As many of you already know from my facebook page, we have a wonderful news: we are expecting a baby. Our due date is April 24 and right now I am midway trough my third month. We had a hard beginning in fact two days after finding out that we were going to have a baby, my sister lost hers, so our good news was embraced by sadness and sorrow. It took us a few weeks before we were able to tell her about our baby. Hannah was very shocked by the news that my sister had lost her baby. With the pediatrician we think that this was her first time really facing the meaning of death and the fear of loosing a cared one would wake her up many times at night crying and showing insecurity. We are so thankful to the Lord 'cause it seems those bad dreams or insicurity have passed after many talks and hugs and cuddles!
In August I took a class at the Academy on Old Testament Survey, it was very good to be back at school and see that I am not too old to learn yet:P For that week Josh stayed at home and took care of the girls still trying to do his job.
He also took a class at the Academy.
In August we had the opportunity to see Valentina ( one of our English student) and she came up to the Academy one day during devotion time. She is impacted by the way we live our christian life, so different from the catholic way of the law! We have offered her to have a Bible study so that we can see what we believe in the prospective of what the Bible teaches...please pray that she would be willing to read the Bible together and that the Lord can work in her heart.
This past week we had a team of 16 from the USA. They came to help us with some phisical work at the Academy and evangelism. It was such a blessing to have them, my girls enjoyed some american speaking around them (there were some older kids too) and their English kind of came back! They transformed the center working more on the layout and then did some distribution in the streets of Acireale. They were ready to do more mime and open air programmes but the weather wasn't good. The first Sunday they were here we organized an outreach picnic with the church and they performed a mime, and gave some testimonies. we had a good group of non believers that were able to hear the Gospel presentation. Praise God.
We are almost back to our normal routine, school started and slowly other activities are starting too.
Today Josh went to the hospital for a few days to do a sleep test, Hannah is wearing a soft cast, so please pray that God would give me strength for this week because right now I feel overwhelmed with all that is waiting in front of me this week. We will also be getting things ready to leave next Sunday after church for the Focus Conference( the one that our mission organizes for italian elders) and then spent a few days with my youngest sister. Her husband will get baptize the next week end. If you remember Carlo, our brother in law, after a few weeks from the marriage came to visit us in Sacile with my sister. While they were there on Sunday, they asked Josh to have a Bible study with them because they weren't able to come to church in the morning. So that afternoon after the Bible study Carlo gave his life to Christ and since then he has been walking faithfully in his christian walk, he has found a church to fit in to and is involved in it. And now two years and few months later he is going to be baptize. It will be awesome to be there and share that joy with them.
