. It’s great. . . . so story. We are trying to take Anna to the train station, right, well we are taking her there, not trying we succeeded; not like our trips to Florence (don’t ask, okay ask. . . I get lost every time.) Either way we get there and the train she intended on taking cost like twice as much as thought but there was another train about an hour and half later for only a little more that is a straight shot, no stops on the way, (oh, by the way we are in Prato, and Anna is trying to get to Milan where she flies out). So she does that, we know have an hour and half to spend on, well, we don’t know. We go to the Duomo, the square, the center of town where everyone chills, at least old men in the middle of the day. That and we were close to there. That made is that much more appealing.  We park the car and don’t even make it to the square before we run into someone Anna had met on the train when coming back from Florence. It was a girl from Australia, actually three girls, but Anna had only met one of them. They were sitting out, leaning against a wall chillin’. We ended up spending the next hour chilling and seeing where these girls go to school and all, swapped info, basically numbers and facebook. But it was just so funny to me how coincidental and yet divine it felt; for us to have things planned (kind of), train and all, that to change only for us to have an ideal amount of time to chill with people we don’t know yet but are only able to meet if we have Anna with us. Crazy I say, Crazy. Agree or disagree, I still think it cool, really cool actually. And actually I change my mind, you should just agree don’t bother with disagreeing- that’s lame. Be cool, give into peer pressure and agree. Lol. Man my humor is lame, but I’m still laughing. Moving on.
We have also began to pass out “Teach English Using the Bible” flyers, and I don’t know why quote that, that is definitely a paraphrase. Eh. We passed out a good chunk, but I wouldn’t say lots today, and am planning on passing out more in the coming weeks, so that we can (come on guess, I’ll give you three tries and if you still can’t get it with it written right after this well. . . . . yeah) Teach the Bible Using English!!!! Woo hoo gold stars for everyone. You’re a winner. (You should feel very encouraged by now but if not, here is one more attempt) Oh, you so pretty ;-) and the gun.
Oh, and final note, we might be moving into another building; changing locations of the congregation. From one place in Prato to another place in Prato; and if that happens, I hear we will be doing some manual labor inside the building to beautify it.
You guys rock, I dig you hard core, everyone of you. Thank you always for your prayer and support, and know you’re always in my thoughts and prayers too. YOU ROCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE EXCLAMATION MARKS (they’re just soooo happy:-)

Well I am totally stumped on how to start talking/ writing this here blog. but total blanks on how that is going to happen but Salute!!! to you anyways. And it at least makes me happy that you are reading my blog right now. Thanks. You Rock.
This past week we have been working on the Women's Retreat, making bookmarks and other snazzy things that are cute and cuddly-ish, (bookmarks are not something I usually cuddle with, but you get the picture). We have been putting together little trinkets for memory, not forget this convention and what you learned type things. Hopefully people enjoy these things and don't through them away right after leaving, my feelings would be crushed. Well, maybe not crushed, but I would definitely be bummed, as all of us here, (Anto, Evan, Tracie, Anna, and I) had put time into this. So next time you go to a women's convention; don't through your pretty little bookmark, or kool glazed rock, with something encouraging on it away. (Oh, and the cool glazed look comes from a thin layer of watered down glue, awesome, you should do it to everything: homework, your fingernails, computer screens that you own, painting of you weird neighbor; everything.) Sorry, that was definitely a tangent. Either way that has been what has taken up a chunk of our time.
Oh, and I think I mentioned this last time, but we are now doing Italian two hours a day five-ish days a week (depends on schedule). But its quite helpful. I'm a learnin' man.
This coming Saturday is our friend Emmanuella's (I think I spelt that right??) birthday, which is awesome and will be going to her party and also seeing Giocomo and Paride then also; as they got back from visiting the states the 9th. I'm looking forward to it.
And, I think the other big news is that Anna Callen, my sisters friend who decided to stay here an additional month and help us out and encourage us through life, will be leaving this coming Wednesday, which is kind of a bummer, but she is going to be considering coming back and working us after a lot more prayer, and thinking. So drop a little prayer on GOD's will being done in everything, including Anna coming back or staying; because that would be awesome.
Once again, thank you for everything you are to me, and for all you've done too. Peace.

Ciao miei amici!!!!!!exciting thoughts!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Spero che tutto e' bene per voi.
I hope all is well (or good) for you guys.

This past week on September 1st, our coordinators got back from furlough, (if that's how it is spelled, that missionary vacation thing), and they are going to be helping us learn the language even better, (which I can say that I've got a lot of bettering to be doing :-) and help us get even more things going which will be good. And August is over so I am looking forward to trying to hang out with Sandro again; as it has been about a month since we have seen and hung out with him because he had to do some traveling for his job. Oh, exciting news that I had no part in at all is: Antonella, a lady that has been going to the congregation up in Pistoia, got baptized this past week too. Which is awesome happiness. I think I remember referring to her in another blog as the lady I thought/seemed totally awesome but didn't know what it was about her. Well she is Antonella, and baptized and part of the Church- AWESOME. And another one of our friends, Patrizio, he is back in town this week and we are going to hang out with him. But all in all, I don't feel like this has been the busiest week. It's been a week setting up for everything productive that will being happening here after. Oh yeah, we will be resuming Italian like I said, but instead of two hours a day, three times a week; it is two hours a day, five days a week. Which I must say I'm looking forward too/need; even though I have been learning, I've got a lot more learning to do. Which reminds me, yesterday we set one of the rooms up in the villa as a study, which is awesome, and so needed because I can't concentrate without silence, or a complete focus by all in the area. Makes me happy because, well, I'm easily distracted. Pray for the work here, and that things continue to pick up, so much so that we can't handle all of the work. It'll be amazing. Io apprezzo che tutto fai. Grazie.