Warm smiles and happy hearts from Italy:
I hope that all is most excellent and awesome and fantastic for everyone back home (and here too); I'm happy to say that I have built somewhat of a life here in Italy, and it has consisted largely of New Naif, and Mensa,(a soup kitchen and homeless shelter). I wish I could have began volunteering at Mensa earlier on, but required my permesso di soggiorno, which I was lacking until recent, Italy takes there sweet,precious time getting things like that to you :-/ Working and serving there has brought me quite a bit of joy, and I can only hope that I carry the attitude and humility of JESUS when I go there and am helping out the best I can, giving glory to our GOD in heaven. Helping out there, I believe, has also helped improve my Italian, a good thing, that with no doubt still needs quite a bit of improving, but I hope it does you, my family, friends, and supporters well that although my language skills not be quite up to par, (at least in my opinion), I still help, and do my best, my best, in serving on Sundays at Church; praying in Italian, for the Lord's supper, or the collection, or helping out in the children's class. With my ability to understand better, I look all the more forward to my following months here and getting closer to both our fellow brothers and sisters in Christ and also to the friends I have made outside of Church, (with great, huge hopes of blessing them and showing them GOD, and the awesomeness of Him who is awesome always towards me, in all that I am and do) because that is why I am here in Italy and in this world, so that I can always be constantly pointing towards our awesome, gracious, merciful, and fun loving GOD, with hopes of bring others into His well being. Because that's what I'm about; and it's what I want to be about in my joy and happiness, and it's what I want to be about in sadder, gloomier days. And I hope the same for you. Always thank you for your love and support and prayers; and please keep on praying for me and my team, and the work that we are working towards out here.

Eph. 6:19
"...and pray on my behalf, that utterance may be given to me in the opening of my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the gospel..."

Thank you always...